“Does every gem that comes in contact with this planet turn traitor!?”
PS: I’m sad I couldn’t think of a way to put The Cluster in here ;-;
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Things I appreciated from the Steven Universe Podcast today:
1) Crewniverse had a lot of back and forth to make sure that Steven and Bismuth’s relationship would be better from now on, and that all the other characters would accept Bismuth being around, too.
2) Pearl didn’t take on a leadership role after Rose left because she was a hot mess, and still in a bit of denial, thinking Rose was “trapped” inside a baby. Garnet had already accepted their new reality going forward.
3) Crew confirmed that it was “hard” to get the wedding episode made because of push-back from CN. Lamar stated that it took some time to get approval so they could “show what they wanted to show” without “edits”, and that a lot of the show built up to this moment. To this I say: Thank you crewniverse! Hopefully the good ratings and merch sales will show CN that they shouldn’t be weary of this sort of content in the future!
4) The crew found it very satisfying to drop a barn on Blue Diamond’s head. They complimented Lapis on being able to overcome her sadness, and her other issues, and stand up to Blue. They also wanted to use “stronger words” for her “I’ve felt worse” line, but it’s a kid show. LOL
5) Lamar said “sometimes that’s just how it goes down” when the host mentioned Lapis and Peridot’s reunion being sweet, but cut short, and that they would have to make up later. (Hopefully this suggests we’re getting some scenes or episodes about it later!)
a lot of people i’ve interacted with still think the whole chiquita death squads thing was only a rumor so I wanted to point out that they owned up to it and got fined.
https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2007/March/07_nsd_161.html
so a corporation literally funded right wing terrorists to kill innocent people and only got fined. $25 million. chiquita has annual revenues of $3 billion. that should really have been a wake up call to anyone thinking corporations are treated unfairly, but it wasn’t. this is capitalism.
Pepsi is also directly responsible for the coup of Allende. Allende was actually supposed to win the 1963 election, but was unable to bc corporations like Pepsi poured millions into his opponent’s campaign. In return, his opponent promised to protect their investments. In 1970, when Allende finally won, the CEO of PepsiCo explicitly demanded President Nixon stage a coup against Allende bc as a socialist, he would threaten Pepsi’s and other foreign investments. Pressured by these corporations, Nixon eventually took action https://www.theguardian.com/business/1998/nov/08/observerbusiness.theobserver
dave has a very particular way of expressing affection
(the second one’s really sketchy i know, i liked the idea too much not to include it but boy i could not get that pose to work)
Survival of the richest: the wealthy are plotting to leave us behind
Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers.
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After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys — yes, all men — from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world. After a bit of small talk, I realized they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of technology.
They had come with questions of their own.They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.Which region will be less impacted by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”
rich people are fucking terrifying
The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down.
This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers — if that technology could be developed in time.
eat the rich before they eat the rest of us
Survival of the richest: the wealthy are plotting to leave us behind
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