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Post by mccarvo »

emptysongglass wrote: post #235
dillondoyle wrote: post #164

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Being gay or trans or non binary or whatever is not contagious. There is no reason for differing %, except the trend is very clear: The older the generation the fewer % are out. It's because people are more supported and more able to come out. More people aren't gay. More people are able to live their truth publicly. * and based on your comment I will leap that you aren't a part of this community. The ugly truth is i…

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From context, I don't think they mean the phrase literally, it's really just a shibboleth of the progressive political movement in the US, with connotations of a person going public about a facet of themselves they had previously kept private due to fear of judgement from others or similar negative repercussions.

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xmprt wrote: post #222
rendall wrote: post #147

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There are some good ways to have a political message in your content, and there are terrible ways, especially if it feels "shoe-horned". I'm not GP and am not precisely sure what was meant by pop , but I took it to mean "un-nuanced, insincerely-held". There are people such as yourself who seem eager to label "ugly minded" any questions about the quality of content that promotes A Message even if the Message is simpli…

If pop politics is something considered "insincerely-held" then how can the viewer/audience decide if something is pop politics. I got into an argument once with a few people a while back about gay rights and they dismissed my points as pop politics but it's hard to argue that you're being sincere when they don't believe you. And there isn't much nuance that you can give to the topic.

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edmundsauto wrote: post #229
lawik wrote: post #200

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I was surprised how hard it was to find nature documentaries that mostly showed nature and animals and not talking heads very concerned about the planet. I'm all aboard but it wasn't what I wanted to show my 1.5 year-old. I wanted her to see cool animals. This was across a few platforms, had to really dig.

I would also like to see a Nike documentary that focuses on the cool shoes and doesn’t mention anything about the child labor used to make them. Not covering a recant and pertinent fact is also an agenda.

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Post by prawn »

nowherebeen wrote: post #216
shp0ngle wrote: post #174

Ah, I wondered when exactly Netflix original content changed to "mountain of trash". The article pinpoints it quite well.

They chose quantity/cheaper over quality/expensive. The problem with this approach is that people don't stick around for low quality shows. It would have been more expensive for the immediate term to spend more on shows and earn less profits. But now, they spend less and lose even more . Once they are on this downward spiral, its going to be really hard to compete with Disney. Netflix may really go the Blockbuster wa…

Do they know off the cuff which will be quality? The commission-in-bulk strategy reminds me a bit of YC expanding the startups in each batch, to maximise their chances of unearthing diamonds. And might be hard to avoid when you are increasingly targeting multiple continents.

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evocatus wrote: post #245
dillondoyle wrote: post #146

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It's telling that the comments calling out people complaining about representation are all greyed out. Sorry. HN has been surprisingly me lately in the viewpoints people are willing to say out loud on a public forum. or at least minimally a few vocal commenters. IDK if it's just feeling empowered not to hide anymore or perhaps progress we've made is creating stronger 'protective' reactions. It's scary though.

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Post by zmgsabst »

suriyaG wrote: post #256
ralusek wrote: post #237

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But you've just done that. The answer is that it's obviously not that simple. What we know is that there has been a large percentage increase in the number of people identifying as queer. One hypothesis is that this is because there was previously a certain percentage of the population who was queer, but the societal cost for identifying as such was sufficiently high so as to prevent them from doing so. It is therefo…

I agree that your hypothesis is a possibility. But, what type of advantage does identifying as LGBTQ provide that is not in being a heterosexual?

Over representation and privilege, eg, easier admissions to college or hiring. We haven’t ended bigotry, but under the guidance of Democrats and Leftists, created a new system of bigotry — using euphemisms like “equity”.

Which is the same reason White students lie about their race.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/education/57...

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safety1st wrote: post #192
solarhoma wrote: post #175

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Is it truth or is it being force fed down children’s throats? How can the Western world go from a ~2% homosexuality rate to 20% in two generations? It appears we both have a different perspective on how we got here.

The parent is probably referring to the Gallup poll in February which found a significant uptick in Americans who identify as LGBT+. Gallup doesn't make any bones about it, the bulk of the uptick was in Gen Z women identifying as bisexual. They also didn't hesitate to observe that the bulk of bisexual-identifying people eventually settle into a heterosexual relationship. So in point of fact we haven't had a 10x incre…

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Post by imgabe »

ijidak wrote: post #262

Can someone tell me what the 94% match in Netflix means? I don't understand what in the world XX% match is all about. My biggest complaint about Netflix is there is no simple 5-star rating. Or something like that. I'm not going to watch a trash movie that is a XX% match to some bogus criteria. Even if that match is 100%. Thus, unlike Prime, I explore very little with Netflix. I manually look up the rating in IMDb bef…

Roughly, people who liked movies you liked, also liked that movie.

If you like Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, but you haven't seen Ghostbusters, and 94% of people who have seen all three movies and liked the first two also liked Ghostbusters, then it's 94% likely that you'll also like Ghostbusters.

I'm sure it's much more complicated and nuanced, but that's the general idea.

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Post by zmgsabst »

mccarvo wrote: post #263
dillondoyle wrote: post #145

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Gen-z identifies as 20% queer. Each new generation is more willing/able to live their truth. Wouldn't surprise me if we land somewhere around 25-30%. In large part thanks to representation in shows and movies. The us is rapidly diversifying too in terms of race, yet still even more under represented in media. Glaad says only ~10% queer characters on broadcast, and was a decline from previous study. Specifically compa…

As well as still being used as an offensive slur against gay people and thus not really an appropriate term to use in these sorts of discussions, 'queer' is so ill-defined that it could include pretty much anyone if they feel like it, regardless of actual sexual orientation. For example, 'demisexual' people are included in this categorization, even though all it means is that a person prefers to form an emotional bon…

> Who are not a marginalized sexuality by any means.

Heterosexual couples are underrepresented on TV due to institutional bias against them.

That’s the definition of “marginalized”.

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Post by matheusmoreira »

scarface74 wrote: post #121
boredumb wrote: post #72

A pile of mid tier content that i'd flick through before exiting out after an episode Automatic previews Increasing pop politics seemingly shoe horned into everything I'd turn on Horrible comedians that were akin to ted talks/lectures or made for people who don't actually enjoy stand up comedy. Documentaries that were more ideological than interesting Signing and hiring ex politicians Searching is a chore and recomme…

> Increasing pop politics seemingly shoe horned into everything I'd turn on People said the same thing in the 60s when Star Trek had the nerve to have a representative crew aboard the Enterprise and when they showed an interracial kiss.

Star Trek was actually good though. Netflix pulp is completely devoid of content other than politics. Nobody wants to pay to watch propaganda.
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