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Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by nautilius »

robonerd wrote: post #298
nautilius wrote: post #215

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For me that's the only interesting discussion to be had here. Separation into female and male leagues were installed partially because of sex (so that it's fairer), but initially mainly because of gender (women must not do the same fun things we do). Then again, it is 'unfair' that Simone Biles has the physique she has that fits to her chosen sport better than mine; Michael Phelps likewise; Alex Honnold processes fea…

> Separation into female and male leagues were installed partially because of sex (so that it's fairer), but initially mainly because of gender (women must not do the same fun things we do). I don't know all the history of it so I won't make claims about how it started. But what you're saying does not describe the reality of highschool sports as I experienced it. I was a competitive swimmer in highschool; the team wa…

I see no contradiction between our posts.

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

mgdlbp wrote: post #309
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #85

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Funny - I find Netflix content keeps getting better. Dark, Ozark, Unorthodox, Russian Doll, Sense8, Love Sex & Robots, The OA. Not as good as HBO - but honestly it seems close. If anything - HBO's content seems to be on the decline more than Netflix. It's still top notch, but it used to be outstanding. Netflix is really mastering the wide appeal & good enough content: 13 Reasons Why, Elite, Bridgerton, Bird Box, etc.…

Feels like (IME) there's a rather high incidence of discontent over decisions "from above" among the shows listed: The OA being cancelled, 13 Reasons having three seasons too many, speculation(?) that Dark 's wonky pacing at the end was due to being approved for too limiting a number of episodes...

Game of Thrones had a horrible final season. The first six seasons were maybe the best in all of television.

It's rare for a TV series to be excellent and stay excellent it's entire life.

This doesn't really seem unique to Netflix.

There's a ton of movies, shows, books - where the first installment is outstanding and the rest are trash.

My favorite example as a kid was Maze Runner. The first book has terrible prose - but is actually pretty well paced and a good story. The second two are utter garbage (fun fact: the editor quit after the first book AND the publisher dropped the author when the first one was the next best selling sci Fi / fantasy since Harry Potter... That's how bad the sequels were).

This happens more times than not.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by ambrozk »

joemazerino wrote: post #259
ambrozk wrote: post #46

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Sidebar, but the "Cuties debacle" is nothing more than a moral panic. Cuties is a great movie about an immigrant kid struggling to cope with a broken home by escaping her parents and becoming a "normal French girl." She doesn't know how to fit in so she tries to gain acceptance with her non-immigrant school-friends by hyper-sexualizing herself. The story a searing criticism of the sexualization of children, not a cel…

I appreciate your points but I am not interested in watching a movie about the hyper sexualization of children or funding the service that provides it. Pedophilia is pedophilia no matter if it is satire, fiction or documented.

The movie is about the way that little girls grow up in the society that we all actually live in. If you're not interested in seeing honest representations of the the world you inhabit, no one's forcing you to look, but don't think your decision to close your eyes has anything to do with protecting little girls.

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Post by BonoboIO »

I think the best years are over for Netflix.

The hard awakening is here to make content that the users want and they are a movie/tv content company, not a „tech company“.

Their Engineering Blog is great, some really great projects, but sometimes and even more and more there are projects that left me asking: „Why so complicated“

At scale everything is a problem, but some „solutions“ seem „well we have staff, money and time for nice funny stuff“ vibe.

Like inventing batch jobs, but more complicated

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Post by ambrozk »

Jiro wrote: post #159
ambrozk wrote: post #46

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Sidebar, but the "Cuties debacle" is nothing more than a moral panic. Cuties is a great movie about an immigrant kid struggling to cope with a broken home by escaping her parents and becoming a "normal French girl." She doesn't know how to fit in so she tries to gain acceptance with her non-immigrant school-friends by hyper-sexualizing herself. The story a searing criticism of the sexualization of children, not a cel…

It's really hard to tell the difference between "intended to disgust the viewer" and "intended to tittilate the viewer with a fetish I don't share". I mean, any scene of sexualizing children is going to disgust me. How am I supposed to know which ones are meant that way? (Also, consider the existence of exploitation films, which loudly proclaim how bad X is in order to have an excuse to show X to people who like seei…

There is art that blurs this line. Lolita, for instance, blurs this line. Cuties is not anything like that. The emotions you're intended to register are very, very clear. The camera keeps panning away from the kids to reveal the shocked, saddened parents, and after the routine finishes the girl breaks out into tears. It's a traumatic moment.

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Post by ambrozk »

justinmchase wrote: post #254
ambrozk wrote: post #46

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Sidebar, but the "Cuties debacle" is nothing more than a moral panic. Cuties is a great movie about an immigrant kid struggling to cope with a broken home by escaping her parents and becoming a "normal French girl." She doesn't know how to fit in so she tries to gain acceptance with her non-immigrant school-friends by hyper-sexualizing herself. The story a searing criticism of the sexualization of children, not a cel…

Its not a great movie, you don't need to see the whole movie in order to see enough to realize its fucking sick.

Blowhards like you love to complain about books they haven't read and movies they haven't seen.

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Post by vba616 »

aeturnum wrote: post #125
okareaman wrote: post #35

I can't help but feel this is aimed at trans activists who protested the Chappelle special. I think he went too far at a couple places, but that's what comedians do. I don't think it's transphobic to push back on trans activists. I have problematic issues (bipolar, recovering alcoholic) but I don't go around demanding the world accommodate me and calling people who won't listen to me haters.

> I don't think it's transphobic to push back on trans activists. You say you're part of several vulnerable populations, but you don't ask the world to "accommodate" you - but the complains trans people have about Chappelle are not about 'making their lives easier.' Where transphobia (or any prejudicial viewpoint) comes into play is refusing to take vulnerable populations' viewpoints seriously. When trans people poin…

>It is explictly illegal to discriminate against you for your mental health conditions

If the mentally ill are so privileged, it's ironic that people have fought for generations to not be defined as such (e.g. in the DSM).

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Post by ok_dad »

zionic wrote: post #224
dahart wrote: post #213

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You are aware of the existence of physically intersex, hermaphroditic, and androgynous humans? Are you aware that trans identifying people frequently exhibit physiological characteristics, such as extremely low sperm count in born-male people? Are you aware of the existence of cultures that officially recognize multiple genders, like in Samoa, Mexico, India, & Chile? Your own example of race is telling, since race is…

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Post by nxm »

antifa wrote: post #268
justinmchase wrote: post #253

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Not correct, it harms people and they attempt to convert others which can result in harm to your family and friends.

Nobody's trying to convert your family, you're just trying to stop your family from knowing LGBT people exist.

See libs of tiktok - kids are already being groomed at young age

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Post by virgildotcodes »

flavius29663 wrote: post #283
antifa wrote: post #275

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> I am very weary of any "think of the kids" outrage, it's usually bullshit...except the LGBTQ indoctrination at a young age, that is real That is probably one of the most obviously not real moral panics you could possibly fall for. > You can't convince me that this is the base rate and up until now 1 in 5 people were LGBTQ but were just afraid of coming out. Why not? They use to not tell anyone because they were afr…

If my math is not wrong, the murder rate for trans people is actually lower than the general population https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-tra... https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/27/what-we-kno... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227946/

I mean, if you want to give his point a generous interpretation, replace murder with bullying/alienation/etc.

Seems rational that in a less hostile environment, a greater percentage of LGBTQ people would feel more comfortable exploring their sexuality and coming out as such.

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