>There is such focus on being tolerant regardless of sexual orientation, but many more people face much greater discrimination on a wider variety of issues
So you think you know more about how commonly LGBTQIA+ people are discriminated against than LGBTQIA+ people themselves? You think you are an authority on something you seemingly have never experienced. Think about that for a second. This is implicit bias. Learn to trust minorities when they say they're being disrespected, marginalized, etc.
Also, gender-noncomformists are gaining respect in mainstream society because of their own work. Don't try to theorize away the blood, sweat, and tears of LGBTQIA+ activists.
Indeed. The production values and performances are excellent, but historically, extremely compressed (as such movies tend to be), with some very questionable liberties taken. Events separated by years appear to happen all at once.
I wondered about that when I was watching it. The Katherine Johnson character, in the movie, had a huge epiphany that "saved" the space program: use Newton's method to find roots of polynomials! I groaned out loud when I saw that - I'm sure that the actual NASA engineers were very definitely familiar with high-school calculus (in fact, that's probably what most of the human computers were doing most of the time). I'm sure that she actually did make contributions that were profound - so why not just show those? Most of the audience wouldn't have noticed the difference and you wouldn't have to make it look like she did the equivalent of coming into a stock trading company and saying "Have you considered buying low and selling high?"
I think this is why the movie spent so much time on the bathroom issue. Not only was it a stand-in for many other forms of discrimination, but it's something the audience could understand with just a high school level math education.
It's quite possible that the scriptwriters themselves didn't understand the math and tried to pick out the easiest example they could understand and translate on the screen.
Plus there are several similar books about early female computers in astronomy, Manhattan project, and electronic computers. Many interesting stories. I dont know if more movies are planned. A small bit about this in the Turion bioptic The Imagination Game.
I'd like to point out that you're referencing hand picked, extreme examples of a community. There's a massive bias. You have no way of knowing what Tumblr is like based on these examples.
How can you implement such a practice when our politicians and leaders are fat cats (or aspiring fat cats)? Only vote for people below a certain wealth line?
1) Inherent value is a fiction. There is no such thing as value without intervening human judgement. Besides which by any sane and consistent definition cryptocurrencies have inherent value (decentralized trust mechanism... Not gonna judge whether or not it's worth the current valuations of cryptos... It's just nonzero)
Is there much decentralized trust in bitcoin? If you're using it like money, you still have to trust someone will give you goods and that your wallet software isn't going to steal your information.
We really are living in strange times. I can't tell if it's a brave new world or a hype train headed off a cliff.
Why are bitcoin prices going up? Because there's no reason why they should go down.
People who buy bitcoin are largely trying to buy in "early". This raises the price, which makes other people want to be in "early". This raises the price, etc etc etc.
Bitcoin has legitimate uses, but most people who buy crypto don't plan to use it. They plan to sell it. And they rely on the newcomers to inflate the price. Very much a pyramid type model. I think the most real threat is legislation restricting its handling.
Until then, bitcoin price is not going to stop rising.
True. There are many more limitations with cash. The most important example might be illegal drug quality. With cash, you can give a friend of a friend some money for drugs. Who the hell knows where they got it from. With crypto, you can buy from an online marketplace complete with thousands of reviews and quite possibly much safer drugs than what you may find in your local community.
American culture really comes down to this. The driving force behind our "leaders" is a blind will to dominate and hoard wealth. It feels like we're reaching the point in history where this human instinct is backfiring tremendously.
I have a theory that one way of decentralizing power is to create protocol standards that help us share freely. For example, if the concept of a user was somewhat standardized across social media, social media companies could expose an API for sending cross-platform messages, tagging each other in photos, etc.
As the internet itself became standardized, so must our social media. Hell, what's stopping it from becoming a crowd-funded FOSS network of independent social media platforms? Costs a whole lot less to run a social media website if you're not trying to take over the world!
