Raithe

The toss-up of whether this should go under "weird-interesting" or the tv thread... Lucasfilm Hires YouTuber Behind 'The Mandalorian' Deepfake (gizmodo.com)

Family Of Bears Kept Stealing Man's Honey So He Turns Them Into Taste Testers | The Animal Rescue Site News (greatergood.com)

Parkland school shooting survivor says QAnon convinced his father the shooting was a hoax (upworthy.com)

For the general weirdness and consideration: What Is Deep Ecology? Philosophy, Principles, Criticism (treehugger.com)

To further weird-random-interesting...

https://www.axios.com/activision-blizzard-walkout-harassment-lawsuit-fefa807b-107e-41e2-a6e2-78a086119e04.html https://www.polygon.com/22595703/activision-blizzard-employee-protest-walk-out-lawsuit

The video games points pick up at about 3:10

To be fair, violence between police and civilians tends to have political implications and discussions around it. Footage of that type of violence tends to be considered more as evidence for any conversations around the point. Domestic violence (between family members regardless of their positions within the family) tends to be a general social discussion, and is likely to hit more folks on the forum closer to home (no pun intended) due to more people likely to have experienced or been exposed to it. I think the key question would be around was the video needed to make a point about the discussion or was it there simply to show off violence in a shock-horror way?

Total. A weekend pass is £85. Having to pick up each day on its own brings it up to £99 in total. To be fair, they have apparently muchly reduced the number of tickets they are selling and making it more limited access then previous years - keeping up a certain element of social distancing and all to be allowed rather than the usual thronging hordes packed shoulder-to-shoulder. Delta variants might spike, things might get cancelled, dad's health issues might have kicked into something much more serious by then, and a new job (if it gets found) might have issues with holiday booked for then.. But eh. I might as well snag the tickets and book it all and then see what the universe brings to disrupt it, rather than not do it and find everything would have been groovy for me to attend.

MCM London Comic-Con is back from the purely virtual come October, and the tickets just went on public sale. Apparently within 10 minutes or so all "entire weekend tickets" were sold out, leaving people stuck having to buy the Friday / Saturday / Sunday tickets separately, which means it's about an added £15 ($25) cost. A fair amount of whining about that going on. Ah well. Picked up my batch and booked the hotel. Have to keep some positivity and optimism going to balance things out. Although yes, I did do the safety net of the added charge from the hotel for the flexible cancellation option and paying then, as opposed to pay now and no cancellation without losing the entire fee.