Max Fleischer cartoons from the 30’s.
This one teaches about the brutality of capitalism and the folly of hoarding wealth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AobrKFsvznY

hot take new futurama season is way better than the new venture bros movie

adultswim.fan - new lemmy instance for Adult Swim that I’ve been working on

My nginx config was wrong; it should be working now.

Iowa Senate File 496 [PDF]: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGE/90/SF496.pdf

If a student enrolled in a school district requests an accommodation that is intended to affirm the student’s gender identity from a licensed practitioner employed by the school district, including a request that the licensed practitioner address the student using a name or pronoun that is different than the name or pronoun assigned to the student in the school district’s registration forms or records, the licensed practitioner shall report the student’s request to an administrator employed by the school district, and the administrator shall report the student’s request to the student’s parent or guardian.

For the first violation, you get a written warning. Subsequent violations get disciplinary hearings.

and one day we no longer let time serve us, we serve time and we are slaves of the schedule, worshippers of the sun’s passing, bound into a life predicated on restrictions because the system will not function if we don’t keep the schedule tight.

• “Repent, Harlequin!” said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison

I bet he would rap or sing if paid to.

Think he would say the words “chapo trap house”, does he know what that is? Would be cool to get something they could play on the intro to the pod lol

maybe get him to recite a poem about hexbear, or give shoutouts to the best posters

update: https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/10/florida-men-sentenced-to-years-in-prison-for-selling-bleach-as-miracle-cure/

Father Mark Grenon, 66—the patriarch of the so-called “Church of Bleach”—and one of his sons, Joseph Grenon, 36, were sentenced to 60 months in prison (five years). That’s the statutory maximum sentence for their conviction of conspiring to defraud the US by distributing an unapproved and misbranded drug.

Jonathan Grenon, 37, and Jordan Grenon, 29, received longer sentences of 151 months in prison (12 years and seven months), because they were convicted of contempt of court as well as conspiring to defraud the US.

When federal authorities first filed charges against the Grenons in 2020, the Grenons sent letters threatening a federal judge and warned they would “pick up guns” and stage “a Waco.”

Throughout the trial, the Grenons represented themselves but did not speak in their defense, seemingly as a form of protest. They had court-appointed defense attorneys who stood by during the trial, but the Grenons did not allow them to speak for them.

The Herald reported that the men broke their silence during sentencing last week to plead for mercy and protest their prison terms.

Father Mark Grenon reportedly argued to the judge that he was a victim in the case and that his three years in custody so far amounted to “kidnapping.” As such, he said the US government owed him compensation of $5.76 million for being “held unlawfully.”

He apparently put the deal to the judge, asking “yes or no?” US District Judge Cecilia Altonaga called it a “nonsensical question,” and said, “I won’t answer that.”

The three sons, meanwhile, said they did not “consent” to the judicial proceedings and claimed their time in custody was already enough.

I liked Asteroid City and Priscilla.