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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonemental illness rule
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    2 days ago

    The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t.

    (from Joker’s stand-up notebook in the movie Joker (2019))
    That movie made a lot of great points, even if a lot of people took the wrong lessons from it and its messaging is messy and at times self-contradictory. Didn’t help that the director/writer seems to be kind of a chud (judging by his wikipedia page), which really makes you wonder WTF he was actually trying to say with that movie.


  • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneCould make a comeback
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    3 days ago

    I found this misleading - it’s not that all the previous attempters died, she is literally the first who attempted this “go over the Niagara falls in a barrel” stunt. And actually, her cat was first:

    Days before Taylor’s attempt, her domestic cat was sent over the falls in her barrel to test its strength. The cat survived the plunge unharmed and later posed with Taylor in photographs

    And I still don’t understand why anyone would do such a thing, and why it became a thing. Why a barrel? Where’s the appeal? It seems even dumber than most other pointless, dangerous stunts. e.g. jumping from space onto earth is dangerous as fuck, but it’s also clearly an amazing experience (tens of kilometers of freefall, with an amazing view).