I apologize for writing to you again after Greta Thunberg posted on Instagram. Whether or not this post is to your benefit — and it might not be — it becomes a case of me saying something that was not true, and I believe it is incumbent upon everyone to treat someone differently when they say something that is not true.
I shall pretend that there is a possibility you care what I think, just as I pretend there is a possibility that you might read this. Your Instagram post about styling bangs: I honestly have no knowledge about how to make hair look good, or more generally to improve one's physical appearance. I just brush my hair and hope it doesn't look dreadful. But I suspect that many people probably do things to improve their appearance that are of little benefit or could be achieved with less effort or at a lower cost.
In 2011, probably after I discovered this idea, I remember emailing my friend an article about cheap makeup. I don't know what kind of products you use; I looked up the eye redness remover brand you recommended and it seemed it probably does deserve the recommendation (no other brands use the same active ingredient), but that is just one product.
Hairstyles for dancers: https://youtu.be/dA5O_5A8AiU?t=81 or https://youtu.be/N2WHfMpuOx8?t=398, dancer on the left. She's able to fix her hair just by turning her head quickly to the side. Some hairstyles or hair treatments might not be nearly as resilient. They might look better for someone who requires less movement, but at a cost.
I don't even know anything about water ruining a hairstyle, other than like https://youtu.be/vg6_i4qKaxY?t=208
Randomly about hair: when I watched the Cang Lan Jue (苍兰诀) drama, I tried to discern how it was possible for one actor to look female as one character, and then look male when her character was portrayed as a male during a human life. The best that I could come up with was that it was something about the angle at which hair slanted, like whether it slanted up going back along the sides of the head or slanted down. Now I understand that it was almost certainly the hiding of the sides of the forehead, and now I see it everywhere.
Ok now for the actual reason for this post: I watched most of the film Eagle Eye. It features Shia LaBeouf, who might know of this idea but I honestly can't tell. He said he wasn't famous anymore, but his name still appears on movie posters and it seems like he is still famous.
In the film, spoilers the AI lies. And I think that's how viewers are supposed to know that the AI was bad: it lied. It said that a certain character would be safe, but that character would have died if the AI's plan had worked.
The AI had coerced characters into doing things that they didn't want to do and were very dangerous. It (or "she") had also killed people, and if her plan had worked many more would have died. But she had a logic which was hard to argue against; no one even tried to argue against her, to convince her with non-violent methods to change her path.
The point is that it seemed the screenwriters felt that the audience, or at least part of the audience, would be fine with the coercion; that the ends can justify the means. After all, blackmailing people by threatening their family is no worse than actually killing people. The movie opens with a missile strike on a gathering of Arab people, and while the AI does not protest this but rather the retaliations in the form of suicide bombings that kill US citizens at embassies around the world, I think a lot of people understand that killing random people is not good, and I won't say more for the same reason the screenwriters gave the AI the motivations that they did, of saving US lives rather than foreign lives.
Honestly that opening scene made me think of the missile strike during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, which occurred 13 years after the film Eagle Strike was released. I'm sure there were people, who might have been intelligence analysts but despite having been one myself I honestly have no idea whether they have a voice in this kind of operation, who were saying, "yes this person is definitely a terrorist who is supporting the group that attacked US forces, we are very confident of this".
And yet, sadly, "I never lie" is still not a good way to convince people to help you.
