I guess my question isn’t why don’t shipping companies absorb the costs, but why things won’t move and pass on the costs, via the well structured chains, to us the consumers.
Is it the lack of insurance, meaning it is either illegal (or at least in contractual) to sail?
And just HOW did @jamescdyer.bsky.social get him to say that?
Yes! This! Exactly the sort of thing I’d notice…
My father was an alcoholic and not always completely with it. One day he turned up to a picnic lunch really proud because he’d made mackerel paste sandwiches using olive bread he’d borrowed from the lodger.
Dear reader, it was not olive bread. It was chocolate chip brioche.
I am scarred
I’m not boycotting the US to hurt Trump. (Bonus if it does!) I’m boycotting it because I’m no longer convinced it’s safe.
I particularly like the ‘yes sure it’s unethical but it’s not going away so that’s fine’ paragraph
I’ve had another infuriating thought. If he’s not ‘making therapy’ he perceives LGBT wanting representation as ‘needing therapy’ instead of ‘voicing a legitimate grievance’: poor from any leader but ESPECIALLY from creators of Inside Out about how ALL your emotions, including anger, are legitimate
An additional kicker - in the full article he also says ‘My job is to focus on making films for everyone’. So LGBT people aren’t everyone… Thanks.
I think we should definitely not make any more while male led action hero content as that’s therapy for inadequate men then!
Yes, that’s an over reaction but seeing yourself represented is NOT therapy it’s just basic existing
THIS! This above all new rules & regs (and possibly taxes too)
I sympathise with you both. He is clearly a monster. But I know I could also not have resisted a bowl of grated cheese right in front of me 🤷🏻♀️
Can I answer something instead? My nickname for James would be Armadillo, in line with the classic Daim bar adverts as he’s crunchy on the outside but we know that’s hiding a teenage girl interior… Also it’s just fun to say!
Definitely NO MEANING here
I would argue that working 12 hour days six days a week, even on something you love is not fun for long and also unhealthy mentally
I have often felt that you can nearly always just delete “for the avoidance of doubt’ and leave the exception/statement in without the qualifier. Just as clear and stronger.
Not to take away from the point that it may flag changes needed to other clauses as wells
I watched Little Shop of Horrors too young. Literally had debilitating nightmares for YEARS. Proper scared to go to sleep things.
Still slightly traumatised and don’t like horror films…
If you have made gingerbread dogs can you substitute for howls?
I mean, yes, but doesn’t help change their minds…
THIS! Also true in healthcare (my field). In those contexts the input into the learning algorithm is STRICTLY controlled and outputs validated before it’s deployed. It’s totally different to eg ChatGPT but gets called the same
Yes obviously the environment, and also the stealing and the slippery slope type argument but they cut zero ice and get me labelled as a fun sponge ‘it’s just a laugh, stop taking it so seriously’. Any thoughts?
I am with you on hating AI with a vibrant passion… but I’m finding it hard to articulate why people should stop using it for fun/silly things in ways that they get. Like making jingles for their dogs (true example). Clearly they’d never get a professional to do that, and it’s good enough for that
But for other people - better gardeners than I am for sure, who have nicer gardens and flowers - the gardening itself is a joy. The trouble is that we have conflation of people who don’t like these specific processes or effort and a lack of care about the quality of output
I 100% agree with this, but with a side note. Not all creation/process is fun to everyone. I absolutely LOATHE gardening for example, though I love having flowers. So the process is pure slog to get to my outcome. If someone said I could automate that away I would JUMP at it.
She seems to learn magic, giving her real power as opposed to his entirely fake abilities, but that’s not really helpful…
And when you add in the Nessarose story of power and loneliness and then assassination… BLEAK.
Locking up even someone as evil as Morrible without due process and in admittedly bad conditions is not classically ‘good’, nor is blackmail.
She rules and we infer that this is better but her power is essentially the same as the Wizard, founded on her looks and charm rather than anything solid
So in effect, she realises she actually can’t win. The only way she effects change is by losing, so she fakes her death, the only option left to her. She passes on the baton to Glinda…
Who stops being ‘good’ and becomes quite wicked in many ways…
So how does this play out? Well, Elphaba tries working with the system (for about 5s) but realises she just can’t. She basically converts Glinda to her cause, but fails with everyone else. All her good deeds are spun into wicked acts and/or have genuinely bad consequences. There’s a whole song…
Elphaba becomes a freedom fighter against this, wielding true power, right, facts and even emotional appeals.
She is losing though, against the PR campaign that shouts she is wicked and lies, and sets up Glinda as a Good counterpoint, someone who is equally all style and no substance a la Wizard
The set up: Oz is ruled by an authoritarian who has built his power on facade/style. He is a charlatan who can’t do any of the things he claims, but has a cult of followers. He’s consolidating his rule by victimising a specific group; animals. This is backed up by PR aka Madam Morrible