That's kept a special spot on my shelf too. Was so mad at myself for not getting the gilded special edition for cheap way back when, cause my version is falling apart.
I don't mind stopping this.
There are plenty of cleaner ways don't don't fuck up someone else's life. You have no right to impose that on the driver. Jumping in front of trains or traffic is evil, you have no right to do it. Pulling him from the tracks is absolutely the right thing to do. As incredibly selfish and evil as suicide already is, dragging others into it is even worse.
She saved the driver from having been involved in a suicide. Good on her.
Yeah good on her actually, remember those fuckwits in Colorado who parked their police car ON the tracks, then locked someone in it? And distinctly did not run over to try to open the door in time.
I don't think women should be cops except in a few distinct roles. We might need a few in the office for interviews and councilling of women and that. But beyond that, no.
But at least this one did the right thing and saved his life if not leg?
It would hurt them to do so
look up the “Icon” Lego building on St Kilda road in Melbourne…
Of course it's melbourne. Gross.
I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the building you deride lasted as long as it did, let’s put it that way… We just don’t build with that sort of longevity (as pointed out by the architect in the article) or “adaptability” anymore.
But this I do agree with, partially. The ones that were built to last were the ones that did, there is some survivorship bias here. But yeah the old stuff was built with real materials, and adaptable, you may just have shiftied my opinion of the old cube up a notch, just a smidge, because it also had those qualities. As far as ugly cubes go, it's got that going for it.
We’re really just a few decades away from public orgies at this point.
San francisco is there, folsom street.
I'd advise all to give those cities a wide berth. Sodom and Gomorrah didn't fare too well.
And then we'd end up with East Perth
I wish to tear down some of that too. Look at this trash across from the Perth Mint.
If it makes it to 100, 200 even, I'll still be in favour of tearing it down.
Couldn't disagree more. But that's fine.
Fair enough yes, it's not like we're opposed on 90% of things. Nor are we opposed to saving the actually good stuff, it's just that that you have a more expansive view of what old architecture should be preserved than I. And you know what, I could live with that. It would still be a pretty good society, even if I roll my eyes at some of thing things that are protected.
It's Perth, yes.
You'll not find a many bigger fans of ye olde architecture and art than I.
But this is not it. Not every old turd is made of gold. Sometimes it's just an old turd. This is one of those cases. It's just a block, a utilitarian cube factory they built. It's not brutalist but it's as close as you can get without being concrete.
I am in favour of saving good old stuff. But this is only 'old'.
Sometimes things go up in flames and can't be saved. Sometimes they aren't worth saving. Sometimes 'heritage' listed things are just the gov being assholes, and sometimes there really is a safety issue with a mostly destroyed building from 100 years ago.
I'll shed no tears over this, while mourning the notre dame cathedral fire. Because there is a difference between the two. I'd not have been in favor of actively lighting this fire (some other monstrousities do need to be actively torn down), but it's no great loss. And I stand by that.
A lot of stuff that isn't historic or should be cleared gets classed as 'historic'
Meanwhile the genuine beauty gets razed (pen station, and that old american city hall that was a beaut, as compared to the brutalist trash that replaced it).
I looked on google. The old RC Henderson hat factory is just a block. A soulless cube. https://previews.me.com.au/ingestion/917/image/large/000/000/000/000/000000000000083/252576xl.jpg
Sweep it away, who cares. Looks like one of the 'heritage' listings to me.
This is a good law. More of this please.
2x cost is the basic 'ok break even' accepted number, cause whatever the budget of the film is, they spent on advertising too, as a general rule
Exceptions:
But the theatres take a cut of ticket sales too. So it's actually a bit more than that. But this changes based on dates, and it can be 0 in the first weeks if the movie is a guarenteed hit, and they just want people in the door to sell popcorn to. Star wars I for example, if you own a theatre you needed that film to be showing, even if you were to earn nothing from sales. Easier to just ignore the varying theatre's cut as a result, just round down to 2x.
Speaking of star wars, you also then have knock-on effects when it comes to specific franchises and series and merchendise. Look at how VIII affected future projects, even if it technically met the 2x threshold, how did it then affect future projects and merchandising? So you sometimes need to look at the next film to consider it a success.
Other exceptions are expected flops and unexpected hits. When your 60k blairewitch project starts going viral, you pump a few million into marketing, or if you've got an absolute stinker finished, just dump it to recoup something, market budget gets cut in these cases sometimes.
So there are a few ways to look at it. But the rule of thumb is '2x budget', because you need to consider the marketing budget also, that's the basic number, if you ignore franchises and merchandise and films that defy expectations.
From James Lindsey/new discourses?
unironically, he needs to embrace 'intersectionality'
It's possible that most women in modern society are solipsistic and corrupt, AND that this was pushed by the university system and the frankfurt schoolers, with it being a core goal of marxist subversives....
But he focuses so much on just one tree, he misses the forest. He's right that that tree is rotten, but it's not the root cause, nor is it the only rotten one.
and allow us to be our full transcendent selves
Run. Maybe throw a bottle of Holy water on your way out. But run.
dnd got me into ttrpg, DM had a big tub of minis, but my first 2 efforts were absolutely shite. Wanted to learn, and my local hobby store was rude af, asking a question or just walking in the store was making him look up from facebook. What a burden.
Round the corner the local GW though? They're happy to teach ya. And they welcome ya in like family. So I got into minis and war gaming the normie way, through warhammer.
Oooh sweety, yikes, that's an oof from me. What are you, some kind of alt right insurectionist? I don't know who needs to hear this, but trans folks are folks, trans rights are human rights, because :clap: it's :clap: the :clap: year :clap: twenty :clap: twenty :clap: three. Let me repeat that for those in the back seats (who thanks to capitalism, had to be slaves and so couldn't get the seats they deserve): it's :clap: the :clap: year :clap: twenty :clap: twenty :clap: three., I suggest you educate yourself on that. And no you magatard, that doesn't mean 'do your own research', it means follow the science /thread
I've long thought right to a jury trial (or any trial rally, even just a judge must be payed for by someone) is more of a weird mix imo. It's something that is provided to you as part of the process of you potentially being stripped of negative rights towhich you're otherwise entitled, because you are accused of stripping another of their negative rights (if it is a just law).
Even if it were a purely positive right, and I don't think it is, it's the only justifiable one.
An emporer's children marine sure.
The liberal liturgical calender will continue to shift and expand until it is a whole year celebration.
There is a point to 'bad' propaganda. It is additionally humiliating to have to recite it. It is rubbing your nose in it, it is a demoralisation technique.
Old lesson from the ussr. The point isn't to trick. The point is to get you to repeat what you know is a lie.
Well, not many living ones.
it's just like in harry potter where everyone gets their news from that fake news journalist writing lies about Harry.
Cooked her in aus meant drugged up or drunk af. You're not the full shilling because of substances, drunk or stoned. It also has just 'crazy' connotations. Even if you're not actually high atm, a schizo could be acting cooked...
Example sentences: "Yo mate I got sooo cooked last night" (after a long night of abusing alcohol and meds) "haha look at Bruce, he's cooked as" (Bruce then gets a cock and/or moustache drawn on his face in a sharpie by Wally)
So then that explains the push to get it associated with antivaxxers.
As bad as mcgowan is (and I have to live here), that NT cunt was the worst, ranting and raving, threatening, and rounding up people for camps. The media didn't say a fucking word about it, just spread his lies. Traitors.
The whole system needs uprooting.
1,
Inclusion needs to be mostly thrown out. It's all well and good for the kid with a bit of a limp, or poor vision, or something minor which can be compensated for to be fully included. But we've swung far too far in the wrong direction where everyone's education is impacted by violent and screaming distractions. They learn far less because they're not getting the specialist care they need, just an EA under a teacher trying to educate 29 other kids. And the 29 learn far less because the kid is screaming, throwing shit, and just disrupting the whole class.
But also the past went a bit far, isolating people of disabilities when it wasn't necessary.
Ask anyone who went through the old systems, an old specialist school for cerebral palsy for example, and you'll commonly hear that they've swung too far, and that the schools set up to deal with a specific disability had a lot of merit. The whole place was set up to deal with that disability, and because it was the school's specialty, the teachers and aids essentially become experts in it.
There's a mid point that some schools do, specialist modules attached to larger schools. That way you have the best of both worlds, they need to learn to cope in wider society, but also you have a school that is better equipped to handle their issue and it is far more economical to outfit that school to suit that particular disability. AND you can consolidate staff. Sign language interpreters for the signing deaf kids for example, instead of each kid in a separate school needing a separate (and usually unqualified) interpreter, you can run classes with just the one good teacher of the deaf or interpreter.
Admin out, teachers in. It's become far too top heavy.
Gut the arguments of the teacher's unions by paying them for a full year and have them work for that period also. And there's a good use for that 4th quarter:
Lumping everyone aged the same into the same group? Asinine. They are all taught to the average so that the gifted kids get bored and lazy, while the kids who are behind get left behind, with no chance of catching up. Things should be far more flexible with kids floating between different year groups. A 3rd year student excels at maths? Move them up a 'year' into 'lvl 4', but poor at English, well for English period you're down in 'lvl 2'. Easy.
The issue with that though is that you can excel at something, but to actually move to a higher year has requisite knowledge that you've not been taught. This is where the other 3 months can be used, it's for when kids meet the criteria for skipping a grade for a topic, but need to cram some prerequisite knowledge to be able to do so.
That's just trimming at the edges though, and making the existing system good. What really needs to happen is that most of highschool/year 8 onwards needs to be thrown out. For centuries, man has learnt to socialize from older men in a craft. The apprenticeship model is how we are made to function. Sending your kids to school so they learn to socialise is a grave error. They aren't learning to socialise as young adults, they're learning an entirely artificial and dysfunctional system, being taught to socialise by their other teen peers who learnt it from other peers. Garbage in, garbage out. Far better to learn to socialise from adults who are socializing with each other more healthily, and for those young teens to aspire to earn their respect.
Male teachers aren't enough. 1 man cannot teach 30 kids how to socialise. It would help, but it's woefully insufficient. They need to be learning to socialise in the environment we actually want them to be able to function in.