Netflix is pretty much nothing now except foreign reality TV. Thank you for reminding me I need to cancel them and Hulu.

About 10 years ago it was probably closer to 80% IPAs. It was a big joke here that IPA stands for I Pretend (I’m not an) Alcoholic.

The only reason there is more on the market now is because we all stopped pretending the taste of motor oil with grapefruit gave us a better buzz.

Even now, most breweries will only seem to offer 4 varieties of IPAs, a pilsner/lager and a stout. Maybe an Amber but I feel the Mac & Jack’s copycat scene has mostly died out now.

If we let conservatives ban 1984, they will be forced to stop pretending they have read it, and comparing everything irrelevant to it, while we can still illegally access it.

Something to think.about.

Professional cult deprigranners was never a real career. They tended to be church councilers.

I don’t think you can or should blame immigrants for America being a playground for the rich where the citizens are just a servicing class.

Is something lost in translating 100 Years of Solitude from Spanish into English?

Absolutely?

Are there many books originally written in English that are better than the English translation of 100 Years of Solitude?

Very very few, actually.

Except this isnt a random person looking to get famous. This is a well respected journalist and editor represented by established publishing houses and a respected law firm.

I hate saying it because its an obvious statement, but he literally wrote the book on the subject.

If people are being interviewed specifically because they previously participated as a source in a book and they are provoked to give the same specific anecdotes they gave to the original author, just to get around paying a fee, then the original author’s work is still being adapted.

I think what probably happened is Apple refused to greenlight production with the author’s involvement. He might be the specific editor of gizmodo that Apple had swatted about 10 years ago, accusing gizmodo of espionage.

That is always possible, but in this case I suspect that isn’t so.

This author has independent research and can likely prove that nobody before them ever presented the story in the structure of a spy thriller.

The author can also prove the Tetris company had the galleys before publishing. A professional studio would have likely never allowed one of their screenwriters to ever read the book. I think this case.is going to get settled.

I am sure he can prove what in the film came from his book and what didn’t. The article specifies much of the book was written from his own sourcing.

If there is even 1 thing in the film that cant be sourced to a 2nd published article, than that proves his book was in part adapted.

Yeah, I think the moment he was first aproacged with this idea, he likely assumed they weren’t asking and began formulating a plan.

My understanding is that a sponsor is generally expected to honor the timeline of the agreed upon conditions of the sponsorship unless a fireable offense on the part of the sponsee was comitted, upon which a review for possible deportation would be opened.

I also dont think.most people consider housing security as a burden.

Neither of us have security clearances we really dont know if he has ever refused to collaborate. Confidential informants have to keep their cover.

And seeing that they attempted to murder him, I am not sure I can say he was able to keep his cover for very long.

Of course the motives were self serving. He likely saw himself going down in history as the man who singlehandedly saved the US and thought it would help him become president.

Its complicated, because he did stop it. He also immediately took notes and immediately told others about the conversations, actions which clearly paint him as somebody fully versed in the processes of establishing cooperation with law enforcement on an informer basis.

It is also arguable that the entire insurrection that day was a cover to specifically murder Mike Pence on the Capitol steps. There was day of chatter that the gallow was brought into the city in one of the vehicles in Alex Jones’ caravan. We know that with the charging of Donald Trump, Alex Jones is now essentially the only conspirator of Jan. 6 who remains charge free.

Whatever we think of Mike Pence, our country still existing might have solely rested in his hands and it appears he did the right thing in the way he knew how. He saved his life. He saved his family’s life. He saved his country.

Interesting. I will keep an eye out.

I also live in the seattle, I have never once seen Franks red being used as barbecue sauce.

I feel like most places here are making their own, and they are all coke or Dr. Pepper based.

His supporters are already making up baseless conspiracies about their enemies and committing random acts of violence.

Yes, if you just don’t build houses for anybody but the wealthiest, you make more money for less work.

People gotta realize that the housing crisis was the “free market” solution.

Dude, you are never going to be in their club.

Google isn’t getting into the hotel industry to help out an overburdened housing market. This is solely designed to make their immigrant workers more reliant on the company than they already are, while creating a legal loophole to pay them less than the agreed upon rate.

It also suggests they intend to up the usage of immigrant workers, which will further displace the local housing situation and likely further rise homelessness within the county (and I imagine a rise in white supremacist thinking and action in response.

This isn’t rational on Google’s part, this is a potential human rights crisis in the making that we really need to speak out against. 21St century company towns will not be different from 1800s company towns in any true meaningful way.

When we poach the top talent from other countries by selling them on the American dream, we can’t bring them here to have them be an invisible class fully dependent on private corporations. We have to actually let them have the American dream we sold to them.