Does anyone even buy anything because of these stupid ads?

Ukraine has been an enthusiastic adopter of Starlink after Elon Musk responded to Russia’s invasion by shipping antennas valued at over $80 million to the country

For some reason, I’m reminded of the Trojan Horse.

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Proper form is essential to running. There are so many people jogging out there with bad form and little do they know it does them more harm than good.

I personally think it isn’t wise to use an actor of any race in substitute of another, if that character’s race is part of the story. The only reason I could think of to change the character’s race, gender, status, etc. would perhaps be to tell a different story, but then it should be renamed and be a different story. But if a character’s race, gender, status, etc. is tied to that character’s story, then it shouldn’t be discarded frivolously.

From what I see, I feel that a lot of the disconnect is based on whether people find an attribute (in this case, race) important or not as part of the character’s story.

Yes, and I loved that they wrote the black samurai character into that game to tell that story! I don’t get your point?

But magic doesn’t have any grounding or association with the world as we know it. Neither does aliens. We can only use the world as we know it as a frame of reference for a story.

I’d argue in lbaudia’s example that it is confusing if in 12th century Mongolia, there was some Nordic guy walking around, I’d imagine there to be a backstory of some kind. If there wasn’t, then that would definitely be an example where I’d be annoyed at white people in fiction.

I thought a great example of casting was the TV show “The Expanse”. To be able to cast someone as specific as Bobbie Draper so well - these studios have no excuse to whitewash as they do except laziness.

100 brands? One hundred ??

It took me way too long to see that. Thank you 🙏

What on earth is happening with the leg(?) ??

Tbf, the original image post just vaguely says “health insurance companies”. It doesn’t refer specifically to US health insurance, does it?

There’s a way to do things, and then there’s a way to do things well. It may be that many progressives are no longer interested in progressing for the sake of progression. Rather that they’re trying to create not just a more “advanced” world but a better, more beautiful one.

Looks like something out of Reign of Fire

It’s funny, I just finished Atlas Shrugged and it’s crazy how Ayn Rand got it wrong about those who can “do” must also have the highest moral standards.

Why do people put up with a platform like this? Their customer service is practically non-existent when you need it, but is is still able to muster up energy to demand obituaries, driver’s licenses, etc?

I can’t believe someone put in pictures what I’ve been playing out in my mind all along.

How many different ways can you post these?

That one looks smug

I was just referring back to the OP post, where I thought it was describing how humans only have so much time in the world, and focus to use - so are modern time-spenders like video games hogging/stealing (thief) that valuable time/focus or not?

In this instance, did they “choose” Sonic, or did Sonic negate the chance of the same skillset being applied to beetles? Sonic might make them more happy - or maybe they never found out how much beetles would make them happier.