Gary Larson has several species of animals named after him. He also named the spiked part of a stegosaurus tail in a comic (the thagomizer, “after the late Thag Simmons”) and had that name adopted as the official name by paleontologists.
I dislike what is behind it: increasingly greedy media companies squeezing writers and actors. Prior to the rise of prestige shows on cable, writers and principal cast would have a year contract and would get paid well enough to make the one show their only job. Now they need to look for multiple jobs a year, and there’s little to no guarantee for writers that they will get asked back for the next season if there is one.
The war against writers specifically is also part of why there are so many remakes and sequels and adaptations of existing work: writers get paid much less for those than they do for original work.
All that said, I think shows should have the number of episodes they need and should come out at a pace that ensures quality. Rick and Morty and Venture Brothers are both examples of shows with an unpredictable release schedule that did not harm how enjoyable they were.
The comment is a reference to The Wizard of Oz, where three characters are walking through the woods talking about their fear of “lions and tigers and bears, oh my!”
So, “libertaire” probably means “libertarian” in the original sense of an anarchist.
“Billionaire preacher” should not be a descriptor that applies to anyone.
I love Giancarlo Eaposito’s acting but it’s my recollection that he often says stuff like this in interviews as a “it would be cool” kind of thing which then gets spun as “inside information.”
It might help to have some examples. Are you a student talking to other students? An office worker talking to colleagues? An attempt to converse with (say) a busy clerk at a store is less likely to go well than a casual chat with someone who is also waiting in line.
And sometimes there’s genuinely nothing to talk about, and recognizing that is a useful skill.
[70s movie trailer voice] They’re…the morons.
Sadly, it might end just fine for the boss. The employee would be better off going to the press first.
I don’t know if this is true in the UK but in the US McD’s locations are nearly all franchises owned by local business owners. So McDonald’s the corporation could reasonably be unaware that the 15 (say) locations in Dallas TX owned by Horatio Hornblower were all staffed by trafficked persons.
I’m not saying this would absolve McDonald’s of responsibility but it would address the “being unaware” part.
Spoken like a guy who can’t take criticism.
And why is that “inevitable?” Is it because capitalism makes agrarian life basically impossible?
The problem with studies based on any current trends is that they are all framed with the assumption that capitalism will continue to be the dominant socioeconomic system.
I recently heard a “housing expert” say that cities have to keep growing, there’s no sustainable static level of population, and I thought “there’s better be or we’re all fucked.”
The problem with capitalism is that it only works if there’s perpetual growth, which (as many before me have pointed out) is the logic of cancer.
I’m pretty sure the options would be to arrest him or be fired for insubordination.
Charles Bukowski wrote maybe the most beautiful paean to the fact of the telephone book:
More to the point, if there is a warrant issued for his arrest, his secret service detail would need to arrest him.
Also, the moral degeneration that comes from making every human interaction boil down to a financial transaction.
There’s no indication that either of these characters is a parent or a child.
“Hi, Lesbian, I’m anon.”
Apolitical: far right/fascist Liberal: right Moderate: right “Democrat”(USA): right leaning moderate.