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2 days agoWhy did it mean a lot to you? If you don’t mind sharing.
DagwoodIII
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8·2 days agoThe movies “Her” and “Network” went from being cutting edge satires to quaint docudramas in real time.
An immigrant and a Harvard professor?
This is probably being gleefully followed by Trump personally.
They didn’t make me a manager until I had been on the job for over a decade.
One day I look at an old favorite, “The Dirty Dozen.”
Early on, the Major is ordered to meet with the General, who tells him he has to train twelve condemned prisoners for a suicide mission behind the German lines. The Major obeys the orders, but opines that whoever came up with the plan must be insane. The General tells him to shut up and go; then the General tells his staff that the idea is insane.
Then the Major has to meet the troops and convince each man that it’s in his best interests to join the mission.
Being given stupid orders and then having to lead a bunch of psychos and idiots to achieve the goal is the essence of being a middle manager.
3·4 days agoI just want all the money they are going to spend on new stationary, building signs, and other ‘rebranding’ costs.
1·4 days agoSorcerer. Remake of “Wages Of Fear.” Four desperate men have to drive two trucks full of unstable dynamite across the jungle.
You didn’t challenge anyone to improve themselves. You tried to impose your ideas on other people. There’s a difference.
Cheers.
it could not have happened and would not have happened, for essentially economic reasons.
The interesting alternative histories are ones that turn on a single fortuitous event.
You said it couldn’t happen, then said that there are ways it could have happened.
Also, if you don’t want to be part of the discussion, you are free to stay out. other people are participating and enjoying themselves.
You are contradicting yourself.
Hitler left orders not to be awakened so he slept in on D-Day. Rommel had left his post. Think that wouldn’t have changed things?
Stalin had dozens of warnings that Hitler planned to invade. What if he’d taken even one seriously?
What if Hitler had let the Army get the glory at Dunkirk and steamrolled the troops on the beach?
I can think of dozens of times the course of the War changed by the actions of one person.
iirc they decided to do the reboot after Michelle Trachtenberg died.
I’m not going to speculate about it, but I’d think that Geller and Trachtenberg were friends and I do know that Geller has resisted doing a reboot for years.
5·6 days agoStop, I can only get so hard!!!
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It’s one of those things that sound reasonable until you actually spend a minute thinking about the details.
Minting money. Starting a post office. Borders. People who work out of state.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BonanzaS05E28
At about the same time, it was common to have White people play Asians on TV.
51·10 days ago[off topic]
Try this novel.
Vikings and Inuits [and their gods] clash.
Terrible, terrible place.
I was so much happier when I realized that Staples had almost as much tech stuff. Staples staff answers all my dumb questions clearly and never tries to oversell.