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gradenko_2000 posted:I recently finished watching "Expats", a series starring Nicole Kidman, which tells the story of a family of... expats, from the USA, living in Hong Kong. One of the central pillars of the plot is the family's youngest child, a toddler, getting lost in a Hong Kong night market and never being found again. The Filipino maid, whom Kidman sent away for a day-off on the night of the incident, is wracked by guilt over not being there where she could have kept an eye on the child; so much so that when the family decides to move back to the US, she willingly goes along with them, and especially since Kidman decides to stay behind in HK to keep looking for her son, and tearfully asks the maid to raise the rest of her kids.
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my dad posted:You have got to be loving kidding me. it was otherwise I thought a somewhat realistic depiction of what life is like for Filipino domestic workers: - they live in small closet-sized rooms - there are sometimes tensions between the maids and the parents when the kids pick up habits, food preferences, or even folk beliefs from spending so much time with the maids - there's a lot of inner conflict between the maids becoming attached to the kids, and the money that they're making, when put up against their desire to come home to the Philippines for good, so they can spend time with their real family there was even one side-plot that I thought was kind of particularly cutting: an Indian woman who suddenly finds herself living alone after throwing out her cheating husband is left in the dark after 2018's Typhoon Mangkhut causes a power outage. In the candlelight, she commiserates with her maid - she learns of the maid's desire to go to a singing audition the following morning, and she gives the maid nice cocktail dress to wear to the occasion, and teaches her how to do makeup, and calls her "family" in the morning, she wakes up with a hangover, and demands that the maid bring her breakfast, having forgotten everything that transpired the night before. The maid packs up the dress, decides against going to the audition, and begins her regular routing of vacuuming the carpets while waiting for eggs to boil. but yeah, it did not stick the landing
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your summary of that is better than the show, no doubt
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gradenko_2000 posted:it was otherwise I thought a somewhat realistic depiction of what life is like for Filipino domestic workers:
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Toplowtech posted:Is this by the writers of Sons of Anarchy and/or Mayans MC? it was done by this person, the director of the utterly mediocre "the farewell" and a non-cantonese speaker opining on the state of a language that has more native speakers than korean https://twitter.com/thumbelulu/status/1751280362590966260
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The 20th largest language in the entire world is dying? Really?
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Orange Devil posted:
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All languages will eventually die, therefore all languages are dying
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https://twitter.com/jjz1600/status/1763547515649925234?t=MwHlBuv-Nt9uIQiUii0aBw&s=19
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Orange Devil posted:The 20th largest language in the entire world is dying? Really? Hong Kongers are rather insistent that THEIR Cantonese is radically different than the one spoken on the mainland, usually pointing to certain slangs they claim originated in HK. It's a pretty dubious claim, and most of the people who put it forward usually have strong OPINIONS about mainlanders
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Telluric Whistler posted:It's a pretty dubious claim, and most of the people who put it forward usually have strong OPINIONS about mainlanders
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Joy Reid: Decades before Alexei Navalny died for Russia, this similarly brave American was killedwww.msnbc.com - Fri, 01 Mar 2024 posted:The death of Alexei Navalny, likely a murder at the hands of the Russian state, is a grim and timely reminder of the potential costs, but also the inspirational power, of courage.
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Joy cried when they shot Medgar Evers. Tears ran down her spine.
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Jose posted:meanwhile a former NYT writer wrote this in the atlantic lol i cannot fathom the headspace a person must be in that they think russ and daughters is a well known problematic brand because they famously have sandwiches that cost nineteen dollars but chick fil a is harmless and inoffensive by comparison
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I'm feel like the Russ and Daughter's stuff is all made up after the fact because who in a million years thinks that the staff of the loving New York Times would judge their sandwich pick for being too bougie
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Yeah that set off my fake alarm too.
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:I'm feel like the Russ and Daughter's stuff is all made up after the fact because who in a million years thinks that the staff of the loving New York Times would judge their sandwich pick for being too bougie What could be more "NYT Reporter" than looking at a room full of NYT Reporters and thinking "these salt-of-the-earth roughnecks are going to judge my choice of sandwich if they think it isn't mainstream enough. What kind of sandwich do people in Middle America eat?"
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who thinks sandwhich and says a brand name thing instead of like ham and cheese except a total idiot who cant make a sandwich? like if she liked a lox and creamcheese bagel or a spicy chicken only a loser would make their ice breaker first impression a commercial by saying the brand, right? am i out of touch? Real hurthling! has issued a correction as of 22:50 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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“now if I were an undecided voter, what would my favourite sandwich be?”
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Baloney.
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russ and daughters rules. the fish is expensive but they also have great babka and rugelach
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DynamicSloth posted:Don't worry the gray lady won't take this lying down. Part of the investigation into the leak is asking the Times' group chat of Arab employees to turn over private texts they sent to one another. https://twitter.com/wawog_now/status/1763727392411992200?t=5BFJZcLbQunyUMw34qRtAg&s=19
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https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1763566869343068534quote:The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We’d like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. For half a second I thought this article might be critical of Israel because of the headline (Israel Is Falling Into an Abyss) but wow that sure is an opinion (that coincidentally repeats all of the NYT reports about Oct 7 pretty much verbatim)! I also continue to be amazed how the NYT social media accounts are a wasteland of engagement, I guess all the boomers are writing poo poo on their Facebook posts or something? Precambrian Video Games has issued a correction as of 06:50 on Mar 2, 2024 |
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Precambrian Video Games posted:I also continue to be amazed how the NYT social media accounts are a wasteland of engagement, I guess all the boomers are writing poo poo on their Facebook posts or something? i think it's a combination of natural decline in readership plus the fact that twitter is complete dogshit now
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Also they post 8 million times a day and opinion pieces are among the lowest form of content
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R. Guyovich posted:russ and daughters rules. the fish is expensive but they also have great babka and rugelach the fish is ok. they have better babka and rugelach at moishes bakery
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:i think it's a combination of natural decline in readership plus the fact that twitter is complete dogshit now Where else can I post with certified terrorists?
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orwashers is the best imo but i haven't had moishes yet
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Weka posted:Where else can I post with certified terrorists? there's probably a lot of dod employees on reddit
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eSports Chaebol posted:even when they were better [ed note: maybe i was just dumber] there was a lot of garbage in Jacobin because there's a pretty shallow bench of writers willing and able to write a decent article or essay from a marxist perspective that is not itself longer than the longest issue of Jacobin Doc Hawkins posted:the Monthly Review is pretty cool honestly any publication that takes DSA seriously at this point loses points in my book lol Eminent DNS has issued a correction as of 00:53 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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PERPETUAL IDIOT posted:Part of the investigation into the leak is asking the Times' group chat of Arab employees to turn over private texts they sent to one another. disassembling your human resources for parts
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R. Guyovich posted:orwashers is the best imo but i haven't had moishes yet orwashers owns for jelly donuts too. they fill them for you when you order with your choice of filling.
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Real hurthling! posted:orwashers owns for jelly donuts too. they fill them for you when you order with your choice of filling. Fresh Boston cream for me
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at least call it just "al-rashid incident", adding "humanitarian aid" there is just adding insult to injury
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V. Illych L. posted:at least call it just "al-rashid incident", adding "humanitarian aid" there is just adding insult to injury I’m guessing that “al-Rashid incident” will be a disambiguation page before long
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Love weasel language like "some say" it's a massacre and that "sources differ".
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When then-first lady Hillary Clinton first mentioned a “vast right-wing conspiracy” — the enemy factions, i.e., Republicans who she said were out to get her husband — she was half-right. They were out to get him. What she didn’t acknowledge was that Bill Clinton had it coming once he’d fouled the people’s house with behavior unbefitting a housebroke dog. Yet how nearly quaint his relatively boyish escapades seem today, compared with Donald Trump’s X-rated engagement with a porn star while wife Melania was recovering from childbirth. I suppose one could point out that Trump’s brief encounter during a golf tournament happened before he became president, while Clinton abused a young employee in the Oval Office in clear violation of workplace law. And then one could run to the loo and retch. Funny, we haven’t heard Melania blame a vast left-wing conspiracy for trying to get rid of her husband. Perhaps if there were such an operation, she’d sign up. Take a number, honey. But the conspiracy afoot now, as perhaps never before, is vast and right-wing — and the Grand Conspirator is Trump himself. If he said day is night, his followers would put themselves to bed while the sun was shining. Through fakery and fraud he has created a force field around himself that protects him from consequences and lulls supporters into a trance. If Trump doesn’t like a negative report about him, it’s “fake news.” If he says the 2020 election was “stolen” from him, it must be so. If prosecutors charge him with inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, it’s a conspiracy. Even the U.S. Supreme Court seems to have fallen under his spell. The justices announced Wednesday that they’ll review Trump’s claim that he is protected from prosecution for actions while he was in office. This means his federal trial on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results will be postponed possibly through the election. Arguments are scheduled for the week of April 22. At issue is a unanimous ruling from a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that rejected Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution. Let me repeat: unanimous. What happened to no one is above the law, including the president of the United States? The court’s unsigned order said the justices weren’t “expressing a view on the merits” and would consider only “whether and if so to what extent does a former president enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.” Had Trump gone to trial as originally planned — and if he had been found guilty — voters would know the results before the election. Now that his nomination is all but in the bag, he could conceivably be elected president and then have to face trial — assuming, that is, the high court rules that his presidency does not shield him from prosecution. The soonest we’ll know could be May or June, when the court adjourns for the summer, after which a criminal trial could take months to get back on the docket. In the meantime, Trump can set aside a case that would have consumed much of his time and kept him away from the campaign trail. My brain can’t compute what might transpire should Trump be elected and then, while president, sit through a trial. He faces four felony counts related to the alleged plan to overturn the election: conspiracy to obstruct congressional certification of the Biden victory, obstructing a congressional proceeding, conspiring to defraud the United States and conspiracy against rights, i.e., the right to vote. Based on everything we know from multiple investigations, it seems more likely than not that a jury would find Trump guilty on all counts. The evidence is overwhelming that he watched the protesters breach the Capitol for 187 minutes, ignoring urgent pleas to intervene from advisers, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Trump’s own daughter Ivanka. By the time he told the crowd to stand down, the first two of five people were dead, both of them protesters who suffered medical emergencies, while Vice President Mike Pence and dozens of other officials were on the run, and scores of people were wounded. We’re all familiar with the aftermath. It would seem that the true Teflon candidate, once Clinton’s nickname, is Trump. Teflon T-rump. When he once said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and his supporters would still love him, he wasn’t joking. Such an event is unlikely, of course, and surely presidential immunity wouldn’t apply to an act of lethal violence. But what if, as promised last November, a reelected President Trump weaponized the FBI and the Justice Department to punish political opponents? This sounds like a conspiracy to me, the vast implications of which Russian President Vladimir Putin — and today’s Republican Party — would applaud. God help us.
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Ah yes, the Katyn forestry incident
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