Supporting Hamas is what is going to get them crushed even further.
Hyperreality
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TIL. In my native language the ий in Тарковский (still?) becomes an i.
Honestly, I wonder if they don't just do it randomly. I volunteered with Ukrainians. I met brothers who had the same family name in cyrillic, but two different names in roman/latin script. They were in the same group, but didn't follow each other in an alphabetic list of surnames. Wasn't a y/i either. Think it was something at the beginning of the surname.
IRC the Soviets used to use the French method of romanisation (for passports). So the ий became an i. I think at a certain point they started using an english system, in which the ий becomes a y.
But if you google romanization of Russian and the Russian alphabet, you'll still see that й can become an i, y, or even a j.
Manufacturers are joining the era of disposable cars.
Consumers are joining the era of disposing of cars.
the only real way to get ahead isn’t by working harder or out-competing your co-workers
That's a lie.
The best way to get ahead is to inherit.
They didn't kill Tarkovski, despite at one point viewing him as a subversive and dissident. He defected in 1979.
Tarkovski is arguably one of the best and most influential directors of all time, but you don't seem to know that much about him. Do you think you're in a position to be a snob about what you consider a 'mere Disney' show?
In my experience, real filmlovers aren't snobs. Same goes for music, art, books, etc. Posers invariably are though. They pretend that they're better than that, because they're insecure and need to feel better about themselves.
Old people trip on things.
Amateur stuff. Try this:
Beaulieu
Belvoir
Cholmondeley
Magdalene (as in the college)
Waistcoat
I worked in real estate.
Properties like this were catnip. It puts off casuals, but is a relatively easy fix. Knew a guy who often bought a property like this, tore everything out, filled a container, aired it all out, would often make a 50k profit. No painting, no renovation, just a general clean, wipe down with bleach, and removal of crap.
I'd happily scoop up a turd with my bare hands, if I was being paid 50k to do it. Let's be honest, most of us would.
Of course, this kind of property also attracts people who think they're good at DIY and underestimate how much stuff costs to fix properly. The Money Pit basically.
People who don't get carpeted bathrooms, underestimate the dangers of slipping on tiles.
It's no coincidence that the elderly love a carpetted bathroom. It's less of an issue than it once was, especially if you can afford a cleaner who shampoos the carpet once a week.
Not this monstrosity obviously.
Tarkovski was able to make movies with overtly religious themes in the Soviet Union, because it was 'just science fiction'.
Andor is a tv show about more than just funny space aliens. So is Star Wars obviously, but Andor is properly good tv.
Thankfully people thinking it's 'just a Disney show' or 'it's just scifi' is how stuff like this slips under the radar. See also: trans metaphor The Matrix, Starship Troopers equating right-wing American militarism with Nazi Germany, and V for Vendetta's ambiguity on the ethics of terrorism.
Not true.
The rich have other ways to avoid paying tax. Hell, arguably the US is a tax haven for the rich, compared to many many countries. IRC Trump paid no tax 10/15 years due to reported losses. I suspect this was plain old tax avoidance. People like Bezos, Musk or Buffet pay almost nothing.
For example, when I worked at a European bank, we would often refuse US citizens anything but the basics. The IRS and US government is notoriously over-zealous and the US is one the few countries which applies double taxation. Many banks therefore avoid American passport holders like the plague. There are stories of people having their bank accounts summararily closed or frozen:
https://www.thelocal.de/20210914/why-are-americans-being-turned-away-from-german-banks
Often these were people who hadn't been in the US since childhood or at all, earned and paid (up to 10x higher) taxes in Europe than they ever would in the US, but still got fucked over by the IRS and a country they would never visit (again). The US is one of the only countries in the world that does double taxation.
These weren't rich people. Almost all of them were middle-class. Plenty were unemployed or earning less than 20k a year.
For middle-class people, it's especially problematic come pension time, when time came for the payout of a European pension plan or the sale of the family home. Stuff they'd already paid tax on to the country they'd lived in most of their lives, but are forced to give America 'its share' despite getting less than nothing in return.
Plenty of them are also unable to vote in the US, because they never had a last residence, voting is a state matter, and it's made needlessly complicated for foreign residents. Taxation without representation.