Flights that go to certain countries or that members of certain countries fly through tend to be exceptionally dirty. You know who you are, fam. I’ve been on emirates flights that look like a trash tornado hit them after a 15 hour flight. Be neat!
Eh, just call it out, it's India and its subcontinental neighbours. And the reason is less culture and more there being a lot of first-time passengers going to menial jobs in the Gulf, who have been recruited from deep in the countryside and are entirely unfamiliar with things like non-squat toilets and how garbage collection works on planes.
I once flew DEL-AUH next to a gentleman who was clearly very puzzled with nearly every component of his in-flight meal. Not sharing any languages, I helped him out best I could with sign language, but I still remember his expression of surprised delight when he poured one packet's contents straight into his mouth, expecting gutka (powdered smokeless tobacco) but getting powdered coffee creamer instead.
I wouldn’t have given it 1-star maybe 3-4/10. The visual effects, costumes, landscapes are incredible, it may be worth watching for those alone. Everything else is basically syfy tier garbage. The whole point of LOTR was that it was this quixotic tale of good vs evil where the good guys were incredibly faithful to their quest and to each other (aside from boromir). It had this almost childlike idealism but you wanted it to be real and to believe and it somehow felt plausible. It was incredibly well written.
This show didn’t have the source material to pull dialogue from and so they come up with these ridiculous boat and rock analogies that are laughably stupid. Aside from that, most of the show is boring. The entire second episode for Galadriel was pointless. The hobbits are annoying, the soap opera romance between the Persian girl and the black elf is excruciating, really the dwarves are the only fun and well acted part of the episode.
The elves have no majesty. In LOTR, the elves were always this demigod-like beings who move and act with supernatural grace but in this they just seem like rich people.
a study of people putting status symbols on online avatars made them less likely to be cooperated with to perform menial tasks is what it actually says
Bullying is a part of reality. I see people bully others in offices for every company I have ever worked with and at, whether it’s passive aggressive slights, framing, etc.
You’re never going to get rid of it entirely because humans are an inherently hierarchical species and bullying is a method of establishing hierarchy and dominance.
While trying to punish going over board may be a good thing, this whole “let’s all hold hands and sing cumbiyah” and get rid of bullying is nonsense.
No two people are the same, if one is smarter or stronger than the other, the lesser competitor will use tactics like bullying or social engineering to try to establish dominance. Strong competitors use it as well to disinvite challengers. We reward this at every level of our society so to pretend that it’s evil in children is really preparing them for being dysfunctional when they become adults.
The true solution to getting bullied is to:
- fight back ferociously
- get them to bully someone else
- take it and be a loser
I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, I had to learn to be tough
> I see people bully others in offices for every company I have ever worked with and at
IME bullying -- actual bullying, not power contests or nasty office politics -- isn't even remotely normal in office settings.
> The true solution to getting bullied is to...
...ignore it if isn't serious or tell an adult if it is serious.
> fight back ferociously
Anything physical is de facto serious and should be dealt with via adults and not between children; at least in my bubble, physical violence between school-aged children is rare and taken very seriously. A bully physically harming other children would receive a serious punishment, the parents would be in the loop, and the school counselor would be heavily involved with that child for the remainder of the school year.
Anything systemic and sustained, or targeting immutable attributes, is also de facto serious.
It's possible that things are different in your social environments, but "bullying" as I understood it as a kid is no longer even remotely socially acceptable.
In many legal confrontations you're best not to put all your cards on the table up front.
Apart from anything else, it creates information asymmetry - your opponent certainly won't tip their hand to you until they feel the time is right.
And you leave yourself open to bluffing. If you blab everything, and then the other side steps it up and comes after you harder, you'll be left wondering - they know everything, but they're doubling down - am I missing something? Gee, they must have a stronger case than I thought.
This was basically my line of thinking when I filed. I felt I had good evidence, and I felt it all attacked very specific clauses in the contract. I didn't want to give them an opportunity to plan against it.
In hindsight, it may not have mattered. After all, I was going up against lawyers. thathndude, who has the top comment and is a lawyer, has a different perspective.
Yeah I agree with this. I think it’s important to put the necessary facts on the table, along with your claim or gambit, but to hold back on the detail until you work out which way the wind is blowing.
I’ve had people tell me outright lies, which puts them in a difficult negotiating position when you can prove it. But the lies would not have been told (and my negotiating position not strengthened) if all the evidence was laid out up front.
Hiding information from an adversary has few downsides, as long as you keep your goals clear. You can always provide more information later. But you can never take information back.
