Heebiejeebies
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Heebiejeebies
1yr ago
Most of those characters are relatable - it's part of what makes their stories so successful.
You might not be a billionaire playboy, but you know what it feels like to want to atone for a past mistake.
No one will make you a juiced super soldier, but who doesn't sympathize with feeling the call to act after your country is attacked.
Heebiejeebies
1yr ago
Role models are typically relatable, the incentive is that if "I behave like this person, I can achieve what this person achieves."
If you're coming from a place of perceived poverty and repression, no amount of "acting white" will grant you the benefits these white CEOs received by virtue of not being dark-skinned.
Put another way, if I'm a little black girl who wants to be a pop singer, should I model my behavior on Katy Perry or Beyonce?
Heebiejeebies
1yr ago
I watched Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's US senate testimony this morning since I had some time before work.
One thing that struck me was about half the senators asking actual relevant questions, and half just partisan sniping about tangentially related topics.
Anyone who watches more of these than I do, is this pretty standard? Are these hearings actually worth watching, or are all the questions being asked basically already answered and this is just fishing for soundbites?
Heebiejeebies
1yr ago
The top level post is about young women dating older men, instead of men of their own age.
You're proposing a solution to increasing birthrates. Considering older men are capable of impregnating younger women, I don't understand how this is related.
Could you explain how you landed here? I feel like I missed a transition.
Heebiejeebies
1yr ago
From those linked articles, the main complaints are not that these questions are there, but seemingly that in the new draft they are:
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Mandatory, whereas they were previously optional.
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Now fully shared with the school, as opposed to a physician. Previously the school received only a one pager affirming the athlete was healthy with a doctor's signature.
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Digitized, stored, and shared by a newly formed third-party company, allegedly not under HIPPA, which would allow the subpoena of medical records.
I don't really have any opinion on #1.
#2 and #3 are reasonably concerning at a glance, and would be especially so if I was worried about getting prosecuted under Florida abortion law.
Heebiejeebies
1yr ago
I would hope the smartest individual in this timeline wouldn't be wasting valuable time justifying their intelligence to lesser wits.
Solving actual problems seems a better use of their time.
Heebiejeebies
1yr ago
magic-8ball.com has been trained on extensive data, running back to 2006. I asked for its opinions on the elections.
Will democrats control the house in 2022?
You may rely on it.
Will democrats control the Senate in 2022?
Yes definitely.
Will the democrats still win the midterms even if inflation is higher than expected?
Better not tell you now.
I'm from the future. Is it a major upset that the republicans won the house in 2022?
Concentrate and ask again.
I think you're onto something here.
Disney is a media empire with a very carefully curated public image critical to their business operations.
If they believed their silence on a political matter in the state they are massively associated with would adversely affect their brand, or the productivity of their 200k+ employees, it would be negligent of them to do nothing.
While you can disagree about how they addressed it, it was well in scope of their business.
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