May I ask what you use a download manager for these days?
I'm an older internet user myself, I remember using idm for my connection dropping on dial up and it being able to resume without issue. Now though it seems I wouldn't need it as I download things without much issue.
It's a German origin baked pancake. The word Deutsch (German for "German") got mispronounced somewhere as "Dutch"
My understanding is he was asked for them back, repeatedly
Not to mention archival purposes for games that will be lost to time if not preserved.
Oh I know, "every guy thinks about being a girl from time to time right? Who me? I suppose I think about it every day, that's normal for a boy, right? Wait... what do you mean you literally never think of that? come on, you're not joking? Never? Oh... wait... you really don't think 'what would this be like if I were a girl'?"
I was baffled. How could these other boys I knew not think of it that way?
Oh there's so many more
They strap Mike Wazowski to the machine and try to suck his face off or the screams out of him so that he tells Randall where the kid is in Monsters Inc
They literally torture a car to death in Cars 2. They want to know where the information is and he reveals that Mater has it. And at the end of the torture session his charred remains can be seen in a reflection.
In Finding Nemo, near the end when they're looking for Marlin again, they come across the two crabs that have seen him leave and the crabs say I'm not going to tell you where he went and there's nothing you could do to make me. Dory then holds him above the water and he starts screaming at the site of the seagulls that are eyeballing him " I'll talk I'll talk!!!"
Its literally every movie, someone gets tortured.
Think about how often you see someone get tortured in everyday life. PRACTICALLY NEVER. In the movies it's like quicksand, it's just one of those things that people seem to run into all the goddamn time for inexplicable reasons.
The problem is, it gives people an excuse to actually torture people. In fact, people are cooperative and offer information when they are cooperated with when they're promised protection, when they're treated with respect, when good things are done for them. When people are tortured they become more oppositional and more uncooperative. So in reality, torture doesn't work at all. People still torture people, because they think it works. It either produces bad information or no information. But they still do it because well they saw it in that movie where it worked, literally every children's movie they've ever seen. They saw in that one.
Not to veer too far from your original post, but I feel the same way about torture in Disney Pixar movies.
Every single one has a torture scene- torture defined as "I'll hurt you in some way if you don't give me information or do XYZ for me"
Toy story - "where are your rebel friends now?"
Toy story 2 - " you can go to Japan together or in pieces. If he fixed you once he can fix you again , now get in the Box!!!"
Toy story 3 " not the nehru jacket from The Groovy formal collection" (Ken as he is tied up and being tortured by barbie) " where's that manual!?!?"
I could go on forever, pick a kids movie from those publishers, there is a torture scene in it, for some reason.
I think Trends and patterns like what you describe are worth exploring because they give us warped senses of reality. There's a large swath of the population right now that believes torture works to produce good information or cooperative captives, that does not actually match up with reality. Much like what you describe, I imagine there are a lot of unhappy women out there because they watch these Hallmark movies
Income tax for the highest earners in the USA, as an example, used to be 93% tax
You read that correctly and I believe my number is accurate.
Rich assholes bought PR machines to convince the public that system was unfair to them. So they lowered taxes on the rich. However, that lost tax revenue had to be made up some how. So the poorer pay more So the rich can piss on them from on high - err so the rich can trickle down.
Low taxes for the Uber wealthy is a relatively new thing.
My first thought "how can right outside his window be a blind spot?" Can't he just look out the window?
Make mine two big round scoops
I second this gay!
Heyyyyy aren't you that cute girl with the new dress?