I'm not convinced, could you share your evidence?
christian
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Probably shouldn't assume that guy's personal view is the norm.
For me that sounds exactly as appealing as using pineapple.
problem is not Netanyahu, it is not Ben Gvir. it is the white supremacist mindset of Israeli public.
I will excuse a lot of those people here in the US.
In my own case, I am physically disabled at the moment watching the people taking care of me and providing me transportation be horribly overworked to the point where it is painful to watch. What should I be doing with my time? Should I judge my caretakers for not making some sort of time? Is it inexcusable that I am not pressuring them to do something?
I'd like to know actually what I can do, because I'm not happy with where things are. You suggest it's a moral failure but I literally don't know what action I can take that would not be judged a moral failure.
Maybe my situation is unique in some ways, but it's not that unique in the idea that for a lot of people, finding more time could cost the livlihoods of both them and their dependents. Maybe the people you meet in your day-to-day life can easily find time to organize, etc at no significant cost, but the majority of the remaining population are oppressed themselves, just in a less severe way. Every family is isolated, and when you are isolated with a precarious livlihood, setting aside time for something comes at a cost, so is a serious choice. The obvious answer is to try to become less isolated, but that requires setting aside time without guaranteed payoff. It's easy to judge people for not doing that when there's no potential cost to your own dependents.
Most people here are living day-to-day trying to cling to what little joys they have. You can come up with laundry lists of ways they are wasting their time and money, but those wastes are hard to give up for someone living day-to-day. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but decrying the inaction from the majority of our population is shifting blame to the powerless.
The last one got me. The ones before were just mildly amusing.
You don't have to like it for it to be a valid topping.
That's a hill you will die on from old age. I have never once heard someone say pineapple is not a valid topping in a way I thought was meant to be taken literally and not as a hyperbolic way of saying "I don't like it".
How is that true in a way different from other industries? I do think there's no necessity for the race of the VA to correspond with the race of the character. That might be because I don't have a good grasp on the arguments otherwise though.
The argument I've heard in favor of VAs matching their characters is to avoid laundering white perspectives to minority characters, which would make sense if the VA didn't have their livelihood on the line when asked to read from a script written by a cishet white man. I feel like requiring a minority do that makes no difference other than providing a cover of legitimacy for the words said.
But as a cishet white male myself, maybe I'm mischaracterizing the argument, I'd be curious. I have asked my (racial minority) wife at one point a couple years back and she wasn't sure.
It's a given that there are insensitivities in hirings, but I struggle to imagine a way in which that would be unique to voice acting specifically.
I generally do try to empathize but I can't even get myself to begin thinking about this. It's like the words hit my brain and bounce off.
Seeing this late but this is total insanity. Can't find anything more than the six minute highlight video on youtube. I would love to see the final three minutes in full.
Denmark was losing 0-1 with under two and a half minutes left and had to pull their goalie and won in regulation. I guess if it was going to happen maybe it had to happen this way - tight score game where Canada gets way too complacent with their lead and flips from leading to trailing in a very short period without enough clock left to recover. But obviously I did not watch it myself.
In the second period Denmark even believed they scored the game's first goal for a moment, I think the whistle wasn't loud enough. Absolutely should not have been a goal, Sanheim recognized the play was dead and stopped playing, but Binnington and the shooter did not and it's noteworthy because those moments can be demoralizing.
The Gates foundation explicitly lobbied against Oxford's initial plan to open source their covid vaccine. Gates' worship of intellectual propery law is responsible for the patent on the astrazeneca vaccine. The project was initially started under the hope that the third world being able to manufacture their own vaccines without owing royalties would be important in limiting the spread of covid.
I don't think this is true. If we're talking about enthusiastic democratic voters then I'm not gonna argue, but I think the vast majority of democratic voters are reluctant. It's mostly a body of overworked and exploited people who are coping with their lack of political autonomy by setting aside a bit of time on election days to cast a vote against what they have concluded is the greater evil. It's reasonable to critique that, but it's much more demoralization than it is stupidity.
I'm just going to type out the full story rather than being vague.
We have a girl named Oceanborn, a black cat who never grew up - she has looked like an eight-month-old kitten for years.
When we got Oceanborn, she was five or six months old. She was a little shy but we could play with her and pick her up okay. Shortly after getting her, she got a very nasty eye infection that required a course of antibiotic drops. It became clear pretty quickly that she really did not like the drops, and giving them to her became a task for two people. We felt that it would be a bad idea to stop the antibiotics early, so we finished the course.
It was clearly traumatic for her, and I still feel awful about it today. She became terrified of us. At that point I felt it would be best to give her space. I was really hoping that time would heal that wound, but it's been about four years now and there's only been tiny bits of progress. She will let us pet her, but on her own terms - if I approach her she will likely run. I haven't had much luck with using foods to get her to warm up to me. She is okay being out and about when we are home, but if there is a visitor she will hide for hours.
She lives with another cat friend who is very social and full of energy, but she only interacts with him occasionally.
I'm honestly not even sure if I should be trying to get her to open up or not, but it really eats at me so I'm reaching out for suggestions. I want her to be the cat she could have been without the trauma, but maybe that's being selfish and she is who she is? I think I need an outside perspective because it's too emotional for me.
The inclusion of the phrase "have the right to" is what changes this statement from sensible to nonsense. We'd need a way to declare who has that right, and I cannot imagine any idea of an empathy certification board that is not horrifically dystopian.