You wanna come over and just go to sleep?
Another example of how statistics are the Devil, and one must always be vigilant as to whether a claim of averages is referring to mean, median, or mode.
>password sharing is estimated to cost them several billion dollars
KEEP SHARING THEM PASSWORDS
Password sharing actually doesnt cost them anything, every time u share a password they dont have to pay u for that. Its free. They just use that language bc they say that not having everyone buy into their service is a loss of a customer they /never even had/ and are pretending they would have made money from those non customers
They aren't losing money, they're just mad they aren't making more money. Absolutely share passwords with friends and people you trust.
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Fuck, this may very well be the end of Eurovision as a cultural force in Europe.
What’s going on:
- The Dutch artist have been showing some mild unease at the Israel presence there this year during the past week. The Irish ones have been forced to change their looks because it included the words “ceasefire” and “freedom for Palestine” in ancient gaelic script.
- Yesterday, someone from the Israel delegation joked about the dutch artist’s father death (the Dutch song is dedicated to him) and there was “an incident” (undisclosed, but the rumor-mill says the Dutch guy may have punched the jokester)
- Eurovision have disqualified the Netherlands from today’s final.
- The Dutch broadcaster association (those who pick who to send to EV) posted this a few hours ago:
- There has been protest within the Finnish public broadcaster asking for Finland withdrawal
- The head of the political party who is the junior partner in the government of Spain is also calling for our withdrawal.
- The Israeli delegation seem to have spent the week literally harassing anyone they perceive as critical, with several complains about their behavior already being published.
- The Israeli song is one of the favorites to win, and if they do, next year Eurovision would be organized by them. If that happen, there is no way several countries wouldn’t just refuse to take part.
So yeah, there is a chance this may be it for the festival. Good job, Eurovision. Great fucking job.
Shit is going down HARD in Eurovision right now.We are hours from the beginning of the fest and in the last couple of hours:
- The french artist stopped his song during the dress rehearsal today, gave a speech about peace, and left the stage
- The Irish ones sent a press release asking the EBU to disqualify Israel for the comments their broadcaster had done about the Irish song
- Both Ireland and Greece didn’t show up to the festival flag parade that kickstarts the show.
- Norway’s artist who were going to be the spokesperson of the jury tonight announced she is declining to participate… An hour ago, about 8 hours before she would have to go live
To that last point, several other spokespeople also stood down with hours to go. Including Käärijä for Finland
adding that according to the dutch broadcasting association (AVROTROS) joost klein was disqualified by the EBU for…
making a violent gesture to a camera lady who kept filming him despite him asking her not to repeatedly. the lady contractually was not allowed to film him after his rehearsal or semi final act (forgor which one it was).
he never laid a hand on her, there were various eye witnesses to the incident who corroborate this being the case. swedish police were involved and somehow they already closed the case, which is kinda suspect if you ask me.
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I know I've ranted about it a million times, but every time someone brings up Roman, Byzantine, and Egyptian inspirations/influences on Gondor in more mainstream Tolkien fandom spaces (not me, because I don't even talk about it off Tumblr/DW), it seems like there's always someone who gets super weird and defensive about it. I've seen so many "well actually there's no need to consider any influences outside of England, mythology for England blah blah" responses.
And it's like! Oh, you want to play the decontextualized Tolkien quotes game? How about this one:
“But this [the setting of LOTR] is not a purely 'Nordic' area in any sense. If Hobbiton and Rivendell are taken (as intended) to be at about the latitude of Oxford, then Minas Tirith, 600 miles south, is at about the latitude of Florence [in Italy]. The Mouths of Anduin and the ancient [Gondorian] city of Pelargir are at about the latitude of ancient Troy [in Turkey]. Auden has asserted that for me 'the North is a sacred direction.' That is not true. The North-west part of Europe, where I (and most of my ancestors) have lived, has my affection, as a man’s home should. I love its atmosphere, and know more of its histories and languages than I do of other parts; but it is not ‘sacred’, nor does it exhaust my affections. I have, for instance, a particular love for the Latin language, and among its descendants for Spanish ... The progress of the tale ends in what is far more like the re-establishment of an effective Holy Roman Empire with its seat in Rome than anything that would be devised by a 'Nordic.'”
Or this one:
#fun fact: in the full letter it comes from tolkien concludes the mythology for england quote with 'absurd.'#and he specifically used gondor as a counter-example to the 'nordic' image of middle-earth#like it's literally explicitly stated by tolkien that gondor is not meant to be analogous to england or northern europe at all
Wtf? There are people who pretend there aren't Roman or Egyptian etc. influences with Gondor?
Gondor, the ancient Southern and quasi-Mediterranean kingdom in decline, with it's grand but increasingly empty cities, great monuments and works of engineering, where the dwindling noble houses look into the past and practice embalming, has no such influences
What books are these people reading?
Israeli ambassador to the UN having an absolute normal one as he takes to the podium with the world’s tiniest shredder to shred copies of the UN charter ahead of a vote that would grant more privileges to Palestinians within the UN.
Some government admin person shrugged off the expense report for this baby shredder.
Little did they know it was being used for the most childish drama display the UN has seen this month.
Could really have done with a link.
Ah, thank you! I looked but couldn't find it. Much appreciated!
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before directors are allowed to put in the request for cgi they should be required to answer: “would lord of the rings have been able to do this by sitting somebody a little further back, using an apple box, or putting out a casting call for a really big pig?” and if the answer is yes they should consider finding a really big pig.
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