Where are you getting 50% regarding masks?

Only things that work 100% of the time can be said to work. That's why cars and computers are never said to work.

lmao

Chill the fuck out. Masks work, and kids have been really seek lately. We know people get sick during the holidays anyway for a handful of reasons that come together, and we know kids are going to be out coming back. This'll work for those who wear masks.

You can be annoyed by both. You don't have to pick one.

They're either not a nuisance and cute to look at or they present danger. That danger can also be to small children who aren't prepared to deal with a dog, or know how to be around one. It will never be the child's fault in that case because they have priority over the dog.

I've owned dogs before and I just cannot fathom even being audacious enough to ask if a dog can come in. It's dumb. The dog probably doesn't even want to be there. They hate new places with new people and people getting close. Things can only go wrong or normally, not better.

So people just need to keep them out. I'm not going to speak up though because it doesn't bother me.

Everyone's struggling these days, including people who are trying to fire on all cylinders to get that last brain cell working where they defend shoplifting things they don't need - like Red Bull.

They can't do anything. We've become a managerial society, and managers hate taking action. Even the police don't respond to basic things anymore. It turns out you can just steal stuff now.

The only people I know who still worship Dunks are townies who've switched to ice coffee years ago because they recognized that it's hard to fuck up iced coffee with milk and sugar.

Dunks isn't a local chain anymore. It just started in the area before the vast majority of people reading this were born, including myself. It's just fast food. You might as well shit your pants that you saw Burger King.

Then I'd see truck drivers constantly pulled over.

Could also figure out how many are transplants, to a large extent. You get your accent from friends more so from family - or at least people outside your family. It's odd, I think. But with so many people being transplants or immigrants in many parts, the accent has waned in many places.

Do they need to? It seems like they don't, and in some cases, not doing so benefits them. That's sort of one of the benefits of having real power in negotiations. I even wish other unions would exercise it, like nurses' and teachers'. Instead, the latter two often do the "right" thing and get royally fucked, with no benefit (see: COVID). Police unions seem to have the best ones out there, to our dismay at times.

Is this really a complaint about changing times or whatever cliché there is, or is it a complaint about the power of unions? I don't see the Globe believing in anyone but neoliberal, hyper-individualists, with the occasional piece about the greater good.

Per usual, with the Globe, and with these pieces, everything can be halted by someone just not playing along. So why should I care about an opinion piece like this?

That isn't how it works, and your view is limited by thinking unidirectionally with one word, maybe.

Influence is something smaller. Influence can be the way cuts are made, the way characters interact, their pathos, or even themes from older myths. Lots of Greek myths influenced the stories of the past. Not all, but many. You can find parallels between many characters. Motifs in certain works or schools of art can influence authors. Even their teachers, or people they didn't like. The legend of Amleth influenced the character Hamlet, but Hamlet isn't a retelling or adaptation of Amleth's journey.

A retelling or adaptation is just making it over again. If I retold a story about something I went through, I wasn't influenced by that story. Doesn't matter who tells it. Influence is more of a guide.

In this case, Ratatouille is mentioned and used in the film, but I'm asking for concrete, parallel themes. Barely high school material. I genuinely can't think of one. Ratatouille wasn't nihilistic and influenced by modern disassociation, or beliefs about alternate timelines and infinite possibilities, for one.

Thank you for implicitly identifying it as an adaptation then, and not something inspired or influenced by, lmao

Oh, that's a good one. I'll have to remember that. Yeah, Hidden Fortress is clear inspiration both by the maker's word, but more importantly, in the film itself ("the author is dead", and all that").

This is like when artists say they were influenced by other artists, but really, they just like them. If someone in a death metal band says they were influenced by Sonny Rollins, that's really neat! But it doesn't come through on any recording, and it just means you like Rollins. And that's fine.

I honestly don't think we can even nail what influences us. It's rarely something impactful. The things that have influenced me as a person would feel like blips compared to so many other things, I think.

So you're saying you don't know what an adaptation would look like if the thing it was adapting didn't exist?

No. You'd have to be an idiot to confuse a film influenced by another an a "performance of", or rendition, or retelling.

Do you?

A comment so ironic, it eats itself.

I get that, but that doesn't make for an influence.

This isn't splitting hairs. It's semantics - the very meaning of words. We often say things influenced other things but what we mean is that the artist was just thinking of something or liked something, but the influence isn't there. Influence is something like theme.

But how did it influence the film? References aren’t influences.

In what possible way could Ratatouille have inspired Everything, Everywhere, All At Once?

There was a big to-do about some people complaining to the school committee about expelling the student, and the school committee said they couldn't comment on any specific actions. Expulsion isn't controversial, but people want to know it happened. The law prevents anyone for the state saying that. People will talk, obviously, and they're allowed to, but this may be in relation to that.

Do admin love studies? I'm not sure you can really claim that. You need to do a study before you can say that.

The colors don't mean anything outside of a range of dates and data. It's red because around this time, it's usually faster, but when the rate suddenly changes, all Google informs you of is that change. That's why a road that's fairly slow will be green if it's normally slow. People are driving slower because you're supposed to; even speed limits are for maximal conditions (sun, clear skies, no precipitation).

You'd have to be a dipshit even by MA standards to try and push it when weather conditions are worse and changing right in front of you.