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Which man would you choose as a boyfriend for the rest of your life between these men ? 1 + He loves cooking for you and take care of you - He can be very jealous and get easily angry 2 + He have 3 cars, a beautiful house and makes your life amazing - He is so in love with you that he wants you to text him every hour when he is at work 3 + He loves your family and take care of you - He wants you to stay at home and is an ex serial killer 4 + He has a beautiful house in Paris and is a model, he makes the best jokes and own also a restaurant - He can left you alone at home at night to see his friends 5 + He has a very rich family and buy lot of flowers for you every week - He is not very nice to people 6 + He loves you like no one else, he takes care of you, loves your family and is a doctor - He can be very jealous and fight any man who look at you too much 7 + He is an actor, smells good, rich and he's the most romantic guy ever - He is very shy Which man do you choose ?

Take this test & see how old the skin of your face fairs with AI technology You upload a selfie or take one if camera is enabled https://www.olay.com/skin-advisor?autostart=true I got ages 19 - 24 consistently with different photos. It depends on the lighting, angle & camera quality highly. So I guess around 21/22 on average My 1st photo said 19 years old

I seem to have misplaced a USB drive of mine that had digital scans of my passport and government IDs To be clear, no passwords, and a lot of things require my phone number verification (esp. the govt. IDs) but a lot of personally identifiable information, and information about some family members too...including one passport scan All physical original copies are with me and the concerned parties, though. I just don't know what to do, I have copies of all the documents, that's not the issue - I just am so scared someone will use it to do something. I mean, if it fell on the ******* street/road, it may have been damaged and most people would not even insert a random USB off the ground into their systems. If it is somewhere in the house (possibly) then, well, it is safe... Have you ever had something like this happen to you? Did anything ever end up happening? I have really bad mental health and though this will sound very unserious right now, this has actually brought back immense suicidal ideation for the past two days. A lot was already happening in my life, and this 'minor' thing has had me in a spiral. What do I do?

Is the constant feed of negativity affecting anyone else? I know I can't speak for everyone, but living in the US, I've felt on edge for several years now. Every time there's a new story about police brutality or mass shootings or the rise in anti-lgbt rhetoric I feel almost personally threatened. Stories coming from the international front aren't any better. Every few weeks I hear about somewhere that's embroiled in war or regressing on human rights and always in the background is the looming threat of economic collapse. I know at least part of this sensationalism is because the media increasingly relies on outrage to drive engagement, but this constant state of fear can't be healthy regardless of the cause. Were we happier back when we knew less? I used to pride myself on always staying on top of current events, debating the issues and protesting where I could, but now I just feel burnt out.

Which house would you choose to live in forever ? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Which one would you choose ?

Sharp needle went deep into my finger What about you?

I bumped into a girl I was friend with in middle school 7th, 8th grade, while filling my gas at Costco. I got her number and we caught up, but I could read the room and tell she didn't wanna hang out or catch up, from what she told me she only keeps in touch with like 2 people from middle school, so I guess in a sense everyone moved on. Still makes me sad though, we were all friends at one point. I rather not think about it cause it makes me get all emo, we all moved on in life and I know that's suppose to happen but it's still sad. In my heart they will always be my friends and ill always remember those days :/

What is the average height of the ATRLER? No shoes allowed I'm 5ft7.5 flat.

I’ve found myself to be using chatGPT on a daily basis. Not only for homework, but for writing mails, messages to friends, advice, recommendations, getting good arguments to win discussions, tweets, basically everything. I don’t know how I survived without it for so long

You would be able to find out secrets that have been lost to time and could never be found out in any other way. Where would you go through time?

The 2000s era of animated Barbie cartoons started with the Barbie in the Nutcracker, starting a franchise that would spawn 16 installments inside that same decade. Including one full trilogy of Barbie Fairytopia and its spinoff Mariposa. The films (which were released only on home video) were highly successful with multiple achieving above 100m in total sales in the year they debuted.

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Every year Pride Month rolls around and there is (predictably) a lot of performative activism, as well as blatantly obvious attempts to pander to the LGBTQIA+ community - largely by corporations willing to profit off the aesthetic of support. Many people have expressed a lot of frustration with this, especially with the commodification of pride when it does not really even lead to material changes that better the lives of the community, and often is done by a company with a less-than-stellar track record when it comes to activism of any kind, let alone in the interests of the community. With that said, this year it feels like the entire pretense has been dropped completely. It just feels like corporations have decided - for once - that cynical cash grabs are not even worth it, or the RW backlash. They have seemed to drop all the insincere pomp entirely, with many corporations deciding to limit their Pride celebration (Target, Starbucks) and so on. And we of course cannot sidestep the Dylan Mulvaney debacle... This, paired with the volley of anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation coming from both the Imperial Core (USA, UK deciding to continuously harass trans people and frame them, and the rest of the community as pedos) AND Global South (banning of effeminate men in China, Ugandan death penalty, India not being able to pass same-sex marriage laws) makes it feel...particularly dark this year. Do you agree? Vote.

we had everything from Gaga, Katy, Lorde, 'Beyonce', Miley, Rihanna... etc, hits on hits on hits... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2013

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Have you been to either of these two places? I feel like they're the top 2 vacation spots in SEA currently. Which one did you like better/wanna visit first if you haven't been? Indonesia's Hindu island Bali Thailand with its rich Buddhist culture

I'm sure many have noticed how there has been a big wave of backlash towards the LGBTQ community online and in real life. Comments everywhere have been increasingly more toxic and mad, trans rights are heavily under attack everywhere and need more help than ever. Even LGBTQ topics that seemed like more of a non issue before have been causing very intense responses and attacks. Which leads me to think there is a regression happening in terms of acceptance. But I also noticed that there has been an increasing amount of hate "jokes" within the community towards every aspect of it, tweets hating LGBTQ people that watch and support drag queens, or just people living their normal life. Most of those jokes using the same wording as conservatives and extreme homophobes. Honestly sometimes I can't even tell the difference between them and who is actually joking or not. My worry is that the "jokes" are leading to an environment where people who actually hate LGBTQ individuals are able to feel more comfortable and open with their hate because others are doing it as well and it is just part of the lingo or whatever. Look at this example from Twitter, the quotes of the original tweet are HORRENDOUS and full of disgusting jokes (one of them an absolutely horrid one about AIDS) and attacks for folks that just posted an normal picture: He was just minding his business and celebrating his first pride: Even Troye & others caught strays from the same people that claim to like them but call them something that someone should avoid becoming. I am curious about what you guys think about this, is it actually contributing to the bigger wave of homophobic backlash that is happening? Hoping to have a nice and serious conversation.

Fast X (Fast and Furious 10) The budget USA: 3-day opening: $63M-$73M CHINA: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Budget: $200M+

Twitter user pans performance and exposes dead crowds: https://twitter.com/politicalth0t/status/1669509098121961472 https://twitter.com/politicalth0t/status/1669514955664629761 Tickets resaling for dead cheap prices: https://twitter.com/thnkvnext/status/1669541199651418113?s=46&t=B3VsnIQTDpIAhKIjHf7Nzg What went wrong for the I'm Good (Blue) & Meant To Be songstress?

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It's based on the musical and the book, not the movie. Alisha Weir as Matilda Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull Lashana Lynch as Miss Honey

VULTURE: Spider-Verse Artists Say Working on the Sequel Was ‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts’ Four Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse crew members say unsustainable working conditions are behind the success of the animated film. Over the past decade, Phil Lord and Chris Miller have distinguished themselves as the critically acclaimed writer-director-producers behind animated crowd-pleasers like their breakthrough Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and the billion-dollar Lego Movie franchise. (The duo have succeeded in live-action fare too though they were fired mid-movie from the stand-alone Star Wars prequel Solo. But it’s their work on the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse that set a new bar for the animation industry, borrowing from vintage comic-books, psychedelia, and street art to create a novel visual language for not just superhero films but computer-animated work generally. Why don’t more animated movies look this good? According to people who worked on the sequel, Across the Spider-Verse, it’s because the working conditions required to produce such artistry are not sustainable. Multiple Across the Spider-Verse crew members — ranging from artists to production executives who have worked anywhere from five to a dozen years in the animation business — describe the process of making the the $150 million Sony project as uniquely arduous, involving a relentless kind of revisionism that compelled approximately 100 artists to flee the movie before its completion. Four of these crew members agreed to speak pseudonymously about the sprint to finish the movie three years into the sequel’s development and production, a period whose franticness they attribute to Lord’s management style — in particular, his seeming inability to conceptualize 3-D animation during the early planning stages and his preference to edit fully rendered work instead. While frequent major overhauls are standard operating procedure in animation (Pixar films can take between four and seven years to plot, animate, and render), those changes typically occur early on during development and storyboarding stages. But these Spider-Verse 2 crew members say they were asked to make alterations to already-approved animated sequences that created a backlog of work across multiple late-stage departments. Across the Spider-Verse was meant to debut in theaters in April of 2022, before it was postponed to October of that year and then June 2023 owing to what Entertainment Weekly reported as “pandemic-related delays.” However, the four crew members say animators who were hired in the spring of 2021 sat idle for anywhere from three to six months that year while Lord tinkered with the movie in the layout stage, when the first 3-D representation of storyboards are created. As a result, these individuals say, they were pushed to work more than 11 hours a day, seven days a week, for more than a year to make up for time lost and were forced back to the drawing board as many as five times to revise work during the final rendering stage. In these insiders’ telling, Across the Spider-Verse’s triumvirate of directors, Joaquim Dos Santos, Justin K. Thompson, and Kemp Powers, were overshadowed by the forceful presence of Lord, who sought final approval for every sequence in the film. Sony executives dispute these claims about Lord’s management style, including his alleged insistence on approving every sequence in the film, describing feature animation as a generally “iterative process.” According to Amy Pascal, the former Sony Pictures Entertainment chairperson who produced the three most recent live-action Spider-Man movies as well as both Into and Across the Spider-Verse, “over a thousand” artists and techs worked on Across the Spider-Verse alone, tasked with scripting, storyboarding, animating, editing, and visually enhancing the film. So it’s unsurprising, she says, that as many as 100 of the Across the Spider-Verse film crew would choose to depart the grueling project, which Pascal admits involved major overhauls to both the narrative and visuals, along the way. Michelle Grady, the executive vice-president and general manager of Sony Pictures Imageworks, agrees, claiming that Lord is not to blame for the delays. He, as the main messenger for editorial changes coming from the three co-directors, executive producers, Miller, and the studio, is instead a convenient target for worker ire. “It really does happen on every film,” she says of the revisions. “Truly, honestly, it can be a little bit frustrating, but we always try to explain that this is the process.” “One of the things about animation that makes it such a wonderful thing to work on is that you get to keep going until the story is right,” adds Pascal. “If the story isn’t right, you have to keep going until it is.” To the workers who felt demoralized by having to revise final renders five times in a row, the Spider-Verse producer says, “I guess, Welcome to making a movie.” Crew thoughts: It’s common for executives on a production to have a big say, but usually, they’re not as heavily involved as Phil was. As producer, Phil overrides all the directors. They are obviously in charge of directing, but if Phil has a note that contradicts their note, his note takes precedence. They have to do what Phil says. So there were constant changes and cuts. With Phil Lord, nothing is ever final or approved. Nothing was really set in stone. Nothing was ever done. Everything was just endlessly moving beneath our feet because they wanted it to be the best that it could be. For animated movies, the majority of the trial-and-error process happens during writing and storyboarding. Not with fully completed animation. Phil’s mentality was, This change makes for a better movie, so why aren’t we doing it? It’s obviously been very expensive having to redo the same shot several times over and have every department touch it so many times. The changes in the writing would go through storyboarding. These are a lot of artists affected by one change. Imagine an endless stream of them. Over 100 people left the project because they couldn’t take it anymore. But a lot stayed on just so they could make sure their work survived until the end — because if it gets changed, it’s no longer yours. I know people who were on the project for over a year who left, and now they have little to show for it because everything was changed. They went through the hell of the production and then got none of their work coming out the other side. The majority of the crew were sitting idle for half a year because Phil was holding up sequences in layout. That’s a lot of money. Those people are sitting there getting paid to do nothing. Because we hired a massive team of artists to accomplish the October date and then we found out it was pushed. The water behind the dam kept growing because Phil was holding off sequences. Then at a certain point, we ran out of time. The dam broke, water came flooding in, and all the departments were swamped, doing overtime. But that didn’t stop all the changes from coming in. Things just kept getting changed and cut and redone over and over again, even though shots were getting pushed through all the departments. There are sequences that we started in 2021 that we just finished in May. That is a lot of artists’ hours and time and energy and stress. This production has been death by a thousand paper cuts. They’ve announced that Beyond the Spider-Verse will be released in March of next year. I’ve seen people say, “Oh, they probably worked on it at the same time.” There’s no way that movie’s coming out then. There’s been progress on the pre-production side of things. But as far as the production side goes, the only progress that’s been made on the third one is any exploration or tests that were done before the movie was split into two parts. Everyone’s been fully focused on Across the Spider-Verse and barely crossing the finish line. And now it’s like, Oh, yeah, now we have to do the other one. Of the claim that Across the Spider-Verse production was idle for three to six months, Grady says, “We did have more time than we would normally have on a film waiting for things, maybe to get feedback. And we did have time when the pipeline wasn’t chockablock full. But I got to say, from my perspective, that was a remarkable gift. We are often so back to back with work, we never get the time to stop and let a film breathe and let it develop into what it needed to be.” Sony representatives declined to comment on whether the third Spider-Verse film will be delivered on time. The biggest issue we’ve had is the writing. Phil had no idea what he wanted. Maybe he has difficulties making up his mind. I don’t know! Of course, it’s part of every movie where the director says, “What if we could do this or that?” And normally, it’s the producer’s role to push back. The problem is, Phil is the producer. He can’t push back against himself. In addition to Phil being all over the place and not settling on the story, he has a big issue with not being able to visualize layouts. When there’s a 3-D layout in front of him, I guess he can’t visualize what it’s going to look like afterward. Which is kind of a problem when you’re working in 3-D animation. In the animation industry, ask anyone he’s worked with: It’s his reputation. I know a ton of people who never want to work on a project with him again. On my last project, I worked with a few artists who had done the first Spider-Verse, and one of them said to me, “As long as I work at Sony, I’m never working on a Phil Lord movie ever again.” All these artists at Sony who worked on the first one and Mitchells vs the Machines were like, “My God, I don’t know if I want to put myself through this again. Is it worth it?” I was warned. It was like they were amping themselves up to run a marathon. Something like 90 percent of the shots in the trailer are not in the movie. We re-engineered or reanimated, had different characters doing the same thing. It was purely a sequence of cool ideas they made us slap together while they “rested” the production. We were “idle”; that’s what they called it. And that was probably the biggest de-motivator for a lot of people: some of them had been flown over to Vancouver, gotten an apartment to work on this movie and then sat on their hands for maybe three months. The worst thing you can do to an artist is hire them and then tell them to do nothing. These people were like, How do you expect us to make this huge movie in less and less time? Each week that went by idle meant that later on it was going to be more insane. An avalanche of work is waiting. Phil and Chris have a reputation. As producers, they used to come onto a project when it was 80 percent finished. Once they could ingest the movie properly and see what it is going to be like, they would come through with the guillotine and start enthusiastically editing. They’d come in and start to rewrite lines, throw out entire sequences, throw out animations all over the place, everywhere. And this is animation that people have been working on for a long time. Finished work, not some mock-up thing. I heard on Mitchells they did that. On Spider-Verse 1, they did that. Lego, same thing. What that means is you have artists who feel extremely vulnerable. Sony lowballs them on their salary with the promise that overtime pay will boost their income to the level that it should be. You have people living in a really expensive city who have bad job security, who don’t know what’s ahead of them. And then they’re put in a position where the production is pressuring them to work all of their waking hours and to basically keep their chin up while the conditions are really, really shitty because if they don’t keep their chins up — if they don’t work hard — then who knows if they’ll be kept around? Phil does have good ideas. He speaks creatively really well, and listening to Phil can be inspiring. But the process is not inspiring. The analogy for the way Phil works, it’s getting a whole bunch of construction workers to make a building without a blueprint. You get them to start putting bricks on top of each other. You get the wood guys to put the wood in, put the windows in, get some metal scaffold in there. And he’s like, “Nah, knock that part down.” Sony spokespeople deny that the studio “lowballs” animators’ salaries.