So what you’re telling me is that the good, cheap food that tourists crave are in the red labeled areas? Understood!

After some thought, its New York, so cheap is probably relative.

Thanks for proving me wrong. Seems I’m too pessimistic currently.

But from what I’m seeing everywhere and what our chancellor is saying this seems to be not really enough, considering the likely impact of climate change. While I understand that you can’t modernise a country as big as Germany in one year, I’m not really seeing the positive impacts of those plans as fast as I would like. But again, maybe I’m too depressed at the moment.

The German plan is opening champagne bottles, as pensioners are dying most and therefore the state has to pay less money to those.

And sadly that is only half joking from my side.

A lot of the hospitals in Germany have no AC, for example. So no, we don’t have any national heat plan.

Dont we have a word for that in German? Ah yes: menschenverachtend!

Remove the picture or at least cut off the face part. Right now you are simply doxxing her.

If your knee can turn 360°, you should talk to some scientists, so that they can study you.

Rotating is in nature, but as you said: always with a maximum rotation, never free without limits.

Its the kind of bird on the label. I think it shows you the level of spiciness, with the cock being the most spicy one. But searching for those terms might show some masochist applying it to his cock, so yeah, just search for sriracha sauce and you will find it.

You directly said, and I quote

Eating them shouldn’t be so taboo when considering that little tidbit.

Sorry that I take your words as what they mean literally instead of trying to make them mean what I think they should mean. At that point I can just talk to the voices in my head instead., no need for a social platform then.

And it was meant more with a smiley afterwards then a serious accusation.

“Talk about” are two very important words that were missing from your original comment. Like the difference a comma makes between “Let’s eat grandpa” and “Let’s eat, Grandpa”.

No I’m talking about you saying that it should be not taboo to eat what you fuck.

Normal people very much differentiate between what they eat and what they fuck.

They precisely earn more on a Sunday and on Saturday because it is normally a free day.

By eliminating the work protection on those days, they also will take away those bonuses.

And choosing which day to work? Good way of showing that you don’t really know how minimum wage workers are treated. No, you cannot really choose which day to work in a workweek setting. You might be able to talk to your colleagues and try to arrange things in that way, but good luck telling your boss “Nah I dont like your work schedule, I only work when I want to.” And again, this is exactly about removing the special protection of the weekend and trying to make it a normal part of the work week.

Because they are silly and sometimes/often program it in such a way, that using the back button resets everything and brings you back to the starting page.

Well, this second one was from GOG, where they asked my opinion of them. So I took that chance to tell them again that I do not appreciate them sharing Nazi dog whistles.

Yeah, would explain why one question was about selecting FALSE statements. Seems they finally realized some people don’t care about the answers.

But still, auto forwarding AND removing the back button? I’m not so sure that improves the results overall, but what do I know.

Because diplomacy is exactly why countries have embassies. And if one person of nation A is getting notorious publicity in nation B, then the embassy better does its job and show that they do not condone such behaviour. Otherwise nation A will be seen worse in B and they will invest, trade, etc. less.

And as sad as it is, (some) Brits behaving like complete twats seems to be accepted enough now in Spain, that the embassy doesn’t see a need for diplomacy. Same as with Germans on Mallorca.

Now after having watched the movie myself, I found it a great movie. But it didn’t know if it wants to be a subversion of the story or a faithful adaption.

I loved the inclusion of the sea people and then the realisation of who they are and what the consequences are. In the same vein the statement of Odysseus about the real reason for the war being mercantile reasons instead of any “honourable” (at least for that time) one. And also the understandable anger of Penelope that she is not considered a fit ruler for Ithaka after being exactly that for more than a decade.

On the “faithful” adaption side I only wish they would have at least once shown Athena with grey or shining eyes. They were aware of that part of her, considering they reference “the eyes of Athena” multiple times in the movie. And I was a bit miffed that they even referred to it as bronze age but… didn’t really show bronze items but instead mostly iron, directly so in the case of the Laestrygonians.

And they mostly stayed true to the central motive of hospitality throughout. Which is why I agree with you that the cyclops scene would have been better with dialogue between them showing that there could have been reasoning. And also why I think the message would have been better for Circe also to be attacked/somehow being slighted first by the crew, making her retaliation better understandable. After all they already did that on the first island where they “restocked”.

That part of power structures and how they corrupt every aspect is brilliantly done in Madeleine Miller’s Circe, I highly recommend this (and Song of Achilles from her as well) if you like to see a, in my eyes, good adaption of those stories but under modern viewpoints regarding power structures and being an outcast.

And in that regard I am wondering if the mythological parts were necessary for this subversion. And the subversions are in odds in my eyes to the central message that Odysseus needed to learn in the film: trust the gods and don’t try to outsmart them/change their will. Either go the route of “it was all political power play that devastated the region due to a stifling of trade and cultural networks leading to isolated island instead of a grand connected civilisation” OR include benevolent gods and them having a bigger plan for the humans benefit. Athena was the only god directly shown and she seemed benevolent enough to me. If the gods would have been shown as bickering narcissists, it would have fit to the subversions, but then the part of Odysseus learning to leave fate in their hands would ring hollow.

But again: I liked the movie, this is the kind of long text you only write about stuff that is worthwhile to discuss about, not about something one thinks is trivial. It’s the last bit of difference between great and all time classic that bothers me, so to say.

Nice review! I’m interested to hear your thoughts about other adaptations, if you want to make this a series =D

Do you think it’s a good idea to combine those people in one location to concentrate resources on how to help them or do you think its a bad idea due to them exchanging information on how to be more effective?

Try necromancy! Undead flaming kittens, what could go wrong?