heroes and villains
Heroes and Villains throughout history that have defined their industries and workflow as we know it today. Those we look up to, and those we learn mistakes from.
West Coast Milblogger
Today on West Coast Milblogger, Ace High Assad, South Korean Bluff, and Chinese Poker. I’m your host Cyrus Emerson. Those reports in a moment. First, an exciting week at From A to Z, our parent company now enrolled in 2025 NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship. If the screenplay, The Lords of Hemp finishes in the top three, we win $20-thousand. Plus, coaching from Hollywood movie veterans, to polish the script into a blockbuster summer film.
By Cyrus Emerson2 years ago in Journal
Why Benevolent Sexism Isn’t as Sweet as It Sounds
In this often progressive world where equality and goodness have become the hallmarks, something in chivalry is out of place. As gentle as it may look seeing these gentlemen doffing hats off their heads or listening in with a compliment given, such seemingly innocuous act hides a problematic phenomenon from view-benevolent sexism. This modern trend, veiled in politeness and courtesy, seems to suggest that women should be treated with kid gloves as if they were perpetually in need of protection or assistance. Such attitudes can perpetuate the long standing stereotypes, reinforcing the notion that women are fragile and unable to navigate the world independently. Critics observe that what may look very much like a playful display of feminism oftentimes entraps women in dependency, and their potential is belittled. While society grapples with these underlying issues, the clear-cut lines defining true respect and condescending behaviour often become blurred, raising the stakes of equality and empowerment for women as promised by feminism.
By Hridya Sharma2 years ago in Journal
What’s next for TikTok now that the app might get banned?
TikTok showed that it expects to seek after the choice to the High Court. "The High Court has a spread out irrefutable record of shielding Americans' in general right to free talk, and we expect they will do exactly that on this critical sacrosanct issue," TikTok delegate Michael Hughes said in a decree Friday. In any case, the association suggested it has not continued on its earlier place that it wouldn't separate from ByteDance. Hughes said: "The TikTok blacklist, with the exception of whenever ended, will quietness the voices of more than 170 million Americans here in the US and all around the planet on January nineteenth, 2025."Beyond a productive charm, there are two or three substitute ways a TikTok blacklist could be delayed or avoided, including expected help from President-elect Donald Trump after he will work. President Joe Biden could similarly as a matter of fact grant a one-time, 90-day extension of the deadline, regardless of the way that he has not shown that he will do so.When it demands the choice, TikTok could in like manner demand a stay — fundamentally, a postponement — of the law while the High Court studies the case, which could mean TikTok avoids the January blacklist deadline, basically temporarily."Given the self control of the Great Court being by and large moderate, and by and large thoughtfully for a confined focal government, even with that establishment … I experience trouble feeling that the moderate power on the High Court wouldn't see this as a (public security) case," and thusly choose for keeping up with the law, Schiller said.The High Court could moreover decide not to review the case, in which case TikTok may be not doing so great, according to Gautam Hans, accomplice regulator of the Essential Revision Office and educator at Cornell Graduate school. "I'm dubious that the High Court will take this case," said Hans, who had embraced on to an amicus brief supporting TikTok for the circumstance. "They were truly careful in order to create the evaluation to such an extent that makes it dubious the High Court would give a review, and I consider part that has to do with the public wellbeing ideas here… the court was really ready to take those cases seriously."Although it was Trump who initially endeavored to preclude TikTok from the US during his past term, he has even more actually prescribed that he never again needs to blacklist the application. Trump said in June — in a video introduced on the genuine stage — that he would "never blacklist TikTok."Trump could demand that Congress repeal the law, regardless of the way that experts say that work would probably fail. Starting there, he presumably has two options: He could arrange the head legitimate official not to carry out the law or he could report that TikTok is at this point not open to the law, School of Minnesota accomplice guideline instructor Alan Rozenshtein told CNN last month.The first approach would incorporate motioning toward TikTok's tech accessories like Apple — which stand to go up against fines under the law if it continued to work with TikTok on its application store after the deadline — that they "should feel free to continue with business with TikTok," Rozenshtein said. "Yet again nonetheless, if you're the overall direction of Apple, does that genuinely furnish you with a lot of sureness? You're quite the law. Trump is astoundingly unpredictable." The ensuing decision would rely upon a piece of the law that empowers the president to choose whether a "qualified divestiture" of TikTok has happened. On a fundamental level, Trump could broadcast that it has, whether that is legitimate, and a short time later would have to believe it doesn't get tried in court. That approach could make enduring progress, taking into account that "not palatable could sue to maintain the law," Rozenstein said.
By Parmesh Patil2 years ago in Journal
A Woman Out By Herself
I'm just another average shmo. Just another girl next door type. Nothing special, nothing extraordinary, nothing to write home about. And you know what? That's absolutely fine with me. I don't want to be your hero and I definitely don't want to be your victim. I just want to enjoy any day I have left to the best of my ability. I don't need you to buy me a drink. I don't need you to give me a compliment. I don't need you to call me "sexy". It would be nice if you offered a smile and a nice conversation, but if that's too hard for you to do, no problem.
By Shanon Angermeyer Norman2 years ago in Journal
Why do we talk or write?
I spend more time with my cat than I do with people. I talk to her as if she's human and understands all the words I use. She rolls her eyes when I use words like time, hours, fat, glutton, or lazy. It's like those words have no meaning to her at all. I laugh in envy, wishing that those words had no meaning to me also.
By Shanon Angermeyer Norman2 years ago in Journal
Tom and Jerry: A Timeless Tale of Rivalry and Laughter. AI-Generated.
Tom and Jerry began their series in the year 1940 and now remains among the top and most long-running animated shows to be on television. Composed of such creators as William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, this show draws before the eyes of the viewers the escapades of a very crafty cat called Tom and of a quite ingenious mouse named Jerry within his very unlikable machinations. The idea is straightforward: Tom, the domesticated cat, has spent his entire life attempting to capture Jerry, the clever mouse, who consistently outsmarts him. The significance of the character interaction, however, has elevated Tom and Jerry into more than a simple comedy show. They have become cultural icons, crossing over multiple generations, and sparking an array of adaptations, movies, and spin-offs. This article discusses how Tom and Jerry began, evolved, and became a part of today, discussing why it is still such a big deal in the world of pop culture.
By J Pavan Kumar2 years ago in Journal
West Coast Milblogger
Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of West Coast Milblogger. I’m your host Cyrus Emerson. It’s been an exciting week at From A to Z’s HQ where a screenplay in the works since 2008 has finally been finished. As fans know, The Lords of Hemp is now a finished feature length screenplay ready for submission to the 2025 NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship. While we hoped to have a mock movie poster ready and supporting merchandise done for this episode of WCM, there’s now something to look forward to next week.
By Cyrus Emerson2 years ago in Journal
Jesus Stuff and Christians and the Antichrist
In this article I will focus on Jesus' stuff as well as Christians and their fabled End Times. You hear people claim that Jesus said be nice to everybody and that he would accept the LGBTQ. Now anyone that as read Jewish or Christian mythology knows that is not true. God was clear about homosexuality and Paul who claimed to get his ideas from Jesus just reiterates it. Plus, at what point did this god change his mind when the bible claims that God and in the New Testament Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow?
By Ferrari King2 years ago in Journal
