Pretty sure they have debunked both of those. Crunches put a lot of strain on your lower back, and it’s also not great to use ab muscles to suck it in all the time. You’re compressing your gut instead of developing the correct back muscles that should be holding you up.
Getting tired of cliche comments means you’re stupid now?
Craigslist still exists though. We could just… bring it back by using it again. As a bonus, it’s not an app so it doesn’t track you.
I think you’re giving Campbell way more credit than he is generally given by the writing community at large. Yes, that is one way to write a story, but it’s certainly not the only method taught. For example, slice-of-life stories are completely acceptable, however it is harder to get some of the nuance across to new writers. The hero’s journey is an easy starting point, that’s all. And I really don’t think Campbell was trying to say that’s how everything should be. He was making observations about what he already saw in popular western media.
I don’t understand your seeming conflation of advertising and art, which seems like a separate point from your criticism of Campbell. Advertising does not control art, nor vice versa. It makes more sense to look at things through the lens of money: art can be basically free to create (writing, drawing, street art are all pretty cheap). Anyone can do it. Now, something like making a film is not cheap. It can cost millions of dollars, and not many people have enough lying around to do so without getting a return on that investment. In other words, film has to make money. They know the hero’s journey will sell because it is easy for the average Westerner to digest and enjoy. So you see a lot more hero’s journey stories on the screen than you do in the wide world of books, which can afford to be more experimental or art-driven. Someone like Banksy isn’t worried about finding a rich buyer to recoup the cost of his stencils and paint. Would you agree?
Advertising is a different beast altogether, and I’m not sure why you would criticize it for not being art. It was never supposed to be that.
I don’t normally watch football, but it was a pretty good game. Seattle Seahawks against the New England Patriots. The Patriots make it to the superbowl often and have had a reputation for playing dirty at times. The Seahawks barely lost to them a few years ago, so this was a very nice comeback, also it’s only their second time winning the superbowl. They put up a fantastic defense and for a while people thought the Patriots wouldnt get to score any points at all.
To be fair, most cities are still like the ad. Yeah, there’s an undercurrent of tension that wasn’t there two years ago, but the majority of areas are not seeing ICE activity. People are going to work and school and not talking about this stuff. It’s crazy how people can compartmentalize.
I don’t think they’ll ever have enough gravy seals to deploy everywhere at once. Think about how many people they would need just to cover all fifty capitol cities (which typically aren’t even the biggest cities in the state). They can only patrol one or two large cities at a time, it seems, and look how much pushback they get.
It’s all over the media, and it should be, but don’t look at photos like that and think it’s on every street corner or even every city in the US.
Leaders We Deserve is trying to primary establishment Dems in safe seats with actual progressive candidates.
Washington is doing the same, at least with law enforcement jobs. It would be nice to extend that to any state-funded job.
The whole plate could be the size of a quarter.
Because we do the same thing when we’re trying to mess with other countries. Create division and infighting by playing both sides. Create fear so people won’t act. Goad the extremists into violence. If the people are susceptible to being manipulated, they’ll do all the work for you. You won’t even hardly need boots on the ground.
Putin’s still mad about the collapse of the Soviet union. He would love to see that happen to the US.
And now people are using it as an excuse for never running another female candidate for president ever again. Women as a whole are suddenly unelectable because we tried it twice with two terrible options, thus “proving” that people won’t vote for a woman president. It’s maddening.
Professionals. Academics. Anyone who’s been to college can write like that. Go get an education.
“other people’s feelings are not my responsibility” can be used to justify treating others badly. As in, I get to say whatever I want, and if you don’t like what I say about you, that’s entirely your problem.
That’s not blocking them from tracking you. You’re only blocking yourself from seeing the ads they’ve chosen to show you based on the tracking they’ve already done.