GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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No one wants to die, everyone needs to make the right decisions for themselves, and for legal reasons I would never advocate for violence.

However...

...turned out to be a bit of a surprise for the world's most powerful military.

The U.S. government recognizes 574 American Indian tribes and Alaska Native entities. Give each of them two senators, one representative, and three electoral votes, and suddenly the white man's government becomes a minority adjunct to the new native government. I'd say let's give it a try and see how it goes!

A decent production will account for the audience's ability to digest the Shakespearean language and allusions. There are limits, but if the director and cast did their jobs, then as an audience member you should understand more than enough of the show to account for any particular idioms that you miss. There are a few mistakes that a Shakespeare production can make along the way.

• They can produce a completely uncut script. Most Shakespeare will not benefit from a "100% faithful original" production. There will be a ton of references and jokes that were hilarious and totally known to audiences in the 1600s, but which are utterly lost to a modern audience. Or there might be thematic aspects of the text that the director wants to emphasize or diminish. Or the play might just be unmanageably long in its original form. Any of the above are good reasons to do some judicious cutting.
• They can take the material too seriously. Shakespeare wanted to put butts in seats, sell meat pies during the intermissions, and please the wealthy patrons. There may well be some high language, but there's plenty of dick and fart jokes, pratfalls, and silly wordplay, even in the tragedies and serious histories. Any production that isn't entertaining the audience isn't doing its job right.
• The actors can not fully understand the material. Some of the most important work actors have to do is to study their own lines, not merely for memorization, but for meaning. They have to understand the historical context of what they're saying, they have to understand the exact jokes they're telling, they have to understand that "wherefore art thou Romeo" is not a question about Romeo's current physical location. If the actors aren't intimately familiar with their own words, then they won't understand them, and the audience certainly won't understand them, either.

A production that gets the above right, along with a number of other considerations, will be accessible and enjoyable for any audience that is at least passing interested in what's going on onstage. Reading the text with footnotes is good, and it can certainly give the reader more time to chew on and digest the text, but it's not how it was originally meant to be consumed. One could just as well read an annotated book of Beatles lyrics without listening to the music itself.

Source: over twenty years of theatre performance, mostly Shakespeare.

Absent of the gender assumption, it's good advice for any spouse to greet their partner when they come home. There's a good chance that they've been working and being welcomed home can relieve a lot of the stress that builds up from being out of the house. It makes one feel like one has come home, rather than just come back to a place where one can take off one's shoes.

How about a compromise: Russia gets the entire fuck out of Ukraine, and in exchange they can have Alaska. Seems fair.

I say this as someone who fucking loathed George W. Bush: John Kerry had even less charisma. I couldn't fucking believe that somehow primary voters decided they wanted John Kerry when John Edwards, Howard Dean, and Wesley Clark were potential alternatives. John Kerry had less charisma than a pile of mildewy laundry.

I've thought about getting one of these to share with my wife but I'm not sure that we're adventurous enough.

I see a kiwi bird.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

My last raise was by $1 / hour. Accounting for inflation, even with the raise, I'm making $3 / hour less than I was when I last got a raise. I'm working for a little mom and pop business and they are good people, but they cannot do basic economic math.

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

You know what fucks me up? His birth name is Dean Tanaka. His biological father is Japanese. Strong "pulling the ladder up behind you" vibes.

That was literally how a good chunk of recorded human history did it, except with weak beer or diluted wine.

I assume one of these exists for all fifty states.

Rise of the -leighs, -lees, and -dens.

He shot Darkseid, too.

Which makes for a much more dramatic-looking jet of flame when you light it.

To be fair, if a technology was going to disassemble me down to a subatomic scale and reassemble me somewhere else, I'd want the atmospheric and ship's systems conditions to be absolutely perfect, too.