You don't need to invoke corruption or reshoots to explain the costs of these big-budget blockbusters though. They have thousands of people working on them, and... Yeah, hiring thousands of professionals for years of work is going to cost a fucktonne of money. It won't necessarily make a good film, but it will definitely cost a lot.
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I'm not sure it even is a devotion to cheap. I think a lot of major media projects now play everything so safe specifically because they're so expensive and therefore cannot afford to fail
There's also the Isle of Man, but it's an unusual case in its own right
Dr Angela Collier, acollierastro, does really fun casual conversational videos on the topic that explain topics in a good approachable way. They're not going to be an efficient way to learn, but they've got a pleasant vibe
Look, the rate of encabulation is one thing, but it's not the entirety of progress in the field. I don't want to see a future where we miss out on real strides in the vector stability of linear torsion resonance. Sure, we can make do with what we have and just accept that we'll never have the capacitance alignment to work accurately for more than two, maybe three linkage cycles. But if the claims about the new magnesium-iridium vortex electrodes are even half true, it'd revolutionise the whole business
The one time I visited the Netherlands and there was not a hill in sight
Scotland! I've never visited the PNW but the impression I get as an outsider is that the landscape and climate are quite similar to Scotland's. The mountains are a lot bigger, but the general shape of things seems to hold
I find that they do not store or travel well. Like a lot of fruit they're enormously tastier when they're in season and local
Blackberries and strawberries! Although my tastes are likely coloured by the fact that I live in a place where few fresh fruits grow other than those, similar berries (yes, I know strawberries aren't technically berries), and apples. So I like what is tastiest here. But I do really like them
It's a testament to how good pomegranates are that we're willing to put up wth the hassle of eating them
At least here in the UK a lot of larger supermarkets give you the option of taking a little handheld scanner with you and doing it as you shop. When you go to the till you just scan a barcode that's on the till and it connects the till to the scanner so you can pay for everything. I don't personally use it because I'm too disorganised a person to pack as I go and also remember to scan everything, but it's fairly popular. It typically exists as an alternative way of using the self checkouts, the option to scan everything at the checkout itself is still there