Horribly Depressing Postsecrets
Poll of the Day
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What Does A Hollywood Agent Actually Do?
When I was starting in the industry I worked at a major agency. I am no longer in representation. When someone is a star they often require more negotiation. They get a piece of the back end (if the film makes money they get money) or what is more popular now because of wonky Hollywood accounting are box office bonuses.
The film makes $100M you get $250k bonus for example. If there are multiple stars I’ve seen deals where the first person that signs on has some protection that their salary matches the other star that joins if it ends up being higher.
Picture of the Day
The King of Thule, Piet van der Ouderaa, 1896
There was a king in Thule,
Was faithful till the grave,
To whom his mistress, dying,
A golden goblet gave.
Nought was to him more precious;
He drained it at every bout;
His eyes with tears ran over,
As oft as he drank thereout.
When came his time of dying,
The towns in his land he told,
Nought else to his heir denying
Except the goblet of gold.
He sat at the royal banquet
With his knights of high degree,
In the lofty hall of his father
In the castle by the sea.
There stood the old carouser,
And drank the last life-glow;
And hurled the hallowed goblet
Into the tide below.
He saw it plunging and filling,
And sinking deep in the sea:
Then fell his eyelids for ever,
And never more drank he!
The Daily Man-Up: If You Don’t Do It Now, You Never Will
I always plan a ton before carrying out the actual tasks as a way to avoid doing the actual things so that I can have a perfect start for another task that I will never take action for or just give up half way through.
I always convince myself that I will do it when the minute hand hits 0, 15, 30 because it just doesn’t feel right starting anything when the time is as odd as something like 11:47. Guess what. I never do it even when it’s a perfect 12:00.
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Linkage
New study: A zero-emissions US is now pretty cheap – ARS Technica
Myanmar military seizes power, detains elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi – Reuters
Do Animals Have Sex For Pleasure? – Ned Hardy
Replacing your toilet seat with this is a luxury that will make your life consistently more pleasant – Amazon
CBO projects 4.6% growth in Biden’s first year, jobs lag – AP News
Oregon law to decriminalize all drugs goes into effect, offering addicts rehab instead of prison – USA Today
Why You Should Never ‘Unsubscribe’ From Illicit Spam Emails and Texts – 2Cents
U.S. Cuts $231 Million Deal To Provide 15-Minute COVID-19 At-Home Tests – NPR
9 Secret Shortcuts of People Who Are Good at Everyday Math – Apartment Therapy
Scientists Monitored 631 People As They Died. This Is What They Found – VICE
Do These Things After Work Everyday and You Will Achieve Anything You Want in Life – Thomas Oppong
Dustin Diamond, ‘Saved by the Bell’ Actor, Dies at 44 – TMZ
A Few Simple Habits Can Tack Some Extra Years Onto Your Lifespan – Popular Science
This scale calculates 11 essential measurements, including body weight, BMI, water percentage, skeletal muscle and so much more – Amazon
The NSA’s Spy Hub In New York, Hidden In Plain Sight – The Intercept
TikToker Has Friend Message BF From Fake Accounts To See If He’ll Try To Cheat – Ruin My Week
Everything Coming to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and HBO Max In February – Maxim
Facebook and Apple Are Beefing Over the Future of the Internet – Wired
19 Tips For Reading More This Year – BuzzFeed
Anti-Vaxxers Won’t Stop Harassing Nurse They’re Convinced Is Dead – Daily Beast
Elon Musk’s Neuralink implanted a chip into a monkey’s brain and now he ‘can play video games using his mind’ – NY Post
When They Start to Lose, They Change the Rules! – Of Dollars And Data
Compilation of women with sexy posteriors – The Viraler
The Future of Nationalized Cocaine – Mel Magazine
How Do Esports Companies Compare with Sports Teams? – Visual Capitalist
Celebrities And Their Stunt Double
Town Hall Meeting: Private Prisons
For
Prison is expensive. Housing, feeding, caring for, and reintroducing people to society is an enormous financial burden. Privatizing allows us to push this onto someone else and, in theory, this incentivization for prisons to save money will naturally move them to find the most efficient way to do so.
It’s always a good thing to allow independent contractors to provide resources and services because it allows creativity and, inevitably, improvements to a system that otherwise would have remained consistent. Do you think prisons are doing a terrible job rehabilitating prisoners? Well, open up a prison, you can actually do that, and prove your idea for how to “fix” criminals works better than the current structure of prisons.
Against
Privatizing prisons now makes an inmate a cost. This cost is something a private business will do everything they can to maximize profit on. This includes minimizing healthcare, crowding your prisons, cutting corners wherever possible and, most damningly, pushing a system that encourages prison time to ensure your revenue streams do not dry up. We’ve already seen some private prisons straight paying people for policies that increase incarceration.
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Why Don’t Police Just Shoot The Arms or Legs Or Fire a Warning Shot to Dissuade an Armed Suspect?
When you pull out a gun to stop someone else with a gun, the goal is to achieve a result as quickly as possible. Everyone agrees on that. But where the confusion comes from is what results look like. Shooting someone in the arm or leg is really, really hard. Hell – shooting someone in the chest is hard, especially when both parties are moving and shooting at each other. But besides hard, the leg doesnt give us what we want.
