#Credit Crunch

[scavengedluxury]

[maysshortmoviereviews]

Bank of Dave (2023)

🎬Based on the true-life experiences of Dave Fishwick. Telling the story of how a working class Burnley man and self-made millionaire fought to set up a community bank.

📝A truly uplifting, feel good and inspirational story which will leave you with a smile. Recommend watch especially during cold winter nights.

[skull-bearer]

I kinda had the opposite where I had to do a reading lesson about the Credit Crunch. I just told my students "Do not try and understand this. I lived through it and I have no idea what this was about. It's confusing and boring. Just answer the questions and never think about it again."

[paulthepoke]

Michael Douville & John Rubino: The World is about to change! Get Rich or Ignore at Your Peril!

The World is About to change! Pension Funds may not be able to honor their obligations.

Ecclesiastes 7:12 For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it. Proverbs 27:12 The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. John Rubino’s newsletter can be accessed at rubino.substack.com. John is an American thought leader, former Wall Street Analyst, and…

[cannabisbusinessexecutive]

California Cannabis Credit Crunch

By Hilary Bricken, Principal, Harris Bricken The California cannabis market is truly struggling all the way around. Cannabis businesses and those who work with them closely face mounting financial pressure. Because of the credit crunch in California cannabis, the state and various impacted distributors and brands are taking steps to help shore up the issues created by cannabis companies…

[forecast0ctopus]

hes great at keeping his identity secret trust me

[mutodaes]

Hehe funny goat

[veveisveryuncool]

got a question, what is your favorite pokemon seasons/moments

call me basic but this moment was pivotal to 9 year old me

[artbyblastweave]

While I'm thinking about it, the thing about Civil War is that it's an event that conceptually makes total sense as something that would eventually happen in the Marvel Comics universe as it had been depicted up until that point, particularly in the early oughts- the center obviously was not gonna hold. The hammer eventually coming down is inevitable, the tension between the wild cowboy soap opera antics of the superheroes and the government trying to reign them was well-established by 2007.

The problem is that once you pull the trigger on it, you can basically never go back. You can never plausibly have Iron Man or Mr. Fantastic or Captain Marvel return to a working relationship with any of the antireg people ever again after they spend a year and change running the extradimensional virtual reality gulag for all of their colleagues who wouldn't kiss the ring. A bunch of people died and a couple of the less popular ones even stayed dead. It's the kind of thing that happens in a bad future that you have to send Kitty Pryde back in time to prevent because it would so obviously be an irreparable annihilation of the status quo were it to happen in the main timeline. And yet, after a few greater-scope threats and a reconciliatory whimper, to the status quo we inevitably return. Comic Books Babey

[the-kipsabian]

[specterthief]

The "just not the dub" in your tags, thanks 🙏. (I do think the dub has its place and it's got some stuff but it's not necessarily the same show. And the original is just superior when it comes to the emotional beats. The dub I think tried too hard to be "funny" and it kinda took away some of the characters' good qualities (esp Reki imo).)

tbh ironically reki is the one character who i think suffers least from the dub because when the script is good his performance is generally really good on a technical level and pretty fitting to the character's original tone, and he seems to have suffered from the least like... active material changes to his characterization, i guess because no one really had any problems with reki lol

but saying "when the script is good" is kind of fraught in the first place, because untangling the absolute mess of the general scriptwriting from the intentional character changes from the actors improvising with no oversight is such an overwhelming task i've tried to break it down and given up multiple times already, so even generally feeling like reki was the character who had the best transition to dub he's still held down by being in this dub

i do think it can have some entertainment value just to watch a bit here and there to hear the characters speaking english but the fact that they self-admittedly completely rewrote characters and altered the script to the point of changing the actual plot and themes of the show just kind of supersedes the few praiseworthy things it's got, because it's treated as an equal and equivalent way of enjoying the story and it's just... really functionally not the same story. and now the fandom is full of people going solely off the dub and thinking it's the same story and projecting that back on the original text or gleefully praising the dub's (again, admitted) efforts to "improve" the source material and "make it gayer" by adding fanservice while censoring the actual text. it doesn't even hold up for a theoretical accessibility use case, before you even get to the story changes, because important information in the visuals that's conveyed in characters' dialog and tone in japanese gets completely cut or lost in english.

i can't stop people from enjoying it obviously but i wish there could at least be an understanding that it's not the same show and shouldn't be discussed as if they're interchangeable, and i'm always going to put disclaimers like that on any kind of recommendation because the original story is what i'm recommending and the dub isn't that. i love the original show and i want people to experience that as nearly as they possibly can, not someone's smug fanfiction pasted over the original animation.

[kollector-of-stims]

I finally got my sensory fx asmr crunchy eggs!!

I ended up getting doubles somehow which I assumed would be unlikely, but they become my TWO FAVORITE COLORS!! Blue and purple! So I'm not disappointed!

The gifs honestly dont do all of their justice. Their SOUND is the best part, if you enjoy deep crunching sounds! (It calms and satisfies me)

What's also funny is that the eggs match the color schemes of my sensory fx fidget bots!

And for fun, all my specifically cracking/crunching stim toys on the left and all my sensory fx stuff on the right:

I may get more colors if I see them in the store when I go next time!

OH AND EDIT just in case: the purple-to-blue egg code ends in 104!

[owlbear33]

Since when has a space opera protagonist ever bought a spaceship

it's always won in a card game

or "borrowed" from the mob

or found it on an asteroid I was led to through cryptic clues,

or was docked at the abandoned spaceship I woke up in with little memory of how I got there

[maleficore]

All this coding just keeps bringing back memories of my internship and god I can't believe 18 year old me set up 2 whole ass websites from nearly the ground up in 2.5 days almost entirely ON MY OWN, adding last tweaks like 15 minutes before a huge launch event FOR FREE.

They used my autism against me...

[pilmyeol]

remembered the time the (millennial) math teacher walked into the classroom and went “its ya boy. skinny penis” and then was like hm shouldntve said that probably. sure hope everyone knows that vine!

[songsforchristmas]

on the one hand i adore pedro pascal and bella ramsey seems really cool and i want craig mazin to be successful and make more stuff like chernobyl. on the other hand i think tlou is lame and also if i ever had the opportunity to stage neil druckmann's death as an accident i would take it in a heartbeat but i'll probably watch the show anyway