Here it is, a thread of women who are absolutely fed up with everyone and everything except their cats. First, This young lady smoking a pipe her cat. Ca. 1905.
“Pacifiction” is about a wheeler dealer who discovers that the world will move on with or without him, …
… and the peculiar thing is that Serra never turned that logic back on himself and imagined that the last thing we need is a talented artist doing his best impression of other talented artists for a project with the most obvious roots and ambitions. Oh, is life under colonialism a disgrace? Well shut my mouth! Since when? He should have come up with a more damning conclusion and worked his way towards it, rather than filming everything and hoping he had said enough to justify the film’s three-hour length and plotless flow. At its best, you do want to go swimming in its images. At its worst, you beg for an artist who’s answerable to no one to trust someone to tell him when he’s run out of road.
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We asked Ukrainians living on the front lines what was an acceptable peace – here's what they told us.
The results suggest that the support of the Ukrainian leadership for a ceasefire negotiation is much more important than international pressure. Indeed, our survey indicates that Western leaders publicly pushing negotiations might induce a backfire effect.
With its emphasis on flexible risk management and financial resiliency, the goal of the book is not to weave survivalist fantasies or plumb the depths of conspiratorial thought. In fact, I want to reclaim the concept of prepping from the bunker-dwelling prophets of doom.
Scrum is not necessarily a bad framework to adopt. It works. However, Scrum is a manager’s training wheels. It helps managers get started quickly without having to spend too much time designing processes in detail. Still, Scrum prevents teams from moving as fast as they could because of its prescriptiveness.
From the “Non-male identifying people of TEH Intarwebs” dept.
From 1972 until 1989 she was director of the Network Information Systems Center at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). Her group operated the Network Information Center (NIC) for the ARPANET as it evolved into the Defense Data Network (DDN) and the Internet.
If you want to build a truly modern, robust, desktop-class web app with React, you will find that you still need to pretty much make apple pie from scratch, by first re-inventing the entire universe. You can try starting with the pre-made stuff, but you will hit a wall, and/or eventually corrupt your users' data.
