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And it's being reported now that she got the maximum 18 month sentence the prosecution requested, and the judge specifically called her out for her lack of personal accountability about her actions. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/15/entertainment/rust-film-shooting-armorer-sentencing/index.html

He definitely is highly respected, but from what I've seen, the overriding reason she was hired was because the production was so cheap that other professional armorers balked at being required to do both that job and prop work. I think if she had been a no-name, she still would have been hired because she was apparently the only one willing to deal with that. I don't think that reflects well on her or the production.

I would pay money to watch them bond over how annoying Charles is. LOL "Then he's always trying to get you to cry." "And whipping that shirt off!"

I could see Olsen objecting for sure, but I also wonder if they decided it made him seem too Mr. Edwards like and that it would be better to have a clearer contrast in their personalities.

The library where I work usually just charges the same amount for a set as it would for a standalone. Our paperback price is .50, so all the books together would be $4.50 or $9 with your standard price. However, we also have a very successful silent auction the library does weekly. When we see things like sets in good condition, we pull it aside and let them duel it out on bids, and that often nets a better sale. If someone really wants it, they may well bid $10-20 for it, especially if it is wrapped.

Yeah the 2017 eclipse was a thing then and wasn't at night, at least where I am. I was only in 70-something totality, and my crochety scrooge of a boss at the time still let us all gallop outside with our eclipse glasses to watch and he joined us and didn't even nag about us not working. It's one of my most pleasant memories of him honestly. LOL Earlier this week, I was reading anecdotes from people at the time who said the traffic coming out of St. Louis, which had totality, slowed to 10-15 mph on the interstate afterward because so many people came to see it. In another online community I'm in, which isn't astronomy focused at all, a lot of people said they'd traveled to Wyoming for it.

Yeah I used to be part of the nursing home programming my library offered, and we would sometimes be scheduled after a church group that would sing hymns. Participation in these activities was entirely voluntary. You were there because you'd expressed an interest in doing so and you could leave at any time. My library would always send 2 of us. Usually, my coworker would be the one doing the presentation/programming, and I was up and out of the room a lot flagging down staff once someone decided they were tired and wanted to go back to their room and couldn't do so without assistance. I'd argue the nursing home residents are less captive audiences than the church groups they sing for.

Thank you!

I'll have to check that out! I was just a teenager when I read the article so didn't know who he was--I was that weird kid that read Reader's Digest cover to cover every month LOL--but it was such a sad story.

LOL I love this.

Yes I think you're right. The first time I heard of it was in 2003 when Reader's Digest published an article about former Steelers center Mike Webster. He had died the previous year and was the first NFL player officially diagnosed with CTE postmortem.

Yes! The rest of my family all drives either Toyotas (or Dodges). All the Toyota drivers concede my Honda is a smoother ride by far, but they always still go back to the Toyotas when it is time to buy. LOL My first 2 cars were Accords, but whenever I buy again--hopefully not any time soon--I'd definitely get another CRV. I don't like SUVs that are really big, so I like that the CRV seems sturdier than the car but doesn't feel like I'm driving in stilts.

I don't think it is necessarily a fundie trend, but I do know a fair number of people who make liking coffee their entire personality.

I've only ever owned Hondas and really love my CRV.

Heroes was my first experience with watching a show become a trainwreck in real time.

We had 70-something percent totality then, and my entire office I was working at at the time ran out there with eclipse glasses. My brother told me everyone at his shop was out there with welding helmets. LOLOL

99% here! They've predicted anywhere from 250,000 to 1,000,000 surging into Arkansas, so I'm not going to try to travel to an area of totality, though it's only about an hour or so away. But I have the day off and eclipse glasses. 😁 They keep wavering on whether or not we'll have clouds.

I found the premise so farfetched that I couldn't really get into it. I've read way too much Soviet history to suspend my disbelief.

I don't mind possums, but this is what I think of every time I see one. Which is usually at night when they're frolicking on my porch and somehow making as much noise as an axe murderer. https://the-toast.net/2016/05/12/everything-whats-wrong-of-possums-its-all-of-them/ Specifically "YOUR TAIL IS FULL OF THOUGHTS AND INTENTIONS AND YOUR MOUTH IS FULL OF MURDER"

That seemed to come up for multiple spouses in the marriage retreat episode. I think they were used to chaos. I also think it's why Jessa was billed the family organizer, even though she's really not a natural organizer. She just had a forceful enforcer personality, and I think that's how they view any imposition of structure or order, a necessary evil that has to be rammed down your throat.

I can totally buy that too! I also think that's why Jim Bob was so defiant. Josh undermines what he's built his entire family and identity on, so of course he's going to double down. That being said, I did find Jill's comments from her book about Michelle's irritation with Josh in the middle of the scandals interesting.

I agree, and I've wondered if this is part of why Michelle never attended the trial.

Yes I actually do have sympathies for families who find themselves in this situation. It would be heartbreaking as a parent to discover one of your kids is preying on your other children (I say that not as a parent but just as someone with basic levels of empathy). I do not, however, have sympathy for people who then continue to prioritize the child who's a predator at the expense of the other children. (And I firmly believe even the siblings who weren't attacked were still victims of the bizarre household rules the molestations led to, which then policed opposite-sex sibling interactions. That's not healthy or fair to the other brothers who didn't molest their sisters or their sisters who suddenly can't spend time with their non predator-brothers without their parents making it weird.) Nor do I have sympathy for people who also then continue to go on sanctimoniously making a career out of judging other people for wearing pants and peddling misogyny and child abuse under the veneer of godliness while this is going on in their own house. Both of which the Duggars did for years. I'm not judging them because they're Christian. I'm a believer too. But I think their behavior is noxious and they've well earned the scorn being heaped on them. They're reaping the consequences of their own actions.

And this is true of the entire family thanks to Jim Bob and Michelle too. They're the ones who kept presenting that their family was somehow more wholesome and godly than everyone else and also instilled Josh with the idea that he's superior as the eldest son, while they're sitting on top of his numerous sex scandals.

I've added James to my to-read list! Thanks for the recommendation! I'm currently reading Vanessa Chan's The Storm We Made about the Japanese occupation of Malaysia during WWII. It's not an easy read but is very good so far.