"The more I’ve thought about [it] . . . the more traditional a best picture winner it seems. Beneath its veneer of impish, form-busting radicalism, it’s as epically self-important, broadly sentimental and thematically unambiguous a movie as any the academy has so honored."
Photography was put to immediate use: for science, for documentation, for portraits, for journalism, and so on.
This image from the French Revolution of 1848 was the first ever photograph used to illustrate a news story.
The beginning of modern news?
"[Kaplan] said that the conduct the jury effectively found Trump liable for - forced digital penetration - meets a more common definition of rape," citing APA and DOJ definitions of rape that include penetration “with any body part or object.”
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The enormity of children lost to Israel’s genocide is staggering. While sharing pictures of all is impossible, this a list of all the names of these innocent victims, a list that would take a day to read. Each name stands as a somber reminder of the unfolding slaughtering of
The 19-year-olds who attend my favorite university didn’t score enough touchdowns today so I’m blacked out, facedown in the driveway. My wife is crying, begging me to come inside & sing Happy Birthday to my son. “Please just reverse the Rav4” I whisper into the concrete.
Someone says to me, "These oranges I'm feeding you come all the way from China"? Alarm bells go off. I'm thinking, "Why get oranges from China?" I'm thinking, "What's her game?" I'm playing it cool, scanning the place for an escape route.
the State of Palestine is recognized by the overwhelming majority of the world's countries, but the West just pretends it doesn't exist because that would mean admitting it was under an illegal occupation by Israel. The newspapers just cut the word "Palestine" from articles!
LEAST CONVENIENT TIMES TO BE HANDED A BOWL OF SOUP
4. While jet-skiing
3. Seconds before clinching the world record for the longest time anyone has gone without holding a bowl of soup
2. While leading an anti-soup protest march
1. During a karate bout against your fiercest rival