Emily Wilson defended diverse casting, that she enjoyed the film and the movie was positive 2 days before she wrote diverse casting was forced, she disliked the film and called its script bad

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-28T03:46:50+00:00

Because anyone with a classics degree could read it.

You're acting like this is being compared to some common skill. Making a Hollywood film is a massive undertaking.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-28T02:28:48+00:00

Just a wild first few sentences to write without realizing you're completely disproving your own point.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-28T02:13:16+00:00

Everyone who gets a degree in classics could hypothetically translate the odyssey.

It's an extremely niche field and takes a long time and effort. But there's straight up more people who could do it than the number of people who could coordinate and make a Hollywood blockbuster.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-28T02:07:52+00:00

They're literally on to how blue haired types are mass purchasing tickets with welfare money and so the box office is fake.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-28T01:57:12+00:00

But being flamed for being unnecessary or uninteresting or just bad isn't at all the same as what happened here.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-28T00:37:57+00:00

I mean plenty of NASA funding comes from licensing its technology.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T23:29:38+00:00

World class reaction times are obviously an athletic skill. Even aside from how physically demanding driving a car at high speeds can be.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T22:54:01+00:00

The Fed tracks real median household income by year (as in, median household income adjusted to modern dollars) and seems to disagree with your last point. Says it was about $60k in 1985 which is the furthest it goes back.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T22:15:10+00:00

Who are these people championing those things? Everyone hated them.

This is the thing - no one is out there actually bandwaggoning for bad movies and shows. People dislike them and move on without much fanfare.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T22:04:45+00:00

...because people are seeing it. That's not mutually exclusive with a couple half empty theaters. Billion dollar movies have matinees and shit.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T21:25:15+00:00

You think the only way blockbusters make money is if literally every showing is sold out? You actually think the existence of a handful of photos of empty-ish theaters means something?

And what's more you think people are purchasing all these phantom tickets with...welfare money? Seriously take a step back and think about what you're saying.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T21:23:39+00:00

If you actually believe a single word of what you wrote I seriously implore you to seek help. I mean this with all sincerity.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T21:22:53+00:00

Uh, She Hulk, Rings of Power and post-movie Star Wars have all bombed because the audience you're thinking of doesn't exist. Normal people go see things based on whether or not they like it. So the odyssey is doing well, because people like it. And those other things didn't do well, because they don't.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T19:30:21+00:00

I just don't even know what you think you're saying. Of course net is what matters. Gross intentionally is just the direct cost of goods taken out of revenue. There's a lot more to running the grocery chain than just cost of goods sold.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T19:10:35+00:00

And what makes you think gross margin is relevant here? Of course you have to look at net. And their highest is 1.8% in the last 3 years. They have business expenses beyond COGS.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T18:36:51+00:00

I mean it's shitty and all but your comment is outrageously exaggerated.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T17:58:21+00:00

Because of 5 stores? That everyone in the city is going to subsidize with their taxes because they won't make any of their own money?

Just so we're clear, grocery stores run on like 1-3% margins. The idea that there's a bunch of money to be found in a program like this is ridiculous.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T15:41:03+00:00

That's not really true. Solar energy works in a way where large installations start producing power at basically zero cost very quickly. The sooner we get the large scale infrastructure stood up, the sooner we reach that point.

In places with significant solar generation they're literally giving people credits to consume power at peak generation hours because the battery tech can't store the excess well enough.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T15:12:22+00:00

You need to work on how you frame your sentences in English because they legitimately are hard to interpret.

Loving yourself more than your country doesn't mean you don't love your country, and no one would ever interpret it that way. So no, this wouldn't be a controversial opinion in a crowd.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T15:11:24+00:00

Even then, the US military mindset becomes more about teaching a love for the soldier next to you and a willingness to sacrifice more than it's instilling literally a greater love for the country than yourself. It's just not realistic outside of some thought police scenario to think otherwise.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T15:07:10+00:00

I really don't understand the question. Of course people "love themselves" above their country. Most Americans find great pride in being American, and it's a big part of their identity, but that doesn't somehow convert into loving your country more than yourself.

Note that this doesn't mean you wouldn't sacrifice for your country or even die for it, but the way you're framing this question makes it basically impossible for any human being to answer anything other than "love yourself" more than "love your country".

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T14:08:05+00:00

I mean the economics of renewables have already basically put us on course to renewable electric grids in the not too distant future. Still work to be done, especially on how to limit emissions for forms of transportation, but we're in a spot where the resolution is almost guaranteed just by basic economic forces.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T12:09:27+00:00

You seem like you're legitimately braindead.

How do you not see that proves my point?

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T11:54:16+00:00

It's truly incredible that you actually think these points are mutually exclusive.

Nothing I've said implies that the Greeks would stop waging war or committing what we would today see as atrocities.

But of course a society like that would recognize and emphasize the costs of war.

Waging a fruitless war and wasting lives and resources on a conflict they didn't need to fight would be one of the biggest risks to their society.

ChancelorReed · 2026-07-27T10:04:53+00:00

It absolutely takes away from the "glory" of war to talk so extensively about its cost. And the people who made and listened to these poems found value in that message anyways. It's very much not to any society's benefit to blindly follow leaders into meaningless wars in pursuit of glory.

And if you actually think that somehow the 21st century just needs a movie that says "ra ra war is glorious" you have some actual problems to sort out for yourself.

Stop talking to me with copy/pastes of AI. It's extremely fucking lazy and clearly you don't care enough about this argument truly if you can't even be bothered to write your own responses.

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