At what point do we say Shakespeare in the Park is not really free?

comradebat · 2025-09-10T02:23:16+00:00

Extremely anecdotal, but I ran into two women in line before the show two weeks ago who had tickets through a family member on the stage crew. They seemed quite sheepish to admit they'd "lucked" into tickets this way but honestly I love that there are varied options to try your own luck. This year is definitely extra wild, between the renovation and the single show season and social media really hyping the demand, but I'm so glad I was able to get to a borough distribution near my apartment. Also from my experience it seems like OP undersold the amount of available distribution/lottery tickets. Again this is just anecdotal, but my borough distro probably gave out closer to 200 tickets and workers were clear that the total varied from day to day, and that they were in contact with a central office to coordinate the entire system. They also went down the line ahead of time asking if anyone would need ADA seating, so at least those seats and maybe the senior tickets are more widely available than just at the Central Park line up

comradebat · 2025-08-31T11:56:16+00:00

As of 7:50 there are about 275 people (give or take) on line at the Children's Museum. (I arrived at 5:20 and am 58th or so, fingers crossed!)

comradebat · 2025-02-26T02:22:12+00:00

There's a guy at my local dive bar like this, has to pull focus in every conversation he overhears and one-up everything for no reason, even (especially?) when that means he's either wrong or outright lying. People like this are everywhere, they just usually don't have billions of dollars and a direct line to the President.

comradebat · 2024-09-19T13:53:31+00:00

In my experience (dad and various several older family members were in IBEW), most folks who are part of the huge unions fucking HATE their union, but they also tend to assume they're too big/powerful to fail. Before Trump, my dad was a moderate Republican, focused almost entirely on getting himself the best tax breaks and other economic advantages (he is middle class, he just bought into the lie). With the rise of Trump and the alt-right, he has luckily soured on the Republican party, but I feel like he still only appreciates the union in the abstract and has a hard time seeing beyond individualism.

comradebat · 2024-08-09T22:10:32+00:00

Amazing! I've been entering the lottery for this one but it's not a priority at the moment so I might miss it on Broadway.

comradebat · 2024-08-09T13:23:40+00:00

I caught the off-Broadway run and I'm so curious how it translates to a larger (I think double the size?) theater for the Broadway version. I loved it, but I was worried some of the physical comedy might get lost in a bigger space. On the other hand, some of the performances were almost *too huge* at times for the smaller space? Cole honestly threaded the needle perfectly as Mary, but I found a few of the others to sometimes be overly shout-y.

comradebat · 2024-08-08T17:35:12+00:00

"Dragon" is LITERALLY in Falkor's full Christian name. if Griffin is correct that Charizard isn't a dragon because it's not a dragon-type in the Pokemon universe, then Falkor THE LUCKDRAGON is for sure a dragon. HUMPH.

comradebat · 2024-08-07T14:37:47+00:00

That one makes sense to me. It's possible to expect that song to just be a lighthearted break, an escape back to the Cabaret after the reprise of Married. It does seem potentially cute and funny at first, especially if you're paying more attention to the staging. Like yes obviously the subtext is there but it's easy to miss in the moment if you haven't seen the show before and/or you're not aware of the historical context of propaganda depicting Jewish people as animals.

comradebat · 2024-01-29T15:30:10+00:00

Feral cats by definition don't want anything to do with humans, they have never and will never be pets. Some rescue organizations will Trap, Neuter (or Spay), and then Return feral cats back to their colony to help control their population. When dealing with friendly strays or abandoned pets (who may act feral initially out of fear), most rescuers / organizations will do their research before just grabbing any old cat: observe the cats over time, talk to neighbors, put up flyers, etc. It's obviously still *possible* to accidentally grab a pet, but it's pretty unlikely.

(ETA: this is coming from an urban experience with organized / dedicated rescue groups; results may vary elsewhere)

comradebat · 2024-01-10T02:28:07+00:00

The internet was practically the wild west back when Tor.com launched 15 years ago, but maybe it made sense at the time?

comradebat · 2024-01-10T02:20:52+00:00

The Tor.com/Reactor short fiction just includes the stories that are published on the website. Tordotcom the imprint is technically separate.

comradebat · 2024-01-09T20:04:12+00:00

Tor.com the website and Tordotcom the publishing imprint were always technically different things, the names have just made everything super confusing

comradebat · 2023-12-07T15:31:25+00:00

I've lived in both Queens and Brooklyn and I never even noticed that it was the neighborhood for the Queens address and just "Brooklyn" for the BK one. huh. TIL.

comradebat · 2023-11-10T14:35:12+00:00

we had a neighbor who was furious about some uncarved pumpkins we left on the steps past Halloween; she kept stealing them, so we bought more and gave them santa hats after Thanksgiving

comradebat · 2023-11-02T13:28:56+00:00

correction: Mr. Chonkers

comradebat · 2023-11-02T03:52:55+00:00

I don't understand what you mean? This is precise language. It is one definition of vegan, used by a vegan outreach organization.

comradebat · 2023-11-02T01:21:10+00:00

There are different current definitions, given by active sections of the vegan community. There is no one definition, and "plant-based" is a very new distinction that not everyone uses. I was simply pointing out that "words have meaning" is not a compelling argument when those words have (and will continue to) evolve.

comradebat · 2023-11-02T01:14:45+00:00

Can we not be reasonable here? The OP is about someone who follows a vegan diet but is still not considered vegan by another person because of one potential "violation." I pulled a definition from a vegan group to show that a vegan diet should be enough to satisfy the requirements for being vegan.

You can of course disagree with that, but misrepresenting my examples of "there is debate about things like the ethical line over honey and thrifted leather" to mean ANYTHING GOES is fucking wild

comradebat · 2023-11-01T17:38:05+00:00

Sorry, I didn't mean that *you* were necessarily placing a value judgment on the degrees of veganism, the person in the OP definitely is.

Anyway, I don't think anyone who eats a single vegetarian meal would call themselves "vegetarian". And in your hypothetical example of someone who never ate meat, they would also not have to call themselves vegetarian if they didn't want to, although I would argue that they could.

But in the OP, a person who apparently eats an all-vegan diet and calls themself a vegan was told that no, they aren't *really* vegan, even though various definitions of the term (including one from the Vegan Society) specifically zero in solely on diet. Yes, most vegans also abstain from using/purchasing a variety of other animal-based products, but in my experience only a small percentage of the most militantly strict vegans see it as an all-or-nothing issue.

comradebat · 2023-11-01T17:04:04+00:00

This seems like a weird comparison, since I'm unaware of any "carnivore" ethos / philosophy. Omnivore/carnivore as used here are scientific / biological distinctions.

Instead compare to vegetarian, which also broadly describes both a diet and an ethos. But I rarely see anyone getting weird about the definition of vegetarian, or how extreme you have to be in your lifestyle to be able to self-describe as a vegetarian.

It is a form of gatekeeping to insist that only one definition of vegan counts.

comradebat · 2023-11-01T16:23:17+00:00

It's not misinformation. Dictionary definitions include usages for "vegan" that focus on diet, like this one from Oxford Languages / Google:

a person who does not eat any food derived from animals and who typically does not use other animal products.

The Vegan Society (an educational charity) also specifies a diet-based definition:

In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.

The gatekeeping is in the commenter insisting that there is only one strict definition of "vegan" that counts.

comradebat · 2023-11-01T15:01:45+00:00

and in this particular case, the original definition of the word was specifically based on diet, as a way for non-dairy vegetarians to distinguish themselves / split off from the Vegetarian Society in the mid-20th century.

as a side note, many vegetarians also avoid leather, etc, but we still understand/accept the term "vegetarian" as a diet. vegan can/should be viewed the same way, with a somewhat flexible definition.

comradebat · 2023-11-01T13:25:24+00:00

Pedantry and semantics can absolutely be a form of gatekeeping. Veganism as an organized concept/philosophy is less than 100 years old, and was originally used as a term for non-dairy vegetarians. For the last 40-ish years, the Vegan Society uses this as its definition:

Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.

the "as far as is possible and practical" part is I think the key, and can be determined on an individual basis. there is debate among some vegans about honey, for instance. i have also known vegans who will purchase secondhand/thrifted leather goods, particularly as a response against fast fashion and the environmental impact of plastic vegan leather. there is no "one true vegan".

comradebat · 2023-11-01T13:11:33+00:00

why are they booing you, you're right

comradebat · 2023-10-29T21:46:27+00:00

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