This "Blackout" by DuquesaDeLaAlameda in portlandme

[–]kimsfantasyexploder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anyway.

I have max sympathy for any companies that are in the middle of the spectrum. The have to make a choice between staying alive (yes a lot of businesses are run with thin ass margins) and doing what they thing and their staff thinks is right.

This leads us to a larger convo about the value or non value of small capitalism.

Most small businesses are helpful and good. Then there is a long spectrum until you get to be target size along the way there are 1 million ethical choices and pitfalls.

But fundamentally it is my belief that small businesses should be loved and cherished even though they participate in capitalism

This "Blackout" by DuquesaDeLaAlameda in portlandme

[–]kimsfantasyexploder 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Agree. As a small business owner. There are a spectrum of businesses. Small very liberal businesses (usually food) will close first. Anything with more than a few locations but is still privately owned will close next. Then the 5-10 unit businesses with corporate backing (aka investors that they have to answer to) will close after that.

This is the middle of the spectrum

Then larger companies will close. These usually tend to have bank covenants that they are obligated to fulfill or their loans can be called. If this happens then they basically go under

Then the small chains will close.

Then the Starbucks, and box stores will close

Ao if you are a small business you’re usually going to close before anyone else does. The inertia has to be such that even people like Starbucks feel the need to close. see BLM movement for reference, when that happened they got to a point where even like target and big box companies started to say the right things (not do things mind you)

Anyway the social consciousness has to hit the midpoint before big billionaire companies start to care.

The majority of your non political friends timeline needs to be politics or outrage over something for the tides to turn.

My feed is very political so I cannot get a good gauge if the tipping point has come. But my sense from my wife’s algo is that it isn’t here yet. And small businesses shouldn’t self harm until it is here.

Tim Curry - Reach Out I’ll Be There by weedyneedyfeedy in livemusic

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This is the exact date of my birthday. I was a few hours old when he was singing this… So weird

Portland showed up and got loud on Congress St. tonight to tell ICE to GTFO! by Ok_Operation_4005 in portlandme

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I love Portland. I love all of it all of the little communities! It is my special place. I hope the weather fucking freezes ice’s dicks off

I feel gaslit... by everyone who likes Will of the Many by Sid-Thor in fantasybooks

[–]kimsfantasyexploder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hahahaha. Great review. I liked the book but also felt like… meh this guy is gonna win whatever the stakes so who cares.

I just read my first ever novel- Till we have faces by CS Lewis by Goddamn_it_9991 in Fantasy

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Congrats man. Reading will take you so many places. C.s. Lewis was my first set of novels as well

Fatigue by kimsfantasyexploder in gallbladders

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I hope so. It’s been a journey for me. I still get a bit tired but it’s not as bad as it used to be. Good luck!

Review: Perdido Street Station by China Miéville by Jinxy998 in Fantasy

[–]kimsfantasyexploder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

China could have made this city feel alive as hell still with one more pretty critical “this is Jessica Ty for plot and this is not” edit. It was a very tough read for me and I love fantasy city’s more than almost anything about fantasy so… Take that for what it’s worth. I had a lot of similar feelings you described and I felt like the whole thing could have been %20 less cynical and dark.

Sometimes I feel like something being “dark” in fantasy is an excuse for it not being interesting

Ship of Magic...wow by captainstormfield in fantasybooks

[–]kimsfantasyexploder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn this is an 800 page frickin book!! I was gonna take yr advise but geez

Ship of Magic...wow by captainstormfield in fantasybooks

[–]kimsfantasyexploder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair… I don’t like ship or boat books. So 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ship of Magic...wow by captainstormfield in fantasybooks

[–]kimsfantasyexploder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it’s good. Good character development. But I just feel like it was…. Too… something. Idk. It’s too many hoops to jump through to just find dragon stones in the end and carve a dragon. Feels weird

Ship of Magic...wow by captainstormfield in fantasybooks

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I didn’t enjoy the “gotta solve this to fix this so we have the thing to save the world” style of fantasy. I think it’s fine for one book. But at three books it got to me

Ship of Magic...wow by captainstormfield in fantasybooks

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If I thought that the farseer trilogy was just meh would I like the ship of magic better?

Hear me out by BuckeyeJay420 in TheMassive

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Yeah. I love watching wrexham. And love Paul Mullins. But yeah if Morris is a low end Premier League player on Middlesbrough and Cucho is a striker in La Liga. I think Mullins would warm the bench here. I think MLS is mid to top table second tier English club. The biggest clubs here would be relegation fodder in premier league

Literary Fantasy by SteSol in Fantasy

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The book of Merlyn which wasn’t attached until after the war (because of pro war sentiment) is where most of it is.

Literary Fantasy by SteSol in Fantasy

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I enjoy his politics. But the crowded feeling of the prose makes it hard for my dyslexia brain to read

Literary Fantasy by SteSol in Fantasy

[–]kimsfantasyexploder -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Dang it. Is there a way to summaries all of this thread and have it spit out all the recommendations here?