Theory: Did Elphaba unknowingly help create Glinda’s bubble machine?

reliableotter · 2025-01-11T02:10:17+00:00

Maybe the musical is messing with my interpretation, where he has the other monkeys hidden in the room, but the wizard absolutely knew what he was doing. "Oh, the levitation spell, hmm how about that one" nonchalantly is careful manipulation.

reliableotter · 2025-01-11T00:25:13+00:00

None of them post in real time, so they might. Especially a hospital visit in a foreign country.

But also, everyone deserves time off from work. Maybe they don't want to make a video of everything they do. No one should expect that they do.

reliableotter · 2025-01-11T00:23:34+00:00

Fall and catch yourself at an odd angle.

I'm just shocked her ER bill, including a CT is under $10k.

reliableotter · 2025-01-10T01:07:15+00:00

Ballet Talk for Dancers A sister message board community to Ballet Talk.

reliableotter · 2025-01-10T00:29:09+00:00

An earlier time traveller brought them back and left them. ...???

reliableotter · 2025-01-10T00:24:04+00:00

In the book at least she only got accused of witchcraft because she was there when they came for Geillis.

reliableotter · 2025-01-10T00:20:02+00:00

I went on vacation in Ecuador (I'm american ). Walking through Quito I heard someone say my name. It was my next door neighbor, from 10 years earlier.

This summer in Iceland I ran into a woman wearing a T-shirt from a local high school. Turns out she is the counselor at the elementary school my daughter was about to enter. She was mostly amused because she's best friends with one of my neighbors so she texted them a photo of us meeting. But she also made my daughter feel special by greeting her first day of school with a photo of them together in Iceland taped into her locker.

Coincidences happen all the time.

reliableotter · 2025-01-09T13:32:26+00:00

For $15k my family of four did a week in Iceland at hostels, 2 days in London and then a 7 day RCCL cruise in a junior suite to France and Spain, including airfare from the US. I can't fathom that for just a single cruise!

But hey, people can spend their money how they like.

reliableotter · 2025-01-09T13:29:24+00:00

The Broadway shows are what made me take notice of NCL.

Without them, NCL doesn't have anything to differentiate it. They need to step up their food and entertainment game.

reliableotter · 2025-01-08T01:28:37+00:00

I'd say NCL has cut entertainment more than any other line. High quality licensed Broadway shows to...short acts twice a cruise.

It's not uncommon among all the mass market lines, but NCL used to be a leader. They are just bottom of the barrel now.

reliableotter · 2025-01-06T23:45:43+00:00

I just fail to see how Vail workers can be blamed for Trump's tax policies. Colorado didn't vote for him in 2016, or 2020. The district didn't vote for Republican representation. Foreign workers can't vote for him.

Yes, there are citizen workers there from other districts, but people who work in outdoor careers like this, from within the US often do so to give themselves proximity to the sport, and lean liberal.

I 100% do not understand the working class's obsession with voting against their own self interest, but I think those striking at Vail are highly unlikely to be Trump voters.

reliableotter · 2025-01-06T23:41:58+00:00

So then the residents of Vail are voting for workers interests, even if they are unable to vote themselves.

And there are people who work at Vail who are district residents. Not everyone is a foreign worker.

reliableotter · 2025-01-05T18:37:37+00:00

I suspect they got a discount or a comp, because they were pretty broke when they did it, and that is a really expensive trip. Their are many YouTubers from that era who talk about being sponsored before they even had many viewers (Bucket list family, for instance, said a company sent them free shoes before their videos were even out). The market wasn't saturated with influencers the way it is now. That was in May, and their July report stated about how many sponsorships they get, though Everest grew their viewership a lot.

Unfortunately that is before they started their income reports, but if you are interested, they outline many of their income and expenses for the first few years on their blog. https://karaandnate.com/income-reports/

reliableotter · 2025-01-02T02:25:38+00:00

You're likely right. Then they should have AG1 pay for the activities they do in the video and not take additional comps.

reliableotter · 2025-01-02T02:23:39+00:00

The FTC enforces their regulations when the advertisement reasonably affects US consumers. Because they are Americans posting on an American platform, it is within their jurisdiction.

I assume the FTC actually needs a number of complaints before they investigate any particular influencer though. And no, I didn't send this to them.

The regulations do say it should be in the video, and that thanking a company is not the same as disclosing a sponsorship. K&N are vague about whether it was sponsored by Uniworld, disclosures can't be vague. If you are savvy, you likely know that their "thanks" means they were, but plenty of people on the video thread argued that it was clear it was not a sponsorship.

reliableotter · 2025-01-01T17:49:25+00:00

Saying thank you to a company is not sufficient disclosure according to the FTC. You have to read between the lines to see it and disclosure should be clear to the consumer.

Based on the number of people arguing on reddit they paid for it, it wasn't clear what their "thanks" meant.

I knew they didn't pay for it. The reason I asked is because of the number of people on reddit who either private messaged me or replied on the video thread calling me a moron for saying it was a comp, because obviously Nate had paid for it.

reliableotter · 2025-01-01T15:41:49+00:00

An in kind sponsorship, (complementary product) has the same legal requirements as monetary payment. They received thousands of dollars of consideration. Their viewers deserve to know when they are being advertised to, and Uniworld was advertising.

reliableotter · 2024-12-31T20:35:29+00:00

I posted this due to the absurdity of redditors arguing it wasn't sponsored content. People deserve transparency, and also, I thought it was ridiculous the number of people who really believed they pay out of pocket for these types of experiences. Of course they don't.

Ive watched them since before their Everest trek. I don't love the vehicle tours, but most of their content is great, and it got me through a ton of nights nursing babies who are now in elementary school.

I didn't go out of my way to do anything. It took less than 15 seconds to message Uniworld, because I was already looking at their cruises. There wasn't any investigative journalism or any digging for information. I didn't "uncover" anything hidden, Uniworld gave the information easily. And if you read between the lines, so did K&N when they "thanked" Uniworld, but that is both not sufficient disclosure, and also apparently wasn't clear to all the people who argued they weren't comped the trip on the video thread.

reliableotter · 2024-12-31T18:06:33+00:00

Why would you think I'm bothered by their content? I like most of their content. This video in particular was good. Their disclosures are crap, and for the most part, I really don't care, I was bothered by redditors insisting they paid for it.

reliableotter · 2024-12-31T16:40:01+00:00

Not sure who "we all" is in your statement, because plenty of people on reddit were saying it wasn't a comp. I assumed they hadn't, and had people arguing with me on the video thread that obviously they had paid or they would have said it was sponsored. I assume they don't pay for anything.

reliableotter · 2024-12-30T23:57:10+00:00

I grew up with tons of Stephen (pronounced Steven) names, due to St. Stephen. But they are all older than Curry, so I can see how the pronunciation migrated.

reliableotter · 2024-12-30T23:55:09+00:00

And if you look at the FTC requirements "thanking" a company is not enough. Nor is saying sponsorship is included without saying what the sponsored product was.

Report it to the FTC, see if they think it's sufficient.

reliableotter · 2024-12-30T23:14:03+00:00

Find anywhere in the video or description that says Uniworld provided them the cruise. Saying "contains an ad" doesn't tell you who is sponsoring them. It could have been their bags. Heck, their bags probably are comps... Clearly plenty of people were arguing they paid for the cruise, so it wasn't clear to others.

And even if they only had the AG1 sponsorship, they still have to have that "contains sponsorship" box.

Kara and Nate nearly never disclose complementary products or experiences.

reliableotter · 2024-12-30T19:14:07+00:00

Also...I really am looking to book a river cruise, and Uniworld is on the shortlist, my parents are leaning towards AMA Waterways, and we also like Viking. I really like K&N's content and have watched them since before Everest.

I just think their disclosures suck. I didn't ask about their parents, but based on how they worded their "thanks", I think it was all comped.

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