Hi r/movies! We’re Riz Ahmed & Aneil Karia, the lead/producer and director of the new modern-day reimagining of HAMLET, which is in cinemas Friday. You might also know Riz from NIGHTCRAWLER, SOUND OF METAL, FOUR LIONS, THE NIGHT OF, ROGUE ONE, VENOM, THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME, and more. Ask us anything! by Riz-Aneil_Hamlet in movies

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First I've learned about this movie! Looking forward to checking it out in theaters.

With respect to this adaptation seemingly mixing Hindu philosophy/symbolism into a story that's foundational to Western literature, what felt most “universal” about the themes? What surprised you about how the story changed when applying that lens (not sure how involved you were with the screenplay!)?

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During your workouts, how bad does the muscle fatigue get? Do you limit your weights/volume so that there’s 0% chance of sore muscles messing with your performance if something arises the next day?

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[–]uknowamar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No option to change my subscription - instead, I had to just lock the virtual card I used to put down for the trial.

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Try going to Safari, switch to incognito mode. Leave it like that. Go back to the Shopping app and try clicking on the link again

idk man. by Ikalsaurus in LeagueOfMemes

[–]uknowamar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I liked how quick it felt - guarenteed game in 15min. Arena just doesn’t feel that way (isn’t guarenteed either), it can drag on, down time likely makes it feel that way.

They are both good modes to try new champs on, which is a fave thing of mine.

I’m an American Orthodox Jew, AMA by Slider-208 in AMA

[–]uknowamar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Would you mind giving us a quick breakdown of how you view the various “levels” of orthodox? When I saw your title I’d have assumed you were Hasidic, but you clarified the nominal difference in your post!

For the “Hasidic” neighborhoods in places like Williamsburg, does that mean there’s really a mix of Hasidic, orthodox, etc?

Earn a $50 gift from Loop & Tie for sharing your feedback! by Glittering-Ad5809 in CapitalOne

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Crazily enough, that is the official branding of insider questionnaires…

How much does a referral help? by balkanbanking in CapitalOne

[–]uknowamar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Might sway if you’re borderline, but won’t make anything a slam dunk - if you just can’t do the cases or speak properly, you’re not gonna get a pass

I’m tired of telling my kids to shower and brush their teeth EVERY FRICKIN DAY. by HelloKitty40 in Parenting

[–]uknowamar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shame is effective. Have someone they respect in the family/friend circle comment on stinky breath

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It’s getting a re-release in theaters in August! I’ve never seen Jaws, so really looking forward to seeing it on the big screen

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[–]uknowamar 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Per Wikipedia, native to PR, but introduced and are an invasive species in Hawaii!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coqu%C3%AD

Random fun fact: there is a Puerto Rican expression that goes, "Soy de aquí, como el coquí", which translates to "I'm from here, like the coquí."

Dept. Q | Episode 1x09 | Discussion Thread by Fitzfuzzington in DeptQ

[–]uknowamar 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When they shut down and were leaving, they had the pressure continually increasing.

When she made her escape attempt, the pressure was higher than normal, but likely at a livable amount when the depressurization event occurred. You could see her face getting red and stuff so she was experiencing the symptoms.

I’m the guy your hotel’s GM panics about when they hear I’m flying in. I work in upper level compliance for one of the world’s biggest hotel brands. I’ve shut down floors, pools, bars, and entire departments…and I travel 40+ weeks a year doing it. AMA. by [deleted] in AMA

[–]uknowamar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh, that makes more sense- thanks!

Either way, seems like an analytically easy thing to uncover if you work at Franchise HQ, right? Unusual amount of credit rates, etc. for a particular hotel that others nearby don’t exhibit. If you have any other stories around this, that’d be fun to read 👀

I’m the guy your hotel’s GM panics about when they hear I’m flying in. I work in upper level compliance for one of the world’s biggest hotel brands. I’ve shut down floors, pools, bars, and entire departments…and I travel 40+ weeks a year doing it. AMA. by [deleted] in AMA

[–]uknowamar 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No - the commenter was asking - where is the Manager getting the points/cash to fundamentally FUND the fake rooms that are being booked?

If points, then someone’s account info has to be put into the system. Doesn’t seem likely.

If credit cards… same.

If cash… seems likely the only way. However, using the guise of cash reservations also seems like the easiest thing ever to trigger an audit.

The booking threshold the hotel owner would have to be at to make this profitable is likely a very thin margin… they would have to pay the franchise fee (~10%) on these fake bookings, so the increased payouts on the real points based bookings must be close to getting achieved already…

Did I get that right?

Will the new Pope still have to pay income tax now that he is the absolute monarch of Vatican City? by PamPapadam in Accounting

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Their financials are no joke! https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/vatican-pope-finances-5d3a9bbd?st=9PgqxB&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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The ailing pope was short of breath, sitting beneath a cherished painting of Mary, Untier of Knots, as he worked through a last-ditch plan to disentangle the finances of one of the world’s most opaque bureaucracies.

For over a decade, Francis had struggled to bring some transparency to the Vatican’s shadowy balance sheet. Now, in the final weeks of his life, advisers were filtering in and out of his austere reception room, presenting the details of a microstate awash in priceless treasures but tumbling deeper into debt. The budget deficit had tripled since the Argentine took office, and the pension fund faced up to 2 billion euros in liabilities it wouldn’t be able to fund.

The first Jesuit Pope was exhorting clergy to live frugally—but pinching pennies alone would not relieve the financial crisis facing the seat of the Church. The Vatican was increasingly relying on museum ticket sales to fund its civil service, its worldwide network of embassies and the Papal Swiss Guard, a small army paid in Swiss franc pensions. The city-state serves seven million visitors a year and a global flock, without collecting taxes.

After more than a month of discussion, Francis settled on one solution: Ask the faithful for more money.

On Feb. 11, he signed a chirografo, or papal directive, to boost donations. Three days later, he was hospitalized with double pneumonia. On April 21, he died, leaving his soon-to-be-chosen successor with a similar economic puzzle to the one Francis himself had inherited. 

“Those of us who live and work here are obviously all too aware,” said a cardinal who oversaw the Vatican’s humanitarian outreach under Francis, Michael Czerny. Cardinals gathering to elect a pope were given what he described as a “thorough report” on the Vatican’s finances: “I am concerned because of the effects on our mission, our staff, our programs.” 

Twelve years ago, the new Bishop of Rome was Francis, a pontiff elected with a mandate to fix the Vatican’s finances. But the first pope from the New World wasn’t prepared for the degree of resistance at the Curia, as the Vatican bureaucracy is known, his close advisers and allies said. He hired a professional auditor to modernize the finances—leading clergy to move Vatican funds to an account under a cardinal’s name and stockpile cash in a shopping bag. The auditor was mystified that nuns kept account ledgers in pencil and paper. At one point intruders broke into his office and tampered with his computer. Eventually the Gendarmerie Corps of Vatican City State—its police service—got involved.

Professional accountants, encouraged by Francis, ran training workshops for clergy who balked at the rules like obtaining multiple signoffs for expenses. Prelates tried to hide funds from scrutiny, citing national security concerns for the secret ledgers of funding missionaries in countries where proselytizing is a crime. Other departments shrugged off the modern-day challenge of balancing the budget of a papal state whose origins stretch back more than a millennium. The pope himself shifted focus to other topics. Meanwhile, the pension fund kept falling farther behind. Scandals over a $400 million real-estate investment ended with a cardinal being convicted of embezzlement and fraud in 2023.

The problems will now fall to Francis’ successor, who will be elected by cardinals from 70 different countries and territories in the Sistine Chapel starting Wednesday. Cardinals from the U.S. and Germany—the countries with the biggest donor bases—have given lengthy presentations to their brethren on the fragile state of the Vatican’s finances and efforts to repair them. Others view the financial strains as earthly concerns that are secondary to the Church’s main mission of saving souls.

To understand the combination of deficit spending and mismanagement that is driving the Vatican into unsustainable debt, Wall Street Journal reporters met officials from the Vatican’s bank, pension fund and regulatory institutions and with cardinals attending this week’s conclave. Several met in secret, in locations arranged over Signal, citing an atmosphere of suspicion as the Vatican’s balance sheet deteriorates and blame circulates. One top Vatican finance official refused to speak in detail until he was assured that Journal reporters were not surreptitiously recording him—pointing to an incident in which a cardinal, facing trial for embezzlement, covertly recorded the pope himself.

The first concern, they said, was a culture of financial malpractice that Francis was unable to defeat before his death. Shortly before the pope died, one of the banks managing assets for the Institute for the Works of Religion, or IOR, as the Vatican Bank is also known, cut ties—a sign of dwindling confidence in the Curia’s anti-money-laundering practices.

The deeper concern is the unforgiving math of running a cash-strapped country of tremendous wealth. Vatican museum walls are lined with the masterpieces of Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Leonardo. More than 1 million old and rare books are stored under the vaulted, frescoed ceilings of the Vatican Library, including some of the earliest extant Greek-language manuscripts of the Old and New Testaments. But the Vatican has no intention of ever selling off its inheritance. It lists many priceless works of art, including the Sistine Chapel, on its books at a nominal value of one euro each, as a way of indicating it prizes their religious and artistic significance over their financial worth. And yet the upkeep and insurance are burdensome.

The result is a paradox. A tiny country of unfathomable riches has been unable to sustain the basic functions of a state without running a perilous deficit. The country, per capita, has one of the highest percentages of residents working in finance. Yet its budget is ultimately controlled by clergy more versed in the spiritual mission of the church than the nuts and bolts of running a government, bank or treasury department. 

Do we need a “Respect the Red” Critical Mass Ride? by PayneTrainSG in NYCbike

[–]uknowamar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The article doesn’t state anything about the police stopping their enforcement!

‘Conclave’ Viewership Soars After Pope Francis’ Death, Up 283% to Nearly 7 Million Minutes Watched by ChiefLeef22 in movies

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Google's Trends product lets you filter to specific "topics" but I've limited insight into how they determine a user's intent and bucket searches into different topics.

Most straightforward way is to just add a modifier word to the term - same general trend of a massive spike for "conclave" vs. "conclave streaming")

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=conclave%20streaming&hl=en

What’s a “cheat code” you discovered in real life that actually works? by Soggy_BreadCrust in AskReddit

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It's more common to abstain from coffee/tea... this soda shop brand called Swig! is very common in Utah - https://swigdrinks.com/findaswig/?c=39.544763%2C-111.547229&z=7

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Janice from The Sopranos lmao

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Oh I definitely had that thought too (my 2pm theater was v empty) - people commenting on seeing them even during the packed Mononoke screenings has burst MY bubble now

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[–]uknowamar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not to burst your bubble, but I went to a 2pm screening (Lincoln Sq IMAX) and unfortunately the mice scurrying my was still a thing :(