Never understood this. It seems like more of an insurance risk for a company to say, “no no, we provide our own certificate training here”. Now when someone fucks up they can say “I was operating the lift following Wal-Mart’s training protocols” and they have to show their shit is proper rather than just pointing the finger at OSHA or whoever.

Funnily enough, the jack was on the lift because we needed to unload a 16 wheeler with crates in the back.

provides warmth to the entire interior of a building

It’s ok to be wrong man, it’s really not that big a deal. You can only try to move goal posts so many times before it starts looking silly

Central heating is defined as a system that provides warmth to the entire interior of a building from a single point

Why’d you link this to defend your point

No no, it’s very common to have ducts to nowhere and a tiny table on top of your bed.

Facebook was originally literally just a database of pictures of people from the school Zuck went to and a bunch of people deciding if they were, in fact, hot or not.

I used to be a pharm tech. Filling prescriptions was chill, because it meant you didn’t really have to do too much thinking, just scan the bottles, count, and slap a label on it. It was really frustrating as an AuDHD haver because I would sometimes just start talking to myself in my head or paying attention to literally anything besides how many pills I’d counted. Like I’d need to count out 30 pills and next thing I know I’d just have a huge pile of pills that I’d “counted” by 5s but I’d have zero clue how many were there lol.

Solid rec. System is the band for this. Prison System and Deer Dance have been up there with my favorite songs since the first time I heard the album.

All research and successful drug policies show that treatment should be increased, and law enforcement decreased, while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences.

BYOB is off Mezmerize, though.

Good God I agree with you but reading your comment made me want to disagree with you

Bruh

WTF bruh

On God fr bruh

Why don’t the Russians, the larger of the two, simply eat the Japanese?

I’m fascinated. Wouldn’t that taste awful

Life is too short

Maybe that’s why they aren’t spending it on making fancy coffee 😉

The Tolkien Estate (namely Christopher) is incredibly protective of J. R. R.'s works and their integrity. Anything that is produced, they want produced true to his image. That being said they were very much not fans of the theatrical LotR films we know and love by New Line Cinema. Also worth noting that when J. R. R. sold the movie rights back in the 60s, he only sold the movie rights to the LotR trilogy and the Hobbit, but there was an additional clause that stated that if the Silmarillion were to be sold, the company that bought the rights to the LotR/Hobbit would get first dibs on it. So, if they want a Silmarillion movie, they have to offer it to the parent company of New Line Cinema, meaning they’d likely purchase it and produce the movies, which the Tolkien Estate does not want. So, the chances of the rights being sold, at least while New Line Cinema and it’s affiliates exist, are practically zero.

So, why not make it themselves? Very much for the same reason. I don’t know your familiarity with the Silmarillion, but… it’s very heavy reading. Not to say that it isn’t a good read, or that the story isn’t there, but the first section of the book is a bunch of shapeless angels singing songs about life and accidentally creating the universe, and the remainder of the book has 500 characters with a total of 17 different names that get altered, swapped, and outright changed halfway through the story. A true 1:1 adaption of the book would probably be longer than the original extended trilogy, but be way harder to follow for the average audience. So, major changes would be needed to make it financially viable, which are the exact things the Tolkien Estate does not want New Line Cinema making them.

TL;DR: The Tolkien Estate has to sell the Silmarillion rights to New Line Cinema before anyone else can buy it, and the Estate didn’t like the other movies so they aren’t going to sell it to them (and thus to anyone). They didn’t like the movies because the movies made too many changes to get the books to work for film, so they certainly will not be the ones to make the major changes that would be necessary to turn J. R. R.'s Bible fanfic into a Hollywood blockbuster.

I fly a lot, most airports have signs at security saying they don’t allow “firearms, ammunition, or firearm parts”. Are all coat hangers firearm parts, or just the ones the government knows have been bent?

I’m a huge LotR fan (probably going to go see Two Towers in theatre tonight!) and am very much not looking forward to this movie, lol. I was reading Fellowship a few months ago and got to the part of the book that talks about what the plot of Hunt for Gollum is about… Aragorn pretty much summarizes the entire thing in less than a paragraph. It’s pretty wild.

Viggo is playing Aragorn!

Viggo is now older than Ian McKellen was when he first played gandalf…!

Nobody is allowed to make content based off the Silmarillion. The Tolkien Estate has exclusive publishing rights for everything 1st and 2nd Age. That’s why Rings of Power is so bad, they’re basically trying to rewrite the lore to tell the same story and set everything up the way it already is without being able to use any source material.

It’s like, just tell a different story at that point bro.

Haven’t you seen? They’re coming over on jet skis now.

I’m so angry after seeing this post (which is OBVIOUSLY full of FALSE information 😠) that I’m gonna look up sources and cite them in the shit posting community so everyone knows I’m smarter than them and totally understand what’s happening

Something I’ve always wondered about things like this, or the guy that got a bent clothes hanger registered as a machine gun.

What happens if I wanted to take my potato or bent paper clip in my carry on luggage on a plane? Would anyone notice? If they did, would they get mad and throw the book at you, or just throw it away? Laugh and let you keep it?