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  • Agree, but many huge body actors have basically laid the path for success. The rock has followed the win/lose ratio of 50/50 to not make himself seem boring. Then you have Arnold Schwarzenegger that was very successful taking risks with talented directors. But if I have to choose an actor with a big body who I feel is breaking the mold it is Dave Batista. Man that guy really became an acting force. I feel he has done an amazing job playing Thad Castle and that definitely showed he is not just a boring brute. I think he is right being an unbeatable brute will damage his image if that is all that happens, I loved Reacher because he is put in impossible situations but uses his wit instead of his body to escape the situation. That’s what made Reacher interesting. Yes we know he can fight but Reacher was two steps ahead. I think the last two seasons have been focusing more on physicality instead of ingenuity, not to say there hasn’t been any.




  • It is called equity equivalents, this is where you don’t give away equity but basically still pay as if you are, hence I admit royalties are maybe not the right word but for my it is similar. Unlike other international tech companies like Google or Microsoft in our country that pays equity equivalents, the telecommunications requirements are equity or slice of your business.



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    Funny enough, I do believe our BEE laws in South Africa should be scrapped. According to our news he offered to pay 26% in royalties, like Google does for example in South Africa, but did not agree to give away equity. The BEE laws are basically a way for politically connected ANC members to get a slice of the pie, does not one bit help the majority of people here.

    Look Elon is a shit, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. There also needs to be empowerment laws, I say to poor citizens not based on any race laws, even though the majority of extremely poor people are black, coloured indian, mixed…, but not ones that mostly filter to the politically connected like the current BEE laws favour.










  • Something like this is an excellent idea. I understand for the proper functioning of a democracy is to have its citizens fully informed, but the rest of the world is not a citizen of the USA. Yes I still want to know the important stuff since our world is a connected world, but do I really have to see how the POTUS is holding a water bottle weirdly, or that they like Dijon mustard on their hot dog or tripped on a stair and now their age is in question.

    My country has significantly more problems that are more relevant to myself, just like every other person from another country, and being bombarded by USA politics is exhausting and quite frankly a waste of my time and mental health.



  • Look I see the good intentions, but I believe in calling out hypocrisy, saying you ban ICE vehicles, whilst being one of the top producers of crude oil, to substitute your electric vehicles with said profits of selling crude oil, which even the “used in other products” is the minority of products, is a bit hypocritical.

    I give Norway a nod to be trying to be the change they want to see, but it feels like the owner of an abattoir preaching the gospel of veganism, how their house is going to be 100% vegan and how people who eat animal products are going to doom the earth due to animals being a major contributor to greenhouse gasses, whilst still operating and profiting from said sale of animal products and using its revenue to make vegan food cheap and easily available to his family.


  • Ok so back to my comment then, with all these amazing benefits of producing crude oil, clearly I was wrong, we should do everything to get countries to start pumping out oil, if they haven’t, or try increasing their crude oil production so that the world can benefit from the thousands of uses, except as fuel but it’s less than 1% of possible uses. Heck the oil will make the countries maybe almost as rich as Norway to also use the profits to subsidise the EV market and stop using ICE vehicles, except if they are a poor oil-less country. Heck everything will get cheap since the world will have an abundance of cheap crude oil, due to high supply. Hopefully the Norwegians won’t say only they are allowed to ethically produce a crap load of oil, in a low supply world that is due to collusion from OPEC countries