Feels nice to see a program with high efficacy - another cool part about this vs other 503cs or nonprofits is how efficient it is at outcomes: books in hands
Unpopular opinion: In a similar vein I often wonder if the somewhat imperfect/wasteful overhead of paying for the MIC should be budgeted in a way that rewards nonuse of materials as well as preparedness, to decouple the useage of these munitions from the spikes in sales. Maybe im weird but given the motivations of all parties, I personally don't mind paying a dentist or doctor/surgeon an inflated rate if it means inaction on something not worth fixing is not persued....this is less harmful than uneccsary action. To me war preparedness is the same ideal and something where inaction could also be rewarded to remove uneccesary action. If we're OK with the grift, are we OK with paying for it and the destructive elements going unused?
Seems like in this particular overreach the victim has experienced adverse economic effects that they could recover. A job offer they had was rescinded and it
has come to light this was a ploy. Not an expert, but seems like this may be costly.
Downvote away, but: Academics have a duty to explain their years of inaction while their students have wilted and faltered as a direct result of academics not understanding how to to be effective in the real world in which their students are expected to be productive members. Those that cant, teach, and teach ridiculous fallacies they personally subscribe to. These people are too weak to stand up to their own bosses and boards. Are those the meek and weak we want teaching? Instead of real critical thinking they instilled a twisted sick worldview about social issues that have no connection to creating market value and being a good, supportive human that lifts all boats. They focus on things no businessperson would even consider engaging while missing the forest for the trees. Wikipedia is the last concern of this rapidly imploding rightthink crumbling empire, on its last legs from those whose families bore the ultimate cost to get their kid a degree that is increasingly worthless.
I propose our leadership cut funding and fine any program in the US where a professor is not actively working in their field at a minimum part-time. These people are so out of touch it is literally sickening when you think of all the negative downstream effects. Citizens should demand better of their tax dollars - academia in its form today is a cancer that is holding back your youth from greatness and robbing our nation of the qualities that made it great, kneecapping our young talent for independent thought before they even figure out who they are.
They're academics. The job is to say things that are true inosfar as a community of experts driven by rigorous argument believes.
Whether or not that has any effect on the real world is not their concern. The academy is proud of their record of interest in things that have no applications whatsoever in the real world and ideas that turn out to be extremely harmful if applied. The people pretending that academia is some sort of vocational system were wrong and are to blame for the academics doing exactly what they were expected to do.
Although yes to the idea that taxpayers shouldn't have to fund running everyone through university. The academics are often opposed to the taxpayers, it isn't fair to make the taxpayers fund them.
Mostly adaptability, fearless independence, and being a curious person. The rest falls into place if you come from a place of abundance vs projecting a parent's insecurity and fears on your prodigy.
A24 and who they hire don't compose all the songs - for movies the music supervisor is either picking songs or hiring composers - it is either scored (custom written for the show $$$$), or famous tracks are licensed ($$), or songs from royalty free stock music libraries are selected and used($).
The bigger the budget the more custom scoring and less stock music.
The music was composed by Ari Balouzian, same guy who did Primetime which is also A24 and currently in theatre. Both were Lance Oppenheim projects, they seem to like to work together.
But literally watch any A24 movie and compare the soundtracks. A24 takes a much larger hand in things like this than other production companies. They have their own in-house music label. They forgo typical big composers and prefer to hire awesome indie folks like Alex G or Nala Sinephro and let them do their thing, with some light production notes (eerie, etc) and a design goal to make the music part of the narrative. It's a formula and they do it well.
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