you're looking at it from a framework that there's a "right" way to interpret a given piece of art, or that a given piece of art has "a point" instead of "a set of ways in which people interpret it". You're describing one way of interpreting it and then leveling a charge against the piece when, in reality, that charge should be leveled at that interpretation.
are you asking about this specific piece or about art in general? Either way yes I disagree.
I don't know the author of this work. I don't know what they intended, so I can't comment on their intentions. I don't know if there's an "intended interpretation" or not, I don't know what that intended interpretation is, I don't know if it lines up with the interpretation you described. If the author intended for a specific, singular interpretation, I would reject that; any interpretation is just one of many. Some interpretations make more sense than others, and how a piece is interpreted can easily change from person to person, or even over time for a single person. Whatever you get out of it: it's true that that's what you got out of it.
This is actually a 100+ year old divisive point in literary/media criticism - the older traditional view is authorial intent is the only thing that matters, the post-modern view is authorial intent shouldn't be considered at all and you should only look at the text in isolation. I think the sensible and most common view is that authorial intent should be taken into account, but should not be considered the final word - because you can't truly know what the author is intending, there may be subconscious things even the author isn't aware of (for example the complete sexlessness of HP Lovecraft is probably not intentional but probably telling), and how the author gets it wrong can be interesting and should be considered part of the piece as well (for example, when you mention how people won't watch the ocean, that's interesting, and should be considered part of the piece because the game leaves room for that kind of interpretation).
TLDR, there may be an intended point, but that's not the only thing a piece can be judged on. The best art leaves room for multiple interpretations, it has a life of it's own beyond the creator when it's experienced by people.
> Linkedin is by far the most respectable social platform.
huh, that is … definitely not my experience of LinkedIn. My experience of LinkedIn is that it is a wasteland of hustle grindcore fake-it-till-you-make-it dipshittery.
I'll trust pintrest before linkedin. I've read some of the most mind-numbingly stupid and pointless takes on linkedin of all platforms to date. It's great for some professions, like finance or marketing where image management is your entire job but for everyone else it is a particularly offensive time sink since it doesn't offer the recreational value traditional time sinks offer.
But that's not what LinkedIn is for. I never see those posts because the only thing I use LinkedIn for is to source inbound recruiters when I'm in the job market. Anyone who uses LinkedIn outside of the job hunt process (on either end) is kinda sus.
In that case I'm fishy because I'm mostly published on Linkedin —until they banned me for no reason whatsoever! You cannot imagine the drama at the time :D
You'll be shocked but there are real people on Linkedin. Some are incredibly smart! Some great entrepreneurs!
Statistically, you cannot have 1+ billion registered users and not have a few geniuses :)
package.json is specific to node projects, just can be used for anything. Why learn the quirks of something you can only use with a single programming language? I'm also a fan of the shebang recipes: https://just.systems/man/en/shebang-recipes.html
I place package.json files into non-node projects all the time just for some organizational benefits like workspaces and scripts. As a web-first engineer this doesn't particularly bother me. I'll check out shebang recipes, thanks!
I dunno man I worked on a landscaping truck and on a pumping truck for the parks department when I was younger and we had plenty of free time to dick around. This was before smartphones so usually we'd play Hearts at the truck dispatch or park at one of the town beaches and just watch the water and read magazines or books. Walk past any roadside construction site and half the guys are playing with their phones; anything with cops standing around half of them are playing with their phones. Not sure how to tell you this, but blue collar jobs have downtime same as white collar jobs and they have the internet on phones now.
The Onion reporting that bigfoot was spotted riding a log flume at an amusement park is, you know, an obviously untrue statement that readers are aware is untrue, told for amusement. Alex Jones saying that Sandy Hook parents are faking it and their children were never killed is ... it's different, man. It's a different thing.
>I just call them, it's not like the phone company takes a cut when you order on the phone.
Make sure you call the right number. Grubhub (and others possibly) will set up phone numbers[0] and websites[1] controlled by them and forwarded to the restaurant so they can take a cut.
That's good for you. I prefer putting together my order with the menu on my phone, adding notes and having a moment to think about those notes, adding delivery instructions, tipping with the same credit card I pay with, tracking my order, having an order history I can view, and not bothering people who are busy running a restaurant and don't need to be talking to me on the phone since this has all been automated for a couple decades. And to be frank, many restaurant workers don't have the best English skills and may be in a loud environment, making phone calls more difficult.
honestly I order from five or so places with regularity and at each of those places there are two or three things I actually order. Most of the time I really don't think GrubHub is providing any value that merits giving them a cut. I know that I like the orange chicken at the Chinese place near me, the white pie from the New York pizza place, the drive-through burger from the burger place, etc, etc, etc. I don't really need a menu. But yeah, if I'm in a new place and I'm doing a whole browse and search affair, looking at a new menu, reading reviews and all that, I just use Grubhub. That's just not actually most of my delivery. Most of my delivery is "I don't feel like cooking dinner tonight" -> order from one of my regulars.
> And to be frank, many restaurant workers don't have the best English skills and may be in a loud environment, making phone calls more difficult.
Yeah I dunno this argument feels very alien to me, because even people with poor English skills know the names of the items on their menu. It's not like I'm calling them to have an in-depth conversation, I'm just naming items off of their menu. Also I call in for pickup for like half my orders and pick up myself. At a bunch of places the food is cheaper if you just call.
c'mon man he means adding notes to the order like "put the sauce on the side" or "my building has two entrances, use the one on the left", you're being ridiculous.
