me, flirting: “you can buy a singular banana off amazon for 40 cents. How is it this cheap? A plantation in Latin America grows hundreds of millions of bunches of bananas, harvested by workers paid cents for the hour. Those hundreds of thousands of tons of bananas are trucked to a port and loaded on a ship flying the Panama flag. Its crew, like the truck driver and the banana harvesters, are paid cents on the hour and come from the poorest regions on the planet. It is shipped to a port where it is loaded onto trucks whose drivers are crushed by the rent-to-own schemes the vast majority of truckers operate on and brought to a warehouse, where it is logged by a minimum wage worker into inventory. The inventory then updates on the site, where those thousands of tons of bananas are sold for 40 cents a pop. If all thousands of tons of bananas are sold, hell, even if half of them are sold, amazon would’ve made off like bandit for the total cost of growing, harvesting, shipping, and logging those bananas are a minuscule fraction of the cost of that singular banana, perhaps, even less than a cent per banana. anyway, wanna kiss? :3”
It feels safe to say that Nex died as a direct result of trauma from the physical altercation at the school. Maybe not just the one, maybe so many more. Maybe years of bullying, of ostracization, of feeling unwelcome and out of place at the school he was required to attend every day.
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May December is a thesis statement of sorts for Haynes' entire filmography.
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Since the release of Saltburn, Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 song “Murder On The Dancefloor,” which soundtracks a provocative scene at the end of the film, entered the Hot 100 chart for the first time. Gregg Alexander, a co-writer of the song, revealed in January to Variety that “Murder On The Dancefloor” had almost been New Radicals’ debut single, and today he shared some of his demo for the first time.