What kind of privileges do celebrities/influencers receive from luxury brands?

For example when a celebrity becomes a brand ambassador of Dior, besides a paycheck, what do they get?

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u/Leather-Ad-6294 — 14 hours ago

Quitter Acadomia?

Bonjour, je voulais savoir si quelqu'un avait déjà quitté Acadomia en cours d'année, et s'ils avaient eu des problèmes avec le RH ou bien les familles d'élèves (avec le 1 mois de préavis) ?

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u/Leather-Ad-6294 — 1 day ago

Am I being a bad friend?

Hey everyone, I have a question that's been trotting in my head lately.

There's a behavior that I have that I think can annoy people sometimes.

A female friend will talk about her new boyfriend/crush whatever, and bring up something that he said or did. Sometimes in fawning manner, sometimes to complain. When I find that the guy was being toxic or stepped out of line, I'll just immediately criticize it... For example, my friend recently told us that her new boyfriend got upset with her because she chose to have lunch with us instead of with him. I told her that's really weird and toxic, and my other friends said that I just don't have dating experience and that it's his way of expressing concern.

Another time, my friend told me that she was flirting with her friend who was super sweet with her, and he told her when they were at a bar that he would never spike her drink and that he wasn't that kind of guy. She said it like it was the sweetest thing ever, and I just told her that honestly it was a pretty odd thing to say. Especially because she was at a very vulnerable time of her life which this guy was "helping" her through.

Maybe I'm too critical idk, but I don't force anyone to agree with me. I just notice that my friends sometimes ignore very obvious red flags in men, and I feel like it's my role to at least tell them. I don't go further if they don't ask me to of course, I'll just leave it at "I don't think it's normal he said that", but then I can kind of feel the mood change and people get annoyed at me for "nitpicking"...

The reason why I still do it is because I have on several occasions had these same annoyed friends reach out to me months later when they needed emotional support to go through a breakup and tell me that I was right about X and Y. And that my initial warnings helped them see the toxicity of their relationship sooner. Which I'm very happy about of course, but I don't want to end up friendless because I'm seen as the Negative Nancy of relationships.

What do you think?

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u/Leather-Ad-6294 — 14 days ago
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Intrusive thoughts say I don't really love the people I claim to love

I used to have this when I was in high school, where I'd think "you say they're your best friends, but you wouldn't care if they died". I was able to shake these thoughts off and not give them weight but recently they came back and hurt me a lot.

I am not as close to one of my siblings because they are older but i love them deeply and I truly cherish them. Like all siblings we've had our fights and disagreements. But I have intrusive thoughts that say I don't truly love them and only pretend to "care" for them because we are blood related.

It's stressing me out because I don't know how to prove this voice wrong. When I'm annoyed about something my sibling does, I think "see? I told you don't love them, or you wouldn't think this". How do I prove to my own consciousness I love someone, when it's not a physical kind of love?

I don't know and it breaks my heart. I think about my sibling accidentally reading my thoughts and finding out I don't love them at all and it makes me want to cry. It hurts because I know how much my sibling cares about me and loves me and I feel like I'm betraying them.

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u/Leather-Ad-6294 — 3 months ago

Under what conditions would North Korea ever fully open?

I don't mean open its markets, but be "fully" open for tourism both to and from its country.

Do you think it is strictly a question of economic development? Having an economy robust enough to withstand imperialist attacks?

Or is North Korea basically staying closed until there is no more global imperialist threat (which could take over a century or more?).

I don't think it wants to stay closed forever and that it is a question of constraint. Economic, political, but I also understand the overall risk of capitalist propaganda being imported in mass from overseas like what happened to the USSR putting pressure on the government.

I would love to learn Korean and begin reading from North Koreans on their history, outlook on revolution, and so on (I mean modern texts also), but right now if I learn Korean it will only be useful to consume South Korean content which interests me less.

Just wondering what you were all thinking about it!

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u/Leather-Ad-6294 — 3 months ago

I was in a conversation with a group of native speakers of my TL. I'm at a level of "fluency" where I can get by in most conversations but I still make some simple grammar and pronunciation mistakes here and there which I'm trying to fix.

I was shy but decided to say a few words, but two sentences in one of the native speakers picks up a word I pronounced wrong and repeats my mistake to others while laughing. At that point I didn't really care, sometimes language learners make funny mistakes without noticing and if it makes the crowd laugh so be it. But the thing is after they laughed, I asked them "how are you supposed to say it?" once, two, then three times but each time I got ignored as they thought it was much funnier to laugh at my pronunciation before moving to a different topic.

It left a really bad taste in my mouth and I just felt like it was mean for no reason. If they had laughed and then corrected me, it would just be a silly mistake like any other, but instead I felt belittled because god forbid I don't have a perfect command of their language after spending the rest of my life speaking a different one.

If people understood the endless hours of study it takes for someone to even grasp the basics of a language maybe they'd think twice mocking others who have diligently worked just to be able to understand them. But until then, I guess it's just an easy way to look down on others.

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u/Leather-Ad-6294 — 4 months ago