Hah! Same!

I think Gene Parmesan made up for it …

I had the same culture shock once. Worked on the corporate side of a fitness club that said, we ask if you could please limit taking at most one class per day during work hours. Because people would end up taking class after class… It was a soft rule that most of the die hard class fans broke all the time with no issues.

Place before that, if you were >15 min late, you had to interrupt the CEO with whatever meeting he had and tell him why you were late. Suppliers, partners, negotiations, doesn’t matter the meeting. This was a non customer facing corporate job in a company of like 100+ people that was like 50+ years old…

The drug episode where everybody on the ship plays the mind numbing game … They are all immediately under the spell of it, but when the kids break it down it’s literally just a machine that makes you feel good. There’s no “oh this part hypnotizes you and changes your behavior immediately”

And the speed of it … There’s no “oh wow. This sucks I’m addicted to a game” … It’s literally “this is a cool game” to "let’s kill data because he’ll figure it out and stop us so we can’t spread it to all the kiddos in Starfleet to take to their new ships… And the instant detox was flashes of light??? Wtf??

At least the “two races, where one enslaves the other by selling it heroin disguised as medicine” episode showed people who were self aware enough to realize they were in a shitty condition.

The speed at which these super introspective people completely change without a second thought always pissed me off… And those are just the episodes I remember out of the blue.

Remind me. I did a rewatch a few months ago, and did it slowly over the course of a few months. …

Wasn’t that the second time that datas sentience came into question?

So… Iirc you can shuffle all of the episodes in a library … Not sure about cross library. I just have one for TV and one for movies.

I know you can definitely make a smart playlist for the shows you want to shuffle through and go from there. Like I have a bunch of a few episodic tv shows, added them through regex to a smart playlist and hit shuffle all the time.

That’s why. My folks still have cable and pay for HBO. That’s how me and my siblings are able to watch stuff we don’t want to download on max :)

My dad jokes that hes happy he knows how to turn on his phone … Now his TV since that’s “too complicated”

How technical is your dad?

Also honestly. Sometimes it’s a lot nicer to just push a button and have something come on.

One of the main reasons I use Plex is their random feature. “Wanna watch a syndicated episodic show and don’t care which ep? Press random” vs other streaming services you have to actually choose an episode.

As Cishet white-ish person, who is only tangentially connected to this community IRL, but wants to be supportive, is there a definitive list of pronouns? It seems to me and many other people that if you just keep adding more and more, people get confused and or feel alienated and then some people get angry when confused, because they get frustrated and don’t want to do the wrong thing.

I usually default to “they” unless absolutely told, because It seems that once it gets so individualized, things go a bit nuts. We may as well just abolish all pronouns and only use proper nouns.

Side question, I’m neurodiverse (diagnosed ADHD, probably a bit on the spectrum), I feel very very weird before coming out to people, especially at work, as I think it will be used against me. There are still places in this world that would hurt/imprison/kill non-cis, non-hetero people. With such an interconnected world, especially with those places, how does one handle it while also trying to keep being proud of your identity? Wouldn’t putting neo pronouns in a profile open you up for targeting?

Elder millennial here

Yeah. But she wanted to carry a really small purse that wouldn’t be able to hold the foldable :(

After an impromptu upscale bar/lounge crawl with the wifey the other day…

A shoe that can easily go back and forth from high heel/wedge to comfortable flats w/o much, if any, tooling or carrying around extra parts. She also brought a clutch purse

Wifey was dead the next day from foot pain of walking between places.

You missed it. I’m talking from the pov of Israel, not Palestine.

Hamas has it in their charter to destroy Israel and every other Jew in the world…

“From the river to the sea” doesn’t mean “hey Israel, get off our backs” it means death to Israel. And when has appeasement ever worked?

You also never answered my question.

This

Question. If a group of people raped and kidnapped almost all the women in your family and the family of all your friends in front of you and killed or kidnapped almost all the men. Leaving you as one of the few people left. Would you kill an innocent child to get to the people who did and planned this if it was the only way, or just say, “oh well! Guess they can get away with it, I didn’t want to be a monster…”?

I’m not saying that. Just asking for myself. Haha

It’s not just you. I hate texting in general unless it’s for work. Usually if I’m running around on errands or a nice walk, I end up getting a text response to someone from an hour ago, and it boils my nerves that I feel I need to respond.

I’d rather be on a phone call to get all information in/out at once. Especially with wireless headset/earbuds

Though my therapist thinks I’m AuDHD. So that gives credence to your asd worry

It is a religious practice for Jews … I completely agree with your point of it being a “health fad” for non-jews though.

Ask any Dr who fan. The BBC did this as well back in the day…

More popular, more commercially successful, and more accessible to casual fans. Agreed.

But for magnum opus, I gotta agree with the wall for a few reasons

1. They made a movie out of it
2. The ode to the intense para social relationships that revolve around stardom and how a truly crazy creative can take advantage of it in scary ways was not only true back then, but predictive of how much worse it would get in current time.
3. DSotM always seemed like a lot of good ideas in an unordered list. I felt like they could be scrambled and the album would be similar, except for the first and last songs… Meanwhile the wall tells a story of pain, alienation, search for meaning, lashing out, and then a quest for self-forgiveness.