Few things for the family

• Malcolm gets called out by EVERYONE of the main characters and major side characters at one point or another in the series for his crappy attitude... It's a running joke by the end of it...
• This is one of those fox "see! the poor don't have to be poor, they just need gumption and having less kids" shows... (Bones is another ex.)
  • Malcolm's always whining and it causes him to lose out on many major opportunities (both relationship-wise and career-wise)
  • Hal says they have sex several times a day, even when they're camping with another family. Thus he's always tired and can't concentrate
  • In one episode, Lois and Hal have to stop having sex for a week because of some medical issues, the grass gets attention and turns green, hal gets a promotion, and they stop being so trashy. All in one week. Once the issue is gone and they can have sex, everything goes back the way it was, grass looks like shit, house is a wreck.
  • In one episode they show how each time they have a kid, the parents lives get progressively worse.

As others have pointed out, the rules of competition don't apply since there's exclusive content at play.

As a metaphor, It's not like one restaurant serving a popular type of food vs multiple restaurants doing so. It's having one Italian, one Thai, one Chinese and one American restaurant being the only ones in 100 miles. Look! There's competition, 4 restaurants! Unless you only want some pad Thai.

So now instead of fixing cables issue of $60-100/month, they made it more complicated by paying $60-100/month to 3-5 different companies instead of one.

As a real life example. If you have kids, or are a big Star wars/marvel fan, 9/10 you need Disney+. It may as well be a Monopoly now so they can raise their prices as much as they want. Parents and nerds will pay through the nose for it.

Source: am a parent and a nerd (but I pirate all my stuff anyway)

There Gen z goes..... killing another industry.

1. Admitting that I don't have control over my symptoms.
2. Meds. Taking vivanse and wellbutrin in the morning and experimenting (with Dr approval) Adderall in the afternoon
3. Making sure I have some exercise as part of my morning every day routine (biking/walking on my way to work, going for a walk before walk when I wfh)
4. Getting out for a walk bike ride during the day
5. Talk therapy with a CBT pro

Today, just completed a task that required coordinating with a few different teams and was a known blocker for a very big project coming up fast. Got it done ahead of time.

My boss positively called me out in front of their boss and other high ranking members of the org for it with a thank you.

I've been at this team for< 2 months. from a team where the boss would take credit for everything and then ask you to explain it to him several times so he could just parrot it back to his boss even after "leading" the team for over a year.

This felt like a joy.

My Uber reductionist explanation.

I get you scared. You vote for the cure to what I'm scaring you on.

Most people, except the very scared, don't vote.

Republicans say "hell is coming unless you vote for me", which gets people scared and thus voting

Democrats, "well try our hardest to build helpful systems that make the middle class grow again" ...... People stop listening and don't vote.......

That's how

Fuck. 2020 got more people voting than any other presidential election in recent history and it STILL didn't break 50% of legal voters.

DSA: "hey, Biden sucks because he lets genocide happen"

Rational person: "well, I don't like genocide... who's the alternative?"

Dem party: ...... Biden is our candidate ....

Rep party: Trump Trump Trump!!!!

What they don't tell you is that most American Jews on the super religious part of the spectrum love trump because he explicitly endorses Israel as well, and Bibi is the same friend of right wing extremists/dictators that Trump is.

Personally, I'm not pro Palestine. I'm anti Hamas AND anti Bibi... Just Pro peace and both govts don't want that for different reasons.

The non musical family guy episodes.

It's the only comedy show where there's no laugh track, loud noises, and they explain every scene as it's happening.

Damn. Beat me to it :)

Fyi I don't agree with the previous commenters ideology about two separate classes for women.

I however agree that we can't discuss this rationally today because social media (including lemmee) is a terrible forum for this discussion, because, unfortunately, a person who is AFAB and has a DSD, or other naturally occurring condition, which gives them more or less testosterone/lactic acid/something else than the typical woman, and thus an advantage, gets conflated with having a trans woman compete, because then the people who feel strongly about trans people on both sides come out of the wood work and start yelling....

And then everyone gets pissed and/or understandardly triggered and nothing can be argued.

By naturally occurring I mean w/o the use of drugs/doping/surgery. Which in my understanding is what's the case with the boxer.

I don't post this to argue or convince. Just clarify what I think they're trying to say.

I won't respond to the "are they female"/"what to do" debate, only that this forum is terrible to have these debates.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk/soap box lecture

1000% agreed on no hello. Got constant "hello"s from many team members. They'd even wait for me to reply before sending messages... Only figured that out after my boss brought it up in a 1:1 ... I just thought they realized the answer to the question.

I'm not talking about "sitting in your chair thinking" times. I'm talking about those micro BS conversations that people have around the office just to relieve from the monotony and try to bond. "Oh I spent last night playing this game/watching this show/ etc." or right after a meeting.

The BBC series does up to them being on >!prehistoric hairdresser and middle management earth!< Iirc

Which I'm pretty sure is the third book. But I haven't read it in a loooooong time.

It's the same as it's always been. We gravitate towards what we feel.

The internet has just allowed certain groups who wmight be ashamed to announce their true feelings to say the quiet part out loud anonymously. This gets the next generation to not see a problem with it and go from there.

As an example. Take an impressionable young boy (14-18), he has trouble getting dates, doesn't have a great home life. Little bit of a loner. Before the internet, hed have to figure out a purpose. Maybe he'd start going to a gym or hitting the books harder to be smarter or something.... With the Internet he's able to find "friends", he finds a community, that community may lead him down dark paths.... Where some in better living situations may say "this is too much" and walk away, he doesn't have anything to walk to... So he gets more and more indoctrinated into the cause.

I'm not sure if this is supposed to support or counter my point.

It sounds like you're supporting it because it's brainwashing you to think, "meh. Work sucks. Just deal with it and don't try to improve it"

It reminded me of another point that in one episode when Hals company is trying to frame him for something the big wigs did.. you find out that he's never worked a friday in years. So him lacking commitment to try his hardest actually works in his favor. .... As well as the fact that he matters so little that nobody noticed.

Insurance companies can't match real estate prices of the office buildings they own AND the tax incentives large cities are giving them to force their ppl back

Apologies I meant the person you were originally replying to. I can see it being ambiguous.

I agree with you, this argument is dumb, sexist, and not fair.

I'm just saying this is just not a good forum to handle it.

I'll take it :)

This is one of the conspiracy theories I believe in.

Most tech workers buy lunch in their local area. If they wfh, they'll make lunch and not spend money. Meaning less commerce in the city... Makes city look bad.

Also, if you're coming to said city, if you can choose to live 2 hours north, suddenly that choice looks terrible from a quality of life pov. You'll likely rent/buy a place in said city. Keeping real estate values higher. (This is another value that benefits both govt and company since they so big they own the majority of buildings they use)

Source: am tech worker at a big river company

This has happened a lot to me. Or I just be a fan in silence.

There's a great line from the band Sloan about this that comes up whenever I hear this.

"It's not the band I hate, it's their fans"

Oh, bones is def ok the spectrum, but that's explained away by being caused by her upbringing.... Since she was in the adoption system due to her dad iirc.

She's also rich due to her stubbornness and "pulling herself up by her own bootstraps".

She also is drawn to Booth, a childish man who constantly makes fun of her peers, and has a derogatory nickname for people in her profession (squints), but he's an old values man (reads the paper with his coffee and prefers it to bones' iPad, sleeps around pre-bones but loves every woman he does sleep with, he basically rebuilds their house himself, is a company man who regards the bureau above all else, and he likes guns but keeps his safe like a model citizen should)..... and is hot.

There's also an embarrassing amount of obvious product placement in the show (the cars, the diff apple products they use and comment on throughout the show) that I'm pretty sure they were self aware of it and making fun of it later on. ....

The woman who is in charge s2 and later is not nearly as smart as any of her subordinates, meanwhile the guy who is in charge during season 1 always seems to have more respect given to him than his successor. Other women who are in charge also usually turn out to be the big bad at the time.

I don't remember the woman deciding to keep her baby. Was that one of the one-episode people who are adjacent to a victim?

Sorry. Went down a rabbit hole here. But yeah, as a kid I was always curious how such a conservative leaning news channel like Fox could have such shows that are either super liberal or super raunchy.... Turns out a lot of them have a lot of conservative coded messages. The writing was pretty standard for a crime procedural.

Still trying to figure out how such a gay friendly show like X-Men got made......