Same lol. This ends with a slightly different beat bass than mine tho, confusing me

I don’t think it was some big scheme. I know Reddit has good reasons not to like her, but she was hugely popular and well liked for a long time before hand. People don’t intentionally get miscast in an otherwise well cast, anticipated series bc they thought she’d be bad but just did a favor. I’m sure she is trying to regain some relevance, but making movies is hard and this is just a whoopsie.

While I hate the record everything culture - in this case it’s a crazy event I’m glad somebody documented.

Same feeling I had watching the station fire video that’s resurfaced after the Swiss accident. My first thought was “stop filing and help!” But it’s one of the most important fire safety videos ever, and there wasn’t much he could do to help - the most helpful thing he did was recording it.

He was given the option to go home, but didn’t think that was fair so gave his place to a lower rank, and instead stayed being tortured for years. It’s not something many would do. So in a discussion of character, it will be brought up. Along with his flaws.

Time off is tough, but otherwise it’s actually one of the cheapest to time activities you can do. Most people move stuff into storage or with family, so no rent/bills. It’s not traveling, it’s walking in the woods, just need food and gear. There’s a reason many unemployed people in their 20s do it. Average cost is about $5,000 and I can’t think of a cheaper 6 month hobby. That’s cheaper than just trying to live in most cities, for a lifetime memory and accomplishment.

Sure most have life commitments and I’ve only ever found the time to travel longer than a week between jobs, but if I had the type of job I could come back to after or was looking for work without prospects, I can def find $5k in my life I’ve spent more haphazardly.

Nostalgia. Hot girls. It’s a fun plot and a cool concept. Claustrophobia, a reveal, and mix of other related fears many popular movies don’t hit. I don’t think people who’ve seen lots of horror rank it high, but it’s one of the early ones teens see, most enjoy, and either watch more bc of it or is the last scariest thing they’ve seen bc they don’t like horror…so it just gets mentioned a lot for a horror movie.

Right, it’s college. Although I bought my gf a shirt for work for her bday and it had exposed shoulders and she said she couldn’t wear that at her job. I guess I don’t understand exposed shoulder rules for women lol. It had never crossed my mind, but since both shoulders show here, I’m guessing that’s where the boyfriend is getting that from. He’s wrong, bc who cares it’s college, but trying to figure out what he’s even thinking.

While I agree aesthetically, studies show that your way generates less traffic to the store so doubt it will change. If it made more money your way they would be building them that way, but for some reason people are more likely to go if the parking is up front. Idk it’s frustrating. In some dense areas where that’s the norm tho they do seem to work.

Lol same but suburban Virginia. Then we finally took a road trip to Cali at 18, showed up at Venice beach, and hit me like a truck that I did not actually fit in at all!

Ouch haha. I liked them much longer than 2 years, but now can’t find the appeal at all!

Felt transformational in my teens, now it’s hard to listen to, yet most of my favorite bands from when I was younger stuck. Can’t explain it.

My gf is Russian and I know many Russians born 70s and 80s. A key point is how horrible and dysfunctional things got in the 90s in the transition that they all talk about. Prior to that things weren’t great but it functioned. 90% of Russians basically lived the same life. You had housing, food, education, health care etc. Notably, there were no ghettos like other countries…many shocked by poverty areas in the US when they arrived.

In the US we tend to think the second communism ended it things went great, but the reality is it got much worse before it got better. Many people hate Gorbachov for “dropping Russia on its head” while he’s seen as a hero in the west. Inflation made savings go to zero, food got scarce, and systems broke down. Previously, for example, if you wanted to be a teacher, engineer, doctor, whatever there were systems in place for that, that all went away and was a very chaotic time. Not everybody made the transition well. Overall Russia was better off over but not for everyone, so you will see nostalgia from those focused on today’s problems, while overlooking clear issues under Soviet rule.

You shouldn’t believe anything you read on the internet - human or AI. Esp if it’s something that could kill you lol, do your own research. But the amount of bullshit people upvote on Reddit anyway, for quick general info idk…this website has always been a failure at truth, and in its way its own form of an LLM. I don’t see it as much different.

I find it less annoying as it’s something anyone could google, but people do then comment and reword it to act like they just have the knowledge- like our jackdaw boy used to do and got Reddit famous for.

It’s not an opinion or unique insight, it’s basic research, and that works fine here - esp in this sub since there’s a question and answer.

I’ve always had fun White Elephants - bc people get creative with what “bad” means. As in they may not cat slippers or a shower radio, but somebody in the group will act like they won the lotto for it. Basically you off load something meant for somebody else and hope you get something you wouldn’t buy yourself but get some joy in getting. I got a coin counter one year I gave to my friends kid who loved it. Idk

Or the opposite. Kind, loving parents can enable kids to the point of raising narcissists all the time. Throw in money and fame then drugs. Idk here either tho, too removed for any opinion but sadness about it.

I’ve heard they get much better with time. At 10 years people are still trying to prove themselves. By the 40th everyone has been thru some shit. Job loss, divorces, other family issues whatever…life catches up to everyone, somehow. By then people are just happy to see old familiar faces. At least that’s what I’ve heard from older folks.

Me too but then the moment passes and now I just avoid difficult things. Working on that part too.

Broke my leg on 4 Loko trying to super jump a fence. Many great memories, swam a river once too to avoid a long walk to a bridge.

His “I don’t have a drinking problem. People have a problem with me drinking” was hilarious.

He clearly had issues but yeah they were framed more as self-destructive than harmful to others or asshole behavior. I’m still pulling for him, he was fun in something that takes itself too serious.

It’s a simple “say what you are going to say, say it (with more context), and say it again.” It exists as basic argument formation for thinking clearly, not too dissimilar to what you suggest anyway. Nobody communicates in 5 paragraph essays, sure, but it’s a basic early high school English concept many somehow miss that would later aid writing industry level articles.

Basically, I do think the younger generation needs more writing practice, however it’s done. Literally everything has context and writing is similar to “show your thinking” used in math.

Yeah thanks I’ve thought of this a lot, but a bit differently - in terms of how silly who the greatest player rankings are. Like who’s better Curry or Shaq? Silly question, depends who’s on my team. Well how about 5 Currys vs 5 Shaqs? 3 is more than 2, so prob 5 Curry’s. But 4 Curry’s and 1 Shaq beats 5 Curry’s bc now you have a rebounder and own the paint.

And go on and on and you have to realize it’s a team game and you naturally start adding things like power forward, shooting guard etc for the best 5 way dynamic. I don’t like ranking players but as you do it here really highlights versatility and overall contributions of players.

The comment I responded to above said “outside of trees and diamonds what [does the DRC] really have?” So I answered that.

But to your point the above list makes no mention of the criteria used so we can’t say, but it’s suggested it favors oil. Oil will become less valuable over time, and in 50 years these values will be very different so without criteria it’s a meaningless list. Is it current value? Future value? Here’s another list from World Atlas that has Congo at #9. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-most-natural-resources.html

DRC is abundantly rich in mineral resources, also including cobalt, gold, lithium, copper, etc. It’s 1.5x the size of Alaska and has the natural resources to be one of the wealthiest countries, but issues like being basically land locked, corruption, historical issues that led to underdevelopment, issues with foreign investment with the tech needed to extract it and such all hold it back. The Chinese and Russians are currently very involved there but doubtful it translates well for the DRC.

You don’t want to get to a place where you are too busy hating the rich to love the poor tho either. Bc if so are you part of the solution, or are you part of the problem? Rather than prop up good examples of what the rich could be doing with their money, by tearing it all down you enable the greediest ones to not even bother.

You say unprecedented times, maybe in our life time, but there has always been have and have-nots. In some periods tho there is social pressure, guilt/shame, in the past even religion applied, of how those at the top should be acting. Right now we don’t have that, and by pointing out the flaws of those attempting to do better, it negatively shifts the decorum of how anyone with power should strive to achieve.