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Phoebe

Okay, It turns out that Gold Rush on Netflix goes straight on to infinity. I have seen/heard at least eight seasons of this s*** and it's still going. I have no intention or desire to watch but it's on in my room all the time - It plays while I'm sleeping or setting my phone alarm or playing pointle...

Phoebe

I want something like this with voice, essentially like an extended baby monitor but for the elderly. I want to monitor my elderly like Alexa spies on people, and I want them to be able to say, hey Alexa, except substituting my name and I would actually hear them in my house like they were on the in...

Phoebe

I remember grudgingly accepting 80s pop Donna rather than disco star Donna, but I could not relate to the lyrics. Yes, respect for the hard working woman seemed good, but was it a big deal? Surely we should treat workers right, all the time? Surely we would expect more, do better? I was oblivious! I...

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What the hell. I haven't seen the slightest mention of the retraction, either - not until I saw it here just now. The narrative around this is already solid - I continue seeing references to the epidemic of shoplifting and the supposed fact that store personnel can't do anything but watch people run...

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Jack Harlow has this new song I'm not even going to bother to link here because he can get his support elsewhere, but when I first heard it on the radio I kind of liked it and he was talking about how he was vanilla and not into the whips but still nevertheless, da da da, and it was a catchy tune.. ...

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Not that this will make you feel a lot better but I do think that's normal these days. Around here apparently that's a slow day. I really don't know how teachers do it and I wish you well. I was just in the school office by the by, when I saw this family coming in - The mom had about seven children ...

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I think they don't like the civilian impact at all and are trying to curtail it. But they're also not just going to come out for a ceasefire, so... A lot of people will remain unhappy. But the same people (and I don't mean you personally) did not have any such unhappiness when we were part of a coal...

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I would enjoy a board game based on Gold Rush more than I enjoy the actual show. The detailed knowledge of these processes in the characters involved that I never asked for but received... It's so much. I have decided that the wife of the swedish guy is the mastermind behind this entire operation an...

Phoebe

I'm not sure what to make of this. I don't know why you want to continue comparing Gaza to the Warsaw ghetto. I don't know why you're saying the occupation began when Israel actually withdrew from Gaza, or why you're implying they reduced the amount of food entering in order to deliberately starve p...

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There are six thousand seasons of Gold Rush and I've been present and unaccounted for through most of them. The narration of the show is Dick and Jane level and often unintentionally humorous. Although with the number of times the narrator says the words "glory hole", I can't imagine it's ...

Phoebe

Rather than taking quotes like this as evidence, I think you should look into what actually happened in the Warsaw ghetto over a period of years. To say that Gaza is not like the Warsaw ghetto (to the extent that the comparison itself is offensive) is far from excusing the conditions that have exist...

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Akiva wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 8:28 amShane MacGowan

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67546785

Phoebe

I respect your opinion even if I disagree with it, but am somewhat shocked by the comparison to Jewish ghettos under the Nazis. For good reasons, human rights and other organizations have struggled over whether the apartheid label appropriately applies to Israel's treatment of Palestinians, but even...

Phoebe

But if it's Palestine affecting Biden, why has it been this way for so long? Granted some people have been just this concerned about the issue for a long time now, but most have not. If you had asked people back in June, they would not have cited Palestine as the reason but the numbers were about th...

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The anti-free speech stuff on the right is really easy to see: book bans! content bans for schools! free speech "zones" on campuses! shutting down public assemblies for no good reason! trying to make anything race-conscious illegal, even when it involves free expression like donating money...

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Charlie Munger, 99

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Read an interesting article that tried to grapple honestly with the difficult Biden poll numbers. Is this just a reflection of negative sentiment that will coalesce in another direction once things really get rolling in the campaign season? Does it reflect disenchantment with Biden among Democrats a...

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100 days my prince & Gold Rush 100 Days... This classic k-drama is leaving Netflix shortly, so I decided to watch a little each day although TV watching time is at a minimum. All the elements were present: feckless royals, conniving royals, murderous royals, royals who like to make friends with ...

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Hall said some pretty spicy things about how he was the musician and the other guy was his business partner...

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Ok, Spotify Is yielding fruit even though I'm annoyed that they keep changing the format so I can't figure out how to make lists or favorites or whatever. I had very high hopes for people who wanted to call themselves "Sonic Sea Turtles" and the hopes were rewarded here. There's about a th...

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It was one of those hiring situations where "reasons" are given not to hire the racial minority person but aren't applied to others and seem pretty random and false in the first place. I'm trying to drink and I cannot drink past one shot/wine/beer any longer. Sad. I also ate a patty melt e...

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Today they (US) are saying the Palestinian Authority needs to govern in Gaza, which apparently is a significant break with Netanyahu, but hopefully he's already on the way out!

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It's to a point where things are so horrible, a person can hardly stand to read about them, but then obviously these are real things happening to real people who have to experience them and not merely worry about reading. It feels grotesque even to be upset about reading when the thing is happening....

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That really does sound terrible, yeeeeeesh! I'm reading a book I don't even know the title of - something like a Court of Sound and Fury but I'm pretty sure that's a Faulkner title and not this title. It's about fairies. I'm reading it because someone gave it to me and because I found out it's a ban...

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I'm not trying to defend or excuse anything here or ignore any facts. If sources present stories like a canal being the secret purpose for all this, it would not hurt to seek some balance with different perspectives common among, for example, Israelis who do want Palestinians to be protected, do wan...

Phoebe

The list of books they are taking out of this Florida school library would be an amazing summer reading plan... Kind of a "pick one in each of these several buckets" reading list? I don't know where we're going in this country: https://pen.org/more-than-300-titles-banned-in-collier-county-...

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I'm not posting this to be argumentative, just to offer different perspectives that might be helpful to hear. I don't know where these claims about the canal are coming from but I don't know of any legitimate source saying this even among people vigorously defending the rights of the Palestinians an...

Phoebe

I don't think I've ever had the pneumonia shot - I want more shots and I don't know if I'm just not old enough to be eligible or if they're holding out on me. Although I must say one of the few times I felt bad about getting older was when they denied me the flu mist and I realized they think I'm su...

Phoebe

Yes the song is moonlight! Apparently the world loves this song. I like the new stuff that's coming out but I don't have time to focus on anything and figure out what I'm listening to. Good accompaniment in the car though!

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Haven't checked the news yet; I come to dread it because you know it's not going to be good. At last check it sounded like the IDF was engaged with the tunnels directly. Yet it wasn't clear that air strikes had slowed much. They had several hundred people leave, or maybe more, but still having troub...

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What and ruin my weekend?! If I have to lay crying in bed I should at least get to miss some work over it. Come to think of it I better get in there quick for my shingles shot while I can still take advantage.

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I don't know if any of the following will change some of your feeling about it, but while these things don't change the awfulness of death and destruction, for me at least they underscore that there's no simple and obvious solution that would stop all this, if only people stopped blocking it. One pe...

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Definitely worth trying - maybe younger ages as well where the disciplinary issues are different? Or older ones?

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I'm old and fat and while I don't want to be fat, I accept this is the way it is over the course of time. I am not like a moist tender vegetable anymore, I'm like a decorative gourd. Still great but you know... It's a decorative gourd and not a moist juicy vegetable. In this fat ugly state I took my...

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Get Out I am not normally a fan of the scary or horror genre. The movies are not usually scary. This movie scared the absolute bejeezus out of me for real, and it was also clever and artfully done. Most of you have probably seen it but in case there are people who haven't I don't want to give any sp...

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This is terrible; I hope it works out to move to gradeschool. So many teachers are miserable and quitting, on the one hand you might want to join them and on the other hand it might create an opening in a less horrible place. Just going on the anecdotal evidence of the few dozen I interact with regu...

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I fear this - it could happen so easily.

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I wouldn't be able to sleep if I was imagining the sheep going over my own body because what if it misses the mark or stumbles?
But I don't count sheep regardless.

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In this video at 2:02 is a purse - nay, a MONEYBAGG - and I own an exact duplicate of this purse. Is it a commonly-held sort of moneybag? Perhaps!

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Ok, when you need a pick me up, this is delightful: https://youtu.be/PVx4TQoIc-o? I love her music and singing and apparently we are about to get a new album. My kid is now sharing my obsession with her vocals and I have also figured out just this morning two reasons why the ladies love him: he will...

Phoebe

I would think so! One sad reality at my kid's school is that on a weekly basis somebody either pulls the fire alarm or they have a drill pretending that there's a crisis, so they all just monotone wander outdoors every time and are sick of it. For some I'm sure it's a low level constant anxiety beca...

Phoebe

Well what I liked about it was the recognition of human suffering that is most important at the bottom of all this, combined with recognition of how intractable the problem seems. But even in this most intractable situation we have to try to solve it in some way. Even if it just means a partial impr...

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Akiva wrote: ↑Wed Oct 25, 2023 8:43 am Bomb threat at my son's high school. Which has also prompted a shelter-in-place at my daughters' middle school.

Whoa completely missed this yesterday. Did they get it sorted out? After the stuff going on in this country and around the world you just never know what the hell to expect.

Phoebe

This is a good essay imo, worth a read in the midst of a lot of other writing coming out about this war: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/l ... om-israel/

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What do you think of her fantasy books? Probably this has come up elsewhere but I was not connecting it in my mind. Have never read these but I think I'll start and probably will do it by purchasing series for a kid or relative.

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Wow, it's wild that students were being given, like in your case, tens of thousands in loans that started accumulating interest even before the student finished school and became employed. That strikes me as fundamentally predatory because the whole point is that it's a student loan. And then repaym...

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This is not particularly comforting, but we know the false narratives are spun in many directions and not only one. For example, the recent hospital strike made headlines and earned condemnation from the UN and various nations, and initially we heard thousands were dead and the IDF were monsters who...

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Pride and Prejudice Because Matthew Macfadyen plays Tom on Billions I believe somehow Netflix decided we should have access to his Mr Darcy version of pride and prejudice. I remember seeing this before and thinking he was the only bright spot in an otherwise extremely annoying adaptation. Unlike Eli...

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No Hard Feelings Jennifer Lawrence plays a 30 something lady who ends up, through a series of misfortunes, dating a much younger adult/kid who is getting ready to start his first year at Princeton. I made cringing faces - I think that's what you'd call them - when contemplating what they had in mind...

Phoebe

People at work are driving me insane.
That is all.
The dog peed on a blanket and it is so annoying. Even so, I'd rather deal with the dog. I launder the blanket. Maybe twice. Then it's ok. Can't launder people's irritating and imo vaguely racist bs so easily.

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