I would also like to add, that it’s sometimes almost impossible to have a 2nd part time job because one or both are not regular schedules. People won’t know when they are working until the week before. If both jobs do this you will end up with scheduling conflicts.

Like it would be better if you were scheduled the same 3 or 4 days a week and had the rest of the week off.

At least then you could either chill or find other activities. But they want you at their mercy and constantly in crisis.

Like you said, All Obamacare did from a company standpoint was make people no longer reliant on their employer for healthcare. So it has no bearing on 25 hr work weeks. Although with subsidies going away, a lot of people are becoming uninsured again.

FMLA was 1993, so Clinton Required lunch breaks, etc are state laws, so not Obama OT pay and some other federal protections were pre-WW2

I think they were addressing an implied specificity in your question. You were asking about American-based media or media for US audiences without explicitly saying that.

For instance, Get Out wouldn’t have hit the same if the entire cast had been white. The racial tension is the point.

Because it sounds like you are saying we accept The Ring remake being a white cast. But if Ringu had been remade with a non-white English speaking cast it would be called woke by US right-wingers. (Even though it’s Japanese fiction. At least I hope it is fiction)

Siothe other person is asking, I think, if Japan remade Get Out for the Japanese audience and used Japanese speaking white and black people, would Japanese right-wingers lose their shit and call it woke for not casting ethnically Japanese actors?

The follow-up question becomes: is it a right-wing issue regardless of the race or nationality of right-wingers or is it a uniquely US problem because of the ignored national diversity of the overall population?

I’m using mint in fluffy warm house socks. In my defense, I’m using Mint because I may have to install a super user-friendly linux on the old computers of two boomer family members who are using win 11 and macOS respectively.

I need to make sure I know it really well and can do whatever tech support I need to do. And lock it down for them.

But I’m also digging it. Especially since it’s not Weyland, I’ve been able to lock all the inputs and still watch movies

Edit: to protect from my cat, who just knocked my phone out of my hand and butt submitted this before I was ready. Now to clean my screen

I think they mean all his characters are bombastic, loud, and kind of obnoxious. But somehow still different, so you’d still be able to immediately identify each character.

Like for me, Jack Black is Jack Black. A short clip of several of his characters and I’m not sure I’d know which is which.

But this guy, Jackie Daytona the human, I’d spot in a second. Completely different guy from Lazlo the vampire.

I’m old enough to remember when this was a thing. TV didn’t have a remote, 3 main channels. That era.

The thing that hasn’t changed is people wanting to talk about their favorite media. What has is the arena. I don’t know irl people watching what I watch. So I end up talking with other fans on Discord or watching youtubers geek out like I am.

The trick is not falling for parasocial relationships with these people gathered around the virtual water cooler.

Some perts from the link:

On Jan. 26, 2025, the FDA approved once every four weeks maintenance dosing of lecanemab for early Alzheimer’s disease. On August 29, the FDA approved weekly subcutaneous maintenance dosing of lecaneamb for early Alzheimer’s disease. The hope is that at-home administration of the treatment will be less burdensome…

The treatment will allow people to have more time to participate in daily life and live independently.

Your health care provider will also do a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan before starting treatment with lecanemab

https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/treatments/lecanemab-leqembi

This is actually really cool. Thank you for answering

Speed Extended Release? That would be a wild treatment for certain things.

Adrenochrome would be ironically hilarious since it’s a big part of the Q conspiracy towards Hillary and stuff.

I always thought it was a fictional drug plot device in Fear and Loathing

A dementia treatment?

Yeah, when I make it for Thanksgiving, I make it the night before and it’s usually served room temp. Because of time and how busy and hectic everything is

But warm apple pie is the absolute bomb. If microwaved not long at all, like 15 seconds. But warmed in a hot oven (if making something else) or like a minute in the air fryer.

But I also eat it room temp or cold. It doesn’t usually last long enough as leftovers to need to be refrigerated.

I have two favorite Thanksgiving pies. Apple pie (especially warmed up later with a scoop of vanilla ice cream) And a chocolate pie my mom used to make with flaky crust and real whipped cream on top.

Yeah, after my mom told me about having to use the pee can at night to avoid going to the outhouse when visiting her mountain relatives…

I just can’t hear people say pee can pie without remembering her obviously very visercal memory of realizing what she had to do.

Her parents and her lived in a house with indoor plumbing in the “city” so it was a bit of culture shock. And her storytelling implanted a core memory for me.

The reasons are not irrelevant to the question being asked though. Vegan for health reasons? Sure the question is irrelevant if you get sick from any animal products. You aren’t going to eat them. Same way celiac avoids gluten.

Vegan for ethical reasons? Then the question is very relevant. Is it ethical to have a pet cat? They are carnivores and will suffer and die on the wrong food. No pets at all would be most ethical. Are you concerned about mass farming of vegetables? If machinery is used, field mice and such are getting killed to harvest your vegan diet. Are you concerned about human trafficking of migrant workers or just farmed animals? If a bear kills a deer in your yard in Montana, eats half and fucks off, is it ethical for you to eat the rest? You had no hand in it’s death and suffering. You’ll have to do something with the carcass or you’ll have more predators in your yard. Are you only eating locally grown, in season fruits and vegetables, hand harvested by fairly paid workers?

If ethics is the reason, it’s fully legitimate to debate and figure out where your personal line is drawn. We live in an imperfect world and there’s no perfect solution.

You made me literally laugh out loud. Thank you

She’s been doing a rehabilitation slash apology tour. Going on air with CNN and the show The View.

Toning down the crazy, amping up the support of survivors, calling out hypocritical actions and words in her party. She’s been saying things like “I follow Jesus, not DjT/maga/Q/whatever”

She’s been getting tons of absolute critics saying, “I can’t believe I agree with MTG!”

She’s plotting something and needs the middle and rational to see her as viable for whatever it is.

She’s savvy. Maybe she’s a true believer in Q, maybe not. But I’d bet a shiny nickel she’s doing all this for a reason. And not because she’s afraid for her life. She has a plan in motion.

Also, love this one! I should get a framed version.

No, I get it. But everything is hard to fix until you know how to do it.

To me, This is about owning things you or someone else can repair with readily available parts. The problem now is remote bricking of purchases by the manufacturer through the internet. And things so cheaply made, the parts either don’t exist or the too much of it broke. Or having to pay subscriptions for the privilege to use the things you bought.

It’s just that if you have a electronics nerd friend or curiosity, there’s a lot of basic electronics that can be repaired with incredibly cheap parts.

For example, if your microwave completely dies, it’s probably a common $0.10 fuse. It’s not on the circuit board but it’s technically part of the electronics. You have to be careful to not touch the capacitors. But watch a video and you’ve brought something dead back to life.

If you don’t trust yourself, call that friend that loves that kind of stuff, share a pizza and avoid buying a new microwave that spies on you.

No flared base… hopefully it is just a cucumber…

My husband loves building elecronics. And there’s a lot of cool low-tech tech. I feel like basic circuit board stuff should be allowed, as it can be easy to repair if you know how. Just have the schematics available.

The problem for me is when it needs an Internet connection for remote access on top of a lot of flimsy parts that wear out too quickly.