Damn. Beat me to it :)

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.

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.

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.

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"

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.

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

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

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)

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.

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.

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.