@jacklaridian yeah, this is the same thing as like when they discover that Rage Against the Machine doesn't support them: did you listen to the lyrics? But this is not a group of people renowned for their textual comprehension skills, is all I can think. That feels like an insulting and reductive explanation but I can't come up with better.
(I actually kind of get it. That had to feel isolating, and it's going to drive them deeper into the cult, most likely. But even this is the same kind of sympathy I have when I work with alcoholics who still believe the lies their disease tells them. It hurts, I get it, but when the problem is everybody else, the problem isn't everybody else. You're in a cult. You will feel judged for that, and I'm sorry, but the solution is leave the cult. The world will not change for you.)
Just recently discovered The Orville and have been watching my way through all of the old episodes. The surprise Ted Danson cameo just delighted the hell out of me.
@jacklaridian Oh, I have total sympathy for that, yeah. I'd love to see the whole EC torn down, just for starters. But study after study shows that if young people voted as much their parents and grandparents do, this would be a radically different country. But that is the hardest sell in the world somehow, even when the survival of our democracy is on the line, and it's so frustrating.
Why is it that, if you want a fly to leave you alone, it's in your face constantly like HI, but the second you think "I'm going to kill that thing" suddenly it's got Batman's smoke grenades and zipline
Today it occurred to me, as I was walking Pete through a park, that I probably visually scan as skinhead trash to a lot of strangers: here's a blue eyed person of German descent you don't know with a shaved head and translucent skin lingering with a pit bull within 50 yards of your brown children. I want to figure out some kind of "we're both harmless" visual signifier so that people aren't uncomfortable. There might be nothing I can do here. Clown shoes'd probably be worse, huh.
Hims must have paid Hulu a looooot of money for ad space. Because ads are enough of an entertainment killer just as a format, but literally every time Hulu takes a break from tales of high adventure or comedy, it's like "and now thirty seconds to reflect on how aging means that your hair will fall out and your penis will stop working, and oh hey you know how we all have anxiety and depression now"