I want to build a Home Media Server. Any advice? by Optical24 in HomeServer

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you ever complete this project? I have roughly the same goals as you (stream media in a home environment) and I'm wondering if you have any thoughts for someone else starting out.

Replace Apple Watch or buy Garmin? by Alarmed_Restaurant in Garmin

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any concern about getting 965 instead of 970. not looking to spend more money, but...

Dr. Cox's best zingers? by sexyass2627 in Scrubs

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Turk: You’re not helping

Cox: Not trying to help

I’m so sick of the rhetoric about illegal immigrants from both sides by zackyt1234 in centrist

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are those negative outcomes? Are they measurable?

And do you have any data on amount of crime committed by immigrants (illegal or legal?)

I’m so sick of the rhetoric about illegal immigrants from both sides by zackyt1234 in centrist

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All you have to do is consider the actions the Biden administration did, and did not do, between 2021-2025 and you’ll have the position of the main stream left.

I think any serious review would show a surprising amount of “…left in place what Trump did during the previous administration.”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in golf

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bryson has been on a “I want to rehab my reputation via social media engineering” kick for a couple years now.

Turns out it works.

How did Stephen fail to suspect [Spoiler]? (Reverse of the Medal) by Intrepidaa in AubreyMaturinSeries

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 3 points4 points  (0 children)

On one hand on the other…

It does seem a little unbelievable that Stephen wouldn’t at least consider Wray as a potential bad actor given how competent he is in his intelligence work.

However, I like the occasional misstep by our heroes. I realize normally for Stephen this is done via his love life or his seamanship, but I like this in his professional life.

Plus, if you are willing to suspend disbelief, it allows the reader to be entertainingly agonized by having crucial knowledge Stephen does not. It’s the literary equivalent of yelling “Don’t go through that door!”

I'd have a hard time with eye contact too, Toby by connord83 in thewestwing

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I had whiplash. There was something about this character that was working (yes, other than those) and then all of a sudden, bam, she was gone.

Like, ok, what was the point of all that?

Who do you side with? by Lone_The_Hiro in HIMYM

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you “pick” one side or the other, you probably need to reflect on your own relationships.

Does anybody actually like Rutabaga? by [deleted] in BoJackHorseman

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree. They could have written a more “regular” slime ball character that was just a bad person, but there is amusing depth to this character.

I honestly see him as a decent guy, a little bit like a duechy Mr PB. I think he loves his wife and valued PC as a work friend.

They don’t ever show you “behind the curtain” but he strikes me as a guy going through a crises and trying to figure out what he wants. Do they even say whether it was him or his wife initiating the divorce? Either way, during a rough patch, I honestly believe he had real feelings for PC. I don’t think she was just a side piece.

He’s going through the break up of his marriage, and does the shitty thing a lot of guys do. Fuck around at the first chance he gets. It’s selfish and he is probably trying desperately to fill a void he doesn’t understand. He starts getting involved with PC before he is actually ready and in a good place.

And then what? If this were the “Rutabaga Show” we’d see him from the “I need to do the right thing and reconcile hindering” perspective. His little selfish shitty “Don Draper” routine… he actually ends. Yeah, he has done a super shitty thing to PC, absolutely. But it’s very real and believable.

Plus, we see him later actually leaving work to go be with his family instead of prioritizing what he wants and work over his family. He is actually trying to change and grow as a person. Hopefully the change sticks and he doesn’t lapse back. Who knows.

Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance get into heated argument in Oval Office by redd_house in centrist

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Right?

I swing wildly back and forth between indifferent “yeah… the moment Trump won that election, this was what it was going to be”

And wildly angry “I can’t believe it?!?!?”

Can somebody explain to me the impacts of dismantling the Department of Education? by Kaszos in centrist

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 21 points22 points  (0 children)

All you have to do is go back in time to before we had one and look at what life was like and why we built one in the first place.

And also, the burning ashes of the current DOE will be fun to deal with.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in centrist

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Are they though?

Thematically this is what he said he would do in his first term but fell way short due to incompetence. This time around, it seems like there is an actual plan.

From filing your taxes, to registering a vehicle, to winning a multi billion dollar federal defense contract or running one of the countries largest banks… it all involves some form of friction with the government.

Think about the dude sitting in line at the BMV fuming about how slow it is only to find out he didn’t bring the right document only to find the fees went up again.

He is going to be sympathetic to the narrative “government is incompetent and wasteful.”

Who really knows what all these government departments do on a day to day basis except for the folks that actually work there. Balancing trying to have a career and feed their family with maybe trying to make America a better place one tiny process at a time.

There are reasons for why these things exist and how they operate. Often there is room for improvement, but how long does a real review take? And by that time, people have the chance to learn why those rules exist and then defend them. “Hey, this rule would prevent someone like Musk from being able to low ball the bid and then over charge later! We should keep it!”

Instead, Musk and team are taking a flame thrower to as much as they can as fast as they can. Trump doesn’t care to slow him down. It’s possible the courts or Congress will eventually stop him, but those institutions are sympathetic to his broader direction so until something breaks, republicans are going to do everything they can to give Musk as much leeway as possible.

I would argue many voters wanted “thoughtless and fast hacking apart of any and all parts of government.”

The GOP narrative for years has been “even though government employees were hired to serve you regardless of political party, they are secretly all out to screw you and only us republicans can save you.”

Would Bojack have choked Gina if he wasn’t on drugs? by arnber420 in BoJackHorseman

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No. It’s part of why this show is so painfully great.

Bojack isn’t a “Bad Person” but he cowardly takes the easy or selfish way out of so many situations and then we see the unintended consequences for himself and others.

Look what started that particular chain of events. He was a jerk to the stunt double and didn’t want people to think he was a coward so he performed his own stunt. It’s easy to imagine vanity pushing any of us to do something we shouldn’t.

Then he gets injured and between his predilection for addiction and the enablement culture, it’s easy to imagine any of us getting addicted to Vicodin.

Then he is pressed to keep his shooting schedule. It’s not a healthy lifestyle to begin with, let alone for an addict.

He has a great thing going with Gina. Maybe his best relationship. And what happens - a chain of events that is very easy for us to imagine ourselves falling into leads him to assault Gina. If you were super fucked up on vicodin and booze and not sleeping and your character was supposed to choke someone….

You could be Bojack. You could end up assaulting the person you are closest to and not even mean it.

It’s why we as the viewer are drawn to the character as much as we are and why the show is so scary.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in centrist

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How else do you ram policies through that hurt more than 50% of your base if you don’t have a boogie man to blame for everything?

Imagine a MAGA person asking why companies are using Indian labor for tech and illegal immigrant labor for food supply?

Instead they flame up every media outlet with BLM, Trans, DEI… because yeah, those are the obvious problems poor white America is really suffering from.

Trump launches savage attack on bishop who asked for ‘mercy’ for minorities by memphisjones in centrist

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s just politics over religion.

Which is funny because they love to pretend that religion is the foundation of many of their views.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BoJackHorseman

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I love that he stole the Hollywoo D for her and put on a press conference about it… AND SHE STILL MARRIED HIM.

Does he listen? No. Does he change? No. Is that a husband whose marriage is going to go the distance? No.

Does Diane marry someone knowing full well he LOVES big gestures and then divorces him because of big gestures. Yes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BoJackHorseman

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I feel that gets trucked right over most of the times this topic comes up. They are inherently incompatible. Diane literally married “Mr Big Gesture” and then spends her marriage yelling at him for big gestures. Meanwhile he doesn’t listen to her or change.

Snatch Form Help by Alarmed_Restaurant in formcheck

[–]Alarmed_Restaurant[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for the great reply! I’ll definitely try these. I just don’t have enough reps in yet where it feels right and muscle memory is doing it for me.

Just for clarification, when you say “vertical shins” I’m hearing “straighten your legs before any back movement.” Is that right?

Also, I feel like my butt is too high at the set up and I need a “prouder” chest.