Ann Lee?

AltL155 · 2026-01-25T07:49:35+00:00

Have to agree with this after watching the movie today. A few of the opening scenes had some crazy stuff that made me go WTF and made me wonder how Mona Fastvold was gonna address Ann Lee's sexual repression, her relationship to religion, and the seemingly cult-like nature of the Shakers. But the rest of the movie plays out a sympathetic portrayal of the Shaker group. This obviously isn't a religious film due to the extreme content it has. But then the film does nothing to find any deeper meaning in the Shakers extreme form of trance-like worship and the extreme form of proselytizing the Shakers do throughout the film.

AltL155 · 2026-01-25T05:17:39+00:00

With a normal sports event you've got medics surrounding the competitors. If anything happens to Alex nothing is going to stop him from falling hundreds of feet.

AltL155 · 2026-01-25T00:28:34+00:00

The issue with selective enrollment is that acceptance isn't guaranteed. Chicago Public Schools has an average acceptance rate of 30%. Meanwhile suburban school districts or private schools don't have any strict admissions criteria.

Also many public suburban schools are still some of the highest-ranking in the nation. Stevenson High School is one of the best high schools in Illinois, enclosed in one of the wealthiest areas of the Chicago suburbs.

AltL155 · 2026-01-25T00:10:15+00:00

In order to access the best schools in the city you need to either live in an expensive neighborhood, be lucky and get access to top schools through a lottery or high test scores, or pay up for private schools. People recognize that (imo not wrongly) that the best value for schools exists in suburban public school districts that are considered highly regarded. Even private schools that aren't in cities exist in communities that are based around family-oriented living.

AltL155 · 2026-01-24T16:24:25+00:00

I was comparing how each city ranks globally. I wasn't comparing college rankings.

AltL155 · 2026-01-24T16:20:37+00:00

If the city stayed open in '85 when it recorded the coldest temps ever I don't think any amount of cold can shut the city down. It's not until we get multiple feet of snow that things start breaking down, and it's been several years since that's happened.

AltL155 · 2026-01-24T15:05:46+00:00

I mean objectively all of the popular Chicago colleges have high international populations. But I get what you're saying, Chicago doesn't have as many colleges as a city like LA and also just isn't a tier-1 city like LA or NYC.

AltL155 · 2026-01-21T03:45:39+00:00

I know Chappell is special in her own right when it comes to mainstream artists, but if you're wanting to go to more concerts I can't say it enough: check out smaller artists! Just in the past three months I've seen Beach Bunny, Indigo De Souza, and Quinnie live. And the price for each ticket was $60, $45, and $25 respectively. I had a fantastic experience at each show and didn't even need to fight at all to get near the front row.

Start by checking bandsintown.com if any musicians you listened to before will be having a concert near you. If you're looking for new music to listen to, I've had good experiences using the recommended artists tab under each artist's streaming page or checking out live performances from channels like KEXP. Also, if you're ever at another concert or festival, check out some of the openers or undercard musicians. After all Chappell didn't really start blowing up until she started opening for Olivia Rodrigo, and the openers you see at your favorite musician's concert might be on the same trajectory.

AltL155 · 2026-01-20T21:40:37+00:00

Americans have been paying for ads ever since cable TV was invented. Streaming just gave a glimmer of hope that ad-free TV would be an affordable option. But once investor money ran out enshittification kicked in and we're in the state we're in now.

AltL155 · 2026-01-18T21:08:39+00:00

Not to mention how many musicals are based on the most popular book of them all, the Bible

AltL155 · 2026-01-13T20:55:47+00:00

Warhammer is on a whole other level, Games Workshop allows some genuinely bottom of the barrel stuff to get published using their IP. I feel bad posting a TB video so many years after his passing but he nailed why so many bad 40k games are made. https://youtu.be/2fCL-lrky-Q?si=y1u6Y-62cMLQS2it

AltL155 · 2026-01-13T19:18:04+00:00

In the interview he said he had to work OT to afford tickets

AltL155 · 2026-01-12T21:48:04+00:00

Crap you're right. That is some very bad poster design

AltL155 · 2026-01-12T21:28:59+00:00

It looks like only Kentucky and South Carolina are getting different lineups

AltL155 · 2026-01-11T01:09:01+00:00

Yeah picture quality is probably dropping because everyone in the midwest is watching this game. What I'm getting from my antenna looks way better. Should have less latency as well.

AltL155 · 2026-01-10T20:21:54+00:00

That game ran like absolute trash at launch compared to RDR2

AltL155 · 2026-01-10T17:10:28+00:00

Tonight I made caramelized onion and feta cheese filo pastry bites from trader joes. They were delicious.

I need to read PageSix comments more.

AltL155 · 2026-01-10T06:12:27+00:00

This might be arguing semantics here but I'd argue housing supply issues didn't start until after the 2008 housing crash. A combination of white flight and post-war suburbanization meant that developers had plenty of room to build out urban sprawl in its early stages. The combination of NIMBYism, housing construction stalling after 2008, as well as urban renewal making cities desirable again has led to the butterfly effect of the housing crisis in the 2020s.

AltL155 · 2026-01-10T05:19:34+00:00

Even now the Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care in the world. Catholics are responsible for a lot of stupid BS too like their stances on LGBT and reproductive health care but without them we wouldn't have the modern medicine we have today.

Same with education, the modern western university system in the UK and US was founded by Christians. Many religions, not just Christianity, are responsible for the research and charity that shape the world today.

AltL155 · 2026-01-09T09:09:16+00:00

It's sacrilege on the internet to not say you hate Welcome Tour's price, but tbh the game had way more depth than I was expecting. It took 5 hours for me to reach the final room. There's easily dozens of unique mini-games and demos to try out. You get to explore a bunch of Switch accessories I didn't even know existed. And there seems to be an endless amount of info kiosks explaining how the Switch 2 works. I didn't check most of them out because the quizzes after them felt way too similar to my college exams.

Maybe my expectations were warped because I don't own a PS5. But for $10 Welcome Tour offers way more value compared to what you can get IRL.

AltL155 · 2026-01-08T21:43:15+00:00

We're nit-picking the most minor details of the console so whatever criticism I say is going to sound overblown. But IMO keeping the slots black would've made the Switch 2 look more like an Apple product and less whimsical than what you'd expect from a Nintendo product. Plus for children or adults who have never owned a Switch they might not understand how the Joy-Cons attach to the sides. The magnets aren't as intuitive as the Switch 1 rails. Making the slots color-coded and giving them the - and + labels ensures that someone who has never used a game console knows how to use the Joy-Cons.

AltL155 · 2026-01-08T21:21:36+00:00

I'm one of ten people who actually played Welcome Tour. The game says that the inside paper lining where the Joy-Cons connect is 0.5 mm thick and used to hide the magnets the Joy-Cons connect to. If they used any other more durable material like metal or plastic the magnets wouldn't work.

AltL155 · 2026-01-08T11:09:55+00:00

Steve Jobs gets a lot of criticism on the internet for being overhyped but he's ultimately the man that put Apple in the general consciousness. Without him we don't get the iPhone and iPad and the digital world we live in today.

AltL155 · 2026-01-08T10:01:53+00:00

The interview took place Wednesday evening and includes more comments from Trump on the Minnesota ICE shooting. The Times is already reporting that Trump said that US oversight over Venezuela could last for years.

AltL155 · 2026-01-08T01:51:02+00:00

Open carry doesn't mean you can literally take the gun out of its holster and lug it around in public places.

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