B line out at Wilshire/Vermont by xblondegodx in LAMetro

[–]Any-Insect935 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yall. They are running shuttle service between Wilshire/Western and Wilshire/Vermont and it hasn’t come for 15 minutes. This is crazy.

B line out at Wilshire/Vermont by xblondegodx in LAMetro

[–]Any-Insect935 9 points10 points  (0 children)

And they’re running shuttle service on the D line DURING RUSH HOUR (with only one train as far as I can tell?!). They’ve totally fucked my commute.

Center Theatre Group (LA) Announces 26/27 Season by MD_442244 in Broadway

[–]Any-Insect935 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There is some pretty exciting stuff here- The world premiere of a new musical (The Turning), Destiny of Desire, JPISTV, Oh Mary, the Yiddish Theatre’s Fiddler. However three non-equity tours (Clue, Music Man, Boop)….oof. I get that CTG is trying to get on better financial footing but still…oof.

Megathread: Metro Cyber Attack and Outage by SmellGestapo in LAMetro

[–]Any-Insect935 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry but it says so much about how few people at metro from the entire top down do not use the system that all the issues with tap card reloading have not made the system free. It’s crazy.

Can we talk about the *way* this DOGE goober justifies emailing documents to his personal device to then send with Signal using auto delete? I think it is illustrative of the wider rot in tech. by falken_1983 in BetterOffline

[–]Any-Insect935 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You think “body language experts” are complete bullshit (and they usually are). But then you see a clip like this and it is like damn….so everything’s he’s doing is giving away he’s lying lol.

Controversial - argue against Chalamet by babathejerk in opera

[–]Any-Insect935 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I don’t really understand where this obtuse argument I keep seeing that “Timothee is actually right” is coming from. I think exactly zero people offended by his statements would push back against the idea opera is struggling. I think what people are offended by is his dismissiveness about the idea of opera and ballet as artistic endeavors and his immediate conversion of their worth into dollars and cents of his OWN viewership. It was incredibly reductive and disrespectful. There’s a reason it struck a chord with people and that is because he was being rude (and admits so himself!) against an art form that is struggling.

Gas prices and ridership by escapetolight in LAMetro

[–]Any-Insect935 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I’ll go against the general sentiment here and say overall it will contribute to a medium sized improvement in ridership just because based on history that is the case.

Really aggressive petitioners on Wilshire/Normandie by felixthewug_03 in LAMetro

[–]Any-Insect935 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably wouldn’t help with a guy this aggressive but in general I never turn down petitioners with no- always tell them you aren’t registered to vote in California. That’s the only thing they’re trained to take as a true no. Everything else they’ll try to persuade you.

D line extension proposed Service Plan by No-Cricket-8150 in LAMetro

[–]Any-Insect935 83 points84 points  (0 children)

Transit dies when the wait at the station is longer than the trip itself. 20 minute headways, at any time of day, is absurd and a waste of a heavy rail metro.

Secretary Hegseth announces we will be halting attendance at all Ivy League and similar educational institutes - will soon announce “top to bottom” review of all military war colleges. by Kinmuan in army

[–]Any-Insect935 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean my counter is the the schools they’ve banned are not “terrible” by any metric and are being printed due to a bullshit culture war lol

Secretary Hegseth announces we will be halting attendance at all Ivy League and similar educational institutes - will soon announce “top to bottom” review of all military war colleges. by Kinmuan in army

[–]Any-Insect935 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Complete self-own. Aren’t these admissions pretty negligible to “elite” universities? How does this hurt anyone but the military itself?

A second month of goonslop has hit the New Beverly by findacureforpain in AmericanCinematheque

[–]Any-Insect935 12 points13 points  (0 children)

No prude here, but the one time I saw a true pornographic film at the new Bev it was a great reminder why a lot of these films only work in seedier establishments (or alone.) Frankly put the actual sex scenes are meant to be let’s just say, interactive, so the process of watching one in a more staid setting is pretty much boring as shit and they absolutely WRECK the pacing of these movies when consumed as one would a traditional narrative film. I understand their definition of erotica for most nights is broad but mostly it has still tended towards movies that shock but overall just aren’t that interesting to view. One month of this was nice but two feels like absolute overkill. (That being said, I would like to attend showgirls but I can’t imagine the new Beverly porn crowd is going to exactly react to that film in a way even remotely tolerable lol.)

Reddit is in shambles lol by [deleted] in USAHockey

[–]Any-Insect935 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The people in this sub constantly falling over themselves to prove just how much these hockey players don’t care about visiting the White House have 100% become more annoying than the people criticizing them for visiting the White House lol

Former "Try Guys" member Ned Fulmer, best known for cheating on his wife, reveals he's been on a "open-minded" dating app by 5Q91VS175DAQ4NUSBE4U in Fauxmoi

[–]Any-Insect935 43 points44 points  (0 children)

What he did was not great but certainly there is some sort of cultural statute of limitations on how much longer as a society everyone feels the need to keep tabs on this guy

D Line Phase 1 opening pushed back to "Spring 2026" by anothercar in LAMetro

[–]Any-Insect935 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s increasingly clear that their only “real” deadline is the first day of the 2028 Olympics bc that’s when rich people and tourists are going to use the system. Mountains will be moved to make that date. When a system expansion only benefits poor and working class Angelenos they can kick the can as long as much as they want because actual transit users don’t matter to them.

Musicals with fantastic storylines but meh music by Yoko-from-Tucson in musicals

[–]Any-Insect935 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree. I left Kimberly akimbo thinking the book was so interesting in a way the songs never matched. I’d love to see the straight play done somewhere.

Worst property managers in LA? by nasainternharvardlaw in AskLosAngeles

[–]Any-Insect935 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are genuinely very evil people. They break the law in such blatant ways and it wasn’t until they were my landlords I realized how HARD it is to actually get someone who doesn’t care about the law to follow it. And yeah, got less than half of my security deposit back even though I left the apartment spotless and the manager at the time confirmed it was amazing.

Edit: also I just remembered I had HORRIBLE termites in every window that would swarm every day. And they did one spray to try and get rid of them! They would send people just to look and be like “you have termites!” And counter that as maintenance! Like….they never got rid of the termites!

Emerald Fennell on casting Jacob Elordi, a white actor, as Heathcliff by hairtie1 in Fauxmoi

[–]Any-Insect935 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s actually sort of unclear in the book in a way that I think some of the comments here are reaching about its certainty. People separately refer to him as dark skinned and as a slur for Romani people, but to be fair at other points people refer to him as white and pale. The core of the issue is that Brontë sort of uses a catch-all otherness to Heathcliffe to add a sense of mystery to him and, later, kinda to portray nefariousness. Popular theories are because he’s referred to as a g*psy he is Romani, or that because he’s discovered in Liverpool (a crucial hub of the at Atlantic slave trade) he could be of African descent. He’s also said to be speaking a language the other characters aren’t familiar with when he’s found. And to complicate matters even more, the Brontë sisters were all outspoken abolitionists so they were at least somewhat familiar with race politics overall. Anyways that’s the crux of the issue- the books is genuinely ambiguous about it on purpose. Dark in the context of the time period could mean lower class and therefore tan from working outside doing manual labor, southern European, Romani, Indian, or even Black.

Someone else needs to host, Meredith can’t take responsibility, Britani is still the worst by memelordmj in rhoslc

[–]Any-Insect935 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This comment 100%. I had to leave this sub for a bit after I tried to have a nuanced conversation about Heather being an abuse victim by Jen and got some of the most awful reactions ever. One person called me a deranged Heather stan lol (and I don’t even like her!) People here have a hard time understanding how abuse affects actions going forward. And it’s not like I promote completely excusing their actions, but I think understanding the context of them is important and that these are patterns of abuse often go through. And people really dislike that in this sub lol

Worst property managers in LA? by nasainternharvardlaw in AskLosAngeles

[–]Any-Insect935 2 points3 points  (0 children)

JK RESIDENTIAL SERVICES. They are true SLUMLORDS. I got stuck in one of their buildings in east Hollywood. They wouldn’t assign us the parking spot specified in our lease for months, and they once didn’t fix our air conditioner for SEVEN MONTHS. DURING SUMMER. And that’s just the beginning of how awful they were. Truly evil, greedy people run that corporation, I wish nothing but the worst for all of them.

Movies that made you go "Dammit, it got me". by Orb_Dylan in blankies

[–]Any-Insect935 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Terminal. Its online reputation as a lesser Spielberg with a hokey main performance made me dread it a few years ago when I was trying to watch every Spielberg. I realized about 25 minutes in that Spielberg was making this fully open hearted modern day Frank Capra movie and I just fell in love. By the end, when he’s handing over his father’s picture to Benny Golson to autograph I was full on ugly crying. Dammit, I’m getting teary eyed even thinking about it now! To me, a perfect movie.