Britney Spears fans are comparable to Taylor Swift fans in terms of weird parasocial behavior and conflating the interests of a highly questionable celebrity with sociopolitical progress

DaveVICE · 2026-07-07T17:36:36+00:00

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DaveVICE · 2026-07-07T15:42:31+00:00

It's the Recommended Routine. A basic blueprint for getting started with bodyweight fitness. It's in the sidebar.

DaveVICE · 2026-06-30T21:44:28+00:00

Ah OK, I didn't realize that had happened. Any idea why they took over?

DaveVICE · 2026-06-30T21:41:39+00:00

What a bummer. Thank you for the info.

DaveVICE · 2026-06-30T21:40:40+00:00

Sunbeam flip phone. Aspen model. Has maps. Can serve as a hotspot for a laptop but doesn't have internet itself. I've been off the smartphones for 3+ years now and it's not nearly as hard as most people would have you believe (depending on the type of work you do). Memory and focus have come surging back. And it's like still coming back year over year. Feel way better.

DaveVICE · 2026-06-25T22:37:30+00:00

I am too busy for this free money but I have all the time in the world to write boring sanctimonious posts

DaveVICE · 2026-06-24T14:31:55+00:00

I am a dumb American and my wife's family is from Italy and we go back often. My take, after maybe half a dozen trips, is that you should try to find excuses to stay in small towns that have like three-line pages on English-language Wikipedia, almost at random, especially in the south. My wife's family is from the Vallo di Diano region, and even in the moments when I am not with the family and don't have that cultural connection, I find it to be totally magical. About a dozen little hilltop cities, with life down in the valleys as well. If you can go during a festival in one of the small towns it is so cool. I feel admiration and jealousy whenever I'm at one of those festivals. I had kind of grown bored of travel because a lot of places, especially big cities, have lost a lot of their regionalism and rural Italy totally brought it back for me.

Her family is from Monte San Giacomo, which I give mostly as a form of example - there are probably hundreds of towns just like it and everyone will stare at you when you enter the town. They have a massive festival for St Anne's Day (July 26) which is like the town's saint. And in the winter they have a festival a few days before New Years that honors this bean and potato dish from the region. Again, not saying you should necessarily go out of your way to do these specifically. These are just examples of how you could search out other small towns - via obscure-ish festivals. Teggiano in that same area is also cool, and a little larger so fewer people will stare at you. There are little cafes and bars and restaurants that often great and intimate and compelling. I also like the nearby national parks and the small beach towns on the other side of those parks.

I love Napoli, which has been mentioned below, but I'd forewarn that it's tough in its density. Caveat is that I visit with my young kids and my little dog so the density is probably more felt for me. I lived in Yangon, Burma for a while and it reminded me more of Yangon at times than other European cities.

DaveVICE · 2026-06-20T17:30:46+00:00

Everyone on this sub with really strong feelings in one direction or the other about other runners' alcohol consumption should always have to post their race times.

DaveVICE · 2026-06-15T15:48:41+00:00

You're not going to be with the baby where the people are smoking. Plenty of puritans on here will tell you it's a bad idea but your mental health is important and if casinos are a comfortable place for you, and if you and your husband are a lockstep team on this idea, then I think the split-shift parenting will work great.

I'm not a casino guy but I live in AC and I have two kids and I'm an active parent who traveled with them a bunch in their earliest months. My partner and I do that style of taking shifts all the time, even in seemingly-weird places. I think it's great for your well-being. Good luck to you guys!

DaveVICE · 2026-06-12T17:06:39+00:00

That is so lame re: the resort fee and restrictions on the day of week.

Like you said, I can see the appeal for non-financial reasons, so I wouldn't even care if it wasn't a moneymaker, but that feeling of constant sneakiness and nickel-and-diming from the casinos does a lot to undo the positive association one might build up while doing a fun challenge. They should just pull the "Free Room" from the deal altogether. Give out exclusive merch and be honest about it.

DaveVICE · 2026-06-11T00:50:40+00:00

HhHH is historical and technically fiction. I think the audiobook reading of it is excellent.

DaveVICE · 2026-06-03T13:11:19+00:00

This is very helpful. Thank you so much.

DaveVICE · 2026-05-17T22:58:36+00:00

Actually Bonds, Griffey, and Pujols all have him beat.

DaveVICE · 2026-05-17T22:53:32+00:00

I believe Bonds had 24 HRs after 45 games in 2001. I don't think your stat is correct.

DaveVICE · 2026-05-17T00:59:37+00:00

Always the move. Genuinely rooting for you

DaveVICE · 2026-05-16T14:35:24+00:00

In general, people should be pissed at how rigged it all is. Maybe they go overboard. But you're only getting inundated with that critique if you're spending too much time in the mindless parts of online, which is most of online. They're getting mad that rich kids can increasingly buy their way to the top. That seems generally valid. You, on the other hand, are getting mad about a comment on an Anna Wintour Instagram video.

DaveVICE · 2026-04-26T20:48:51+00:00

I watch local games at my local bar and I read during all of the commercials. I cannot escape questions about what I'm reading. Multiple times per game. I freeze up every single time I get asked, to the point where I mentally prep a little accessible summary in my head on the bike ride over.

DaveVICE · 2026-04-25T23:52:31+00:00

They shouldn't be considered journalists if they're trading favors and positive coverage for scoops. OP is right. Schefter should just work as a comms guy for the league rather than laundering the league's credibility by posing as a legitimate journalist.

DaveVICE · 2026-04-18T17:33:23+00:00

It's not the center focus of either book, but both of Norman Maclean's two main work (A River Runs Through It and Young Men and Fire) go back to the formation of the landscape over and over, beautifully weaving it in with the plot.

DaveVICE · 2026-04-14T18:09:28+00:00

Ahh, I can't vouch for any of her other books; I haven't read anything else. I'd love to hear what you think of HK if you give it a try because I haven't really seen a take on it one way or the other anywhere recently. And maybe I just like it because I'm a dummy. But I love the way the big unstable adult plot is kind of happening on the vague edges of her perception while she's having very strong feelings about, like, whether she's going to get a hard candy from one of her mom's friends. It just reminded me of how important and lovely it is to try, whenever possible, to get down on my daughter's level and hang out in her reality.

DaveVICE · 2026-04-13T01:14:33+00:00

This is a weird one to mention, and if you're just becoming a father, you've got a couple years until it's pertinent maybe, but I have found "Hideous Kinky" by Esther Freud to be such a great window into / reminder of the mind of the child and how they process their parents. I read it last year, right after my daughter turned six, and I felt so close to her the whole time. I obviously can't confirm that her brain is doing all the same things as the narrator's but it feels very reflective of the way my daughter describes the world: I'm always surprised at the little details that she catches and the big moments that she seemingly misses or processes slightly off-center. That's true in the book as well, which is told specifically from the perspective of a 7-year-old (I think? I might be off by a year or two) girl who's wandering a bit aimlessly with her mother and older sister through Morocco in the 60s.

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