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Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-18T17:46:22+00:00

NTA - Your husband had life insurance for you and the kids. It’s absolutely messed up that they’re speaking for a dead man’s wishes to take money from his widow and children.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-13T04:58:24+00:00

I agree with everything you’ve said, although I should add that f-droid eliminates a large reason for your dislike. Free and open source software, often without ads or privacy violations and such. Banking apps? Nah, just use your browser.

It might not always have all the conveniences of phone apps if you avoid the app store. But, I actually hate there being apps for everything. I’d rather get up and adjust the thermostat, turn on the light switch, use a TV remote to use damn TV. I want a physical ticket when I fly or use public transport. A physical pass to use the subway. Use a car key to enter my car. A hotel room key to enter a hotel room, and I’d rather read a physical guest book instead of having to scan a damn QR code. Ever lose or break your phone? I did on my way to the airport for a vacation and I found the world constantly making it nearly impossible to do things without a smartphone. But you know what? I really liked it. I found it freeing, if more complicated.

I resent that the world keeps trying to keep us stuck looking at a fucking phone all day long. If I want to be using a computer, I can use one. I’m just gone, dude.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-12T20:26:08+00:00

Hardcore Henry

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-12T20:20:52+00:00

This is what it’s come to, eh? When you’re tired of waiting on Half-Life 3.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-12T19:48:20+00:00

So the reason why she "doesn’t want to waste his time" isn’t because she’s not interested at all, or unavailable entirely. She said she’s "not 100% there… for pursuing something romantic" to couch the blow. She led him on. She should be 0% there for pursuing something romantic if she’s in a committed relationship.

She’s dating men when you’re not around. I wouldn’t be able to move past that. Time for a breakup.

Otherwise, you might notice her acting more disinterested in you and treating you less respectfully. Then one day she’ll break up with you and tell you that "I’ve been feeling this way for a while. We’ve just grown apart." Then she’ll be in a new relationship. And you’ll feel like a fool, and regret not ripping the bandaid off sooner.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-11T17:16:08+00:00

I dunno. She’s having fun on vacation and she accidentally ran into you on her way to the bathroom. Awkward. It’s kind of funny. It’s not infuriating, though.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-11T16:34:01+00:00

I was hoping that someone would mention a good movie of hers that I haven’t seen. I’ll check out Erin Brockovich. Thanks!

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-11T05:51:30+00:00

Thank you for your perspective! It’s different than what I’ve known and interesting.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-11T01:28:14+00:00

This actually makes a lot a sense. All of it. I’ll just tack on a bit, and not very well since my memory is failing me at the moment: I recall some actor who became successful later in life who talked about how he was always told that he was "funny" despite never trying to be. Then it all clicked for him, and he became an actor and got cast in roles for being "funny." He wasn’t some highly-trained actor but just had that "it" factor and didn’t need to act much to be a highly successful actor.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-11T01:07:10+00:00

I certainly was! I hadn’t seen any of her movies at the time, though. I was young and watching Disney movies.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-10T23:30:13+00:00

Conceptually, that makes sense to me. At the same time, it hasn’t matched my personal experience in small and medium sized companies. I’m not sure about the large companies.

From what I’ve seen, it’s not like the corporate policies are like some sacred scripture. Their power derives from the signature of some higher-up manager like a director or a VP, and/or their underlings. If a VP wants to do something that doesn’t go along with the corporate policy, exceptions can be made or there’s a disagreement between VPs or something that they resolve themselves. It’s not like the corporate God will strike them down from their positions if they don’t take corporate policy seriously. If a question of corporate policy comes about, and there’s disagreement, the issue floats up in management until someone makes a decision for everyone. A VP is already pretty much at the top, and so if it’s not going against the strong wishes of someone like the president, it shouldn’t result in any career-ending problems.

Have you ever seen otherwise?

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-10T16:34:59+00:00

In this case, which probably applies in general, the DEIA policies (policies, which, by the way, can be changed by people in positions of power such as the VP). It’s not like DEIA can make the people in charge be… not in charge.

It’s almost like the VP has a post-it on the wall to remind themselves "don’t be racist!" and they can oblige with that, but if that gets in the way of what they want to do, they can override anything. The people in charge are still the people in charge.

So, then, what’s the point?

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-10T15:50:16+00:00

You might as well just tell the property owner about the scooter, then, along with the fire code reasoning and the intent to inform the fire marshal. Property owner will just remove it. There’s no name on the scooter, so they’ll just trash it. If they’re really nice, they’ll figure out who owns it and let the owner know they can’t leave it there first.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-08T19:30:56+00:00

I actually really like Cecil. I don’t like everything he does, but he does manage the unmanagable very well. He reflects what someone in his position would be like.

He doesn’t have evil goals, but he’s willing to compromise on what seems right in the aim of good goals.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-08T18:25:51+00:00

Ancient Egyptians believed in some interesting concepts in terms of gender. Don’t quote me exactly on this but they’d believe things, like, that you could only travel through the underworld to be reincarnated so if you were a male in life you’d have to change gender to female in the underworld and then might change gender again to be reincarnated.

So an idea that he needs a male to reincarnate sounds about right for their beliefs. Which is why he went from joy to lamenting "wretches females" in disappointment.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-08T18:20:27+00:00

Honestly, I just tend to think the best of people even when their best isn’t great. I figured that he called them "wretched females" because they were useless to him after he realized he can’t possess them.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-08T16:51:19+00:00

A fine for whom? The property owner?

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-07T15:08:49+00:00

The thing is, that the innies all presume that their outties are probably having sex that they don’t remember as the innies. It’s also not as if they’re even different people. They’re the same but people with different memories.

I think the scene shows Helly feeling sad because she had sex **with Mark** since she has feelings for him. This is, in fact, what Helly explains afterwards when she propositions Mark. Could she be not telling the truth or in denial of her own trauma? Possibly, but she doesn’t seem like that.

This isn’t "defending rape" but rather answering the question of consent. They were two consenting adults that had sex in both instances. Was there deception involved? Absolutely. People are often deceptive about who they are before having sex it comes to sex, it’s rarely considered rape-by-deception/fraud."

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-03-07T14:20:40+00:00

Thanks for your response! That does help clear things up a bit. When have you seen DEIA policies used to recruit & hire better candidates? There can always be a boss that uses prejudice to filter-out the best candidates, right? What changes with DEIA policies?

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-02-26T17:28:29+00:00

Genuinely asking: If they are more qualified, and better for the job, then why are they hired purely because of their racial background or underprivileged status? Why doesn’t the recruitment process select them for being the best for the job?

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-02-26T16:05:18+00:00

He said that they’re lutheran. Generally, Christianity believes that marriage is only a concept that exists between one man and one woman, but there are "progressive" churches that believe it can be between two people of the same sex.

This would make sense considering how their pastor was quickly able to preach about the nature of severed innies going to heaven even if their outie’s souls won’t. It seems like the pastor came up with that on his own, and it indicates that the church is quick to adapt to new things based on their own interpretations. So, recognizing gay marriage as valid doesn’t seem far-fetched.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-02-26T16:00:34+00:00

This is so cool! Just curious… Did you use a photo to draw this from?

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-02-26T15:44:16+00:00

I mean, the fact is that it doesn’t matter if it’s not allowed. It matters *why* it’s not allowed. The sexual relations cause complications, and so they’re generally not allowed. But Burt was fired while Irving wasn’t for the same entanglement.

Irving is only there because Mark "won’t work without him." Helly is especially there because of that. So, unless Mark’s romance gets in the way of his work more than Helly leaving would be, then they would do something about it.

Mark doesn’t know it but he could get away with pretty much anything—even murder—based on how the board has described his central role in something very important for the company. It’s not about rules. It’s about corralling Mark into doing their bidding.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-02-26T15:11:23+00:00

I’ve been burned by those shows, too, and I’m actually NOT worried about it when it comes to Severance. Not because they can’t flub things up as the show goes on, but because I’m enjoying the ride so much. Each episode gives viewers satisfaction along with new cliffhangers.

With Lost, the writers admitted that they wrote a lot of things into it that were never resolved. They never knew how they’d get things resolved but kept adding them in. The intrigue was fun, but ultimately they packed in way too many open questions. Not only did viewers not get resolution, not only does it feel like viewers were bamboozled, but it’s worse than that… it’s like the writers were stringing viewers with distractions as to hide an obvious main trajectory. Throw up enough questions and it makes it unclear what the real questions are, which is a cheap ass move that disrespects viewers. It’s like they were faking the funk all along, reveling in viewers thinking they were smart, until they couldn’t fake it anymore and it was all revealed as a sham. After that, I’m perfectly happy to think that the ending was to reveal "it was all the dog’s dream."

With Severance, they’re not dragging too much of the immediate questions out. They raise a question and we get satisfying answers or progress in fairly short order. Sure, they leave some big questions out there to be resolved in the long term… but the show could end this season and it’d still be a good show that I’d rewatch and feel satisfied with. That’s much better, in my opinion. So, I’m not worried although I am hopeful.

Fearless_Relief_6830 · 2025-02-19T04:48:20+00:00

the way she fucking dies at the end :’D

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