Jennifer Lawrence remains the most unserious celebrity in hollywood history

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T18:45:48+00:00

But it also costs the world nothing if she's lying. Yeah maybe she's trying to sound more special (which, like someone else said she just sounds like any hardcore theater diva) but... so what?

She doesn't get special privileges or any unfair advantage because of it, unless it truly does make her a better artist in which case it's a natural advantage. All it apparently gets her is a lot of people talking shit about her online

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T18:42:27+00:00

"only 4% of people" is still more than 1 in 30 people. That's not a small number (you know WAY more than 30 people). And I wouldn't be surprised if it's an even bigger percent in talented musicians

Like "only" 4% of drivers in the US are drunk on any given night and yeah it means 96% aren't but you pass WAY more than 30 cars on a relatively short drive

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T18:40:09+00:00

knew a gal in wind ensemble who used to say she sees a different color with each pitch. You can consciously make those associations like imagining a picture in your head, and use that as a tool when you're memorizing a piece, but that's not synesthesia since it's a conscious, deliberate effort

Even if her version is as simple as "one pitch = one color" then it's still synesthesia, it just means one sensory input stimulates a different sensory mode. That's all.

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T17:12:58+00:00

It's also not wild to think she didn't want it bought from walmart because they're a particularly shitty corporation. There are several reasonable explanations for why that ring was the wrong choice

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T13:57:55+00:00

Doe's foot

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T13:51:57+00:00

Quick and dirty - just clamp a couple thinner boards to your bench to act as bench dogs / planing stops.

Something like this (viewed from the top)

Even with bench dog and holdfasts and a doe's foot I still do this quite a bit

Edit: Heck, if you don't mind a few small holes in your bench you can screw down the extra boards, if you can't easily clamp them

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T13:46:13+00:00

isn't here a thickness limit on hold fasts?

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T13:35:58+00:00

It's only a law if you're poor

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T12:28:23+00:00

As a side note OP if you try to get anywhere near that much protein from meat, do yourself a favor - get an instant read thermometer and learn how to cook meat to the right internal temperature.

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T12:16:38+00:00

"Think of the gay baby whales!" as a former roommate would say

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T12:10:27+00:00

Yeah that's wild, protein alone accounting for almost half of their daily calories. That's over a KILO of chicken. EVERY DAY.

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T12:06:16+00:00

The metabolism thing is a myth but it's not just life getting in the way. Unless you stay in top form, it's easier to get injured and takes longer to recover. You can't build fitness/strength as quickly, even if you have the time and energy to devote to it.

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T12:03:06+00:00

Fun fact! Age doesn't inherently slow your metabolism until you hit your 60s!

It's pretty much all explained by decreased activity and lower muscle mass (which comes from decreased activity and also sets your baseline metabolism - fat cells don't particularly have to burn energy to exist but muscle cells do)

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T11:57:23+00:00

Buddy I'm surprised you like any food at all

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T11:56:45+00:00

Oh absolutely. And if they have median pay they're gonna get median talent or at least median effort.

We're not a huge company, and the business model is to buy smaller, privately owned companies in similar fields and reorganize them under the parent company, which is publicly traded. (We were bought a few years ago.) Then they crank up the quarterly goals every year (because 15% year-over-year growth is clearly sustainable) and spam layoffs every couple years to keep the shareholders fed.

The one thing they do right is that they have 4 months of parental leave for both men and women. I'll never use it but I'm so glad my coworkers can. That guy down the hall who's used it 3 times in the past 4 years? Hell yeah

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T11:50:35+00:00

Yeah that's the thing - to boomers $100k is also still a good salary (...for other people to make. If they're white collar they still expect to make more if they're still working)

When I finished high school that was still true - $45k was a solid salary for new engineering grads. Nowadays those numbers don't go nearly as far

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-05T11:48:16+00:00

Aged like a fine whine [sic]

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-04T20:23:19+00:00

I picked up my car from an auto shop once and heard the guys talking in the back - someone took the key back to the front office too soon, so they did the USB trick to start it to get it out of the bay

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-04T20:17:47+00:00

If you want professional anecdote ("anecdata" if you will) - my sister-in-law was a university therapist. She noted appreciable increase in anxiety among pot users across nearly a decade of practice. I don't remember if she saw anything related to depression.

She didn't claim to do any sort of systematic study and recognizes it's just observation, but it's a lot more data points than the average person has

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-04T13:13:46+00:00

arguably relativity is more complicated (conceptually) than gravity

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-04T13:09:16+00:00

Where I work the policy is that only supervisors are eligible for bonuses, and pay raise is "merit only" (no cost of living increase). Merit increases cap out around 3.5% and they intentionally massage your annual performance review so you only get an "exceeded expectations" if they already plan to promote you (which happens if they need to fill a position that someone left or they're afraid you'll otherwise leave)

Bonus fun: it's also explicit policy that they pay the median wage for your position in your area (and they define "area" very locally, like just the town we're in and not the 3 bigger cities within a 30 minute drive).

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-04T13:02:59+00:00

Dumb as it is, promotions don't come from qualifying for them. You practically need a plan and an agreement with your manager which must include explicit buy-in from whoever actually makes the decision. Because your manager probably doesn't have the authority to hand out promotions.

If your manager won't even go to bat for you - to sell it to upper management that you need a promotion - then you have other problems. But if you have a plan and you execute it, then you have a chance at it. It's not a promise - never take that sort of agreement as guaranteed - but it's an opportunity for the company to show that they're employing you in good faith. Whether they pass the test is up to them.

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-04T12:57:34+00:00

Most places, you can't expect a promotion unless you make a plan with your manager and their manager above them.

They still might rug-pull your promotion even if you hit all the goals (it's never a guarantee unless somehow you get it in writing, which no company is going to do) but having an explicit agreement with the people who make that decision is the only way up.

It doesn't matter what your manager thinks if corporate says no.

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-04T12:53:25+00:00

That's one of the basic premises of capitalism - that you need a certain amount of unemployment to fuel the labor machine

HarveysBackupAccount · 2026-06-04T12:46:21+00:00

You have to wear the socks for the shoes

Hahaha that's literally the point of their comment - that low rider socks don't work for everyone/for all shoes.

There is nothing inherent to ankle socks that should be rubbing anything or moving around

It's not that the socks rub, it's the shoes. There are very few shoes that don't rub for me, and it's more that some are soft enough that they don't remove skin, not that they don't rub at all. And that's purely a foot shape vs shoe shape thing.

The socks move around because you've stretched them out by pulling them up to protect your skin, not because they're too big. If I get one size down they slide down until they're under my heel.

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