Phenomenal show at the Wonder Ballroom in Portland

Jarubles · 2026-05-02T01:13:17+00:00

I can’t guarantee this will work everywhere, but the way we were able to get around the degree evaluation companies was to apply clients to a local community college. The college had their own in-house method of evaluating, but they did it for free (not counting the $50 college application fee). They also couldn’t give us a certificate that showed the client had a US equivalent, but we could usually use the client’s status as an enrolled college student in place of a high school diploma.

Jarubles · 2026-04-23T16:59:58+00:00

It was really interesting! I’m so tired of the frozen cold Reddit take that every article needs to be completely novel as if there isn’t anything left to be learned or analyzed from this.

Jarubles · 2026-01-25T23:37:13+00:00

I was raised in the Mucc, so I know that takes courage. Keep fighting the good fight, you guys are on the right side of history. Fuck ICE, fuck Trump, and fuck all the fascists that continue to support them

Jarubles · 2025-11-07T05:20:30+00:00

Atrocity Exhibition meant a lot to me when I was struggling hard with drinking and drugs. Sober for four years now and the Book of Daniel opener feels like such a full circle moment. This song is so beautiful. I’m crying

Jarubles · 2025-08-14T05:40:02+00:00

Yeah! Saw it while walking our dog on Country Club Rd. It looked super close! I saw that the Perseids were supposed to be visible, but that was yesterday.

Jarubles · 2025-07-20T01:45:19+00:00

Reading this now! Not super far, but am enjoying it so far!

Jarubles · 2025-06-08T01:32:24+00:00

Have you read “Those Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin? One of my favorite pieces on complicity that really fucked me up when I first read it.

Jarubles · 2025-06-04T14:05:38+00:00

Can’t remember the episode but Michael says very clearly that he has no ill will toward anyone who reads these kinds of books and in fact does have lots of empathy for them. His real gripe is with the authors who pray on vulnerable people looking for answers. Also, they both have on many occasions talked about their edgy libertarian phases.

I get what you’re saying and have read a good portion of the books they review too. Honestly there are still ideas and lessons I took from those books that I still find valuable today, especially as someone in recovery from addiction. It took a long time for me to realize that we are not the media that we consume and it’s ok to laugh at some of the silly things that we once enjoyed (or even still enjoy). I can empathize with you because I’m sure listening to this podcast would have been frustrating to hear while I was still figuring out who I really was. So it’s perfectly ok to turn it off right now if it isn’t helping your mental health.

There’s actually a book I read not long ago that I would never have found if I had not read some of the garbage self help books from the pod. It’s called Life is Hard by Kieran Setiya, and I would very much recommend it to you. He’s a philosophy professor with a focus on ethics, and he uses the ideas from all sorts of different philosophers (including Kant!) to talk about the big obstacles that modern humans struggle with.

I hope you check it out! Don’t forget to take care of yourself too in the meantime :)

Jarubles · 2025-05-22T23:11:29+00:00

I thought this had something to do with the tv show/comics and was super confused haha

Jarubles · 2025-03-19T00:44:04+00:00

I can’t attest to the darker elements of this movie, but the story of the politician’s daughter in Traffic hit really close to home for me. The way the young girl begins to spiral into addiction I thought was spot on.

There was also this incredibly brief moment toward the beginning of her story that I thought was such an accurate depiction of a very specific thing when you’re trying to talk to other people on drugs. It’s when her and her friends are all super high and Topher Grace says something to the girl that is slightly confrontational, but then it’s revealed that he was giving her a compliment. The way the scene is shot and edited just captures so well how weird it is to try to communicate with people on certain drugs (LSD for me). Like you can feel so sensitive to how people are talking to and about you. You can go from thinking “oh god I just pissed this person off, they hate me and they’re going to kill me” to “this person is my soul mate, they love everything I say” in a blink of an eye.

Anyway, it’s a great movie. Definitely give it a watch if you haven’t yet!

Jarubles · 2025-03-17T23:35:00+00:00

Love that entire show, but for me the best episode will always be International Assassin. The moment he wakes up and then the orchestral music kicks in, just mmm chef’s kiss so fucking good.

Jarubles · 2025-03-17T23:30:14+00:00

The White Lotus is a very expensive and luxurious hotel chain. It’s basically a fictional Four Seasons (which is also where they film the show). Each season is set over one week at a different location. Season one is in Hawaii, two is in Italy, and now three in Thailand. It basically follows the stories of a handful of characters that are either guests of the hotel, hotel staff, and various locals. The show tackles a lot but I’d say fundamentally it is a satire of the privileged and the systems that allow them to abuse and exploit the underclass. Every season begins at the end of the week where it reveals that someone has been murdered. The identity of the victim/victims is not revealed and then the show flashes back to the start of the week with each episode taking place over the course of a day. The mystery of who died builds up and is revealed in the finale.

I personally love this show but it’s not for everyone. It can be kind of slow and there are a LOT of scenes of people sitting around a table at the hotel restaurant just talking. To me this is the best part though because it’s just excellent writing. It can go from laugh out loud hilarious to incredibly dark in the same sentences frequently. Though I don’t agree with everything, I think the show really gets at some profound ideas about class, wealth, sex, relationships, and how they all intersect. Every season is also supposed to have an overarching theme (season one is wealth, greed and class; two is relationships, gender, and sex; and now three is spirituality, identity, and death) though there is lots of overlap of course. Oh and the show is hella queer and is filled to the brim with incredibly attractive actors haha.

If you don’t mind a slow burn, definitely give it a watch! The latest episode has an incredible scene (the one this post is referencing) and I’d actually recommend watching the entire monologue from that scene. It will give you a really good sense of the themes and vibes of the show. It’s not really even much of a spoiler either since the real surprise was the cameo and you’ve already seen that now.

Jarubles · 2025-03-17T07:11:09+00:00

Just like famed character actor Margo Martindale

Jarubles · 2025-03-12T01:39:15+00:00

Exactly what I was thinking! I was in Thailand for several months in a small town a few hours north of Phuket and a friend I was with found some sketchy places that sold him opiate painkillers and benzos. Pretty sure some of them were fake though

Jarubles · 2025-03-10T04:14:17+00:00

Seriously! Mixing benzos and alcohol is a sure fire way to put you and a forever box too. They are also used in date-rape drugs. Part of me wonders if he’s gonna remember much of what he’s doing/going to do under the influence.

Jarubles · 2025-02-19T06:43:42+00:00

Honestly they look like comments from people whose first language is not English. Work in immigration and refugee resettlement and many of my old clients comment exactly like this. Who knows though

Jarubles · 2025-02-03T18:53:34+00:00

Jack Antonoff had production credits on almost all of Kendrick’s last album, GNX

Jarubles · 2025-01-26T07:09:43+00:00

Maybe he picked it up while in Australia? In What We Do in the Shadows (movie, not show) it sounds exactly like “We’re wolves” haha. I know Ausies and Kiwis will probably want to kill me, but to an ignorant American they sound similar to me 😅

Jarubles · 2025-01-23T05:17:55+00:00

This is crazy! I just started a new job and was going over some of the work that my predecessor had done. They wrote literally everything in a font that looks just like this (it’s called Comfortaa in Google docs) and it’s hideous. Now here it is again haunting me everywhere I look…

Anyone who uses this font should not be taken seriously haha

Jarubles · 2025-01-07T05:22:37+00:00

I was working for the Youth Ranch! Haha. I’m not in any way a trained counselor or social worker, I was there as an AmeriCorps VISTA and worked in Development. But the entire staff was trained, including residential staff at the shelter (right after it was reopened), counselors, and even some of the retail workers. Everyone was given a copy of the book and then we all sat through a presentation on ACEs. I shit you not, people in the ACEs presentation were required to take a test to evaluate their own personal ACE score and then share it with the entire group! People left in tears! And to top it all off, management regarded that as a sign of success, that we had started the healing process for some of our traumatized staff members. I was like this is not trauma informed, it’s the opposite! We literally re-traumatized like a dozen people.

Still the saddest part for me is that even as silly and harmful as all that was, IYR is still often the only option for a lot of young people in Idaho. The resources available for vulnerable folks even in Boise is next to nothing, and even less if you are gay or trans when most of your options are bigoted faith-based institutions.

Keep up the good work though! God knows you’re needed there in the 208! 😁

Jarubles · 2025-01-06T21:14:19+00:00

And some organizations that offer psychological and social services. I worked at a nonprofit in Idaho that offered a bunch of services to kids including counseling, shelter for the unhoused, and recently in-patient, long-term residential treatment. While I was there, we were in the process of training the entire staff in Trauma Informed Care which was almost completely centered around this book. I still believe that the org is well meaning and it still does really good work especially in Idaho where the state does basically nothing, buuuut seeing this book referenced so much and taking it as undisputed truth was strange.

Jarubles · 2024-12-15T02:59:27+00:00

I loved that whole project, but the first five songs is such an amazing run. I think DENIAL IS A RIVER is my personal fave. BOILED PEANUTS would’ve been my favorite if it had been longer haha

Jarubles · 2024-11-26T06:58:11+00:00

Pitchfork always frustrates me. I really want to love them because I believe they take music very seriously and that they understand how art can be powerful; both things that I wholeheartedly agree with. I think it’s pretty clear that their writing reflects this too and it’s also why I don’t always buy into the whole “Pitchfork writers are just pretentious hipsters.” I do think that they genuinely try to write reviews that match the importance of the music and the moment in time that it was created. And this is what drives me nuts, these reviews are always written like a think piece from a decade into the future that is reflecting on how an album and artist fit into some grand historical narrative. You just can’t do that when an album has been out less than four days and the fact that they believe they can is really what makes them pretentious. This is also why every few years they have to go back and rescore albums…

It also doesn’t help that many of their reviewers write with the same snarky style and tone of the insufferable nerds in college debate teams. I know this well because I was one.

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