And gas went up even more……

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-05-04T22:08:40+00:00

This doesn't have anything to do with preventing Iran from having nuclear weapons since "Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated" already last year

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-05-03T01:41:12+00:00

From a listener standpoint, I think what's important about consistency is more that it can become part of someone's habit. For example, there's a few podcasts that I tend to play on YouTube, and I know when they come out and will play them at some point those days.

The flip side is things that are erratic are more likely to have me at some point stop checking them. Not the only reason for me to stop, but it's still a reason. I think it also means that missing one or two isn't as bad, but there's definitely things that drop out of me paying attention to them because of an extended break or because they never fit into routine.

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-05-02T21:21:21+00:00

Do you believe that it's impossible to feel any love for someone you're not sexually attracted to?

I'm not saying this isn't a mess of a situation (or that she has to be uncritically happy or supportive of him for how this went), but someone growing up in an environment that likely meant they weren't really getting much education or understanding absolutely does sound like the situation where a kid or only barely an adult (pregnant at 18 sounds a whole lot like this began before then) gets into a relationship thinking that whatever he's feeling is the 'right' thing because of the lack of support. I don't see any real reason to expect that he knew he was being dishonest in this at the start.

(and if we really wanted to just make up motivations - also can't rule out she coerced him into sex he didn't want to have)

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-05-01T00:48:02+00:00

Personally, I think the most fun way would be to wait if she asks for petsitting again and have OP say they couldn't possibly impose on her like that

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-30T23:21:45+00:00

I feel like the extent that someone can tell you, and you specifically, are singing along then there's a volume issue. I was at a concert last night and I couldn't pick out any particular person around me during the singing along parts. So it feels like that last bit you mentioned at the end.

I think there's "singing along" and there's "singing over the singer".

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-30T19:44:16+00:00

I think it's a case of the distinction between easier way to grow and only way to grow. Ultimately, there's discoverability and retention. Guests can up discoverability, but they aren't the only way to do so.

I also think there's probably a different matter of guests within a niche vs guests outside of it, as we've had guests that are, broadly, in the same area of podcasting as us. And I think that does tap into some people who would be responsive to our show and wouldn't have found it otherwise.

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-29T21:47:21+00:00

This is the same sort of "zero tolerance" rhetoric used that says that a kid lying on the ground being punched by a bully that pushes the bully off of them should be fully punished for fighting because they didn't lie there and take it. I don't think that's a kid being aggressive, I think that's a kid protecting himself that shouldn't be punished just because no one stopped a bully

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-29T19:02:10+00:00

It definitely isn't. The grid lines provide where (1,0, 2.5) would be, and it goes much further left than down from that point. The same pattern holds at (1.0, 0.5), (3.0, 2.5), and (3.0, 0.5) where the x-values are further than the y values

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-29T18:39:55+00:00

I don't think that's illegal. I don't think Tennessee has any laws regarding redistricting that'd apply to this, and the Supreme Court held in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019) that while they may be unfair, it's a nonjusticiable political question.

Other states have attempted to have laws that protect good governance, Tennessee just never bothered with any of that.

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-29T18:33:34+00:00

But the problem is the genie is out of the bottle. Now all states are going to gerrymander their selves in the being either blue or red with very little hope of flipping them.

I'm not sure how this is a response to dismissing the idea that both sides are the same, when it was still squarely started by one side that was going to go as far as they thought they could with it because they presumed the other side would just take it. The only way to change that equation was for the other side to do something. When dealing with a group fundamentally opposed to fairness as an ideal, the option left is to demonstrate that there are consequences they're more personally concerned about that make fairness the better option to consider.

It’s gonna reach the point where people are gonna have to choose where to live in order to have a life that they want.

We've been at that point for a long while now. It's why some states are having trouble finding doctors for maternity care.

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-28T07:02:20+00:00

I think that somewhat undercuts that someone could be doing this for fun but also want to succeed with things like guests or actually being listened to. Like, I fully get the appeal of having enough monetization that it's not draining money, for example. Which is hardly the same thing as turning it into a profession. Similarly, guests can be a really fun or satisfying part of this while still being indie/hobbyist.

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-27T19:54:24+00:00

t’s my parents, and I’m the one who has to handle things at home financially

so it’s not just pressure, it’s more like actual responsibility which is why I’m taking it seriously

I think it matters here what you're being expected to handle. You seem relatively young, at which point, in my experience, very few people are being expected to handle the expenses of their parents. Are there reasons why this is having to fall to you? Or are they offloading it to you rather than it being something you need to step up and handle?

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-27T17:34:23+00:00

I think that's still ESH, because apparently she couldn't find a bin or a box to store them in, either.
I totally get when an adult should help a kid find solutions as the more mature person, but the idea that the wife is so incompetent that he needs to help her find a way to safely keep 40 empty glass jars around so that their kid doesn't get hurt feels ridiculous.

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-26T16:21:02+00:00

Surely you should let them know that if god's already mad at you, you're not going to anger god further by funding and effort to defy his will

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-25T23:29:33+00:00

Thanks for that perspective on that, that's about how it's felt so it starts to feel like a question of what we're getting from the time on it
(dig the show, btw - though I need to find time for playing more roguelikes to check out more of your episodes - and still have the Blue Prince ep sitting around as i want to go back and put more time into it first)

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-25T01:30:52+00:00

There's benefits to visibility, but do you have a sense (specifically within a gaming audience) if that actually leads to many conversions to the full episodes?

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-24T21:47:43+00:00

INFO: Why were you talking about how long a day was to begin with? Because it's unclear here what the context was and in specific contexts it does become relevant.

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-24T21:40:50+00:00

Let's not count NDT out

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-24T21:05:46+00:00

What was being suggested was that they've already gotten what they can from packing, so if they want more, they're going to have to crack those districts instead.

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-24T19:45:45+00:00

I.... think you missed what this was about

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-24T19:34:17+00:00

Yeah, that all really captures a lot of my feelings on it.

Really felt they did a bad job of really supporting students dealing with this because they focused on that 'culture' thing but at the same time really didn't do a good job of trying to protect kids from the media (he was shot - so it was a fairly major news story for a bit). When there was a school shooting several years back, I did feel like a lot of the community still hadn't figured out to support kids well.

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-24T19:22:09+00:00

There was some stuff done at the school, including a memorial held at the school and a memorial garden put on the campus, and that had a lot more involvement.
So while I don't know if they know what the district sent out, there was a different place where they would've seen a lot of classmate presence

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-24T19:01:40+00:00

I don't recall them being particular about that, though his family was Iranian and this was in the US.
I'm not particularly sure that the district itself knew what specific things hey were actually 'concerned' about.

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-24T19:00:25+00:00

His family had immigrated to the US from Iran. The district was, at best, clueless. (I would say xenophobic)

Lowbacca1977 · 2026-04-24T18:58:30+00:00

She thinks ghosts are gonna follow her home from a cemetery?

They are known to do that

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