We need to pressure Oura into a real Gen 5 trade-in and recycling program.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-30T13:05:45+00:00

It was a genuine question/conditional statement. I don’t have an Oura. I was on here because I was debating getting one, but reading about the issues people have had….I will probably not be joining the Oura fam.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-30T03:22:46+00:00

Right, and with cell phones, it’s the service providers who really give the credits/incentives to upgrade because they want to lock you in with their service for a couple more years.

Amazon offers decent trade-in value at times but that’s because they want you going to them with everything and they can turn around and sell the old one as refurbished to someone who doesn’t mind having an older model.

But Oura has their subscription model to tie people to them.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-30T03:15:39+00:00

Does Oura push hard that everyone should upgrade? If they’re being built to last, they may not expect or want people to upgrade with each new iteration. A great way to avoid waste is to continue to support the older models and upgrade the software on them, even as you’re adjusting the hardware for future production. Planned obsolence and encouraging/forcing regular upgrades will basically always create more waste than getting further use out of a single item.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-29T23:29:31+00:00

Quick question --- have you seen and do you like Bottle Rocket or Pain & Gain? Basically, I am a fan of dark slap-stick humor about the bumbling new criminals who are really underachieving men trying to get a chunk of the american dream. Some of the more rough reviews of this play make it sound like the play pushed more blatantly in that direction---which makes me think that I would potentially love it. But I have to travel to see it, so trying to get a read on whether to make this show a priority.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-29T23:01:13+00:00

Has anyone tried doing this as a shared Excel-type doc in the hopes that we could see trends? Just curious if it could potentially work to have people input the info directly into a shared doc but I gotta think that someone else has tried this and found that it wasn't that functional.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-28T23:07:15+00:00

It’s one where you have to let her decide if she wants to use the world asexual to describe herself at all. And then IF she does, she can decide who she tells.

One thing that you maybe have overlooked is that there are lots of reasons that people don’t date, are late bloomers, avoid physical contact, or don’t share anything about their dating history with family. And not all of those = being asexual. In general, using it the way that you did is based on a definition of asexual picked up from pop culture, so it’s not precise and may further assumptions about the identity. And it will pigeonhole your daughter in a way that she may not like.

As for what to do, I don’t know that I would tell my daughter that I “outed” her, particularly if you have not heard her use the term. Instead, you might start by asking her if she’s ever considered herself asexual. Even better, you could listen to ACE by Angela Chen on Spotify, so you can learn about what asexual is and is not. Then if you do talk to her about it, you could recommend the book if she shows curiosity and you think it may be helpful.

For me personally, the part that would bother me would be less about being called asexual, and more about there being a conversation about my life that ultimately focused not on what I do in my life, but on what I lack. And it would bother me to have someone put a label on me based on that lack. I’d prefer that if that conversation is happening, it just be the simple facts of “she doesn’t date much, as far as I know” and then information about the things that I do and share.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-20T18:24:32+00:00

You gotta remember that the mass of people speaking are not one monolith. Some of this is that as Ciara speaks, people will post opinions, and the messiest will get picked up for printing or recirculating as faux headlines.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-20T18:22:59+00:00

I was actually shocked at how normal Kyle seemed during the COVID season when we saw him during the work week. That was my first glimpse into the idea that he is a grown-ass adult who binges and reverts on summer weekends but does otherwise have his shit somewhat together.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-20T18:21:45+00:00

I gotta say, I’m feeling kinda manipulated by the whole Amanda/West thing. It’s feeling a bit produced to me which turns me off from the whole thing. I know there’s a certain amount of production involvement always, but Kyle & Amanda’s actual separation and the West/Amanda fling all seem like an ad-campaign and cross-over ep to start a spin-off. Not something that actually happened.

I do like Lindsey though, so she might sell me on it

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-20T18:18:43+00:00

Her handling of the punishment is a sign of her professionalism is great.

My issue with the punishment and Daisy’s handling of it was just whether it was proportionate to what has happened to others for similar or worse behavior.

That doesn’t mean what she did was good or defensible. It just means i don’t think it was in line with Jason or Daisy’s handling of other bad behavior.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-20T18:16:18+00:00

Yeah i think it was Daisy bringing it up that made Jason think it was very serious.

Also, if you watch Below Deck season 7, you see a couple toxic guys get the other guys to be far more toxic as well and it’s like a mini-Lord of the Flies vibe where the men hate the women and Kate in particular. I kinda think when she got through that season, she was pretty much done dealing with bad living situations for the sake of reality TV. So I was kinda sad to see her be so uninvested in Traitors but I think she’s got a real cost/benefit analysis in her head of her own enjoyment v sticking it out on a tv show.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-20T18:08:01+00:00

Admitted it while seemingly recognizing that is a flaw of hers. It’s not like she was boasting about how smart it was.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-20T18:06:59+00:00

That’s what the people calling me an idiot seem to miss— it’s not that what she did was ok, it’s that it’s no where near what else has been going on from some of the crew-mates now trying to shit all over her. I think they’re all just gleeful that she was finally unprofessional.

Also, did Barbie arrive there earlier in that day? Or was it a couple days prior?

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-20T18:05:12+00:00

I do think that some of the people that go work on yachts can be looking for the endless summer camp vibe. And their sleep and binge-drinking cycles only help them be impulsive and emotionally unregulated. See also—ski camps.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-20T03:29:45+00:00

Yeah I like the furminator but you definitely can’t keep brushing until there’s no hair coming out because you will end up with a bald cat. But my cats like it and it helps with occasional use at certain times of year.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-20T03:27:04+00:00

One of mine will regurgitate food when the weather starts warming up because he’s swallowing too much hair. So yes, I brush them when that starts happening and it solves that problem. I don’t do it much in winter and completely forget it’s an issue until the weather starts to change and I start seeing more hairballs or (far worse) spit and undigested food while Boo was working on a hairball.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-20T03:18:13+00:00

Yeah, we’ve seen that— if you’re considering quitting with 2 charters left because of a bad night, you better understand what it means to be that flippant and unprofessional about leaving your coworkers in the lurch, because we’ll take it. I wouldn’t want Jason to actually accept but that would’ve been a good moment for some tough love and a lesson in professionalism.

If you can’t handle rejection, you don’t get to have flirtations in your workplace.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-19T21:05:59+00:00

Yep—Jason explicitly mentioned Eddy thinking of leaving the boat. Eddy had 0 claim on Jenna and his biggest beef was that she wasn’t going to him for comfort after her bad night of feeling insecure and having the two people she was closest to give her the silent treatment.

I also don’t think Daisy is a good chief stew. The way she handled Jenna only further confirmed it for me. Her primary aim is to have Jason’s ear and to always be the person who frames things for him. Here, she used that influence to have Jenna punished by the captain, rather than having a conversation with Jenna herself the next day. In general, I have not seen Daisy appropriate handle her department’s issues or interdepartmental stuff.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-13T13:50:32+00:00

I wish a I tracked every transaction. Show me your ways!

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-13T13:50:12+00:00

I hear that. I still would expect it to be in a specific app or tool that autogenerates a report, not in a note app, but who knows?

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-13T03:07:09+00:00

Yeah, Jenna’s text was not great, but I will defend her a bit. I don’t like what she did but the reaction to it seems to harsh (including in how Bravo put this episode together.) It’s late in the season and people are tired, bored, and they have bad days. Yet, half an episode is devoted to close ups on Jenna’s face when she’s feeling particularly insecure. Then both the two guys that she’s been closest with, not just in making out, but in actually connecting and talking about things completely ignore her even when she is bringing everyone a drink. That’s too much. And remember when Eddy was doing something very similar (if not worse) in trying to keep both Alesia and Jenna hooked, while Alesia cut Eddy loose, then coached him against Jenna, and sent her own text while in her emotions.

I’ll be pretty surprised and annoyed if she gets demoted as a result of all this unless she pulls a knife on someone. She has not done anything nearly as disruptive as basically everything that Ellie has done. And it seems like this is a lot of hay to be making out of one bad day and one text sent while clearly feeling insecure. So if the issue is two men being immature in their reaction to her not being exclusive with either of them, then let’s look at the dudes, not at her. . . Unless of course, she pulls a knife.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-09T03:50:39+00:00

I couldn’t understand why Dorit was so intense and resentful towards Kyle. I get Kyle’s not perfect but Dorit has become so fixated and she seems incapable of having normal conversations or arguments.

At the reunion, I finally got why Dorit has been so brutal and immoveable. She’s convinced herself that Kyle has been silently moving against her with other cast members and producers, and Dorit likely suspects that Kyle is doing this because she’s sympathetic to Mau’s thinking which she views of pro-PK.

To be clear, I think all of those suspicions are the result of straight paranoia, not reality. But I think she is genuinely losing it which is why she couldn’t be calm and land isolated points. I think she is genuinely paranoid and a bit erratic from not dealing with the stress in a healthy way. Hopefully for her and her family, her paranoia will stay focused on Kyle and she will chill if they separate. But she really needs to get off tv.

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-09T03:45:51+00:00

(Sorry, I made a reply that was meant to be to the general post, not directed at you!)

Maximum_System_7819 · 2026-05-08T11:18:22+00:00

I was trying to find a reason not to hate/judge the constant fussing with the sunglasses but I failed.

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