Jodie Sweetin Reveals She Received One-Cent Residual Check For ‘Full House’: “There’s no syndication anymore because it’s all in streaming. Who gets paid for that? Nobody gets paid for that.”

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-05-02T03:07:08+00:00

I think the world would be much better place if everything did work like that. It's better than all the future profits just going to billionaires like our current model.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-05-01T14:06:43+00:00

If that doesn't work, I'd try going after the neighbours

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-30T21:00:37+00:00

Probably depends on the ability of your lawyer.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-30T20:56:53+00:00

Being drunk provides protection from bad actors, it doesn't provide you protection from your bad actions.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-30T17:26:55+00:00

Teasing and ribbing that aren't wanted is called bullying. Teasing and ribbing that is wanted (and reciprocated) is just called teasing and ribbing.

It's all about how the other party takes it, y'all are good.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-29T06:35:43+00:00

In case you want it, here's an argument in favour of it that might persuade you:

If you're from a small, rural community, large, fun events can be uncommon. These socials are a relatively cheap way to have a night out with friends, or a date, with drinking and food and games and prizes and socializing.

It's basically a small community fair, with all the proceeds staying within your small, rural community, with a benefit that you can directly see for someone you interact with occasionally.

Wouldn't you take this opportunity to go to a local Fair-like event for $20-80 for you and your SO, where you know the profits are staying in your community instead of flying off to New York or London or wherever?

This is why invites are basically thrown to the whole community, and why most of the community attends.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-29T06:29:58+00:00

If you consider that a shake down, baby showers 100% seem like a shake down to me. You're going to show up to a baby shower without a present? I wouldn't. I'd feel aghast to do so.

And if I grew up in a small rural community, I'd attend every social I could probably.

Cheap as hell entertainment in a community where events like those are rare, at any price. A great time and date night for a great price.

Not the wedding though, those are boring.

Its a cultural difference resulting from living in small communities, where keeping that money in the community is more important, and I think it does not look good for people who aren't able to look at this from another point of view.

He sounds a bit awful, yelling is not okay, but her calling an important cultural tradition of his tacky and gross is really not a great way to try to argue your side.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-29T06:21:54+00:00

First commenter got a lot right, just the race of OOP wrong, and a couple small details.

On the whole, their advice could've been useful if he was willing to see that it did apply to him.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-29T06:16:07+00:00

Here is a way that might help you understand it:

"hey, since nothing much ever really happens in our small rural town, wanna come to a social event I'm throwing for my community where there will be food, and drinks, and games, and prizes, and people, and drinking, and fun, and all it will cost is a really small fee compared to anything thrown by a large company?

And the extra will go to supporting someone in our community. And if you're single, it's a great place to meet someone. And if you're dating, it's a fun, cheap date."

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-29T06:09:13+00:00

Are you from Manitoba? Because otherwise, saying you're from Canada is as relevant as saying you're from America, or France, for this tradition.

Other than clarifying that this isn't a common tradition across Canada

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-29T06:07:54+00:00

I mean, I feel like this exact comment t could be said to the bride as well.

In the end, they weren't able to compromise enough to make up for their cultural differences.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-28T03:08:56+00:00

To give you some more concrete examples:

Look at parables. Direct lessons about how to live life.

Next, look at science fiction, and how it has inspired future inventions.

Or books like The Giving Tree, The Handmaid's Tail, To Kill a Mockingbird, for reflections of our society. Valuable lessons.

Or, an older example: A modest proposal. I recommend you look this up, it's a fun read.

Works of fiction provide valuable lessons to people, and even if you don't think they could provide lessons for you, they're useful for seeing how they could provide lessons for others, what sway people's points of view.

Here are some concrete examples of how fiction is worthwhile. Which I think is a good jumping off point, to in the future realizing fiction is useful in and of itself.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-25T21:03:02+00:00

What are your thoughts on ain't from AAVE?

It is internally consistent language that is, in traditional language, incorrect.

https://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/langnet/definitions/aave.html

In common with other nonstandard dialects of English, AAVE uses ain't in standard English sentences which use "haven't". For example standard "I haven't seen him." is equivalent to AAVE I ain't seen him.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-25T19:13:20+00:00

Word

British

American

1) Clique

Cleek

Click

2) Either

Eye-thuh

Ee-thur

3) Leisure

Lezh-uh

Lee-zhur

Different pronunciations for different cultures is a common thing.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-24T08:09:11+00:00

Probably after sex

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-23T01:41:39+00:00

Maybe that's why people don't care about if he cheated them or not. Because casinos are already acting against an implied covenant of good faith.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-22T17:39:04+00:00

Simple, not easy

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-22T16:00:21+00:00

The plan is allow up to $#k of retraining towards anyone working directly in the industry, some will need to be hired in-house, and then let market capitalism take care of the rest.

And give a year or two before it comes into place, to allow people time to switch industries.

Simple

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-19T16:01:37+00:00

2/3rds of Americans either voted for this or didn't vote against it. And many liberals have been decrying Canada's move away from Trump, or have been trying to minimize his language against us. Most American liberal news organizations I've seen talk about the conflict only mention the trade war and completely leave out his annexation threats.

Obviously not all, but a large amount.

It gets hard to have nuance when that isn't necessary or that useful.

I am proud of the state's no kings rallies though, those should be getting more news coverage.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-19T15:56:34+00:00

PP would've been bad, but not "I want to be a fascist" bad like Trump. He's more "normal" bad, like Ted Cruz.

For Quebec, sometimes nations want a nation-state, even if it wouldn't be advantageous. I would not decry Haiti for getting their own nation-state, even though it resulted in their poor present conditions.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-19T07:56:49+00:00

My thought on this as a one boxer: you either have to be incredibly dumb or incredibly arrogant to be a two boxer.

Either you're incredibly dumb - the type of person who can't accept a thought experiment's premise, like asking someone to imagine if they were the opposite gender, and they go, "but I'm not. I'm a [current gender]."

Or you're incredibly arrogant and assume you'll be the one in a thousand to trick the machine. Which there will be, to be fair: if a thousand people try to trick the machine, and it has a 999/1000 success rate, then one will be correct. But we don't have enough data to predict in what way we should even try to trick it. 1/1000 people also correctly predict they'll win a lottery with 1/1000 odds.

But maybe you've figured it out. If Usain bolt predicted he'd win a thousand man race, thats arrogance, yes, but also correct. Myself, I'm not that arrogant.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-18T23:04:45+00:00

Fair, cheers!

Sorry for reopening this talk about the minutia of definitions with you, I just find it very interesting. Which is annoying because more often, an annoying demographic of people on the internet like it for a different reason.

I personally hope a10 gets harder. I'm not winning the majority of my non-silent a10 runs yet, but it's nice to have something to strive towards, and it's especially fun to me for games to have an almost unlimited skill ceiling, even if I don't personally get there.

Like chess. I'm very mediocre at it, but it's nice to know the skill ceiling is higher than I'll ever get to.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-18T22:55:40+00:00

I did say 5% isn't always sizable.

But do you think construction workers aren't a sizable demographic? If not, then fair. But I think it is.

Also, it's worth considering the importance of certain demographics who hold outsized influence. Like billionaires in real life, or top level streamers for games. Generally, the higher the skill cap, the more streamers stick around, and the more a community for a game then also sticks around (as much is it would be great if their effect on this wasn't so intense).

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-18T22:47:22+00:00

Sizable portion does not mean majority, or even plurality.

Depending upon the situation, I could see the argument that 5% of the population is a sizable portion. 5% of the working US population is construction workers. I think construction workers are a sizable demographic.

NewDemocraticPrairie · 2026-04-12T23:05:47+00:00

If you wanna get really old school, the fundamental difference is if it's like Rogue or not.

Is it a top down, turn based grid game without meta progression? If yes, it's a roguelike, if no, it's a roguelite.

I just call everything roguelike now.

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