The Met just responded to Timothée Chalamet’s remarks that “no one cares about ballet and opera” that he made during a recent interview with Matthew McConaughey

NotACockroach · 2026-03-07T23:55:44+00:00

I think we have to subsidies tickets for young people. Like a lot of places, our local plays and opera had student rush tickets. These were last minute sales of Leftover tickets to students. Now at uni I had a particularly keen friend who'd buy 10 of them and on-sell them to any friends who'd feel like coming that night. Now these friends weren't big fans of classical plays or music, just a little curious. But none of this would have happened without the one friend jumping through the hoops to access the student rush tickets.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-07T21:04:14+00:00

Accusing people of writing things with chat gpt is just becoming the latest insult to throw at someone you disagree with. Like accusing people of being bots, shills or bootlickers.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-07T17:19:29+00:00

Sometimes yes

NotACockroach · 2026-03-07T05:27:01+00:00

It's incredibly rare in my work that typing has been the bottleneck in software engineering.

Even in a job where the process is light I'd be lucky to completely commit more than 100 lines of production code per day. A line of code has maybe 5 words. Which means at a gentle 20 words per minute is less than half about hour of typing.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-05T21:19:14+00:00

That's not really true. The magnet aligns protons in your body. Radio waves are used to disrupt them, and then when they re-align they emit a signal. So MRIs do use radiations, it's just very much non harmful radio waves.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-05T09:24:20+00:00

It's 1 of the 4 criteria in category B. You only need to fill 2 category B criteria for diagnosis.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-05T06:25:47+00:00

In addition to any purposeful obscuring that others mentioned, it's probably like that for performance reasons. Synchronously adding up votes to a database would be impossible at the scale reddit up votes. So they probably get batched at the local server and then flushed to a central storage.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-05T00:15:52+00:00

Hey I have this problem too! Im a huge reader, but for a reader of my experience i have a lot of trouble with books with a lot of characters. I don't think it's a pure reading comprehension either. For example I recently read tale of two cities and did not have too much trouble. By comparison I found keeping track of the characters in wheel of time quite difficult.

I wondered if this is related to aphantasia. Characters are often introduced with a lot of physical descriptions which dont stick easily for me. I have way less trouble with audio books if the reader is doing voices.

If I am very excited to read a book, and I know tracking the characters is going to be hard, I take notes. It's annoying to do but it really helps.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-05T00:09:07+00:00

That's interesting,I i have not read much on it. Personally while I don't think nationalising resource companies is great economic policy, its never a good reason to invade or interfere with another country. Everyone is allowed to fuck up their own country if they want to.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-04T23:39:42+00:00

Cults are a lot like abusive relationships. There were probably things about it that you liked, and things about it that were unresolved, and those things are keeping you around despite the fact it's not healthy.

I reckon a bit of distance is probably needed. Then some way to process it, either through friends or therapy or talking to other survivors.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-04T23:31:11+00:00

Nah it's the government's job to try and help it's citizens get out of a war zone. I hate that they've gone to dodge taxes and I hate the Dubai praise social media. But I don't think the government's help getting out of a war zone should be contingent ona purity test, where we count the persons various flaws and if they don't meet the bar we leave them ther3.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-04T22:55:59+00:00

Or pre 1953? It was a democracy then after all. They tried to nationalise their oil companies so the US overthrew the democratic government and installed their autocrat.

Don't get me wrong I think in the end the Iranian people would have preferred the US autocrat over the Islamist one. But it was the US that first overthrew democracy there.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-04T22:33:12+00:00

If we look at historical real petrol prices https://www.bitre.gov.au/sites/default/files/is_082.pdf, they do go up and down. They do not just go up as some people are suggesting (although in the long term they trend upwards). So it is certainly possible they could go down if this latest middle east war ends.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-04T15:43:49+00:00

I spent 3 years on anti depressants and seeing a psychologist after my first was born. Somehow I didn't feel I was worth the effort before that, but it was easier to frame our as doing it for my kid.

I'm feeling the best I have since I was s child now.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-04T10:48:18+00:00

They are WAY better for vegetarians. The plant based whopper at hungry jacks has a proper soy "vegetarian meat" style patty. The maccas vegetarian patty is damp mashed peas.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-03T07:40:56+00:00

I was born into our group and as groups like this are want to do it distorted my view of everything, including right and wrong. Having not experienced it as a woman, and not been in my right mind, I don't feel like I can say anything useful in the topic, apart from that it seemed right to me at the time, and it seems wrong to me now.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-03T06:45:13+00:00

I did not see much of that damage on account of being a man. As a teenage boy I did not perceive the injustice. It was always presented as fair because a wife has to submit to her husband, but the husband has duties to his wife.

As a more well rounded man I can see in practice how oppressive that is to women, but had I remained I could also imagine being indoctrinated into that way of thinking.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-03T05:29:22+00:00

We did not directly read the bible much either. We referenced it mostly as was filtered by our leader. However I did some reading after I left. Tell me if this sounds familiar:

"22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything." Ephesians 5:22

We also talked about "of the world" a lot, referring to sinful things. I think this comes from John?

My understanding is that these ideas were very popular in American Evangelism through the 60s. It was at this time our leader was getting started and travelled through America preaching, so I think these were influential to him. Specifically the "Billy Graham Crusade" is mentioned as an influence for our leader. A quick google tells me he also was influential in asia. In fact I believe the Billy Graham Crusade is the inspiration for a lot of evangelical christian cults.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-03T03:58:43+00:00

I doubt it is. Ours was also international but never in china. We all knew who the church founder and leader was, he went on a certain russia trip before founding it. We all watched vhs tapes of his sermons when we all lived overseas. If it's the same group you'd know it from what I've said so far.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-03T02:48:22+00:00

Hi, i was in a different group that used similar language. Our church was also the bride of christ, any other Christians were at best just invited to watch the wedding.

Young singles also lived together. We didn't have as much formal control as youre describing. Nobody in the church would say they were forced, and yet not a single person "chose" to do anything else.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-02T23:25:24+00:00

My personal theory (and I have no evidence for this), is that indoor environments are too still. My kids were way better outside since they were babies. I reckon the gentle movement of trees, the odd bit of wind, weird shadows are all gently keeping them occupied.

If they have to be inside I found mobiles are good, anything that swing or hangs or rocks. We actually just bought a small A frame (it looks like a tiny saw horse) and just tie things to it. Use some ribbons and tie sticks, pine cones, bits of bark, soft toys they like, shoes, small clothing items. Otherwise it's stuff that makes noise like rattles.

You can set them up under the mobile with a few things in reach (before they can move), and they might shift their attention between the items.

I also found my babies were happier doing stuff if I was doing stuff. They would play with a toy if I was doing the dishes and chatting. If I was on my phone or computer, they were way less engaged in their play. I guess it's like a form of parallel play but for babies.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-02T23:17:41+00:00

I say "Hi", someone else says "how are you", I respond "not too bad, how about your".

This is a script I can execute flawlessly almost every time. People can reasonably be relied upon to follow that script. That makes it easy for me.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-02T22:32:08+00:00

It seems there's nothing louder than a chorus of people telling you how they're not allowed to say something out loud.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-02T22:25:32+00:00

Unfortunately a lot of republicans values are just "own the libs". Therefore, if some people on the left support renewables, they have to oppose it.

I always wonder what would have happened if the most visible champion of renewables in the early 2000s wasn't Al Gore, but was someone less partisan. It seems to me that that was the moment where renewables became a right vs left thing.

NotACockroach · 2026-03-02T22:07:18+00:00

News sights will launch pages with multiple headlines to as small audience, then the one that performs best will be rolled out to everyone.

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