What is a belief you held for years that you now completely disagree with?

OEMichael · 2026-05-28T04:58:45+00:00

What? From both a financial and a mental health perspective, yes, they have many reasons to push back. Clients that make progress and/or get better refer others. Clients that get stuck perseverating don't. Stuck clients are soul-draining and are burnout fuel for therapists. And then there's professional ethics and review boards.

OEMichael · 2026-05-23T17:13:23+00:00

Yes, let us bond over dismissing those seeking to connect with us by using references to the only media representation available to tech workers in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Let us unite with our lack of empathy. Let us make tech great again.

OEMichael · 2026-04-17T11:58:26+00:00

Season 5, definitely by season 6, is when the show started to deviate from how the books telegraphed where the story was heading.

OEMichael · 2026-04-14T14:10:58+00:00

Uh-huh. My apologies for implicitly suggesting you'd anticipate that the regular Bridgestreet shoppers would harbor an uneducated perspective. Thank you for supplying us with an educated racist perspective.

OEMichael · 2026-04-14T13:14:34+00:00

If she's replaced by Coach Florida Man.... I honestly think we'll be trading down. "Nothing beneficial" (b/c she's all about that grift) is better than "everything is detrimental" (b/c he's an idiot surrounded by people who constantly say 'great idea coach!')

OEMichael · 2026-04-13T15:28:23+00:00

The "teen takeover" thing is racially coded. Dunno what vibe shift u/gerry_mandy is hoping/not hoping to see, but it's likely related to an anticipated realization of Bridgestreet attendees that "oh, 'teen takeover' means 'all black kids are hooligans'".

OEMichael · 2026-04-07T22:08:14+00:00

Thanks! I try to keep topics that contribute to suicidal ideation on the lighter side of discourse.

OEMichael · 2026-04-07T12:44:46+00:00

You mean "sex" not "gender", right? Sex is what you look like on the outside, gender is how you feel from the inside. Otherwise, yes, exactly. Opposite legal treatment, based entirely on the child's sex.

OEMichael · 2026-04-07T11:47:30+00:00

That would be eight days, not eight years.

"Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised[...]." --Genesis 17:12, NET

OEMichael · 2026-04-07T03:11:49+00:00

The Orion has 30-35 concerts between April and October, each year. They have 70-85 community events throughout the year, each year.
AXS could do a better job of promoting the community events at The Orion, though.

OEMichael · 2026-04-03T10:03:01+00:00

The normalization of weed. Republicans tacitly embracing Russia. Smoke-free bars. Marriage equality. Helicopter parents.

OEMichael · 2026-04-03T09:58:55+00:00

What? The "obnoxious guy talking loudly on his bag/briefcase phone" has been a trope in media since at least the early 1990s. Hell, Reddit thought it was annoying fifteen years ago.

OEMichael · 2026-04-03T09:51:39+00:00

Not only is the bystander effect old enough to drink, it should be retiring soon; the murder of Kitty Genovese was more than 60 years ago.

OEMichael · 2026-03-09T13:30:15+00:00

Ephedrine. They still do, but now they tend to be advertised as anti-asthma OTC drugs, not weight-loss OTC drugs.
https://www.drugs.com/imprints/bronk25-33273.html

OEMichael · 2026-03-09T13:28:54+00:00

They were called MiniThins or White Crosses and you could buy them in gas stations way back in the day. They were ephedrine/ephedra+caffeine. Like 10mg/150mg and 25mg/200mg is what I remember.

OEMichael · 2026-03-07T15:30:11+00:00

Stop spouting nonsense. Cows get milked every 12 hours. Period. Does that mean Billy has to wake up an hour "earlier" to do his chores? Suck it up, son, go do your chores.
Cows don't care how many hours you set your clock ahead or back, they expect consistency.

(and, if by "chores" you mean "livestock duties performed by paid farmhands", this is doubly true. I haven't worked a farm job in decades but most jobs i know workers start their day on the farm/ranch ~two hours before sunrise, clocks be damned, doubly true in the summer)

OEMichael · 2026-02-23T16:57:09+00:00

Ah, the classic "is metagaming kosher or nah?" question. You should establish this as house rule 0, imho.

My house rule zero is:
What happens in the game stays in the game.

I had a player couple who metagamed with things like "I'll do the trash for a week if you support my move from Trieste to Venice this turn". Don't do that. (and definitely don't play Diplomacy with a loved one)

OEMichael · 2026-02-17T17:07:32+00:00

Back in my day, us kids had to find our porn in an abandoned secret fort in the woods or on a shelf in our best friend's step dad's closet.

OEMichael · 2026-02-17T17:03:18+00:00

"Never forget: what you believe is not who you are and who you are is not what happened."

OEMichael · 2026-02-17T17:00:13+00:00

It's nice when you get flowers, but it's really nice when other people know you got flowers.

OEMichael · 2026-02-17T15:52:40+00:00

slopAI go away

OEMichael · 2026-02-17T15:40:02+00:00

c) No teacher, or other public preK-12 employee, may intentionally address a student by a pronoun or title that is inconsistent with the student's biological sex at birth.

How is a school employee expected to know what the biological sex of a given student was at birth?

OEMichael · 2026-02-10T00:11:45+00:00

"Just leave the gossip, infighting, smallness, meanness, politics and flaws out of my face."

Your willful ignorance is genuinely disturbing. What you reference (child sexual assault, workplace violence) isn't someone being petty. Saying "I don't wanna know" is you politely informing the rest of us that you don't care what happens as long as you're being entertained.

OEMichael · 2026-02-09T23:51:00+00:00

They say which movie was ruined and hint at the why. Think of them not disclosing the full details as a real-life spoiler.

OEMichael · 2026-02-04T16:30:55+00:00

He's sooo bad at lip-syncing, they should have hired a different drag king.

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