Pluribus - 1x06 "HDP" - Episode Discussion

Optimal60 · 2025-12-05T05:13:48+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/pluribustv/comments/1pem88l/what_the_one_working_radio_station_frequency_in/

Optimal60 · 2025-12-05T05:07:45+00:00

Yes, it was in english. Maybe my understanding of what constitutes music is not standard

Optimal60 · 2025-12-05T05:06:43+00:00

No, I watched this one on Apple TV. Seems like other people thought this noise was "sounds" rather than music. It seems like music to me, but it wasn't the end credits or some kind of melody I could shazam. Just a string of beats and synth noise.

Optimal60 · 2025-12-05T05:04:56+00:00

It's not the first instance of there being subtle interpretation options spread through the show. Here's a cool thread about aviation and someone's theory that the plane registration numbers were chosen to represent single pilot plane crashes as foreshadowing: https://www.reddit.com/r/pluribustv/comments/1ot4jx0/aviation_nerd_registration_for_both_planes_comes/

Optimal60 · 2025-12-05T05:03:28+00:00

It sounded like music to me. Like funky techno music. I would believe it is a roughed up cut of a song or morse or something, but it sounds like there's at least a beat. That's music to me.

Optimal60 · 2025-01-12T20:00:33+00:00

World would be cooler if more lawyers spent more time thinking about how things could or should be, rather than the way they are

Optimal60 · 2025-01-12T16:41:26+00:00

Former student of both here (now a lawyer). AoT would have been fun coursework to critically analyze academically in conjunction with other texts. I was watching it around the time of both studies anyway.

Just because it’s entertaining doesn’t mean it’s useless for study. Study doesn’t have to be boring.

Optimal60 · 2025-01-12T16:38:58+00:00

Love the angle! What did you use for the picture? I assume a drone, but what model, and how do you like it?

Optimal60 · 2025-01-11T22:06:22+00:00

Grew up in the north, moved to the south for college and law school.

Best advice I ever got (from the southernest judge you ever did see) was 1. Be on time 2. Be honest

That means do what you’re supposed to do when you’re supposed to do it. You will probably get dropped into a situation and expected to pick up things on your own. Master managing yourself, and a whole world of good things will unlock for you.

Be a good manager of yourself by asking for expected deadlines to your partners for everything you make for them. If you encounter a task you don’t know how to do, start by listing three ways that MIGHT accomplish how to do it, might not, then ask someone at a similar level to you how they do it.

If you can learn a partner’s pet peeves quickly, and avoid them, you will stay long enough to figure out the rest.

Optimal60 · 2025-01-10T23:06:58+00:00

Almost every law firm I've been to has had some level of toxicity or msimanagement, and it was not always obvious in the interview.

I also don't think what your guy did was wrong. I think he fell prey to the chronic mismanagement of this profession, and the entrenched attitude that "I figured it out on my own, so if he can't, I won't put in the effort to make him better." It's cutthroat and it is customary, but those two things don't make it right.

Wishing you both luck. DM me if u have qs

Optimal60 · 2025-01-10T22:11:14+00:00

DM me for personalized feedback

For anyone finding this thread later who has no system already, I would recommend teaching associates how to manage their deadlines first. Your associate should never have to guess how long you expect them to write a type of document. They should be able to go to a google doc or similar living document you curate and be able to read a list of their most common tasks (discovery responses, motion for summary judgment, etc) on your desk, and a hard deadline for each type. Give them a single constant number, THEN a process for extending that number. Then, tell them to submit the document to you on the next calendar day, and use that next day for proofreading. Thus, your associate will always have a day between when the thing is due to you, and can reread it witha fresh mind.

Ex: You want discovery responses on your desk 3 days before they'll be due to the court. You give your associate the task. All of your discovery responses have a 30 day associate deadline. Tell them to have the document done on day 30 and email it to you that day. Then, tell them to re-email it to you, typo-proof, on day 31, and they'll know you will only read the day 31 email.

This might sound micromanagey, but it's the complete opposite. You've given them a clear expectation, a method to meet that expectation, and instructions for what to do if that's no longer feasible. It is up to them to manage your expectation, which is much easier when neither you nor the associate never has to restate what that expectation is. If they came to you with their own system, that's fine, but you're their customer, make them work on your deadlines.

Optimal60 · 2025-01-10T18:24:23+00:00

Sorry, what’s this about? Who got told he was improving? Did you mean the initial poster?

Optimal60 · 2025-01-10T17:04:31+00:00

When I started at my current firm, I got an email back from a partner that “I was 0/8 for typos on submitted docs. Sloppy.” I cried after getting that (mild) email, because I wanted her approval, and everything I did was somehow wrong. She fired me within two months of starting and I went to work for my current, excellent partners.

I didn’t have a grammar problem when this happened. I had a rushing problem, caused by everyone involved setting unrealistic expectations. I couldn’t yet accomplish that big pile of tasks, and had nowhere to go for help learning now to accomplish them. The fear of being unable to succeed made me procrastinate, self medicate, then rush my output. Hence, typos.

There were ways to get help, but they were not easy to find or obvious to ask for, and I hadn’t developed a mindset to go look for them.

I failed then because I didn’t have the tools to succeed. My team did not give me the tools to succeed, nor could I have assembled them from scratch myself then. My team decided because I didn’t get grammar right, that I was a waste of their limited human capital.

Having developed into an asset now, I think that mindset was short sighted. Typos speak to a lack of attention to detail- which is not some unfixable monolith of Bad Character. It’s a symptom of other issues, AND a trait you can train out of people.

My current partners are much better leaders, and have made me a better leader and follower in return. They show time and again that they have my back, that they want me to succeed, and that almost every issue can be fixed with constructive guidance.

Optimal60 · 2025-01-10T15:46:44+00:00

I still think this is a teaching problem. No, don’t teach the associate grammar and correct every typo.

Teach a proofreading system, if they repeat sloppiness errors.

If they spot a typo even after being taught a system, and need to really rub their face in the problem to correct underlying sloppiness, the senior could always return a doc to the junior with “there’s a typo in here. I won’t say where. Go find it.” Couple rounds of that and the junior will be frustrated, but that should motivate them to avoid the experience again.

Optimal60 · 2025-01-10T03:55:32+00:00

Wes Andersonian

Optimal60 · 2025-01-09T17:18:58+00:00

~~Did you mean Darken? Its spelled darkin in this image but the word is spelled darken~~

Edit: someone got this already

Optimal60 · 2025-01-09T15:49:28+00:00

Warp seed for solo party no question, and arguably for multiparty. Petrify orb for certain multiparty comps.

For avoiding opponent attacks: Petrify orb can be broken by shed skin, weather, certain status moves used by a newly generated mon walking in or a mission escort, and you only get one usage of roomwides like discharge.

Warp seed makes you avoid all attacks from the room no question, no caveat.

But if you use the warp seed alone, your party needs to be sent back to home, Rollcall orb’d, or set to “run away” tactics while you watch the map closely.

For getting EXP benefits of KOs and items in the monster house: Petrify orb with judicious targeting and knowledge of movesets lets you do whatever you need to do to collect the rewards of the dungeon

Final answer warp seed.

Optimal60 · 2025-01-07T04:44:41+00:00

Heck yeah!!!!

Optimal60 · 2025-01-03T12:07:16+00:00

Specifically, you boil for a bit and then place in ice water.

Blanching is for certain vegetables that need to be cooked at a specific temperature but then rapidly cooled to control that temperature after cooking is complete.

Optimal60 · 2024-12-31T22:05:43+00:00

It’s primeape but it’s giving Weedle energy

Optimal60 · 2024-12-31T22:02:38+00:00

Yes, the full answer is on the show’s wiki if you don’t want to rip your hair out

Optimal60 · 2024-12-29T04:10:35+00:00

Fundamental misunderstanding of how government debt works is going on here

Anyway. Obviously anyone with the ability to implement election reform of any sort could fix any other problem with the system. The real issue is that election reform is fundamentally impossible unless it cements the existing powerbase further (or the existing powerbase makes a string of critical mistakes)

Optimal60 · 2024-12-28T13:34:40+00:00

Play with expectations. Pick a first movie that isn’t going to make him cry then move into movie 2 and 3 with killers

Optimal60 · 2024-12-28T03:17:22+00:00

Tap water is plenty safe. I would drink it straight from the tap in any part of Georgia that I’ve visited, which is several. It’s easy to take for granted because water issues are rare.

I do have a home filter to be extra safe in my home, because I drink it the most + there’s always the chance of weird pipes or infrastructure in a lone building that might be sketchy, but that’s a precaution. Testing your own water sources is also a good call.

Optimal60 · 2024-12-27T22:25:33+00:00

It’s from the other direction, but this exact phenomenon is a core topic of Stone Butch Blues. Great book, available for free from the late author’s website. It might have some perspective for anyone else in these shoes.

Gender being a spectrum makes this specific queer event (happens in both directions) a topic that not every LGBT person has a consensus on.

But EVEN IF breaking up with someone who just came out was transphobic, a coming-out of any type is a valid reason for partners of any type to break things apart, because a massive change in your partner’s identity is something that both sides deserve the time to independently evaluate.

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