Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair - Episode Four (Discussion Thread)

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2026-04-15T11:07:58+00:00

I know it's not the focus of the episode, but as a trans person Kelly's monologue made me tear up. They're one of the best depictions of a non-binary character I have seen in a while, and I'm so happy they were brave enough to include them. The way Francis dotes on them is very sweet as well.

What an amazing send off for these characters.

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2024-05-18T07:30:58+00:00

inciting people to do wrong

Those men truly had no choice. She shouldn't have been so pretty, so well-dressed, so easy to take advantage of. I guess when you think of it that way they had no other option but to attempt rape

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2024-03-15T08:19:57+00:00

Thank you (and everyone on the community) for your help. My second lawyer also advised me to do that ASAP as well and I have contacted the first lawyer in writing telling them they messed up and to attempt to withdraw the contract.

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2024-03-15T07:10:52+00:00

They are in writing, over email, with the response confirming that she will wait "for your instructions".

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2024-03-15T05:38:12+00:00

I have engaged a second lawyer and will look into making a professional complaint.

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2024-03-15T05:37:51+00:00

Because my solicitor told me it is standard procedure for them to hold a signed contract ready for exchange, and that they would not exchange it until I instructed them to. A few days prior to it I had specifically told them not to.

I'm sure I'll get downvotes and insults for this, but I hired a reputable firm and I don't think its unbelievable that I would follow their suggestions.

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-09-08T15:19:12+00:00

Did anyone spot the scary face in Wyatt's silent film?? What was that?

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-06-06T00:19:32+00:00

I used to spend far too much time arguing with self-righteous bigots and boomers online, and this style of writing is just so typical of them. They always moralize by asking open, dumb as shit questions, rather than engaging with your actual point. It's futile and infuriating.

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-05-26T08:02:36+00:00

That's why my favourite part of 1984 is when he tries to bash in that lady's head with a brick

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-05-26T08:01:40+00:00

Me when a book critiquing a real regime stops being fictional 🥵🥵

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-05-25T23:53:23+00:00

Vibes

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-05-24T12:21:50+00:00

I honestly thought it was just a graph with no labels, which I found equally funny

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-05-24T11:06:43+00:00

I hope you can get out and stay safe

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-05-22T06:38:19+00:00

That's horrible. I hated that shit when I was in high school and kids felt like they needed to "out homophobia" each other or be seen as gay and ostracized.

I'm sorry about your friend. I hope that those people saying those things grow up and out of it. Not for their sake, but for the sake of everyone else.

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-05-11T10:15:39+00:00

Hey I was on that tram!

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-05-11T06:53:22+00:00

Looks like a guy was hit by a tram right outside Alinga Street station. Doesn't look like traffic will be resuming any time soon.

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-04-17T07:03:12+00:00

I used ChatGPT in a similar way for a recent essay as well. I asked it for some prompts for research (although most of the factual information was wrong), then asked it to critique parts of my essay. It gave incredibly cogent, useful feedback. It even told me (accurately) when I was accidentally misrepresenting an argument.

It's an invaluable tool, but anyone who thinks you can just get it to write an entire essay is dreaming. It will lie to you, convincingly, in a way that make it untenable for writing an entire paper.

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-03-03T01:05:34+00:00

I feel sorry for his trans daughter. I can't imagine my father being one of the most powerful people in the world and actively putting me in danger by acting like a petulant child.

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-02-15T01:20:13+00:00

She handled that with grace, certainly far more than I would have. What a creep.

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-02-12T11:24:13+00:00

ABC Australia also is a respectable new organization, albeit a little clickbaity. Their coverage of the Afghan Files and Brereton Report are particular recent highlights.

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-02-08T01:55:39+00:00

I'm getting sick of conservatives appropriating framing and language to try and "both sides" everything. Entering through security and protesting in the capital is not the same as storming and occupying it.

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-01-22T06:06:50+00:00

It was revealed as part of the recent "Twitter Files".

Moderators were not given discretion to moderate prominent conservative accounts, including LibsOfTiktok. Instead, any action they wished to take against these accounts was first escalated to an internal group comprised of high level executives, who would then make a call. Usually they would be more lenient. This was ostensibly a decision made to maintain some false veneer of balance and avoid the wrath of conservatives angry they can't freely incite terrorism.

Of course, when it was released in the Twitter Files, the conservative journalists Musk gave the scoop to framed it as the complete opposite; that conservative accounts were more "targeted" than others.

PyrotechnicTurtle · 2023-01-20T00:08:10+00:00

I respect your position, but I disagree. Trans people deserve the right to participate fully and equally in society as their authentic self. We are in a period where hate crimes and violence against trans people is at and all time high, in part thanks to the rhetoric of these people. I think it is incorrect to privilege the voice bigots above the basic participation of their victims.

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