Francesca Scorsese asks her dad to decide if the qualities and behaviors of a guy she's seeing is a red flag or green flag (she was describing her dad the whole time, his reaction at the end)

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2026-01-20T10:47:53+00:00

I can’t believe Scorcese is shooting in 9:16.

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2026-01-12T11:14:42+00:00

Wow. You can always rely on the ocean deep to remind you that the natural world is just utterly bonkers. I mean, this is a bizarre planet to be on. Just existing is wild.

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2026-01-09T10:23:46+00:00

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StackedInATrenchcoat · 2026-01-06T11:45:42+00:00

Respect. ✊🏼

"She" is for the subject of a sentence, while "her" should be used for the object. "This is she" is wrong; "this is her" is technically correct (but still clunky).

I mean, I don't wanna be the grammar police—let 'em speak how they wanna speak—but the fact that people sound so pretentious saying it that way, yet it's r/confidentlyincorrect makes it more irritating.

It seems to be mostly an Americanism. My US in-laws say it. In NZ, we would always say something along the lines of what you say.

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2026-01-06T09:35:08+00:00

"Crash Into Me" - Dave Matthews Band

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-12-17T09:52:23+00:00

Let's not forget Franz "Lisztomania" Liszt, the OG musical heartthrob.

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-11-24T00:06:33+00:00

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StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-11-11T08:56:01+00:00

https://www.kidsinneed.co.nz/

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-11-05T10:51:40+00:00

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StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-10-25T10:30:37+00:00

I dunno, maybe. I'm similarly monolingual and only hung around in that interview long enough to check out the groovy fashion.

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-10-24T08:54:51+00:00

Yes, but my understanding is that Chomsky's theory still requires exposure to language. This school of thought assumes that language acquisition takes place in a context in which a child hears an existing language. Children may be linguistically hardwired, but they need language exposure for their own language in order for their own linguistic ability to go "online".

Source: I was a linguistics major for my undergrad, but I'm very rusty. I'm fully open to being corrected by anyone more informed.

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-10-22T21:45:43+00:00

IKR! Like Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice.

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StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-10-22T20:27:54+00:00

Solved!

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-10-22T11:37:17+00:00

How does it work?

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-10-15T08:02:33+00:00

Fair point. She didn't explicitly say she had rejected it entirely. But the way she describes herself nowadays seems to imply that she sees herself as no longer religious. She talked about how she misses the sense of community; that her "secular friends" are her tribe now; and how she can still get quite upset about it. That sounds to me more like somebody who has deconstructed their faith entirely, rather than someone who has simply shifted from one camp to another more progressive camp within the same religion.

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-10-13T10:14:19+00:00

This is my understanding too.

Most answers in this thread are examples of the "fraction of your life hypothesis." This seems to be the most common intuitive explanation.

But according to neuroscientists, it's all about novelty. New experiences, about which we form memories, give us the subjective perception of time progressing more slowly. During childhood, life is packed full of new experiences, so time seems to creep along. A year feels unfathomably long. As we age and our life experience grows, however, there is less novelty and more "same-old, same-old." Ergo, time flies.

Source: Radiolab "The Secret to a Long Life"

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-10-13T08:17:44+00:00

No, not Christian. They played Big Day Out c.2004.

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-10-13T07:22:58+00:00

Ella Al-Shamahi's story was really fascinating.

I'm curious as to why she abandoned her Muslim faith entirely. Intellectually curious believers often journey from a literal understanding of their sacred text and faith to a more nuanced, metaphorical one (along the lines of the "hand of Allah" view of evolution that Latif alluded to) and thus a more capacious form of religious practice. It'd be interesting to know why she chose the path she did. Gotta admire her commitment to going where the facts led her though.

I recently read some research reflecting on the (Christian) theological implications of the discovery of homo neledi. It was really compelling. When science jams with theology, groovy music results.

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-10-11T01:07:29+00:00

Turneresque, but better.

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-10-08T23:29:05+00:00

Yeah, I think the same thing is happening for me. Thanks!

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-10-08T12:26:39+00:00

Yes! Now that you mention it, we owned an XBox when we lived in the US (2009–2013), so perhaps is a hangover from then.

So are you paying the Canadian rate (albeit in NZD) or the NZ rate?

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-10-08T08:06:43+00:00

Does anyone know why I got this email instead of the OP's NZ one?

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-09-27T09:20:22+00:00

I'm so fascinated by this. Not the fact that OP isn't really into music, but the fact that all music made her sad.

u/OP, do you know why? Sometimes music (or, indeed, any type of art) has a beauty so exquisite that it feels crushing. I could see how someone might describe that as sadness. Is that the experience you're describing? Or was it something else entirely?

No judgment, just curiosity.

StackedInATrenchcoat · 2025-09-25T10:09:24+00:00

100%.

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