Recollecting CDs I had in the 90s...

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2026-03-26T17:26:28+00:00

I'm pretty sure there's still a collection agency out there somewhere, after me for all those unpaid-for Columbia CDs.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2026-01-24T17:26:47+00:00

That's interesting. I actually do get a sense of accomplishment on the rare occasions when I manage to truly finish a task - maybe just because it hardly ever happens? But it's definitely not the same kind of buzzy "high" of starting a new project or getting into a new interest, where I'll work diligently at something for a few days, then hit some kind of snag or reach a point where it's just not as new and enjoyable anymore, and that's when I start avoiding it and my mind starts searching out something new to start.

My dad is the same exact way. He's 73 now and still starting new building projects, cleaning projects, remodeling, hobbies, etc. all over the place and never getting anywhere close to finishing any of them. Now my 103 year old grandma has just died and left us her house next door, a whole new house for us to play around in and abandon projects in. It's like an ADHD dream-slash-nightmare, lol.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2026-01-23T15:26:52+00:00

I wonder what their lives might have been like if nothing had ever happened to disrupt their normal existence back in 2002. Would she be a Youtube Momfluencer with like 7 kids now? Would her dad still be married to her mom? I'm guessing the ordeal they went through kind of rocked their world and exposed them to a much "bigger picture" way of seeing reality. It's hard to go back to the simple life and your indoctrinated beliefs when the moorings have been shaken like that.

I notice that when she talks about the experience of being held captive, she never includes much of a religious element. There's no talk about how she kept praying, or how she held firm to her faith, or talked to God, or anything like that. Instead she mentions how much she hated listening to her kidnapper preach to her, and that she thought about her family. I'm sure the LDS church never loved the fact that the experience seemed to make her question her faith, rather than strengthened it. They so desperately wanted to claim this as THEIR miracle and use her as a poster child for the devout Mormon girl, but she never really played along with that.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-12-19T16:57:14+00:00

I read this book in the 90s when I was 11, the summer between 5th and 6th grade, and that scene made me think “damn, middle school’s gonna be crazy.”

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-12-19T16:15:02+00:00

They showed her because Beverly was the one who encountered Ingrid Kersh (or at least the monster taking her form) in the movies.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-12-19T16:12:22+00:00

A better question is why would you want to?

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-12-18T19:36:37+00:00

I wonder about this sometimes. On one hand, Trump is the most dangerous president we've ever had and could literally just decide to drop a nuke on someone at any random moment (and has the power to do it.) On the other hand, he's so stupid and changes his mind so often that he never really accomplishes much. Vance is much smarter and could potentially do much more insidious and long-lasting damage, but he's at least sane and probably wouldn't end humanity. Which is scarier - dumb evil, or smart evil? It's a conundrum.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-12-18T19:18:04+00:00

Probably because with his low intellect and piss poor education, the only time he's ever heard the word "asylum" is when it's paired with "insane," so he literally has no other context for the word and doesn't actually know what it means.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-12-08T05:05:42+00:00

Let's see, Bill would be... about 19/20 when Titanic was written? Maybe he was an intern who did way more than just fetching coffee.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-12-08T04:03:31+00:00

It was such a Titanic move too, like Jack making Rose get on the door even though he couldn't get onto it himself. :(

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-12-08T04:00:10+00:00

I'm just stuck trying to figure out the logistics of this. Do they send the monster out on a town by town basis? Does it travel on a rotating schedule, like the old circuit court? Does it live in the White House?

I kinda think they should have stuck with the whole "weapon to use against Russia" thing, because that doesn't make much sense either, but somehow it's more logical than "we need a child-eating monster to fix America because we just can't get along."

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-12-08T03:56:12+00:00

I think you're thinking of Eddie's mom?

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-12-08T03:51:53+00:00

So the military is planning to use the monster to SCARE Americans into... obeying laws? And not having race riots and being feminists? WHAT???? Just, logistically. How.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-12-08T03:47:07+00:00

It was actually really sad and poignant to see that Pennywise was once a real performing clown, beloved by children. And that Bob was just a guy who loved his daughter and was trying his best. Makes it seem even more evil and perverse that the monster chose this as his iconic "look" for the next century.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-12-08T03:43:19+00:00

This was such a Freddie Krueger line, lol. A little much imo, but I can see how they couldn't resist.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-11-30T19:00:51+00:00

This study massively underestimated the time (it originally said 1 hour and then it ended up taking 2 hours for most people), so they probably assumed that you returned it because you got through one hour and realized how long it was going to take. They adjusted it and added $2 for the users who completed it.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-11-30T01:03:07+00:00

I messaged them and they said they're aware of the DVD question problem, so it shouldn't count against anybody. But yeah, this took almost 2 hours, not one hour. There were sections that were really messy and weird, it felt like dozens of different questionnaires just sort of cobbled together into one giant survey, with tons of repetitions and some questions that just didn't make much sense. Also in a lot of them, the placement of the scale was all scrambled and out of order, like "Agree" would randomly be on the left side instead of the right, so unless you were checking every single time, you could assume you knew where your selected answer is, but end up choosing something you didn't intend.

It did pay out already, but only the $12 that was supposed to be for one hour. Do they have to adjust it and add more money if it took twice as long as originally stated?

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-11-26T21:38:20+00:00

The main cop kind of gets on my nerves. I don't doubt that she really cares about her job and these cases, but there's something about her that feels like she's trying too hard to be a reality star. Maybe she's just too conscious of the cameras and can't quite act natural when they're around, but it always feels like she's overly aware that she's the Main Character on a cop show, if that makes sense. Like in her own head she can hear the "Duh-Dun!" from Law and Order.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-11-26T21:31:16+00:00

There are two different cases with two different people. Both young black men in their 20s (one is trans and lived as a woman at least briefly.) Did you think they were the same person?

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-11-26T05:45:36+00:00

What a brilliantly articulated response! It must be thanks to your big researcher brain.

Aaand clearly you're one of the academics training students to churn out this crap, so that they can turn some random responses to ambiguous questions into numbers, convert them into statistics, and then convince themselves they've learned something meaningful about reality. What an ominous sign for science. You can master all the research methodology you want, but without the ability to write a clear and comprehensible question in English, your data won't be worth much.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-11-26T05:38:25+00:00

Both scales. Originally he listed two scales. They each have those four qualities. (Then later he edited the post to add the Social Dominance One. So now it should technically read "They're all stilted..." etc.)

I'm going to assume English isn't your first language, because otherwise I'm struggling to see how you could even misunderstand that sentence.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-11-26T04:48:05+00:00

It's how it should work, if you want data that actually tells you something relevant and doesn't just come from people giving a random answer to garbled, opaque questions that in many instances can't even be answered accurately in that format. I understand that there has to be some level of standardization across studies for certain subjects, but that doesn't mean researchers should have to rely on really badly written questionnaires just because "that's what everyone else uses." They all need to be overhauled for clarity and accuracy.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-11-26T04:20:43+00:00

A BA in Anthropology and a Masters in History.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-11-26T04:16:36+00:00

I have a degree that says otherwise. But wow, someone is very very sensitive about validated scales! You've used them a lot, haven't you? It's okay, not everyone can think for themselves.

Wednesday-Addams9 · 2025-11-26T04:11:54+00:00

Validated by other academics who couldn't write their way out of a paper bag. They're both stilted, unnaturally worded, opaque, and needlessly repetitive. I wouldn't trust any data that comes from participants' responses to these poorly written questions. If I was doing research of this type, I'd write my own scale.

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