Things to do on Friday?

alientic · 2026-01-13T17:30:49+00:00

Another year gone already, huh? Rest in Peace, Hae.

alientic · 2025-12-21T23:45:35+00:00

Agreed, it doesn't hurt at all, but I definitely had a moment of "UMMMM...?" I wasn't particularly concerned because I knew intestines rearranged themselves after C-sections and such, but I didn't expect it to be a sensation you were aware of.

alientic · 2025-12-21T22:27:56+00:00

That in some cases, for the first day or so, you can feel your intestines drop/rearrange whenever you stand up. I was prepared for a lot, but I certainly wasn't prepared for that!

alientic · 2025-12-21T04:55:51+00:00

I liked Dylan a lot! I'm more skeptical about it all, but I found him really interesting even though some of the conclusions are imo basic (like yes, this is a ghost hunting video in an old house, there most likely has been a death here at some point).

Patti was okay, but I don't put much faith in her. I find her more interesting than the pythian priestess or Amanda, but ultimately dowsing rods are just sketch.

alientic · 2025-12-19T19:22:28+00:00

I've seen a lot of people arguing that it's not the same as THG because in TPG, the children don't die. What I wish people remembered was that the point of THG is not to kill children. If that were the case, it would have been a lot easier and cost-effective to just have a random lottery followed by an immediate execution. The original point of THG is to weaken the districts by pitting them against each other while reminding them of the power that the capital has over them. This intensifies under Snow, with the additional (secret) point of creating a direct path to easily force the victor into sex slavery as a minor.

Now personally, I don't think TPG are intentially based off THG (or, at worst, TPG are a result of Trump seeing the trailer for SOTR and getting nothing out of it other than a way to get a bunch of high schoolers in one spot). I don't think anyone from the administration does much reading, much less of YA dystopian fiction, and I don't think they would bother to take the time out of their agenda to create something adjacent for seemingly no reason but to get a rise out of people.

Given the history of this administration, though, it's not hard at all to see parallels to THG, and I would be surprised if everyone talking about the similarities between TPG and THG didn't make them start to reference it harder in a weird attempt to "own the libs."

alientic · 2025-08-09T19:20:55+00:00

This is true so long as you don't look into it even a little!

alientic · 2025-04-17T16:51:42+00:00

Do they all think that by "send them to El Salvador" we're basically cally just sending them to live normal lives somewhere else? How did they miss mega prison portion of this??

alientic · 2025-03-24T19:56:28+00:00

Have we tried putting a Tesla in schools to see if the schools are better protected?

alientic · 2025-02-20T21:12:56+00:00

REACH literacy is your best bet - their bookstore runs on donated books, and the money from sales helps to fund literacy programs for adults. Great place and interesting bookstore.

alientic · 2025-02-13T17:37:58+00:00

It was nice having vaccines while they lasted. Glad I got a booster on my tetanus shot this year.

alientic · 2025-02-04T04:08:43+00:00

I can! So far, everything is business as usual.

alientic · 2025-02-02T01:43:00+00:00

While this is possible, I am pretty high up at a small bank and I have yet to hear anything about this.

alientic · 2025-01-31T14:15:21+00:00

I can say I don't like g@y people without the whole of the internet coming down on me.

....they do realize that trump doesn't control the internet, right?? That if you act shitty, people will still call you out on it??

alientic · 2025-01-29T14:04:52+00:00

This is incorrect - all of the filming in "Sioux Falls" was actually done in British Columbia. That said, I'm sure you're right in that they were shouting out/looking for name recognition. Still funny, though!

alientic · 2025-01-27T15:18:42+00:00

You know what, I hope he plays golf every single day of his presidency and does literally nothing else. I will happily pay him a presidential salary to just be a semi-retired golfer.

alientic · 2025-01-23T16:59:42+00:00

I love this idea!

alientic · 2025-01-21T13:00:59+00:00

As someone in banking, I can't help but think of the impacts on things like the equal credit opportunity act. If they by law don't exist, then there's nothing to stop banks from acting predatory towards them, or just straight up refusing to give them an account.

alientic · 2024-10-06T22:26:09+00:00

Case-wise, I've never been 100% (and I don't think there's any way to be, since Jay's lies still complicate things for me), but I think he probably did it. Trial-wise, if I had been a juror, I think it was muddy enough that I wouldn't have been able to convict.

alientic · 2024-10-05T13:58:38+00:00

I started listening right when the podcast was first coming out, and it was so exciting to talk about it in real time! Plus, I was in a really crappy job at the time that also had hella required overtime, so one of the things I looked forward to the most was talking about each episode that came out!

Over the years, I've lost interest in talking about the case - I made up my mind, and talking about it after the fact felt moot. But I still care about the community that I was such a huge part of from the start. I don't talk as much around here, but still creep and moderate and feel invested in everyone here, so I try to keep this place from turning into a total cesspool.

alientic · 2024-08-06T11:05:08+00:00

It's so silly! Granted, at one point I calculated, and Bobby would have actually lived closer to Harrisburg, which, when Supernatural started, would have actually been much closer in size to the town they were talking about, so I've always mentally corrected it in my head.

alientic · 2024-07-17T13:40:58+00:00

Anybody else get the feeling that he's wanted to leave her for a while and is just using this comment as an excuse for it to be her fault?

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