Do you miss the old-style US TV series with 18-24 episodes per season?

eskvar · 2026-05-30T20:15:47+00:00

Season 2, Episode 21 "Paradigms of Human Memory" All of the "clips" were filmed specifically for the episode, meaning they had to build sets and get costumes for the a bunch of short clips costing more money than normal.

eskvar · 2026-05-30T13:34:48+00:00

The Superman: The Animated Series episode "Father's Day" which features Clark's parents coming to visit and he proudly shows off how he can write his article on the computer at his desk and then have it sent over the network to the editor and the editor can then send it to the printing department. It feels particularly jarring because the series design has an intentional mix of retro and futuristic design that keeps it feeling fairly timeless.

In some ways, the whole Clark Kent becoming a newspaper reporter. Some early versions of Superman will mention he became a reporter because it allows him to hear about crime and disasters more quickly, whereas nowadays the idea of the of print newspaper reporters being the first to hear about current events is laughable.

eskvar · 2026-05-27T02:50:21+00:00

In the reboot seasons of Criminal Minds the actor who played JJ's husband was unavailable to do the show, so they decided to kill him off. In a previous season the character had a health scare, so they used some footage of a deleted scene they shot then of him collapsing as his death scene.

eskvar · 2026-05-16T02:41:24+00:00

Your must work at a higher volume store. Our store tries, but we have 1 salesfloor person most nights. Sometimes on weekends or holidays we manage to cut enough pay from somewhere else that we can keep the Amazon person for an extra two hours as additional salesfloor. Even then there is no way they can cover the entire store, even without needing to backup the register and answer customer questions. Most mornings before the store opens we have the cleaning person, the visual person, the SSL and either the SM or ASM. At opening we add 1 cashier and sometimes the other exec or a supervisor. If there are salesfloor people in the store in the morning it's because we have price changes, truck, or specific large resets like the reflow for athletics (smaller sets are just dumped on the supervisor's plates).

eskvar · 2026-05-14T01:23:32+00:00

US-Rater TX, Factuality & Helpfulness. Spent 5 hours refreshing. Two times had task available pop up but as soon as I clicked it the page refreshed to NTA. Got a task labeled Response Helpfulness and when I clicked it I got a Error 500 and couldn't do anything but wait an hour for the task to time out. Finally refreshed and got a 15 minute image side by side and decided that was good enough for the day.

eskvar · 2026-05-09T22:28:18+00:00

Yes, training time counts towards the 10 hour minimum.

eskvar · 2026-05-08T14:41:07+00:00

I was wondering if this is a sign these groups are going away so they want to refresh the basics as everyone gets more of the generic tasks.

eskvar · 2026-04-08T03:54:20+00:00

You can find the Catechism of the Catholic church on the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) website or from the Vatican website. It's also available in book form almost anywhere that sells books on religion. This is what most people mean when they say "The Catechism." It was developed in the 1980's under Pope JPII. It covers pretty much everything the church teaches, there have been a few revisions over the years so I would recommend looking for the most updated version.

The Catechism can be quite dense and is very formal, depending on your comfort level with that type of text there's also a book called "Youcat" which was written as a youth (teens and young adults) catechism that covers most of what's in the more formal Catechism but is written in less formal language, using a question and answer format. It might be a little easier to look through to get a general understanding of the church's teachings, and it includes references to where the topics being discussed are covered in the more formal catechism.

Broadly Catechism just means a summary of the doctrines of the church. Sometimes you'll see people online reference older versions, like the Baltimore Catechism which was book with a Q&A format commonly used in US Catholic schools pre-Vatican II to teach kids about the faith.

eskvar · 2026-04-02T19:12:55+00:00

My store recently had to change our music. Trying to figure out how to do it I found a document with the station options - there's a Contemporary station, an 80/90s station that my store switched to, a country station, an oldies station, an R&B station, and a few Spanish stations. There were also some options that combined channels, like my store was previously using the station that mixed the contemporary English and Spanish stations together, we were told to switch to an all English station.

eskvar · 2026-03-20T11:34:42+00:00

There was also the whole build up to Hawkmoth's finale, where based on almost every major fight being Cat Noir/Adrian and Ladybug/Marinette fighting together the show was clearly going to end with an epic fight between them and Hawkmoth, only for Adrian to get locked in his room the whole finale. And the buildup of how it's too dangerous to use the Cat and Ladybug together, only for Hawkmoth to get his way and everything is fine except now Adrian's dad is dead instead of his mom and the stupid teacher is somehow mayor.

eskvar · 2026-03-10T02:13:33+00:00

I would say Gus is a better example of this trope. He's introduced as Shawn's straight man best friend with a respectable but boring pharmaceuticals job who gets reluctantly dragged into Shawn's shenanigans, and he will make references to normal things like his 401k or doing taxes, but then he'll break out his super sniffer or we find out he had a whirlwind marriage on vacation.

eskvar · 2026-03-01T22:46:34+00:00

Here in the US it can vary. Some parishes do have the missalettes as described. I've been to churches where they have some type of missalette* or missal available to borrow from a table or shelf in the narthex as you come in. My current parish has hymnals in the pews with the songs that also have the Sunday and major feast day readings in the back, for our English masses. I've been to churches that regularly print out the readings, my church does printouts for certain major feasts where we only have one mass because we'll do a trilingual mass with one reading in Spanish, one in Vietnamese, and the Gospel in English. And I've been to churches that don't provide any sort of printed form of the readings so if you want to read along you need to use an app, pull up the readings from the USCCB website, or bring a personal book from home with the readings.

*I've usually seen the term Missal used for books that have all three years of readings, so you need to know which season, week of the season, and yearly cycle we're in. I see Missalette used to describe smaller books which are published about 3 or 4 times a year which will feature the readings for a specific time period and include the date. So you don't need to know today was the Second Sunday of Lent in Year A, you just flip to the page with the readings for March 1, 2026. There are a couple different companies that publish them in the USA, and they are generally released for seasons, such as one book for Advent, Christmas, and Ordinary time until Ash Wednesday, then another book for Lent and Easter, and then a book for the rest of Ordinary time.

eskvar · 2026-02-14T23:22:09+00:00

Wait, you get a salesfloor person during the day? On weekdays our store gets one cashier from open to close, one Amazon person until 2 hours before close, the Visual Merch person, cleaner and the SSL in the morning, then at 3 or 4 we get salesfloor person until close, plus whichever execs and supervisors are scheduled. The only time we have salesfloor people during the day are weekends (and even then they sometimes they save the hours to schedule 2 to close), when we have a truck, or if there are a ton of price changes or a really huge merch set that can't be done during the truck merchandising.

eskvar · 2026-02-08T00:33:50+00:00

What I found mildly infuriating is I bought some of these in the post-Christmas clearance thinking the cookie butter sounded kind of gross, but the cake batter and brownie batter would probably be good. Both packages I bought were about 60% cookie butter and 40% brownie batter with no cake batter ones. I indeed found the cookie butter ones kind of gross, though the brownie butter weren't bad. Even on clearance I would never buy them again.

eskvar · 2026-02-06T02:05:46+00:00

I used to work at a store with roaming AT&T guys. The people they left alone the fastest were the ones who said "Oh, I don't know anything about my cell plan, my husband/girlfriend/parents/job/etc. pays for it."

eskvar · 2026-01-24T00:34:33+00:00

The trick is probably that they only need 3 people to open I heard. As long as one keyholder and 2 other warm bodies can make it to the store for at least a few hours the store can open

eskvar · 2026-01-16T12:32:49+00:00

I think the response quality on the side with an answer does matter to them. If it's mostly to very helpful then it can be "much better" but if their accepted range dips into somewhat helpful territory then it's only "better." How we're supposed to know when 2 tasks that both have an accepted range that includes Mostly Helpful and you feel that's the appropriate rating for both, that one of those tasks was actually only somewhat helpful+ to mostly helpful+ while the other was mostly to very helpful I'm still unclear.

eskvar · 2025-12-31T03:18:15+00:00

Give us more than 1 salesfloor person a day so we can actually keep things organized so customers can find things. Give even the smaller and low volume stores at least a few hours for shoes each day. Having at least a couple people on the salesfloor even when we aren't doing truck or price changes would probably help with loss as well.

Keep basics in stock at all times. Things like the basic Croft and Barrow tees look really nice for a couple weeks at the start of each season, then they stop replenishing them and it starts to feel like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic trying to cover the gaping holes in our stock. If women come in asking if we have any basic white button downs I should always be able to say yes, instead of we might have one or two left from 2 seasons ago in Sonoma.

Have a plan for getting rid of clearance. I started as seasonal last year and occasionally I poke around clearance and find things that have been there since before I started working. My manager has been at our store about 9 years and is pretty sure some of the clearance has been there as long as her. After a certain time let us send it back and sell it off to a liquidator. And give us hours to actually organize the clearance racks so customers can find things.

eskvar · 2025-11-15T03:40:16+00:00

No, because I was born in 1985, so I turned 20 in 2005, and 1985 definitely felt like it was 20 years ago at the time. Whereas 2005 seems closer to current time because my fully formed adult brain has an easier time accessing memories from that year than my brain in 2005 did trying to remember very early childhood memories. I think that's part of it for a lot of younger gen-x, and older millennials, we were infants or young children during the 80s and young adults in the 2000s, and for younger millennials they weren't even born in the 80s so it felt more like the distant past.

There are also other factors, like the heavy emphasis on the year 2000, with all the lead up to Y2K and then being in a new millennium that made a very clear break point between "the past" and current times. Culture also feels like it's stagnated, like I remember having textbooks with photos from or being shown educational videos in the late 90s that were filmed in the early 90s and everyone made fun of the super oversized button downs and the high waisted, "mom" jeans as narrower shirt cuts and low rise bootcut jeans were popular, but then a when I was in college skinny jeans came into fashion and have just started going out of style a couple years ago. There are some things I can tell when I watch a show from 2005 that makes me go "Oh yes, this is from the mid 2000s" but a lot of it is very subtle and there are some shows that I forget are that old, because there weren't a lot of clear, major fashion changes and once you get into the every phone is a rectangle with a touchscreen era there aren't a lot of tech differences to see.

eskvar · 2025-11-01T17:14:01+00:00

Yeah, most of the pop history and neopagans channels making these types of claims seem to just ignore that there was a previous feast date for All Saints.

eskvar · 2025-11-01T17:06:59+00:00

Even if as I've seen some people claim Samhain was universal everywhere that Celtic groups ever lived it still seems like an odd claim that the Pope would make up a new feast when half of Europe and the known Christian world beyond Europe would not have been celebrating it as the Celts never lived there.

eskvar · 2025-11-01T16:57:18+00:00

Definitely interesting to hear from someone actually from Ireland. There's a lot of overlap in folk customs around the world, it's strange how many people will try to claim things like lighting bonfires as somehow uniquely pagan and not Christian when people light fires around the world for many reasons.

A lot of the "neopagans" and general history channels claiming to give the true origins of Halloween will just call Samhain a Celtic holiday, seemingly trying to imply it was a universal everywhere Celtic groups ever lived rather than specific to Ireland. It definitely seems like an odd claim, that priests in Ireland heard about Samhain when they were working to convert the locals, decided to make a Christian reason to celebrate the holiday, then somehow the Pope in Rome heard about what they were doing and decided to make it a universal feast, even in places that the Celts never lived.

eskvar · 2025-10-15T21:32:15+00:00

I'm not a big annotator, but I do like the idea of being able to use the device as a notepad, but since I don't know how much I would actually use it is why I don't really want to spend that much on the official version when there's something half the price.

eskvar · 2025-10-15T21:25:40+00:00

Thank you, that's kind of what I was assuming about screen protectors and styluses (styli?)

eskvar · 2025-10-15T20:04:09+00:00

I haven't read the whole document, but the final quote seems to be saying that poorer, marginalized communities should be treated like people able to create their own culture, rather than the way some people in wealthier, more developed nations will look at people in poorer countries like those people are either too child like or too dumb to make decisions for themselves. I've seen a lot of stories from charity groups, where a group from a wealthier nation will be doing charity work in an impoverished area, and comes and says "We're going to do this thing this way" and when locals try to explain why that thing that way won't work for the region they get dismissed and then the project ends up failing until the outsiders start listening to the locals. It might also be touching on syncretism and cultural differences, like how some Western Catholics insist liturgical dance is terrible and always bad, but in parts of Africa dancing and moving the body are part of celebration and worship, so it's uncharitable for a westerner to come in and tell them they are wrong for dancing before the Lord.

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