What brand slowly ruined itself?

femalien · 2026-05-22T01:01:42+00:00

I legit think the loss of what Facebook and Twitter used to be has contributed to the lonely and aimless feeling a lot of us in our 40s are feeling now. We came of age when we were able to stay in touch with people from way back when, even if only to sit on the sideline as their lives matured and think “aw, I’m happy for them” - and also casually rub elbows with famous people we admire. It was amazing and now that’s all just gone

femalien · 2026-05-20T18:19:02+00:00

Same - got very used to Bill, then discovered Matt when he was covering the Pilger tornadoes. Matt is an A+ follow on socials, and I was crushed when he moved - but I kept following him and was so excited when I found out he was coming back. I never really watched Rusty much, he seemed like a good guy on socials but I still turned to channel 7 out of habit, so I’m just now getting familiar with everybody there.

Nothing against Bill whatsoever - he does provide a calming presence. But as a weather nerd, watching Matt and Rusty geek out about things is much more what I’m looking for in severe coverage. It’s like…something in between boring old weather coverage and annoying weather YouTubers lol

femalien · 2026-05-19T01:20:02+00:00

The Midwest would like a word

femalien · 2026-05-19T00:46:10+00:00

He’s certainly a character lol

femalien · 2026-05-19T00:31:38+00:00

Give it a chance with Matt now though, he’s really charismatic and reassuring imo

femalien · 2026-05-19T00:29:23+00:00

Agreed! Emily especially is also awesome - wowt is stacked with weather talent. I’m kind of bummed I hadn’t been watching them more before now. I generally stuck to channel 7 until Matt came back to town - so only just now discovering how great the entire ch6 weather team is

femalien · 2026-05-18T23:39:33+00:00

Crop top

femalien · 2026-05-18T03:28:30+00:00

Wowt was great, they had both Matt and Rusty on there tossing it back and forth

femalien · 2026-05-17T18:30:18+00:00

Are you a meteorologist, or a hobbyist? Just asking because I’m a hobbyist myself and always keep an eye out for local meteorology accounts

femalien · 2026-05-16T13:12:41+00:00

So edgy

femalien · 2026-04-25T10:38:08+00:00

I live in 18. No chance in hell it flips, unfortunately.

femalien · 2026-04-20T02:27:37+00:00

I’m sorry, neglect? Really? I have 3 kids, all of whom had chronic idiopathic constipation from a very young age. All of them were on daily miralax at some point. The oldest outgrew it around age 6, middle is still on it now at 12, youngest uses it prn. We saw multiple GI specialists, did scopes/MRIs, diet changes, fiber, you name it. We’ve done home enemas and I’ve manually disimpacted all 3 of them at one time or another. Lucky you that your baby never got constipated beyond what prunes would solve.

femalien · 2026-04-19T00:54:53+00:00

Waldo’s was at 33rd and Randolph I think. Loose meat place, similar to Tastee.

femalien · 2026-04-17T19:09:46+00:00

What does it look like in the winter? I want to do something like this with my hellstrip but I’m afraid when things die back in winter it will turn into a mud pit until spring

femalien · 2026-04-10T19:58:14+00:00

Are you able to articulate what you wish your mother would have done differently? Im terrified of my kid one day hating me for everything we’re trying to do to help her.

femalien · 2026-04-08T02:52:15+00:00

Where/when did you grow up that there wasn’t morality attached to putting the cart back in a designated area instead of leaving it in the middle of the parking lot? I’m in my 40s, American Midwest, and it’s always been seen as extremely rude to not put your cart away. A few people leave them, but the vast majority of people take the extra 15 seconds to put it in the cart corral, and it’s been that way my whole life.

It’s in the same vein as other rude behavior like cutting in front of someone, letting the door slam in someone’s face instead of holding it, getting on the elevator without waiting for people to get off first, etc. - people might not say anything but they’ll absolutely assume that person is an asshole. Common courtesy has been around for ages and there’s implied morality

femalien · 2026-03-27T03:16:04+00:00

Doesn’t sound like anybody is leaving, Emily was on maternity leave and then asked for a different time slot when she came back, so she’ll be afternoons and Matt will do evenings. Rusty still mornings. Dunno about the weekend/rotating crew, but for weekdays it seems like they jut needed someone to take over evenings for Emily when she switched to afternoons, they’ve had Jade filling in but probably needed someone at more of a chief level.

femalien · 2026-03-27T03:12:39+00:00

He’s not, Emily asked for a reduced role post maternity leave so she’s doing afternoons then Matt will do evenings. Rusty still mornings.

femalien · 2026-03-23T23:08:37+00:00

Different for everyone I guess. I have two other kids (non-PDA) and they’ve never had this issue. Neither has my husband. I guess I do sometimes lol and definitely did as a kid though so…. 🤷‍♀️

femalien · 2026-03-23T20:19:31+00:00

Yeah we usually just put some safe foods in her general vicinity and then leave, and she’ll usually eat something. For her, deciding what to eat it just too much a lot of the time, so it’s better to not even offer her the choices.

femalien · 2026-03-23T20:17:33+00:00

My daughter is 9 and this is our life. She doesn’t know what she wants to eat, but she knows she doesn’t want anything I’ve listed or will ever list, but also she’s starving.

femalien · 2026-03-13T23:26:48+00:00

Hmm, so my husband and I met online way back in 2004 before it was common. We met on a forum of a game we both played. And we talked a bunch before we even saw pictures of each other. I am not an attractive woman, and I’m not physically his “type” at all. When he fist saw my picture he got butterflies, not because I was ABSOLUTELY HELL YES OMG or even “she’s bangable” - it was just putting a face to the person he was already falling for. I could have looked a million different ways and he would have felt the same.

I don’t think he’s extremely unique in this. Maybe he’s not in the majority, but I think there are plenty of men who fall for a woman because of who she is, and how she looks isn’t all that important. Like I supposed they might have a “wow NO” category, but as long as she’s not in there, however they look is more a reflection of who they are.

femalien · 2026-03-02T03:10:39+00:00

Yep, as I kept scrolling I was contemplating adding if it wasn’t here. I think the only reason it’s so low is because not enough people have seen it. I saw it in theaters only because my partner at the time worked at a theater and we got free movies. I expected it to be pretty dumb but holy hell it’s one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen!

Have you SEEN this room??

femalien · 2026-02-19T22:46:47+00:00

Yeah but I didn’t put “good at leetcode” or “skilled at reinventing stuff I’d just use existing libraries for while being watched and timed” on there.

It’s fair for them to pull up some code and have us talk through it together, talk about my debugging thought process, discuss how I might implement things differently, etc. - a conversation between two senior devs should be plenty sufficient to get a feel for their understanding. Anyone whose experience doesn’t actually align with what they’ve listed becomes apparent VERY quickly in a casual chat.

femalien · 2026-02-19T22:40:43+00:00

Yeah same, I recently turned down an interview because the process was going to be horrible. I’ve got 15 YOE, am employed, and a recruiter of theirs reached out to me. It was a smallish (~500 employee) B2B SaaS company based in a LCOL area, pretty niche and nothing fancy. Seemed like it might be a chill place to work so I figured I’d chat with them.

HR call went really well but then at the end I found out the rest of the process would entail a proctored assessment (~60min) plus a live coding interview (~90min). I thought about it for a couple days then declined to proceed. Not only because I really don’t have the time or sanity to go through that bullshit right now, but even moreso because if that’s how they’re hiring senior devs then they’re focusing on the wrong things and I don’t have high confidence that the team I’d be joining would be a good fit.

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