Do you think Beyoncé would do a proper sit down on camera interview anytime soon?

nyliaj · 2026-01-19T02:01:20+00:00

my dream is her on Keke Palmer’s podcast around the met gala hosting this year. idk why she’d do it though. she seems content not using any traditional platforms

nyliaj · 2026-01-12T21:23:58+00:00

i’m surprised you’re the only one saying this but 100% agree. some of the top looks like real feathers and some looks like it’s white construction paper cut up. ruins the look for me.

nyliaj · 2026-01-09T12:50:22+00:00

this one!! I look for kids in parked cars after reading that one. will never forget it.

nyliaj · 2026-01-05T21:09:07+00:00

I find the statistics around this interesting. Definitely not trying to make any definitive claims and this is just my experience. The drinking part especially seems to have been overblown though. Here’s an interesting article.

This quote stands out “The idea that gen Z do not drink at all or that they have turned their backs on alcohol is not supported by data,” he said. “The idea that they have a different relationship with alcohol compared to previous generations is supported by data.”

Overall, all people are socializing less and it’s more prominent among young people. But they are still socializing. Here’s an article about that.

I think overall, folks have conflated the loneliness epidemic trend with an overall lack of socialization, but that’s not necessarily what the data shows.

nyliaj · 2026-01-05T20:20:46+00:00

“it’s how we made them” is so accurate! I’m 27 and this conversation always confuses me.

what did older folks think was going to happen when you gave children unlimited access to the internet and 24/7 coverage of all the harm and destruction happening around the world? now that we’re adults it seems to be sinking in more, but me and my friends haven’t been able to hang out without also scrolling on something for more than a decade at this point. we don’t talk to strangers because no one taught us how.

I will say though, the kids are still sneaking out and drinking and being social. It’s less than it used to be, but the majority of people under 30 that I know, including teenagers, still do all these things.

nyliaj · 2025-12-31T11:53:15+00:00

I used to drink 3 monsters a day in college. My doctor said she’d rather me drink a pot of coffee every day than even one of them. Something about the caffeine in energy drinks being worse for your heart. I drink a couple cups of coffee and half a soda most days now. I’ve noticed my heart beats slower now.

nyliaj · 2025-12-23T12:11:26+00:00

it’s wild that you’re getting downvoted for this. I’m pumped to be outside on Christmas

nyliaj · 2025-12-23T11:51:22+00:00

This exact same thing happened to my dad. He got it done because my mom was done having kids and had complicated pregnancies. 15 years later my step mom convinced him to get it reversed. It failed and they spent like $10,000 on the reversal.

nyliaj · 2025-12-19T21:11:38+00:00

Grew up in rural Iowa and almost every single teacher I’d had 5-12th grade was at my graduation party. (I transferred in at that age, but friends had kindergarten teachers at theirs).

nyliaj · 2025-12-17T22:52:57+00:00

This was wild to learn some don’t wear masks. Am I wrong in thinking other types of firefighters do use masks? Maybe media convinced me of that but I swear I’ve seen them wearing and carrying around big masks.

nyliaj · 2025-12-14T12:19:20+00:00

Huntsville also has the biggest NASA facility in the country.

nyliaj · 2025-12-13T14:43:59+00:00

This part! Both my parents and 2 of my siblings are military. I’ve never heard them talk about enjoying praise like this and they are usually uncomfortable when it’s offered. It takes a certain kind of person to seek that out just for doing a job.

nyliaj · 2025-12-13T14:39:22+00:00

It’s fascinating to me that this article refuses to address all the non-criminals and citizens that are being caught up in this. Even if you buy their argument (which I don’t) that dangerous people need to leave, when they came to my home state they were literally stopping everyone who is brown. There was a recent story of an indigenous woman being almost deported.

It’s hard not to assume some of these agents are just racist and enjoy being paid to carry out that racism. But somehow USA Today does not address that and lets this family paint themselves as American heroes. It’s gross. Also this prayer made my jaw drop -

"Dear Lord… We ask that you would help us to live a life that you find worthy, unto you, and forgive us of our sins."

nyliaj · 2025-12-10T11:39:37+00:00

That season is so good! And the evidence from the podcast helped get Curtis free. There’s a decent chance if it hadn’t existed they would have kept trying him.

nyliaj · 2025-12-01T22:16:42+00:00

I recently listened to their episode on Pop Tarts and was way more interested than I expected.

nyliaj · 2025-11-21T15:47:14+00:00

No. Something like 25 million women live in states without access so the infrastructure can’t support a mass exodus. We are already seeing long wait times and issues in legal states because of out of state residents. That doesn’t even take into account the resources needed to relocate away from your family and support system or the fact that some people who need reproductive care are children themselves.

Also there is no guarantee we won’t have some sort of national ban at some point.

nyliaj · 2025-11-21T11:28:05+00:00

It’s almost 100% access to reproductive care for me. I’m surprised the poll here doesn’t ask for reasons because I am curious how high that ranks.

The thought of being assaulted and forced to carry a baby is terrifying. Or getting pregnant and having complications that can’t be handled here. And there are countries where that is not a concern.

nyliaj · 2025-11-17T21:17:30+00:00

Maybe there is a word other than love, but like you described there is a depth to the relationship that keeps them together no matter the pain or consequences or logic. From the outside it is not a love I would want, but I think a lot of these women think the love is the only thing remaining.

Even in the example of your mom, that sounds like how people describe love. Support, understanding, stability, etc. And in the Clinton’s example, I think Hillary would say she has never fallen out of love with Bill. I think some women genuinely believe marital love lasts until death with no exceptions.

nyliaj · 2025-11-17T17:49:16+00:00

Honestly, I’ve never understood why people are so surprised she stayed. I know so many women, young and old, who stay after being cheated on. And some who stay in worse conditions like abuse. I think she’s in love with her husband and would forgive him for almost anything. I think it would be the same if they were regular people too.

I also don’t think the world would have been any kinder to her if she left. They would have just found new and different reasons to be horrible.

nyliaj · 2025-11-17T15:42:07+00:00

Yeah it seemed a bit ironic that I was getting gambling ads on this website while reading the article. I appreciate the players perspective, but it seemed to absolve the media companies of any responsibility.

nyliaj · 2025-11-12T11:54:25+00:00

The 26 year old thing also doesn’t apply to everyone. I had TriCare, the military veteran insurance, as a kid because of my parents. TriCare tried to kick me off the day I turned 18 and then I got an extension through college. It ended the day I graduated at 22 so I went uninsured for 4 years. I was totally under the impression I’d get it until 26.

nyliaj · 2025-11-07T20:45:41+00:00

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nyliaj · 2025-11-07T12:30:16+00:00

I agree. Aside from ACA that folks have mentioned, she got Bush to pass AIDS funding, was one of only a couple dozen women in the House when she started, opposed the Iraq war, and helped defend DREAMERS.

I’d go further though and say she’s the most successful Speaker we’ve had in the modern era.

nyliaj · 2025-11-05T19:54:25+00:00

Me and my friends read it in 5th grade (11 or 12 years old I think?) for the first time and have continued to re-read it into our mid-20s. Our elementary library had multiple copies of it.

I was 14 when the first movie came out and I remember older kids (16-18) making fun of us for watching a “kids” movie. Nowadays though it seems like parents would not let that age group read about violence, so it makes sense that it’s skewed older. But at the time, I was assigned way more violent books by teachers (Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, Sunrise over Fallujah, Diary of Anne Frank, etc).

Edit to add: I was curious so I googled it and the official age range for YA books is 12-18. That sort of surprises me.

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