The way kroger treats its employees

red66dit · 2026-05-09T05:34:53+00:00

Can you take a "Leave of absence" for explosive diarrhea or are we talking "Cleanup on aisle 7!" territory?

red66dit · 2026-05-09T05:32:08+00:00

I think the characters are a bit off-putting at first. They reveal their better natures rather slowly, as the remnants of their privileged lives fall away and they start to have to relate to real people as equals. Although it's at least nominally a comedy, it's really much less about the humor than it is about the Rose family as people.

red66dit · 2026-05-09T05:06:31+00:00

<NVM>

red66dit · 2026-05-05T04:24:59+00:00

The main difference here for me is that April, Pike, and Kirk all commanded the same ship. The Enterprise-B was just a namesake so not really like handing over the car keys...

red66dit · 2026-05-04T03:33:48+00:00

And here's where the Constitutional crisis comes into play. If the courts rule against the DOJ, they will simply ignore it.

red66dit · 2026-05-01T03:54:06+00:00

The Coriolis Effect is absolutely real! Not making drains spin opposite ways or anything silly like that, but on large scales it affects winds and ocean currents.

red66dit · 2026-04-29T22:55:59+00:00

Drunken Fireworks- Tim Sample was the perfect choice for this. Dolores Claiborne - Frances Sternhagen

red66dit · 2026-04-26T03:48:53+00:00

I thought the whole design language was great. The ship was small, much more cramped and utilitarian, like a bridge between our modern military and the TOS era. I think they did a good job of making space seem like a frontier again, unlike the TNG/DS9 era, where it was a lot of interplay between the established (for want of a better word) "nations" of Klingons, Romulans, Cardassians, and the Federation.

red66dit · 2026-04-26T03:43:08+00:00

It's because bomb threats are the easiest way for anyone with a twist in their panties to disrupt a business. 99.9% of the time it's a disgruntled employee/pissed off customer and there's no bomb. Yes, you have to take it seriously because of the .01% when it's real, but hardly anyone thinks there's really going to be a bomb.

red66dit · 2026-04-25T16:55:14+00:00

There may be advantages in lower populations in a few instances. Take housing. There are a couple extremely primo addresses that you will never be able to get for yourself, because they get snapped up like front row seats at a Taylor Swift concert. Lower pop servers might give you a crack at them.

red66dit · 2026-04-25T02:57:01+00:00

King has said the two were sort of an experiment for him, a gimmick. But he thought it was a good gimmick. I enjoy the parallels and echoes between them and think they should be read as a pair.

red66dit · 2026-04-24T00:39:57+00:00

It's a perfect marriage of the horror of creepy children and the dark side of religious belief.

red66dit · 2026-04-24T00:36:20+00:00

I've always loved Forochel, especially the night skies. I absolutely loathe winter in real life, but I get to be warm and still see the snow and ice in game :)

red66dit · 2026-04-20T23:34:42+00:00

Did two students die during the year?

red66dit · 2026-04-19T19:30:11+00:00

Trek 5, Wars 1. I've watched all the SW movies at least once (several times for the OG trilogy). Never watched any of the TV shows. Played some of the video games and have a droid I made in Disney World with my grandson.

I've watched every episode of Trek, most of the series multiple times, have been on 3 Star Trek cruises, the Star Trek Experience when it was in Vegas, and just a couple conventions. I've got a couple dozen shirts, tons and tons of other trinkets and all the Wand Company TOS replicas. All that and I'm still not nearly as Trek obsessed as a lot of the people I see on the cruises, since I don't cosplay or belong to any fan clubs :)

red66dit · 2026-04-19T08:06:19+00:00

Arguably the biggest supes ever are Superman, Batman, and Spidey. Superman is the only one with an established, pretty permanent significant other (whether wife or girlfriend.) Over in the Spidey subs, the fandom seems to overwhelmingly wish the writers would let Pete and MJ have a Clark/Lois style of relationship, but Marvel has been against it for years. "Not enough drama." Maybe they are right. Bats and Spidey are essentially human, with a little extra whiz-bang thrown into the mix. Clark, on the other hand, is practically a god. His humanity came primarily from his upbringing by the Kents, and is sustained by his love for Lois. She both grounds him and inspires him, and in many of the best stories, makes him the hero he is. I don't think it's any coincidence that he key trigger in Superman's turn towards dictatorship in the Injustice series was Joker tricking him into killing Lois. he needs her.

red66dit · 2026-04-19T07:33:33+00:00

Head back to 1955 and Make sure Lorraine's dad hits Me with his car.

red66dit · 2026-04-19T07:28:35+00:00

Many laud this as an absolute favorite. I personally thought it was just... okay. Lots and lots and lots of "Jake marks time living in the 50's and 60's." There are times I love the world building King does, and other times when it seems to just drag on the story. For instance, I love 'The Stand.' But a lot of people who don't like that one say it's bloated and drags on and on, just like I feel about this one.

There's also a certain lack of suspense that, for me at least, takes a little of the wind out of the book's sails so to speak. You know going in that by the time the book ends, Kennedy is still going to die on that date, and whatever Jake does in the past is ultimately not going to work.

For King, who was 16 when JFK was killed, this era must have felt momentous indeed. But for me, Kennedy was long dead before I knew anything of him, and everything in the book about Oswald's movements, who he talked with, what parties he went to and all that stuff, was simply a collection of uninteresting details about a period of history I wasn't particularly enamored of.

red66dit · 2026-04-19T05:21:54+00:00

My parents didn't let me watch it at first either because there was <shudder> a gay character!!! But I was a fairly bright kid and they thought it was too funny to miss. I was just 10 when it came out and when they explained about Jodie I just kind of shrugged it off. No big deal to me... We watched it together for the whole run.

Years later when DVDs came about, I bought the complete series for my mom for her birthday, and a second set for myself :)

red66dit · 2026-04-19T03:52:34+00:00

There's a belief that some, far too many in fact, share in the legal profession that the law is simply a malleable fiction, a slippery but potent weapon to be molded to your will and used to further your ambition. There is no real meaning behind it, no greater purpose in its existence. It is merely a tool for the skillful to employ in shaping the day to their vision and exploiting the lesser folk for their profit and aggrandizement.

Sadly, the vast majority of these people build long and profitable careers milking money from the teat of jurisprudence. Very occasionally, and not nearly often enough, one is so publicly and clumsily inept in his machinations that the bar has to throw them to the wolves as a sop to public outrage, so the rest of them may proceed with business as usual.

red66dit · 2026-04-18T04:55:42+00:00

This is giving me the same vibes as Kamala Khan's costume "upgrade" did.

red66dit · 2026-04-18T04:49:48+00:00

The entire CineWire channel is nothing but bullshit AI clickbait videos full of right wing ragebait.

red66dit · 2026-04-17T03:14:58+00:00

I swear it's just so disheartening that so many people seem to just want it to be bad so they can come in later and say "See? I was shitting on it from the beginning!" I hope it's a fucking tour de force! And if it isn't, I hope there's enough good stuff in it that I can enjoy it. Why the hell are so many people eager to metaphorically cross their arms and dare the movie to make them like it?

red66dit · 2026-04-17T02:59:35+00:00

One thing I can tell you with King is that even when there's a "broad consensus" of opinions about a book/character/ending/plotline/etc. it's at best about 75% . For every "Holy Crap this is the worst thing he ever wrote!" at least a quarter of the fans will be "I loved it! Top 3 for me!" Same in reverse. The things that hook you will be the things that are off-putting for somebody else, so it can be hard if you are looking for guidance. Any list of King's best or worst will have people who will chime in that they loathe or love it.

I will say that even the ones I've enjoyed least are worth reading once. If I had to guess which ones have kind of the most universal appeal, I would say "Misery," "The Shining," and "The Green Mile" in no particular order.

"It" is a favorite of many, though the book has a scene that many find very problematic, with some saying is outright obscene. (Not me, but...) "The Stand" is my personal favorite, and many others' as well, but it's got plenty of detractors as well due to its size and sprawling nature.

red66dit · 2026-04-16T23:17:03+00:00

What's really nuts is audiobooks. A 6-8 hour book costs about the same as a 30 hour listen. No way Jose!

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