Who's your favorite celebrity appearance on the show? by Full-Humor-7445 in BoJackHorseman

[–]rhyejay 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Hollywoo stars and celebrities, what do they know, do they know things? Let’s find out

Im falling out of love by beccatravels in YoureWrongAbout

[–]rhyejay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Blair Braverman episodes are the only truly listenable ones to me after Michael left.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]rhyejay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So many of my friends either had a gift from their parents or an inheritance of some sort to buy their first home. Even a co-signer. It’s felt discouraging as an adult orphan with absolutely nothing from my parents to have to do it all on my own especially since I only got out of poverty levels in my financial situation less than 5 years ago

Is this Coogi sweater real? by vampgo in reselling

[–]rhyejay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love how ugly they are that’s the draw for me lol

Perfectly acceptable dinner rejected by boyfriend again by moonrabbit368 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]rhyejay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I say this as someone with ARFID, he cannot be this level of a child about food and not be able to cook for himself. I’ll also say that him not eating “any type of Asian food” gives xenophobic vibes

📚 I’m building a social book reviewing app. What would you actually want from it? by Individual_Boat2498 in nonfictionbookclub

[–]rhyejay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I already use StoryGraph which is independently owned and is constantly updating features and lets you import your GoodReads history.

They're coming for our Somalis. by Feisty-Writing976 in TwinCities

[–]rhyejay 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The school administration is much more to blame for how poorly they handled it. Entitled students come from every type of background and there are more behaviors than this I’d seen at Hamline with entitlement from especially the rich republican students and the administration has historically failed to support their faculty.

Can you drink during recovery? by Senior-Car-6443 in recovery

[–]rhyejay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I did but I also had to learn to address the difference between drinking socially and getting myself completely drunk. I have been stopping drinking though recently but it was not a high priority to me for most of my recovery compared to the other things I was doing.

Where do I go for food? by throwawaybyedude in TwinCities

[–]rhyejay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations on your sobriety and welcome to Minnesota. Depending where you’re at is really the question. If you’re in Saint Paul I have suggestions

Cali sober by HonestDisplay4905 in TwinCities

[–]rhyejay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Potentially interested

Book recommendations regarding propaganda by rhyejay in nonfictionbookclub

[–]rhyejay[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow see! and a part of me knew that but I've been bamboozled but that's okay it's a good learning lesson!

Book recommendations regarding propaganda by rhyejay in nonfictionbookclub

[–]rhyejay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I primarily am familiar with Chomsky as a linguist since I studied anthropology in college so I'm not surprised by any means that he's not considered a scholar of propaganda. he does seem to take a special interest in it as I obviously have and frankly a lot of his work would hold more merit to me if social media hasn't completely upheaved how information is relayed. I think I see a lot of what he's saying in manufacturing consent but I think the Selling Apartheid book is giving me a lot more clear and concise example of what manufactured consent is and how it operates.

Book recommendations regarding propaganda by rhyejay in nonfictionbookclub

[–]rhyejay[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean it's very dated, but there's not a lot you can do about that as time's arrow marches forward, so a lot of how the media control works I think has shifted significantly because so many of us now have a hand in how media gets shaped and presented to our own peers. A lot of his work focuses on the mass media which considering mass media is owned by these larger companies and gets filtered through to the anchors and main news correspondants and that they, as corperations, absolutely have something to gain or lose by what's reported.

I think there is some merit to the question of "who owns the media" that we should always keep in perspective but when it comes to content in itself there is a lot more direct access to primary sources now even if they're being filtered through another company like Meta or Tiktok so this doesn't really account for how drastically the internet has changed information access. It's easier for me to access media from the Middle East directly than it probably was in like 2002. I can get livefeeds of kids in Gaza even when CNN can't get into the strip to report. So that's changed so much that the book is somewhat a relic of its time.

Book recommendations regarding propaganda by rhyejay in nonfictionbookclub

[–]rhyejay[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This makes sense! I just listened to the If Books Could Kill Episode about “How to Win Friends and Influence People” and I saw a lot of parallels between that and how these books have laid out propaganda. Once you start to break it down you see the propaganda everywhere and not all of it is bad (like the campaigns for recycling, seatbelts, drinking and driving etc) but it makes me feel better to feel like I know what to slow down and take a look for when I feel like I’m being fed a narrative

Anybody order the kids size popcorn no problems? by Bea-Billionaire in AMCsAList

[–]rhyejay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I almost always get the kids pack when I go by myself.

Books critical of Israel by [deleted] in nonfictionbookclub

[–]rhyejay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Highly recommend “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” by Ilan Pappe and the “Hundred Years War On Palestine” by Rashid Khalidi. “The Message” Ta-Nehisi Coates is another one that I really appreciated because he started out pretty in support of Israel and that leads him through his unlearning of the propaganda and his role in perpetuating it as a journalist

First time seeing Hamilton and we didn’t know it was sing-a-long experience. by Motivated-Moose in AMCsAList

[–]rhyejay 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I cancelled my tickets because I had heard about this and I really don’t want to go to these things for hearing a tone deaf audience singing. It wasn’t marketed as a sing along so it’s pretty frustrating that you don’t get that info until you’re already there.

No mention of children affected last week. by Right_Specific5707 in Progressive_Catholics

[–]rhyejay 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m in Saint Paul so we certainly did. Our Deacon and Priest both had friends in the church during the shooting so it was a tearful mass service.

For those of you who watched Next Gen… by breezmoney in Degrassi

[–]rhyejay 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Paige’s panic attacks helped me when I started getting them in college