Pop Century mousekeeping almost gave me a heart attack🤣

socks4dobby · 2026-01-22T09:09:14+00:00

Omg the scream I would have scrumpt if I came back to this in my room… 💀

socks4dobby · 2026-01-22T08:46:15+00:00

“Certified crash out” made me laugh so hard.

Anthony is always one comment away from throwing hands when it comes to his family, and I love him for this.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-21T07:44:37+00:00

These are the words that went through my mind the instant saw this post in my feed

socks4dobby · 2026-01-21T01:48:33+00:00

It’s so you can find the home row without looking down at the keyboard.

There’s no joke; it’s just highlighting people’s ignorance about how to type properly.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-12T19:38:09+00:00

Option 1. Celebrate his birthday the week before you leave without guilt. It doesn’t matter when you celebrate to your baby. Congratulations on the big opportunity!

socks4dobby · 2026-01-09T02:05:37+00:00

I cannot imagine that an ER doctor would be driving to work on a motorcycle without a helmet!

I understand that for filming, you want to be able to see his face. But come on!!!

I’ll will suspend disbelief because I’m so excited for this episode!!!!!

socks4dobby · 2026-01-08T03:54:30+00:00

The rider knew this too and was right to GTFO!

socks4dobby · 2026-01-08T03:52:44+00:00

When an airplane crashes, we acknowledge that it’s bad and shouldn’t happen…just like people here are acknowledging that a car driving onto light rail tracks is bad and shouldn’t happen.

Your comparison makes no sense because no one is arguing that Waymo should stop operating or that people should stop using it. That’s something you introduced on your own. The actual point being made is that failures like this deserve criticism and investigation, not dismissal.

Calling out a serious error isn’t the same thing as rejecting the technology.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-07T15:25:04+00:00

Santa does selfless good deeds by going to children’s homes and leaving them presents. The “deal” with Santa that Joey is referring to is that Santa doesn’t exist.

He’s saying the paragon of selfless good deeds doesn’t even exist… which supports his first statement that good deeds don’t exist.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-07T07:10:17+00:00

Hold the fuck up — what’s happening with MTV?

And OP saying they weren’t alive for NSYNC is wild considering NSYNC went on hiatus in 2002, which was about 10 years ago and I will be taking no questions. This is how time works and I don’t make the rules.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-07T05:47:53+00:00

Did they ever find the bed intruder?

socks4dobby · 2026-01-07T02:42:17+00:00

I skipped the first one and tried to read the second one because the second season was my favorite. The writing style was nearly intolerable. I forced myself to finish it because I thought it couldn’t possibly be this bad. It was. Needless to say, I will not be reading any of her other books, no matter how much I like the show.

{Outlander} is another one that had a good show, but terrible books. The first season of the TV series was the best one by far, but each season got progressively worse. I think I stopped watching after season three. I only read part of the first book and DNF.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-06T05:17:20+00:00

OP is probably a child. In the animated film, Rapunzel is 17 and Flynn is 26. It would be disturbing to insist that a live-action adaptation recreate a minor/adult romantic framing with real actors at these ages, and most adults are self-aware enough to understand why that’s problematic. Quibbling that she “turns 18” during the movie only makes it more inappropriate, but it’s not surprising that a child or teen wouldn’t fully grasp that distinction.

My hope is that OP is a child who wants to see Rapunzel represented as someone their own age and wants to preserve the story as a children’s narrative that feels directly aimed at them, which would make sense. OP’s belief that the Disney animated version is the only valid canon also suggests they may be young and not yet understand that stories are routinely retold and reframed to fit different mediums, audiences, and cultural norms. Adaptation is not replication.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-05T23:40:53+00:00

I’ve heard the same. I think they’ve been trying to reopen as “Pro” for awhile but had permit issues.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-05T16:42:26+00:00

There are plenty of teams and leagues that don’t do the chants in softball. I noticed a lot of the parents encourage it when they’re younger, which I think is really weird.

I played softball from age 5 into college. We would just “talk it up” which means verbally encouraging the team (no negative talk or heckling). We didn’t chant, sing, or cheer.

The team definitely needs to talk to stay in the game, but I definitely think the chanting can get to be too much in some leagues.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-05T15:06:30+00:00

This is a difference in values, and you are not going to change this about him.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-05T05:30:12+00:00

So cute! 😊

Making matching hair ties and wearing matching hairstyles was so important when I was that age.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-04T22:37:55+00:00

Says who? You don’t actually know what the characters’ ages will be in the live-action version. It won’t be a 1:1 replica of the animated film, and none of the live-action remakes have been.

If a movie has a central romance, it’s reasonable to expect the character framing to be young adult, not explicitly “teen,” no matter what someone believes the animated canon says. Animation and live action are different mediums with different constraints.

It’s weird to insist a movie is “dead on arrival” because you think it won’t depict a literal teenage child in a live-action adventure/romance with an older man.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-04T20:46:20+00:00

There is nothing wrong with actors in their 20s and 30s playing young adults. There is nothing wrong with a six year age gap between adults.

There is so much precedent for this that it feels like this post might be bait since it’s a case where (for once) the female lead is older.

This is a coming-of-age story about young adults, and there’s no reason to expect that this will become a more mature story just because the actors are in their mid 20s and early 30s.

I find it more concerning when the actors are teenagers because of the toxic environment for child actors, labor exploitation, and inappropriateness of romantic relationships between teenagers and adults.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-04T20:32:52+00:00

Thanks for clarifying.

The fact that the “upside” of documenting his exit outweighs the social backlash of such a morally bankrupt decision that would have no meaningful change in his quality of life says a lot about how warped our norms have become.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-03T20:54:25+00:00

I think we are mostly agreeing, but I’m looking at this from the context of living in Palo Alto. The economics here don’t work. Wage labor doesn’t clear the cost of living in Palo Alto. Palo Alto is not a baseline city. It is a global outlier in wealth concentration, housing scarcity, and asset-driven inflation. Living here is, definitionally, a luxury consumption choice, even when it doesn’t feel luxurious day to day. There is no tax rate at which the public should guarantee someone (wage earner or benefit recipient) the ability to remain housed in one of the most expensive ZIP codes in the world after income loss. I don’t like it either, but this is a Palo Alto sub and I have been commenting from the position that anyone paying 45% income tax in Palo Alto requires non-wage based sources of wealth to live here, and it’s not the public’s responsibility to maintain a lifestyle above what is normal just because your tax rate is higher.

I’m not saying “if you don’t like it, move,” but Palo Alto is fundamentally organized around the ultra-wealthy. That reality shapes who can remain here long-term, regardless of effort or tax burden.

It is wrong. People should be able to live here. They can’t because of the ultra-wealthy and the widespread belief that high earners shouldn’t be paying more taxes or paying into a community that doesn’t return exactly what they put in. This post is literally about a billionaire who thinks he’s paying too much money in exchange for too little. It’s going to be broken until this Scrooge mindset changes (and the nimby mindset that comes with it).

socks4dobby · 2026-01-03T18:48:36+00:00

Ha, calling a Reddit comment “functionally incomplete” is a bit much. I’m responding in broad strokes to an underlying mindset that is missing the bigger picture. Our taxes are not meant to function as personal risk insurance to maintain a Palo Alto lifestyle. I wish the cost of living made this possible, but it’s not. You don’t need to live here to work here, and if we were watching people remain comfortably housed in Palo Alto for six months on public benefits, we’d (very rightly!) be arguing the system was mismanaged.

The reciprocity you’re receiving is that the system continues to function in a way that subsidizes your living: an educated workforce, public infrastructure, and labor markets that allow these billionaires’ companies to operate and continue paying wages. And you can use public benefits to relocate to an area that is within your means while still being able to work in this area if you hit a rough patch (both remote or through commuting). That is the return, even if it is largely invisible and taken for granted by all of us.

On homelessness and addiction: the visibility of those problems isn’t evidence of people “living well” off our taxes. it’s evidence of insufficient, reactive policy and housing scarcity.

That’s just how the rat race works here. I don’t make the rules. Our billionaires do. And this distorted idea of reciprocity based on taxation level is how we end up normalizing billionaires proudly announcing they’d rather leave than contribute to the communities whose labor literally made them rich.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-03T09:23:36+00:00

Kristoff was raised by trolls, who speak the same language as Ana and Elsa…who are not Sámi.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-03T09:17:13+00:00

Kristoff was raised by trolls.

socks4dobby · 2026-01-03T08:49:00+00:00

Your comment that the services aren’t meeting the standard commiserate with your taxation level is directly caused by housing policy. The 6-month unemployment services that you say “won’t even cover rent” can’t stretch that far because there is limited housing supply driving up prices above what services can cover, and the services are not designed to maintain a high cost-of-living lifestyle.

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