That’s just good practice in general. Everyone where I’m at rushes straight through medic school if they have the money/time, and it shows. They barely know how to talk to a patient, and then you’re throwing all the various blacktop training at them.

Right? One of the first things anyone will tell you, therapist or no, is to have a fun hobby. I doubt the guy on the channel is merely doing it for the views/money.

but at least the professionals have the training to deal with that somehow

Ha. You want to know the training you get for dealing with death? It’s a couple of sentences uttered by an instructor when some bozo in the class has more curiosity than thought and asks about the ‘yep, he’s dead’ policy. Most of the time you’ll have one of a pair who has done it before, and they just tell the other one what to do (like putting on the electrodes or looking around the room to see what else has been done). That’s the whole of it, adding in the jokes that will be told and the mild amusement of watching the other’s reaction when you grab a coke out of the dead dude’s fridge (I didn’t, but the more experienced one had when he was stuck at a house for six hours).

Putting it in context, it’s probably right. There are a lot of different swathes/classes of boomer, and the ones that would be able to do the listed in lines 7-10 are probably not the ones that were targeted for conscription in vietnam.

Just go in knowing that it’s a product of its time. The studio is both great at doing dissection of current-time tropes AND likes to sniff their own farts. Watch the original all the way through, then go find the ‘alternate’ endings that they made.

No, the factoid is that there’s enough nicotine in a single cigarette to kill you, if all of that nicotine got past your blood-brain barrier at once. Since that’s more or less an impossibility, don’t worry about eating one.

They sell the idea of a fantasy. There are plenty of men who joke about finding someone to make them a ‘trophy husband.’ Not having to work, being doted on by another person, having a life of luxury… these are powerful yearnings that can easily be twisted by manipulators. The short form video that has taken over everything is key to selling it as well. It hides all the negatives and just splatters you with all this positive feeling, and it works on basically everything. Recipes? Done in five seconds with the easiest cleanup (ignored). Chores? Done in six seconds by some ‘amazing’ method. Kids wrecking your peace and destroying the house? Easily solved with ten seconds of effort and supplies that magically appeared.

Now take all of those concepts and roll them up in a little package that is delivered to the frazzled, over-worked, financially struggling young person (in this case the girl who is now living on her own [without family, that is] with three roommates) and tell them if they can just find a husband who looooooves them all their worries will be gone, and being a trad wife suddenly becomes a dream. It’s not really any different than how we culturally treat the wedding day: it’s built into this giant affair that is largely promoted to be the highest peak in a relationship, and we get the stupidly expensive production and the bridezillas as a result. Now we’re getting a large amount of women who are willing to trade the long term goods (suffrage and other rights) for what they think they could get as a tradwife.

I could go on about how men are also getting sucked into this fantasy on the other end as a part of that ‘toxic masculinity’ we hear about, but since we’re on about tradwifes in this post, I’ll save it.

I’ve often wondered, did the filmmakers decide to just inflate those with air, or did they subtly show a loss of mass in other areas as the terminator moved things around internally?

There are four arrs in your use of raspberry. Try using them in a pie!

More like thinking of some of the impregnation/ovipositing/egg-laying fetishes.

Hmm, fair. I’ve never gotten ‘past’ the initial metal buildings. It’s just too much fun taming dinos and flying/swimming around.

Like I said, not completely the norm. With its first person emphasis though, it plays a lot more like a survival crafting game that has the food/water cycles turned off.

All of them? There’s several that I can name off the top of my head that are just fun to play: Valheim, the forest, subnautica, ark: se. You can even include some that aren’t completely the norm, like terraria, satisfactory, or avorion. Hell, several of those even have really neat stories as part of the gameplay, like subnautica and the forest (and maybe valheim if you like the sort of narrative that’s crafted).

They don’t care if the hook eventually turns back on them. They’ve spent the best years of their lives getting their rocks off by making you waste the best years of your life.

Tesla is a pretty clear example of what’s ‘wrong’ with stocks as a capital/market correcting factor. The value of a stock is solely dependent on what people think it’s worth, and meme stocks go uuuuuup!

I do not care if you keep a facebook account open just to talk to your dear aunt Ethel over the holidays

I do care. Aunt ethel got used to twitter, she got used to facebook, she got used to messenger when they forced that switch… she can get used to signal/matrix/xmpp or whatever else you desire.

Oh goddamnit. I was listening to the radio with my partner while driving and heard a song that I thought was good, and it was this one. Does that mean I’m infected now?

Okay, angst I get, but ‘fluff’ and angst? Are we on a porn set with conflicted morals?

I sing that at the company karaoke every year, and just replace ‘company’ with our company’s name. It usually gets good chuckles from the workers and scowls from the sycophantic managers.

feels is superior

FTFY. ;)