Agreed, though I’d replace “boring” with “expensive.” I can handle boring errands, but being on a budget as prices rise mean every trip to the grocery store involves the game of “Can I reasonably justify buying this?” and feeling the subsequent disappointment that, no, no I cannot.
If they’re going to use AI for actors, how about we start with replacing child actors? Between Hollywood’s shitty treatment of children, the effects that fame has on developmental growth, and the pure cost of hiring children (who have shorter work hours and thus tend to increase the time required to film/produce), it would make a lot more sense to replace kids on screen with a bot than attempting to raise adult actors from the dead.
I’m no fan of AI, but considering how much child abuse happens behind the scenes, using it to reduce the need for child actors is one application I’d feel at least somewhat okay with. But this? It just feels disrespectful to the dead actor. Holograms of dead people was bad enough, now we need to recreate entire films with them?
As if we haven’t already had to sacrifice enough, now they want our lives directly on the line. Hey, you know all those years your spent paying off ludicrous college debt at shitty low-paying jobs, living in unaffordable housing, pushing back starting families? Well, now that you’ve finally found your footing, we want you to upend everything you’ve been fighting uphill for and take on a new fight you didn’t ask for! The country that’s done nothing to help you, but that has demanded you to give more and more over the course of decades (and that shit on your generation for taking so long to meet adult milestones through no fault of your own), now needs your blood for yet another pointless war.
With a playlist like this, I’d be happy to eat each cheerio one-by-one just to stick around.
I don’t consider King of the Hill to be a kids’ show, although I did watch it as a kid when its original run started. The thing about it is that so much of its brilliance is lost on kids. I, for one, thought it was glamorizing Texan republicanism when I was a kid (growing up in the US, you hear patriotism everywhere so it made sense.) Re-watching it as an adult, I realize it’s a mix of slice-of-life realistic depictions and pointed satire. Kids (including teens) are more likely to take things at face value than adults are, so a lot of the themes and details of King of the Hill may go over their heads.
That isn’t to say kids can’t watch it, if you don’t mind them seeing marital infidelity, cannabis use, and a murder. The cannabis use and murder episodes can be skipped (if you avoid the episodes “Hanky Panky” and “High Anxiety”), but there’s no hiding John Redwood and Nancy.
So yeah, kids can watch it, but I wouldn’t classify it as a kids’ show. I do admit that although I didn’t understand it or enjoy it much as a kid, I am grateful to have watched it then so that I can notice and appreciate how much I’ve grown since. It makes it the kind of show you can rewatch in different life stages and notice something new, even if the only thing that changes is how a scene makes you feel. Either way, it’s a solid recommendation for the grown-ups.
100%, agreed that it’s good to at least have the kids be familiar with those classic shows. Scooby-Doo has a ton of versions since their original Hanna Barbera, so OP has options if they want to avoid the original. One I watched recently and would recommend is Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
The animation style is totally different, which might take some getting used to for OP and their spouse, but the kids should enjoy it. It’s got a solid cast, with the likes of Frank Welker (who’s not only known for his animal voices, but who’s been doing the voice of Fred since the 70s!) and Grey Griffin (sometimes credited as Grey DeLisle, who’s done voices on a significant amount of shows on the list.) Also, its focus is on funny, and it gave me some legit laugh out loud moments.
Ah, if only both of you were women and both of you were gay :(
have such hubris that they believe those averse effect only affect others
TBF there is a lot of variability in how cannabis affects different people. I’ve got a friend who had to quit because it made him extremely paranoid, to the point that he’d hallucinate. That isn’t universal by a long shot. I haven’t experienced paranoia or hallucinations, the biggest side effect I’ve experienced is sleepiness. Meanwhile my friend found it harder to sleep while high because his brain kept playing tricks on him. Very different brains, very different results.
Though I don’t doubt that plenty of people misjudge their abilities while high, just as they misjudge their abilities when drunk. But it’s important to note that it isn’t necessarily hubris that makes a person say, “Weed doesn’t do that to me.” Some of us genuinely experience different effects. You can’t truly know what’s going on in someone’s head unless you’re the one living in it.
The joke is that “franca” = French. Though etymologically the phrase is from Italian, the root of “franca” is the same root that gives us the word “French.”
I don’t think the R goes there. In fact there’s no “are” at all.
Checking the remaining letters - it makes sense if the original message says, “WE GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!”
I’m glad to see that the work of “Mommy” is included. She might not be getting paid, but she’s worked more in a single day than the landlord ever did.
This is a masterful post. No notes.
Well, one note. Apparently that link triggered a “we detected unusual activity from your computer” page that I had to click through. But honestly, that makes it even funnier.
If you’re interested in learning to identify more countries’ flags, I can suggest a free game that helped me. I played the flag games on Seterra over and again until I got good at it. If you scroll down on this page you’ll find a selection of flag games.
Pro tip: start with the first linked page and practice individual continents first. It’s easier to learn in chunks than by going for the whole world from the start. Same goes for learning to identify each country, which you can also practice on this site.
Take a quiz every day and before you know it, you can show off your nerd skills to an audience that might be impressed or that might think you have no life. 🙂
Ooh, I like it. It’s a modern version of the Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last. Which might be more familiar to modern audiences by its Futurama parody via an episode of “The Scary Door.”
Interestingly, somebody made a short video showing key moments of the two stories side-by-side. Futurama - Scary Door, Twilight Zone
flailing pussies
New band name
It’s always a good day to remember Rush Limbaugh is dead ❤️ 🌈
Exactly what I was wondering. If she’s unable to travel on her own, then either a guest or an employee got her that beer. Instead of investigating and taking appropriate measures against whoever provided her with contraband, they kicked her out? Absolutely absurd.
That beer didn’t materialize on its own. If someone’s supplying beer to residents, that sounds like an issue worth looking into.
Oh gosh, I was already nervous about asking just one person. Asking a group?! I can feel my soul dying already.
It’s easy to be friendly at work. But turning that “work-friend” relationship into a real friendship, one where you do things outside of work together, is still a mystery to me. I have no idea how people do that. Others make it look so easy. I can’t imagine anyone at my job dislikes me, we all compliment each other, laugh at each others’ jokes, and hold fun conversations on the clock. Yet when a crowd gets together after work and plans where to go next, I’m baffled. I’m too anxious to invite myself, but nobody ever invites me, so I just try to ignore it so I don’t feel hurt. :')
I second this. I’m almost always too hot and realized years ago that polyester fabrics made it worse. It’s one of the reasons my ex and I used different blankets - I used a 100% cotton sheet, but he was the type of person who’s usually cold, so he used fuzzy polyester blankets. He thought my blanket was too light, while I thought his was too hot.
The struggle to avoid polyester is the hardest part. I have a significant yarn collection for all my art projects, but over the past few years I’ve been trying to avoid polyesters (to avoid contributing to microplastics.) The only polyesters I bought since then were either made of recycled materials, or were special glow-in-the-dark kinds (because I haven’t found cotton or bamboo yarn with that feature yet.)