Okay, I'm 50+ and hate talk radio, general chit chat vlogging stuff.
But I now listen to two guys talk about anime because I got into it during lockdowns. No one my age wants to watch/ talk about it. I feel very "hello, fellow kids" if I try to find current fans.
So I listen to these guys discuss the things I've been thinking about. The story, the artwork, whatever. It scratches that itch and I'm not bothering anyone.
They sometimes discuss their lives. But it's mainly anime chit-chat. And I can skip ahead on the ones I don't watch.
When he sends everyone home, they just aren't doing committees and votes?
Can't they stay and still do things that help their districts or prep for when they are back in session? They can still work. They are still getting paid.
I think they were addressing an implied specificity in your question. You were asking about American-based media or media for US audiences without explicitly saying that.
For instance, Get Out wouldn't have hit the same if the entire cast had been white. The racial tension is the point.
Because it sounds like you are saying we accept The Ring remake being a white cast. But if Ringu had been remade with a non-white English speaking cast it would be called woke by US right-wingers. (Even though it's Japanese fiction. At least I hope it is fiction)
Siothe other person is asking, I think, if Japan remade Get Out for the Japanese audience and used Japanese speaking white and black people, would Japanese right-wingers lose their shit and call it woke for not casting ethnically Japanese actors?
The follow-up question becomes:
is it a right-wing issue regardless of the race or nationality of right-wingers
or
is it a uniquely US problem because of the ignored national diversity of the overall population?
I'm using mint in fluffy warm house socks. In my defense, I'm using Mint because I may have to install a super user-friendly linux on the old computers of two boomer family members who are using win 11 and macOS respectively.
I need to make sure I know it really well and can do whatever tech support I need to do. And lock it down for them.
But I'm also digging it. Especially since it's not Weyland, I've been able to lock all the inputs and still watch movies
Edit: to protect from my cat, who just knocked my phone out of my hand and butt submitted this before I was ready. Now to clean my screen
I'm old enough to remember when this was a thing. TV didn't have a remote, 3 main channels. That era.
The thing that hasn't changed is people wanting to talk about their favorite media. What has is the arena. I don't know irl people watching what I watch. So I end up talking with other fans on Discord or watching youtubers geek out like I am.
The trick is not falling for parasocial relationships with these people gathered around the virtual water cooler.
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Yeah, when I make it for Thanksgiving, I make it the night before and it's usually served room temp. Because of time and how busy and hectic everything is
But warm apple pie is the absolute bomb. If microwaved not long at all, like 15 seconds. But warmed in a hot oven (if making something else) or like a minute in the air fryer.
But I also eat it room temp or cold. It doesn't usually last long enough as leftovers to need to be refrigerated.
I have two favorite Thanksgiving pies. Apple pie (especially warmed up later with a scoop of vanilla ice cream)
And a chocolate pie my mom used to make with flaky crust and real whipped cream on top.
Yeah, after my mom told me about having to use the pee can at night to avoid going to the outhouse when visiting her mountain relatives...
I just can't hear people say pee can pie without remembering her obviously very visercal memory of realizing what she had to do.
Her parents and her lived in a house with indoor plumbing in the "city" so it was a bit of culture shock. And her storytelling implanted a core memory for me.
The reasons are not irrelevant to the question being asked though.
Vegan for health reasons? Sure the question is irrelevant if you get sick from any animal products. You aren't going to eat them. Same way celiac avoids gluten.
Vegan for ethical reasons? Then the question is very relevant.
Is it ethical to have a pet cat? They are carnivores and will suffer and die on the wrong food. No pets at all would be most ethical.
Are you concerned about mass farming of vegetables? If machinery is used, field mice and such are getting killed to harvest your vegan diet.
Are you concerned about human trafficking of migrant workers or just farmed animals?
If a bear kills a deer in your yard in Montana, eats half and fucks off, is it ethical for you to eat the rest? You had no hand in it's death and suffering. You'll have to do something with the carcass or you'll have more predators in your yard.
Are you only eating locally grown, in season fruits and vegetables, hand harvested by fairly paid workers?
If ethics is the reason, it's fully legitimate to debate and figure out where your personal line is drawn. We live in an imperfect world and there's no perfect solution.
She's been doing a rehabilitation slash apology tour. Going on air with CNN and the show The View.
Toning down the crazy, amping up the support of survivors, calling out hypocritical actions and words in her party. She's been saying things like "I follow Jesus, not DjT/maga/Q/whatever"
She's been getting tons of absolute critics saying, "I can't believe I agree with MTG!"
She's plotting something and needs the middle and rational to see her as viable for whatever it is.
She's savvy. Maybe she's a true believer in Q, maybe not. But I'd bet a shiny nickel she's doing all this for a reason. And not because she's afraid for her life. She has a plan in motion.
Yeah, for sure. My husband and I are both like this. Waving my arm often works for getting his attention.
But a frustrated parent could definitely blame it on headphones or think the kid is going deaf. Especially if they are not the kind of person that immerses like that.
Unless the parent can hear the headphone music themselves from a few feet away. In which case, they have a point that it might be too loud.
The issue is probably more that you don't hear her when you are focused.
My husband is like that. Especially if he's listening to something with headphones.
It's not the volume (he's not got them loud) it's that he's locked in. I'm the same way, except if you say my name and pause a beat, I snap out quicker.
I have to say his a couple times. Just starting to talk without a cue and the focus makes us miss the beginning, if not all.
Also happens with reading, programming, writing
Which are immersive. quiet activities
From context and references to "Donald", "with Bannon", "Ask Putin", and "Donnie Tee" - I'm guessing "Donnie Dee" also refers to the current President.
Okay, I'm 50+ and hate talk radio, general chit chat vlogging stuff.
But I now listen to two guys talk about anime because I got into it during lockdowns. No one my age wants to watch/ talk about it. I feel very "hello, fellow kids" if I try to find current fans.
So I listen to these guys discuss the things I've been thinking about. The story, the artwork, whatever. It scratches that itch and I'm not bothering anyone.
They sometimes discuss their lives. But it's mainly anime chit-chat. And I can skip ahead on the ones I don't watch.