A co-worker of mine was in the later stages of a difficult pregnancy. We worked 9/80’s and had every other Friday off. A manager was upset because she was having to take so much time off from work to go to doctor’s appointments.

He didn’t understand why she just couldn’t go on off Fridays.

Her doctor did surgery on Fridays, not “regular” appointments. So yes, you’re 100% correct.

Happy cake day!

A different perspective - my grandparents grew up speaking French. Then the state passed a law saying only English in schools when they were young children. They would get hit on the hands with rulers for speaking French.

This was of course passed down to my parents and myself. But my mom still bitches about kids where I currently live being in school and unable to speak English because they’re new immigrants.

She doesn’t see the hypocrisy and it’s sad.

Man it’s hard being a fan who genuinely dislikes a good amount of the Disney stuff for reasons other than “mouse worked my show, woke bad!”

The ST was an unplanned, nonsensical mess which there is no excuse for given the experienced directors, money thrown at it, and IP that landed in their laps.

Rebels was good, Resistance was a hot mess.

Rogue One was great, still watch it on a regular basis with the OT/PT

Solo was meh.

First 2 seasons of Mando were great.

Mando season 3 sucked.

BOBF sucked.

Kenobi sucked but seeing Alderaan was cool.

Andor was fucking amazeballs.

Ahsoka was ok.

Acolyte has just been really boring so far until Ep 5, which brought some good action and story. The writing and acting still need work though.

I don’t know what the answer is. A lot of the stories are good but they just aren’t executed very well. With Kenobi it was also the quality of the effects…like it wasn’t finished completely in post-production. I hope Ahsoka season 2 is better, and I hope they make things that you don’t have to have read 20 years of Legends to follow (even though they’re great and should be read).

I wanna hope that things will pick up, but it’s been 10 years and idk how long they can keep just being “ok” considering the IP, the tech, the money, and the experience behind the scenes that goes into all of it.

IIRC it was around 10,000 French words that were introduced into English after that. That’s what we learned in school, anyway.

I never knew about the prosciutto/ham, but tajin makes everything better!

My mom eats it with salt. It’s actually not bad, I enjoy it either way. The salt does give it an interesting flavor, so maybe try that if it might enable you to like it more.

Thank you!

There’s a reason that the term “Fandom Menace” and the saltierthancrait subreddit are things.

As a fan since the 80’s, and a woman, I’ve seen my fair share of toxicity, but nothing will compare to the level it’s gotten since the release of the sequels. I also hated the sequels, but goddamn the level of hate towards the actors themselves was just awful. There were many valid technical reasons to criticize those movies - diversity wasn’t one of them.

It’s definitely made us all look like idiots regardless if you were a part of the drama or not.

Same and I’ve honestly wondered if it’s had lasting damage for awhile now.

Unrelated, but I love that you discovered this image and worked so hard to figure out the answer to your question. I had also never heard of the Top View community, and it’s so interesting - subscribed! Thanks, OP :)

You may enjoy a book that came out a few years ago by Amanda Ripley called “The Unthinkable - Who Survives when Disaster Strikes and Why”.

I can somewhat relate to what you’re describing (though maybe not to that extreme) and found that this book did a good job of helping me to understand the mindset of folks in these situations so as to ponder what I might have done had I been in their place in a somewhat realistic way.

9/11 and other plane crashes were just a couple of things that she focused on.

Same! One who I just sent this article. IIRC he had MOTS, burned it on CD, and mailed it to me in another state so we could keep playing online. Good times.

Very helpful, thanks again :)

Thank you! I didn’t know about this.

Please tell me what you added to configure this.

My god I wish there was an option to just not show shorts. Why that’s so difficult is beyond me.

Relevant username!

Alligators…not sure if that’s considered “common” or not. We don’t see them on a regular basis depending on your activities. If you fish/kayak a lot, you’ll see them. If you don’t, you generally won’t unless there’s a drought. Then they’ll be in intersections or in your parking lot at work looking for water.

This is good insight, thank you for sharing.