So… Iirc you can shuffle all of the episodes in a library … Not sure about cross library. I just have one for TV and one for movies.

I know you can definitely make a smart playlist for the shows you want to shuffle through and go from there. Like I have a bunch of a few episodic tv shows, added them through regex to a smart playlist and hit shuffle all the time.

That’s why. My folks still have cable and pay for HBO. That’s how me and my siblings are able to watch stuff we don’t want to download on max :)

My dad jokes that hes happy he knows how to turn on his phone … Now his TV since that’s “too complicated”

How technical is your dad?

Also honestly. Sometimes it’s a lot nicer to just push a button and have something come on.

One of the main reasons I use Plex is their random feature. “Wanna watch a syndicated episodic show and don’t care which ep? Press random” vs other streaming services you have to actually choose an episode.

As Cishet white-ish person, who is only tangentially connected to this community IRL, but wants to be supportive, is there a definitive list of pronouns? It seems to me and many other people that if you just keep adding more and more, people get confused and or feel alienated and then some people get angry when confused, because they get frustrated and don’t want to do the wrong thing.

I usually default to “they” unless absolutely told, because It seems that once it gets so individualized, things go a bit nuts. We may as well just abolish all pronouns and only use proper nouns.

Side question, I’m neurodiverse (diagnosed ADHD, probably a bit on the spectrum), I feel very very weird before coming out to people, especially at work, as I think it will be used against me. There are still places in this world that would hurt/imprison/kill non-cis, non-hetero people. With such an interconnected world, especially with those places, how does one handle it while also trying to keep being proud of your identity? Wouldn’t putting neo pronouns in a profile open you up for targeting?

Elder millennial here

Yeah. But she wanted to carry a really small purse that wouldn’t be able to hold the foldable :(

After an impromptu upscale bar/lounge crawl with the wifey the other day…

A shoe that can easily go back and forth from high heel/wedge to comfortable flats w/o much, if any, tooling or carrying around extra parts. She also brought a clutch purse

Wifey was dead the next day from foot pain of walking between places.

You missed it. I’m talking from the pov of Israel, not Palestine.

Hamas has it in their charter to destroy Israel and every other Jew in the world…

“From the river to the sea” doesn’t mean “hey Israel, get off our backs” it means death to Israel. And when has appeasement ever worked?

You also never answered my question.

This

Question. If a group of people raped and kidnapped almost all the women in your family and the family of all your friends in front of you and killed or kidnapped almost all the men. Leaving you as one of the few people left. Would you kill an innocent child to get to the people who did and planned this if it was the only way, or just say, “oh well! Guess they can get away with it, I didn’t want to be a monster…”?

I’m not saying that. Just asking for myself. Haha

It’s not just you. I hate texting in general unless it’s for work. Usually if I’m running around on errands or a nice walk, I end up getting a text response to someone from an hour ago, and it boils my nerves that I feel I need to respond.

I’d rather be on a phone call to get all information in/out at once. Especially with wireless headset/earbuds

Though my therapist thinks I’m AuDHD. So that gives credence to your asd worry

It is a religious practice for Jews … I completely agree with your point of it being a “health fad” for non-jews though.

Ask any Dr who fan. The BBC did this as well back in the day…

More popular, more commercially successful, and more accessible to casual fans. Agreed.

But for magnum opus, I gotta agree with the wall for a few reasons

1. They made a movie out of it
2. The ode to the intense para social relationships that revolve around stardom and how a truly crazy creative can take advantage of it in scary ways was not only true back then, but predictive of how much worse it would get in current time.
3. DSotM always seemed like a lot of good ideas in an unordered list. I felt like they could be scrambled and the album would be similar, except for the first and last songs… Meanwhile the wall tells a story of pain, alienation, search for meaning, lashing out, and then a quest for self-forgiveness.

Regardless, I switched off brave because I was tired of getting ads in the browser. Been using ff for a while now

Hah! I thought that was my work VPN when I first saw it. Not sure how much I like that it’s actually the site

Went there in 2018, few notes from my trip. Mostly warnings though

1. Bring cash and expect to never have access to your bank acct/cc while you’re there … Everything is off the books there
2. The local cuisine is shit. We stayed with families Airbnb-style in 3-4 towns and asked each of our hosts where their favorite restaurant was. They all pointed to places where the highest price item was a slice of spam and rice. For like $2 USD… though I may be spoiled, I lived in NYC at the time.

• side note, best meal while we were there was $10 USD in the middle of Havana, buffet with fish/meats, everything, fry bread they made right in front of you

3. Learn the diff between the two currencies before you go there… plenty of times we thought they meant one and it was really the other.
4. Learn the history, it’s a gorgeous place
5. In the cities, the grifters are next level… One told us their empty restaurant was open, only when we sat down and ordered, they said they turned off the ovens/grills for the night, but they know a party at a warehouse and has a friend who drives a cab that can get us there cheaply. We went with him, turning down several cabs while waiting for his friend, and he expected us to basically pay for his drinks all night. Ok/w/e … then after we bought him a beer or two, he basically passed it around to everyone there. AND THEN asked for us to buy another. Like I get buying you drinks, but then share them around?

When we left, the guy’s friend was there and charged us a ride back to our Airbnb. We found out later the amount the million cabbies waiting outside the ware house would’ve charged to get us back was 1/5th of what the guy’s friend charged us.

Another was a “friend” of a friend we had state side who said he’d show us around, we thought it’d be fun, we’d walk around and we’d buy the guy some drinks or dinner/lunch somewhere as a thank you. The stateside friend talked very highly of him, like they were best buddies and knew each other for a while. When it was time to meet up with the guy, he said his friend would be driving us and charge us some outrageous price to drive us around the city. We basically noped out of that … Turns out my friend state side forgot to mention how much he paid for his exp… It was also one of our last days and we were almost out of cash

Tldr: it’s a very pretty place. Lots of history and lots to learn/see. Only issue is communism on the country scale in that country made everyone either starving with terrible food or a grifter.

This is going to sound stereotypical, and I don’t smoke often. But last time I had a good high going, the Grateful Dead album, “American Beauty”, came on my music album shuffle and just instantly got me in the right mood.

Rereading this a few days later, a few items come to mind

2a. Date night doesn’t have to be fancy. A nice walk in a nearby park, or just a night where you can sleep/chill/watch TV together does the same as a nice dinner/drinks out on the town (and doesn’t require you to dress up). The point is that you do something non-baby related TOGETHER.

8. You’re going to get tons of advice on how to raise the kid. The only piece of advice you need is this. When you get the advice, thank the person. Run it through your personal filter. If you like it, talk it through with your partner and decide if you both like it and help to implement it.

9. You don’t know them now, but you’ll learn the “I’m hungry” vs “I’m tired” vs “I have a full diaper” cries soon. It’s ok if it takes a while.