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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is one of the conspiracy theories I believe in.

Most tech workers buy lunch in their local area. If they wfh, they'll make lunch and not spend money. Meaning less commerce in the city... Makes city look bad.

Also, if you're coming to said city, if you can choose to live 2 hours north, suddenly that choice looks terrible from a quality of life pov. You'll likely rent/buy a place in said city. Keeping real estate values higher. (This is another value that benefits both govt and company since they so big they own the majority of buildings they use)

Source: am tech worker at a big river company

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Insurance companies can't match real estate prices of the office buildings they own AND the tax incentives large cities are giving them to force their ppl back

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Right. And he's a man's man. Does things because he has an internal code he ascribes to vs makes him feel cool. He doesn't have to play at being a man because he's the epitome of a conservative coded man. He also was very cut and dry, and knows the limit of his power/his strengths. Every time it's a science or medical thing he puts all the weight on bones and never tries to influence her or tell her she's wrong about science.

When it comes to his domain, the interpersonal/political/legal stuff he knows his area of expertise and takes over. In every episode, when bones says "this is a murder" or "we need this stuff at the Jeffersonian" he instantly kicks into gear and gets his people to scoop everything up and GTFO. Him and the new orleanian DA lady come to blows every so often, but that's expected for cops vs lawyers.

The Angela thing was a similar way when it comes to code. iirc she chooses hodgins at the end because while they'd both do the same thing (take care of her and the baby to the best of their ability) hodgins did it because he loved angela, his internal code, and that's "just what guys do" Whereas Wendell said "I'd do the right thing" and she wanted someone who did things because he wanted to. Not to have her as a burden. Again coding IMHO that you don't just need to know societal values, they need to be second nature.

In the whole show, when pretty much all the women either have a scare or get preggo. The topic of keeping it/not keeping it is never up for debate or takes on the Uber complicated topic of abortion. It's just "they're keeping it"

That being said. This is not meant as a "this show is bad" comment thread. Enjoy what you want. I just would've loved to hear from the writers/producers of the show to see how much weight Fox put on them or on any other show they make/produce/etc. to be more pro-conservative.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The non musical family guy episodes.

It's the only comedy show where there's no laugh track, loud noises, and they explain every scene as it's happening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's the same as it's always been. We gravitate towards what we feel.

The internet has just allowed certain groups who wmight be ashamed to announce their true feelings to say the quiet part out loud anonymously. This gets the next generation to not see a problem with it and go from there.

As an example. Take an impressionable young boy (14-18), he has trouble getting dates, doesn't have a great home life. Little bit of a loner. Before the internet, hed have to figure out a purpose. Maybe he'd start going to a gym or hitting the books harder to be smarter or something.... With the Internet he's able to find "friends", he finds a community, that community may lead him down dark paths.... Where some in better living situations may say "this is too much" and walk away, he doesn't have anything to walk to... So he gets more and more indoctrinated into the cause.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

This has happened a lot to me. Or I just be a fan in silence.

There's a great line from the band Sloan about this that comes up whenever I hear this.

"It's not the band I hate, it's their fans"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Ah, ok. The [Show](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(TV_series) does the first two books. Not the third.

Because I remember them going to the restaurant and then meeting the hairdressers and telephone sanitizers and the mess they get the main characters into, but forgot about the Krikket/wikket people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The BBC series does up to them being on >!prehistoric hairdresser and middle management earth!< Iirc

Which I'm pretty sure is the third book. But I haven't read it in a loooooong time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I used to very frequently. (For about 3-4 months, 5-7x a week)

Don't anymore. Wish I did

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, bones is def ok the spectrum, but that's explained away by being caused by her upbringing.... Since she was in the adoption system due to her dad iirc.

She's also rich due to her stubbornness and "pulling herself up by her own bootstraps".

She also is drawn to Booth, a childish man who constantly makes fun of her peers, and has a derogatory nickname for people in her profession (squints), but he's an old values man (reads the paper with his coffee and prefers it to bones' iPad, sleeps around pre-bones but loves every woman he does sleep with, he basically rebuilds their house himself, is a company man who regards the bureau above all else, and he likes guns but keeps his safe like a model citizen should)..... and is hot.

There's also an embarrassing amount of obvious product placement in the show (the cars, the diff apple products they use and comment on throughout the show) that I'm pretty sure they were self aware of it and making fun of it later on. ....

The woman who is in charge s2 and later is not nearly as smart as any of her subordinates, meanwhile the guy who is in charge during season 1 always seems to have more respect given to him than his successor. Other women who are in charge also usually turn out to be the big bad at the time.

I don't remember the woman deciding to keep her baby. Was that one of the one-episode people who are adjacent to a victim?

Sorry. Went down a rabbit hole here. But yeah, as a kid I was always curious how such a conservative leaning news channel like Fox could have such shows that are either super liberal or super raunchy.... Turns out a lot of them have a lot of conservative coded messages. The writing was pretty standard for a crime procedural.

Still trying to figure out how such a gay friendly show like X-Men got made......

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)
  1. Admitting that I don't have control over my symptoms.
  2. Meds. Taking vivanse and wellbutrin in the morning and experimenting (with Dr approval) Adderall in the afternoon
  3. Making sure I have some exercise as part of my morning every day routine (biking/walking on my way to work, going for a walk before walk when I wfh)
  4. Getting out for a walk bike ride during the day
  5. Talk therapy with a CBT pro
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