ericatty

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[–] ericatty 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] ericatty 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In my defense. I pee fast, the bathroom is close, I can hear the movie while I wash my hands.

If I pause it, my husband will manage to wander off in the 2 minutes I was gone to fix a snack or something.

Then missing 2 minutes becomes a 20 minute side quest.

[–] ericatty 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You know what, it's 10am on a Sunday. Fuck it, I'm going to eat some ice cream for second breakfast.

[–] ericatty 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I would also like to add, that it's sometimes almost impossible to have a 2nd part time job because one or both are not regular schedules. People won't know when they are working until the week before. If both jobs do this you will end up with scheduling conflicts.

Like it would be better if you were scheduled the same 3 or 4 days a week and had the rest of the week off.

At least then you could either chill or find other activities. But they want you at their mercy and constantly in crisis.

Like you said, All Obamacare did from a company standpoint was make people no longer reliant on their employer for healthcare. So it has no bearing on 25 hr work weeks. Although with subsidies going away, a lot of people are becoming uninsured again.

FMLA was 1993, so Clinton Required lunch breaks, etc are state laws, so not Obama OT pay and some other federal protections were pre-WW2

[–] ericatty 8 points 1 week ago

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?

[–] ericatty 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ericatty 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think they mean all his characters are bombastic, loud, and kind of obnoxious. But somehow still different, so you'd still be able to immediately identify each character.

Like for me, Jack Black is Jack Black. A short clip of several of his characters and I'm not sure I'd know which is which.

But this guy, Jackie Daytona the human, I'd spot in a second. Completely different guy from Lazlo the vampire.

[–] ericatty 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] ericatty 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Some perts from the link:

On Jan. 26, 2025, the FDA approved once every four weeks maintenance dosing of lecanemab for early Alzheimer's disease. On August 29, the FDA approved weekly subcutaneous maintenance dosing of lecaneamb for early Alzheimer's disease. The hope is that at-home administration of the treatment will be less burdensome...

The treatment will allow people to have more time to participate in daily life and live independently.

Your health care provider will also do a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan before starting treatment with lecanemab

[–] ericatty 51 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
[–] ericatty 5 points 2 weeks ago

Speed Extended Release? That would be a wild treatment for certain things.

[–] ericatty 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Adrenochrome would be ironically hilarious since it's a big part of the Q conspiracy towards Hillary and stuff.

I always thought it was a fictional drug plot device in Fear and Loathing

 

This is not a complaint, but a commentary on how I've been trying to get it to be more commonplace to talk about. Like the weather or a new hobby, lol

I've had a more social month. Was having lunch with my boomer uncle and he asked how menopause was going. He meant it in a very sincere way, and he shared some of what he remembered from when my aunt was going through it. He was glad the progesterone is helping my night terrors.

I was telling my husband about Naomi Watt's book, and he was getting angry on our behalf at some of the stories. He's planning to listen to the audiobook too. I'm likeing her book, it's kind of a cliff note version of all the books, along with a lot of personal stories from lot's of women.

My sons (step) and dad (before he passed) have been part of the conversation as well.

Which I'm realizing it sounds like I'm just around men, but I've talked to my sister-in-law and female friends and relatives too. I'm just around the men in my life quite often. My "found aunties" are also starting to check in about it too. They are 3 sisters in their 70s and 2 went through forced menopause because of breast cancer and are still hesitant about HRT after those studies. And they were brought up to not talk about it.

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