gosh it would. what a trifecta!

"lots of ppl change jobs or careers" - this hasn't been feasible for a huge amt of ppl ever, and not in any way for a huger amt of ppl more recently - still a little stunned to see this b/c it's so deeply out of touch...

It's not always feasible to just leave. If there are no other jobs and you have responsibilities, or health issues, or... I mean - this shouldn't need to be explained.

The issue seems to be more "stop bitching abt the ppl you work with" - which is valid - but also... you don't have to read it.

there aren't a lot of higher ed jobs...

More NYC landlords threatening tenants with calls to ICE, lawyers say Attorneys told a City Council hearing that tenants need more protections.

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You can not have children but be more aware of it b/c of friends, conversations, women's spaces - I think part of the pt is that the compassion and empathy is markedly different.

$108 billion in debt from this coming Warner Brothers merger will be hard to handle if everybody cancels their Paramount and HBO Max Extreme Plus subscriptions.

That is *so far* outside any accepted behavior in history - there has been no pt where that was ok.

In terms of - someone could convince themselves that - if 14 is legal, it's morally fine! You see what I'm saying? & I think it's ok to examine differences without excusing any of it.

there is something hitting abt scoping out an 8 yr-old or 5 yr-old, vs even 14 yr-old.

A grown person - even a teenaged person - should know it's wrong. Period.

I do know what I'm saying is parsing levels of bad - but I do think it's possible to hold space for predatory behavior on a 5 yr-old.

I'm thinking about this a lot...

Ty for posting - and bringing this up - I really appreciate it.

I'm wondering where my assumptions are living, and should be looked at - ty.

I know age of consent had changed over the years - that came up in the Timothy Hutton thing. I do agree w/you - but

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... well set that one up myself... ha!

The cabbage farmer found the treasure on Oak Island.

I live like fifteen minutes from Delaware and I can confirm it doesn't exist

(& not anti-woman at all)

(& I appreciate your geniality - was just riffing on the sensory benefits - and maybe a little teasing lol - ty for the conversation, it's been really cool)

oh god no. the stick-ons - super cheap in all ways lol.

to be fair tho - my reference isnlike 30 yrs old, they may be hardier now.

Spaceballs: The New One YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios

Rick Moranis coming out of retirement to make Spaceballs 2 should be bigger news than it is imo

(dude, I'm not even really sure I'm using "psyop" correctly? geez - but feeling very blind-squirrel here - not like anyone would even care anymore??)

follow-FOLLOW-up --

Havana Syndome is a nephew (if not direct-descendent-that-skipped-a-generation) of the sound psyop experiment performed in Dyatlov Pass.

(after being mostly-hastily-shelved, it was pulled back out by young internet dweller and reintroduced in Cuba)

Hey cool!

I'd actually advise trying on some stick-on nails. The tap-tapping is a really curious & satisfying percussive experience - & the added length of fingers can exaggerate gestures in fun ways. (Finger extensions also used in performance & status indicators going back... thousands? of yrs?)

"Nailed It" is the documentary. I believe - black women began experimenting - and a joint Vietnamese & Black women-owned shop opened in LA - and the explosion of nail as incredible art & expressive form just exploded. But it's been a minute, that is a general recall.

Ms. Tippi Hedren - The Godmother of the Vietnamese Nail Industry - Vietnamese Heritage Museum

documentary or documentaries? I will see if I can chase down... Tippi Hedren wanted to help Vietnanese immigrant women find work - she met with then and they loved her nails (done up "Hollywood") so she had her nail tech come up to teach them - vietnamesemuseum.org/details/ms-t...

*wherein effects of extreme cold, person begins to feel unaccountably overheated and seeks desperately to cool down, removing clothes - possibly getting into frigid creeks...

It explains the frenzied, knife-slashing escape from the tent, the myriad physical violence, and additional deaths from cold*.

and the weirdo, messed-up shit govt's were doing at the time, and russia's ability to one-of scrappy depts to do some bold** things.

**we'll just leave it at "bold"

writing off the seat of my pants, I am now fully invested in this.

again - already said it - but to be VERY clear - neither is anything like ok.

no - I said selling them was WORSE.

it is all definitely the same enabling mechanism, which is vile and deeply embedded, culturally. but these kids were younger. they were sought out, more than the average singer-at-a-concert-grabbing-a-fan. there is a difference.

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Amazon saw lower prices at competitors and urged the brands to pressure those competitors to raise their prices, which they did. In writing. @robbonta.bsky.social has the receipts of this cartel behavior.
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(beloved iggy pop and his band all laugh abt his 14 yr-old "girlfriend" who lived with them early on. writing that, tho - if she wasn't missed, it may have been a safer place for her to be. but deeply messed up, how fine they thought it was, years later, being interviewed for their biography ffs.)

yeah but the girlfriends weren't (often) sold to those guys by their parents. and were usually at least past puberty, and there was at least some semblence of consent.

will fight on every hill to say that that, too was definitely wrong - but the michael thing is different.