Pete Holmes nails it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ceHFmy4Ck0k?is=yAIxNz8zZHp7R5xK

Pretty much my only real exposure to Star Trek prior to the movies was watching Voyager episodes at night not in order.

I really enjoyed the Abrams movies as a neutral fan. To me they were just actions movies in space around an IP I wasn’t invested in.

know it’s clear from context,

Then the obvious detail doesn’t need to be explicitly written.

Lol, for some reason I thought it was 15 mil, not 5. If you do happen to find one of those illusive mortgages though, hmu.

Hire a fiduciary and pay off my debts, which I think currently is just my mortgage.

I wouldn’t quit my job straight away. I like my team and I’m learning rapidly having them around.

Travel more, and invest in my hobbies, picking up a couple others that currently are out of reach.

The remaining 14.5 million would grow.

I’m fortunate that my two closest friends have been close friends since elementary school. At one point we all lived in different states but were still active through gaming, chatting, and meeting up for various events. Now I work with one and travel with the other.

I have a third friend I consider a friend even though I’ve seen him a couple times in the past 10 years and communicated just a bit more. We’ve all been in each other’s weddings. I’d say that our past experiences through school and having lived together has built relationships that I’ll always consider friendship unless something significantly changes.

I have a bunch of people I may just call buddies or acquaintances because the bonds weren’t as close and communication has all but gone away.

I was taught two spaces in the 90s and didn’t find out it’s changed until maybe a couple years ago.

Is it not “point of view”?

If you’re in the US, good Samaritan law will protect against that situation. They could try and sue, but it will on all likelihood be thrown out.

How long ago do you think women’s suffrage was? This wasn’t something that just happened in the last couple of decades. Literally over 100 years ago the 19th amendment passed giving women the right to vote. Nobody is saying that politicians it the government did it out of the kindness of their hearts, it’s because women and allies fought like Hell for it.

A crippled economy is not the reason for a second world war, that’s just ridiculous correlation, and barely even that.

You’re conflating multiple things and assuming that’s causation. Yes, women entered the workforce and started earning their own money. Yes, the economy has changed to the point where people of all genders are now stuck working to survive. That didn’t happen because women were working, it happened and also women are working.

Just because corporations are shit doesn’t mean that feminism isn’t a thing. Look up the definition of feminism. It’s an ideology as well as a movement. There’s still a long ways to go to truly get all genders to be perceived and treated as equals, but the last 150+ years have been huge for women’s equality. It’s been too slow by any reasonable person’s standards, but big changes in society and they way people view each other doesn’t happen over night.

I think you answered your question in the body of the post. You just say, “we’re/it’s already here”.

Sounds like this is about the Macklemore situation. I haven’t really seen him be necessarily surprised by what’s transpired, but he’s well within his rights to be critical of the actions taken.

People with platforms can have strong opinions on matters just like everyone else. They have a platform that many of them earned (obviously not all) so it’s theirs to do with it what they want. There’s zero chance that Macklemore didn’t know this was a possibility. He believes in standing up for Palestine and calling out a genocide, so he put his neck on the line to support those beliefs. In this case, he gained a new fan from me today. People that are willing to do that earn some respect from me. On the other hand, someone like Ronnie Radke who also is very outspoken, I’ve removed from my music rotation because I think he’s a shit person. Similar to Kid Rock, but other than a couple of his classic songs I enjoyed as a youth, I didn’t listen to him anyway. In both examples, I’ll smear the shit out of their name to anyone that will listen.

Actions have consequences, and rarely are any of these people truly surprised when they reach the ‘find out’ phase, but they may act like it to try and save face.

If it matters to you, someone else pointed out that it’s heavily built by Claude.

I was super happy to see him back after getting the gig at SNL. I was also thrilled to see to really well there in his first season.

If you’re getting free weights, I’d get an adjustable bench as well. If you already have a bike, you can get a bike trainer to ride inside when weather isn’t cooperating. I’d avoid a treadmill since as you mentioned, the outside is accessible, and if you’re not in a climate with snow and ice, a little rain sometimes feels good during a run.

But like others mentioned, dumbbells and a kettlebell will be all you need to do a lot of strength exercises. An adjustable bench allows you to expand on that. You can get dumbbells that use plates, so you dont need a full set, just the bars and plates. In the future you could get other bars for different strength training if you feel the need and you can just use existing plates.

Otherwise as someone else mentioned, you can do a lot with just bodyweight traing too. A good mat will go a long ways for that. You can supplement that with resistance bands that take up minimal space.

There are a ton of skit channels on platforms like YouTube that have filled the void. Most are shorts, but there are channels like Viva La Dirt League that does some longer form sketches. Chris and Jack is another channel that I think does some really funny sketch comedy too. Dropout.tv is imo the best subscription out there. While not really sketch, it’s almost entirely improv, but it can kind of scratch that itch.

Jeremy Culhane was on Dropout before SNL too. They’re a great company that treats employees and customers great.

We vacuum the house almost daily with a little shark hand-held unit, mostly because we have 2-3 dogs at all times. In the weekends the good vacuum comes out for a deeper session. We bought a carpet cleaner and we use that maybe every 6 months or so. Little to no shoes in the house helps a lot.

The big thing is to not let them get too dirty with more frequent cleanings. It’s a lot easier to do that than it is to try and clean a heavily soiled rug or carpet on fewer occasions.

Carpet cleaners can be rented for pretty cheap, but if you use it more frequently, it’s better to just bite the bullet up front since it will pay itself off.

I’d vote for a dead pigeon before I’d vote for a Republican. At least a dead pigeon can’t write bad legislation.

In the primaries, people will vote for their favorite candidate in the party they’re registered with. In the general, you have two choices and one is usually a Democrat and the other Republican. There are a couple “independents” that have made it through. That’s how it works in a first past the post voting system. At that point you’re likely voting for the lesser of two evils but good candidates can make it through.

It’s a shit system, but some people will abstain because they think that a protest non vote in the general is some way of protesting. The math doesn’t add up and it’s why Trump is president. Too many idiots decided that Kamala wasn’t good enough, even though she was clearly, on all levels, better than Trump. I didn’t love her, but I knew that if she won, the states and the world would be in a better place. You’ll heard those idiots parroting shit about her being pro Isreal, but anyone with half a brain could understand that Trump was going to be far worse for everything, including the Isreal conflict, than Harris.