CentipedeFarrier

For me it was the unalterable cyclic time travel in 12 monkeys, coupled with the rebellious themes. That movie hit hard and made me think when i was young (probs like 10?). Hands down favorite movie, and i credit it with a lot of my philosophical view of the universe. I believe everything is deterministic, and if you were to know all the information about every atom in the universe at any slice of time, you could entirely predict the future. Its completely untestable, of course, but it makes sense to me. After all, everything is physics.

Whats really sad is… genuinely every town I’ve -ever been to- had a train station. Most of them have been converted into other things, the rest torn down. But they were there.

We had the whole system of rail already spanning most of the country. And stopped maintaining it. 😭😭

I rode a train for the first time last year because it cut the worst part of the drive into/out of a big city off, and wasn’t -too- expensive. So instead of dealing with a car in a place I’m not comfortable driving, we parked where I was comfortable and took the train the rest of the way (appx 2 hrs, if there had been a closer station to board we’d have used it, but had to drive 1.5 hrs just to get to the train), then walked. Could have also used the local light rail once we got there but didn’t need to. I fucking loved everything about riding a train! From not driving, to not driving, to holy shit it’s a train, and even not driving! Best trip, and I wish it were practical to make all of them that way. I hate driving.

I mean I’m including the hour lunch there or it would be 8… pretty sure y’all aren’t working substantially less than that…

Alternatively, launch toward the sun, include a solar power tracker, and track and follow the trajectory for science/physics class work!

Based on trumps speed and position today, calculate where his bloated corpse will be in 9 hours, the length of a workday, which is something he never personally experienced, but tried to make worse for the average person.

Double whammy of learning about history and science!

I only do this when I’m reasonably sure we disagree and it will potentially start an argument. I enjoy explaining things to people and figuring out how to get them to understand. It’s communication skills, and I practice them frequently.

Biting my tongue, though, is so so so hard. Very worth it, especially in public, but so so hard.

Oh fuck right off with that shit. You don’t know shit about me beyond this limited exchange.

That’s what happens when you work shitty jobs, man. Idk what to tell you. You end up with shitty coworkers who don’t get fired for being shitty.

I’m just going to ignore the implication that I’m overreacting to my own lived experience and the downsides that have come with it. I’ve only had to miss out on tons of family stuff because of it with people who are dead now, as a result of entitled parents throwing their kids around as an excuse, so…

Have a nice day.

Yes, the entitled assholes who think because they have kids they deserve special privileges, sometimes even above other people with kids. I’m not talking about all parents. Thought that was pretty clear with the parenthetical, but guess I have to spell it out. That’s ok.

If someone is normal about it, doesn’t abuse their status as parents for special accommodations, I’ve got no problem with it beyond management being wildly unfair. But literally everywhere I’ve worked has had a handful of people who demand flexibility to pick their kids up, frequently take days off due to their kid needing something, etc. leaving everyone else to pick up their slack. Then you find out later they went to the spa or some shit. If they don’t get the vacation time they want, they complain about how their kids need it so much, and try to talk childless coworkers into covering for them.

Those entitled asshole.

Bullshit.

We aren’t talking about supporting these kid’s education and shit that society does which most are us are totally fine with, we are talking about missing out on our own lives because employers prioritize parents taking time off over us.

I’m not less valuable to society because I don’t want to sacrifice my family time for some entitled asshole coworker’s kids. And the entitled asshole (I’m sure we’ve all worked with one) is always first in line to complain if they don’t get their holiday.

Horizon zero dawn future coming sooner than anticipated.

Most of the fiction I’ve been exposed to (which is a lot, I enjoy it very much and always have) isn’t like that. They don’t just describe someone as strong or evil, they describe actions and events and emotions from a specific perspective and let you come to your own conclusions.

I guess if you like stuff made for kids, teens, and young adults, you’ll run into that problem a lot more, but it’s not actually an overall problem with fiction as far as I’ve noticed. I’ve never really liked young adult fiction though, because it’s lacking in depth, much like you describe (some exceptions do apply of course).

You have two options.

1. Resist. Plan stuff really far out and hope they forget about it, after “consulting your own schedule” on your phone.

2. Lean into it and respect them as capable of their own time management. Schedule things they don’t want with them, like doctors appointments, as well as the things they do want, like fast food rewards, and stick to the schedule. This gives them some adult skills like choosing when they want to do something to make it less scary, gives them some limited autonomy in their own lives, while still allowing you to mitigate the worst of it by still being the adult in the household with the master schedule. Really a win win, there. Especially if they drop it because being an adult who plans stuff is boring and lame and not nearly as much fun as they thought it would be.

This is the article it likely came from, which gives sparse detail (archive link, I couldn’t access the original)

https://web.archive.org/web/20260329214854/https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/2026/03/photos-from-the-third-nationwide-no-kings-protest/686609/?gift=NBdGSmKfDQzLc1B6N1F-gW8bItPGCyS-ElpMA69zojo

I have absolutely no idea how to find reference to this at this point because every search I do results in absolute bullshit that’s not related (like apparently the most liquid currency is the diarrhea coin… a problem that didn’t exist a few years ago…), but I recall reading about a practice from like the medieval era or something where special coins were made that contained heavy metals, and when consumed, would induce diarrhea. They would be retrieved, washed, and reused, and even passed down in families.

Today we know how bad of an idea something like that is, but then, like with radiation, it was all ghosts in the blood causing problems. Shitting blood was normalized.