I am a 4x year old father that voted for Kamala, and my 11 year old son does a lot for various charities without me asking him too. He’s been choosing a charity to help children, LGBTQ, immigrants/refugees, etc for the past few years by selling lemonade during the summer with 100% of the proceeds going to the charity. I am involved with groups dedicated to opposing ICE and authoritarian groups in the USA.

I may be White and male, but not all of us are monsters or want this.

Bruh, your underwear makes direct contact with your skin. Whether it’s pants or a layer in between, the result is the same that the barrier carries your pee and poo and it’s in contact with your skin.

This is a good one as is Good Bye, Lenin!

Yes! I am a Marvel fan, but wasn’t super into What If but that episode was so damn cool and the language was faaaaaaaantastic!

The TV shows are connected, though. Things that happen in them affect the movies and vice versa.

Living. And. Breathing.

Mimic is talking about cinematic universes. These are things that could technically be brands unto themselves with different themes and genres, but then you take them and combine them. They aren’t just shared, but living and breathing.

No Stephen king universe stuff has come together to form a mashup of all of those. Yes, they reference/share, but that’s totally different.

Lovecraft? Once again, same principle.

Captain America has his own movies with a history and political theme. Iron Man has tech and politics. Hulk is a monster vs man. Thor is fantasy and mythology. You could literally have these heroes never interact, but they do on multiple occasions!

They can each have, and do have, their own complete movies and arcs while also having things that affect the other’s movies while also having them come together to confront larger problems and then going back on their separate ways. None of what you referenced before are cinematic universes.

They are universes, yes, but you don’t have the entirety of Lovecraft come together to fight Cthulu or something. It’s not like Original Trek, Next Generation, DS9, Voyager, etc all work on their own missions then team up for a big confrontation or issue and then go back to their own stuff on screen. Star Wars all share the universe, but you don’t have multiple entities really doing things in the same timeline on their own and then come together. They contain arcs and different entities in the universe. The closest we may have come is Clone Wars/Rebels/Bad Batch and the Mando and Grogu stuff but even then these happen at different times and not simultaneously.

No idea what you’re referring to. Can you provide an example?

Yeah, but you can imagine what it would be like if they were.

I hear what you’re saying, but let poetry be in poems and let direct truth be in headlines. I don’t see a reason to pretty up news.

For sure. I do understand how it was used, but it still sounds stupid. Just write, “Bruise appears on Trump’s other hand—speculations rise” or something to that effect.

Edit: I think in a world where people just read the headlines, and with many Americans reading at a low level, that people might take it more literally which I why I don’t like the headline as written.

I am commenting just because I take issue with the headline. The bruise did not spread to his other hand. He has a bruise on one hand and a separate bruise on another hand. There’s no spreading because that’s not how a bruise works. It’s not fucking contagious.

I totally get that.

Public districts around here pay more than private and charter. As I live in the Chicago area, I have a wealth of districts I can go to beyond CPS (Chicago Public Schools) because the burbs are so close.

Yes, pay is not great for all the things that teachers have to do and are responsible for, but I don’t care. My wife brings in the bacon these days anyway as she’s a tenured professor. I’ve dealt with corporate life for over 20 years, been through layoffs multiple times, tired of the stupid corporate lingo and being in marketing where I was basically a propagandist for brands, and I like having the same time off that my kid has.

I legit like Clancy’s brand of chips or cookies over the major brands for some reason. Their take and bake pizzas are huge for the price! I know my wife tends to save on some meats and things when she shops at Aldi. I’m a fan as well.

Mother fucker has never been in a school before teaching kids who snap them, bite erasers off, and sharpen them to make the world’s tiniest writing utensil ever.

It could be, too, that their stores are getting picked over for the things they want. Perhaps it’s out of stock the second it comes in because others are just buying it up right away.

I was in the midst of a career change that I instigated myself with the blessing and support of my wife. I was substitute teaching while trying to break into the tech field and found that I actually loved subbing! So much so that I am more than halfway done with a Master’s program for Elementary Education.

There is a teacher shortage and I’m male, which is an underrepresented statistic in Elementary Ed, so I’m pretty confident I’ll land something. I’m taking a pay cut, but I enjoy the teaching and the positives it brings to children’s lives to have a good role model and someone that cares about them while being excited to explore new information.

Cool, so Christmas isn’t a holiday? Then go back to work on this regular ass day, you fucking douchebags.

I would love to know the reasoning why they think they are persecuted. I legitimately cannot fathom how, in America, Christianity is persecuted.

Could be. In any case, I think it’s misdirection of some kind.

I use the Leaf, but yeah…same. So many free digital OTA channels.