A high school classmate. We went to a Catholic high school. She came back years later, broke into the school over a weekend with a crew to film her debut porn shoot. The school tried to keep it quiet, but c’mon, I’m sure every student and half the alumni from previous 5 years knew about it before classes started the following Monday.
Actual human responses, including real apologies at times when someone takes a comment the wrong way and then admits they did so. Never in all my years on the other platform did I see that happen.
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Imo, you can just jump straight into this one. She wrote it several novels into the Hainish Cycle, but it is first chronologically within the story timeline.
Really, there’s not too much crossover between books. I haven’t read all of them, just picked them up as they sound interesting in no particular order and it’s been fine.
Yes. I used to say “no” but that was some fucked up internalized religious self-hate shit. I am good. Not perfect, but definitely good within my moral framework and the framework of any people I care about. I have one particular area I’m wrestling with to be “better” and I find it’s far more useful to focus on improving that than on self-flagellating over how “bad” I am.
The Left Hand of Darkness and other Le Guin stories. Good timing on when I started expending my scifi reading in her direction; I was in high school, meeting more people outside my little conservative family and church bubble, trying to form new conceptual models for the much bigger world that I was previously insulated from.
Bingo. Sort of. It includes a lot, to go with the massive breadth that the question entails.
I don’t know whether to assume this question is in good faith or not. Can you restate what you think the OP is asking? It’s not about whether there was ever a time when no work was needed.
I’m not interested in wasting my time against a sealion debating capitalism.
Capitalism
Yes. I typically live far away from family, and may or not not have a significant other or friends to celebrate with any given year. I often get invited by someone, but I don’t always take them up on the offer. I’m no longer religious and tend to avoid overtly religious Christmas celebrations. Sometimes friends are inviting me to join their family who I don’t know. While I’m grateful for the invite, I would rather relax and not navigate strange family dynamics.
Not Christmas day itself, but days before and after my company is mostly closed with just a few people working. I often volunteer to work those hours. My coworkers who care about Christmas more are grateful so I get first dibs on other popular vacation holidays.
(USA, specifically the state of Iowa). Yep, I know who that is but also don’t care. His music never really hit over here.
When his Better Man movie came out, there was probably a slight uptick in awareness of who he is, but that dropped back down quickly. Most of what I heard about that movie was about the visual effects technology rather than the storyline.
Sexual orientation is also a self-identity. I don’t think it’s necessary to specifically address to a child all the possible varieties. Just “respect people no matter what label they go by”.
Next, have fun learning that sexual behavior is different than sexual orientation, and sexual attraction is different than romantic attraction. Too many possible combinations and interpretations, just go with what people label themselves as.
No time like the present.
Next few days off seems like a primo opportunity to break out of all sorts of routines and patterns. I would be looking to do something crazy new that requires a lot of active attention.
I do things that require my attention. Passive consumption of media like movies, books, music don’t cut it for me. I go biking or motorcycling where distraction would mean an accident. Or I hit up a sports competition, especially with teammates who I feel some obligation towards to help me stay invested. Whatever it is, I try to find ways to force my attention out of spiraling thoughts.
Next few days off seems like a primo opportunity to break out of all sorts of routines and patterns. I would be looking to do something crazy new that requires a lot of active attention.
Some film and visual effects breakdowns videos.
And when whoever is talking in the video presents some other clip and they 2x speed it. I have to slow to normal or slightly faster because 4x is genuinely too fast for me 98% of the time.
Twilight. If nothing more than to count the red flags and use it as a teaching tool for young teens on what not to do in romantic relationships.
Mom and Dad Save the World [1992] even as an 8 year old I understood this was a bad movie by so many standards but enjoyed it anyway. The injection. The muscly bird people. The fish people. Probably the first thing I ever saw Jon Lovitz in and I will forever see Spengo in any other character he ever plays.
Compact, cig lighter charged air compressor. Once you use that tire patch kit, be able to air up their tire.
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Uh huh, sure. I believe them and have absolutely no reason to doubt either their honesty or their competency on this matter.
I can’t call it a failure. Fun was had. Goals diverged. We split quite amicably and remain in occasional contact. 10/10, would break up with them again.
I’ve had more painful and seen more incompetence on the medical professionals’ side, but my methacholine challenge as part of asthma diagnosis always stands out for the blatant malpractice.
I was a kid, probably range of 9-12 years old. They exposed me to something that eventually triggers an asthma reaction in anyone, just a matter of how much it takes to be considered “asthmatic”. Then they left me in the room alone while the test ran. I posted about it once as a sanity check. It’s a legitimate test, from what I’ve been able to find, just not the part when they leave an underage patient unattended to deal with the inevitable asthma attack alone.
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