Vanth

My sister had to come out to my parents for like the sixth time. They just pretend they don't hear it. So operation Not-Subtle Propaganda commences. I was visiting for the long weekend and put on movies with LGBT characters to get them desensitized (sensitized?) to the idea of gay people existing.

Ok, so maybe Forbidden Fruits wasn't one to include in this first wave. TBF, I don't think either parent clocked the gayness. They are so stubbornly blind to it.

Now accepting suggestions for next visit I take in ~June or July. They are Hallmark movie people so it can't be too outrageous, FF was really pushing it even without The Gay Agenda™.

Several of my great aunts and uncles did this. And yeah, after they moved away they would have small boxes of dirt shipped to them from family that stayed behind.

White, Volga German descended farmer people, moved from the Midwest to the West Coast US.

I would think it's not just people avoiding his movies because he's a sexual assaulter, but the studios too. If I've got a several hundred million dollar project, I'm not going to make a known serial assaulter the face of it. I'm not going to want to be in any way liable if he assaults his female coworkers, I don't want to roll the dice that the public won't turn against him when more allegations start coming out. Not when there are other perfectly bankable stars who aren't confirmed sexual assaulters.

He's a proven liability and one would think studios would want to avoid him and keep their investment safe.

Eeeeh. Not in the tier of Jared Leto, but definitely in the tier of "why does he keep getting jobs, plenty other actors with skills equal to or greater than his who won't sexually assault their colleagues".

On the edge of my seat hoping a "canal pusher" is an animal of similar species to the drop bear in Australia or the snipe in US.

Edit: oh, drunk people. So yes, kinda related to drop bears and snipes.

Sus fingers

I don't see why. I'm employed. My employer cared that I had a college degree ten years ago, but now I have years of doing the job to point to.

So my high school diploma would have to be pulled, then two colleges would somehow have to say that made my two diplomas invalid, then my employer would have to decide they gave a shit about that more than nearly a decade of demonstrated competency.

At most, I would take a GED test for shits and giggles. I would guess math is the most difficult section for most people. I'm an engineer and use math more and more diverse applications for math frequently, so I expect it would be easy.

I gave up trying to sit for 15+ minute sessions. I have a standing desk and two barstool-height chairs of very different designs, cycling between the three options throughout my workday.

Great that I can work from home. In the office I would look like a fidgety child.

RRR rewatch. A friend hadn't ever seen a Indian epic before so introduced them to the genre.

Before that, Mantis and Killer Boksoon. Korean action thrillers about contract killers.

If it really is evolving usage, I'll pay attention once it seeps into more permanent media like music lyrics. Or when Fox News starts reporting on it as evidence of the downfall of our education system, (also kids are making toilet wine again and ingesting it through all the wrong body orifices, more at 11).

I'm too old and not cool to worry about rapid lifecycle language trends. If I pay too much attention, I might become one of those adults repeating "6-7" to show they're hip with it.

Yesssss, Z peeps, draw attention away while millennials continue to ruin other things with our avocado toast and useless degrees.

I'm a millennial but must be a couple years older. Cell phones were in high school and a small handful in middle school. '08 and '14 impacted my early career years.

Larger picture than that, I am in the same field as my father. I have a "higher" level job with more responsibilities than he did at my age. I have more education. He and spouse owned a home and supported 7 kids on his salary alone. They had medical insurance that mostly covered the needs of the one kid with serious medical issues for the few years of life. I wouldn't even consider having one kid let alone seven without a partner working and bringing in around the same amount of money as me. Any major medical issue would destroy our plans. A house as large as my parents' would require moving to some small town where there are no jobs in my field.