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There has got to be a term for the particular type of ... restlessness(?) that movies like VVitch and Hereditary inflict. It's not exactly horror, but a distinct discomfort that I can't quite name. Talk To Me also got close for me but not as far as Hereditary.

I grew up in a very conservative Catholic community. Imagine a group where JD Vance and Harrison Butker would be considered mild. If a new person didn't show up in the right kind of clothes and faux humility, people would make a snap judgement and start gossiping. If the new person were wealthy or had a lot of children (8+) or were in a medical field, they would probably be ok. The single parent mom with two kids who dared to send one to public school for better STEM classes? Lol, she had no chance.

There was a "welcome wagon" type group who were supposed to invite new people to coffee and doughnuts with the congregation in the basement after services. I watched the one invite one family and offer a handshake, visibly retracted the hand to skip over Single Mom, and then extend an invitation to the next family. Ice cold.

You blow in the hole, I'll do the fingering.

Michael Fassbender as Walter in Alien: Covenant

Yes, with such amazing dialogue. Who could not take this movie seriously?

Could one just swap the credit card and email associated with the Pelaton account, and transfer the account to the new owner of the used machine? No "reactivation" fee needed if it never goes idle.

Caution needed if handing it over to a rando from Craigslist, ofc. But if I were selling to friend or family, I'd be willing to put in a little effort to save them $95.

The few people I know who are into the Pelaton community do it for the competition/gamification element. They watch their status against global leaderboards and are highly motivated by it.

For those that it works for, great. I am highly motivated by competition, but those prices are too rich for my blood.

Maybe there are also people into Pelaton who are like those who pay a monthly gym subscription even if they have space at home? And could buy a home setup that saves them money. The monthly pay makes them commit financially and motivates them to go to the gym consistently.

I interpreted it as you don't heat the pot while the frog is still in the pond. You only apply heat slowly once the front is already in the pot.

Don't load up the ads until the users are already on Threads. Wait until they are active on Threads, then crank up the ads when it's more difficult for the users to leave.

A student and her football player boyfriend were caught behind the school after a game making out and probably more. The girl was made to publicly apologize to the class and then "strongly encouraged" to leave and finish her high school somewhere else. The boy faced no public repercussions and appeared to carry on as normal.

Let's call her "Jenny". For about a year, any time someone pushed the line on public displays of affection per school rules, they were warned to tone it down or they would get "Jenny'd".

Catholic school, in case you couldn't guess.

Public library.

Not Ello!

Jk, I was the only person I knew with an Ello account. I know more people on lemmy and mastodon and fediverse stuff than I did on Ello. It didn't take much to predict it wouldn't work out.

Defensish. Close enough that we overlap some and have a lot of intense rules to follow.

These people throwing company private information into chatGPT are absolutely wild to me. I'm waiting for someone from an actual defense company to get busted and make headlines for putting like missile defense system specs in, and then it's part of the dataset used to feed answers to everyone else.

I work for a company that requires everything to have a privacy policy that meets some minimums. We're technically not supposed to even use Google websearch because putting any question into it potentially sends company information into the world and out of our control. That one's not really enforced, thank goodness.

Without a privacy policy, I guess the calculator app could scrape the numbers you're entering, plus, idk an email and a OneNote entry for context, to reverse engineer the latest doodad we've been designing.

It's difficult to imagine what numbers from the calculator alone could be used for, but combine it with other information and you've got a problem.

Couples going through a rough patch can open-source their marriage.