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This has been around for a long time, before Netflix. My dad and much of his generation get lonely when the TV is off, so he leaves it on at all times on whatever, while working or watching sports. Network TV does this with predictable crime dramas and sitcoms, cables got Hallmark movies and reruns of family guy, etc. Half-tune is a popular format for pretty much most age groups.

I explicitly don't do this, but I do have podcasts for my second screen in a sense-- only I won't do them unless it's a grindy game or Minecraft or something, and usually the podcast is taking my cognitive attention. It's disruptive if it's a thoughtful activity, like scrolling social media (though I guess the fediverse is a little more engaging than slopbook or whatever).

We're on Lemmy and no one has suggested Red Hat Chili Peppers? For shame.

Then again, I use Arch...tic Monkeys.

That's a bummer to bring up. Except he admitted to what he did (which by 2025 standards is super benign) and felt shame over it. I don't get the same sense here. What did Franken end up doing anyway? Podcasting?

Thinking about it, it's probably not a terrible move on his part, overall. Dems can probably retain the governorship and this frees him to do other things. His replacement is probably worse, but it's not like he's retiring (although with how awful people are to him and his family, taking a break might be a good personal move... he has compassion and the attacks on his family probably really hurt).

A Hello Kittypede Ouroboros. I like it. Sounds symbolic for late stage capitalism.

Now I want a shirt with that pattern to really screw with people. Then again, where I live (the US) that's probably not a good idea.

Yeah I was gonna say, also didn't he just rip off what Valve was sharing for free from their VR lab experimentation like 10 years ago?

Yup! Return to normal was such a dumb rallying cry for Biden. I was rather vocal about that to people I knew during the 2020 primary but by the time my state got to vote, he was pretty much the candidate.

Honestly I figured the reason they caved in was that party leaders knew it would fuel midterms to make people suffer, but they themselves didn't want to look that way so they had safe seats to be the fall guys. So yeah, duh.

Pretty sure people here can see the writing on the wall and will at least vote in the primary. Not sure what good it'll do since tactics like that work way too well on average voters, but might as well try.

How is that even possible? The only clocks on display in my house are analog. Do people not have wall clocks? Do kids grow up never knowing what time it is? That's a standard household furnishing.

Then again, it does say some students, so I probably should assume it's a minority who never asked their parents what the fuck that thing on the wall was.

I've done the math for my area. $200 at Trader Joe's covers family of four for about 7 to 10 days, breakfast, snacks, dinner and coffee. Lunch is usually leftovers. Even eating cheaply at my local Vietnamese place is like $8 a meal, and while the kids can split a pho, that's still over $30 after tax and tip. And that's cheapest - other places easily hit over $80 per meal.

Just tonight we made pesto pasta with chicken sausage and portabella mushrooms. $1 pasta, $3 sauce (or make your own, basil is about that price), $3 mushrooms, $4 sausage. Kids love it, cooks very easy, and saves well. It's not the healthiest, but they had apples earlier so it wasn't all bad.

Even if it's just for one, all the ingredients can be halved and saved for a while, unless you love leftovers (and I do love leftovers). Just always prioritize breads asap, and freeze meats you don't use unless they're preserved like sausage. Frozen veggies are much easier to work with, too. Easy money.

Agreed, and a good literature review will dig up that chain. Although it won't ever be perfectly accurate since the point is paraphrasing the literature to build a structure around what you're doing, that doesn't mean your secondary source understood the original (and their reviewers, who can very much be hit or miss).

And don't get me started on authors misunderstanding quantitative data, haha. I haven't been doing much academic research since my kids were born, but the number of "they made that shit up" cases were wild in education research. Like arbitrary spline models, misused propensity score matching, a SEM model with cherry picked factors, you name it.

... And this comment chain is way next level for this community. Hahaha