Beautiful.

CATS

Cats is not a complicated musical. All they had to do was animate it and get actual voice actors/singers. I’ve seen sketches for what I think was a Tim Burton sketch, and that would have been a million times better. I don’t know who looked at Cat’s and was like, “Yup, we need CGI.” It looks horrendous and sounds bad more often than not. The musical is already pretty out there, how much more fun would that movie had been if we had animators working on it. The creative visuals, colors, motifs. Not to mention a cat is a wonderfully complex animal to animate just because of how they move. That movie could have been a visual delight in part with the Spiderman movies if they let it, but noooooo. Let’s make a nightmare.

I love that we’re literally going back in time. They thought we’d have flying cars and end world hunger, but instead we have to watch our politicians swim in shit water.

Edit: HE TOOK HIS GRANDCHILDREN!?

I had a girl staple her hand by accident, went to the nurse. We spent the next 30 minutes watching the teacher deal with a kid trying to staple himself on purpose so he could leave too.

He did eventually get to leave, but not because of the staple.

I didn’t think of that. The name is pretty generic.

I’ll call when they reopen. Don’t ask me why I didn’t think of that.

Insurance:

For this “industry,” it varies wildly by department and position. The lower your are (entry level, etc.) the worse it’s going to be. People are always in accidents, so you’ll be working customer service on nightmare mode. No real meetings, maybe a “huddle,” and then back to work.

I’ve moved up slightly and it is night and day. I get work/claims, but I’m usually done by noon, and that’s with me fucking around (on my phone, messing with the cat, chores, etc.). The projects are PowerPoints and excel sheets in my area, which are simple. Since I’m at home, when I’m done, I usually just keep myself online and work on crafts. If I’m extra bold, I’ll take the laptop downstairs and play a game. The more specialized you get, the less work you have.

Didn’t have anything to add, just that this was a nice read.

Same. Pinterest was the first couple pages of results, which is baffling, because you’d think the creator/source would be the first thing to pop up. I’m glad for the tips below but Pinterest is awful for image searches. Just ruins the results all over the web.

They’ve been doing a great job. They even have regular folks burning g and banning books on their behalf.

And you gave pictures. Thank you so much. ❤️

That’s awesome! I got the name and history. ❤️

I’m about to find out how strange it is, because I love it 👀

I don’t mind being the city’s vagabond.

Thank you!

Thank you!

I do, but that’s because “now these points of data make a beautiful line, and we’re out of beta, we’re releasing on time.”

Please don’t get taken out.

“Those bullies will be working at a gas station while you’ll be the boss!”

I think algorithms overall are affecting music and how it reaches people. The rise of songs as background music for things they have nothing to do with is becoming blatant. “Messy” came out of know where and suddenly everyone knew about it and it was in tons of videos. I had never heard of that woman before (which could be for a number of reasons) but suddenly, boom, it’s everywhere. Now it’s “Anxiety.” I used to (naively) think that people were just naturally coming across music and things were just popular. But without the charade of people “calling” in to request a song, the act of discovering music feels very soulless. It’s like, “here, please choose your new favorite song from these preselected songs.”

That’s so incredibly thoughtful. If you honk at the wrong person in the US, you might end up on a Tshirt.