I mean, I am not a huge fan of the show and didn’t finish it. But the first season was stellar. But that aside, reading your other comments it seems like you don’t like a lot of modern shows. Which is fine, but personally I find older stuff I watched when I was a girl just sorta meaningless. X files had so many skipable episodes without serving the overarching plot. I’m honestly kinda baffled that you would prefer monster of the week instead of expanse and breaking bad, but you are allowed to think as you please. Just seems at odd with two of the most higely praised shows of recent history.

And I don’t super appreciate being called bro… >_>

That’s… not what the poster was saying. Prestige TV extends much farther than the mafia genre, sopranos was just the turning point when higher budget dramatic things were more commonly greenlit.

The Wire, Breaking Bad, Watchmen, The Expanse Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Mad Men etc all absolutely blow X files out of the water. And while I do love X files, the monster of the week format is not even in the same ballpark as those long form character dramas.

I think you might be letting nostalgia blind you to how great television has become.

Madonna spent years as a sex symbol, which absolutely takes time, effort and very consenious eating. Not to mention makeup, hair and fashion. What I see in her pic is a streamlined and simple to maintain look. She already has the money and nothing left to prove so… YOLO?

That it would drastically harm queer people and those questioning their identity. Social pressure, fear and shame keeps people from asking certain questions or exploring their desires when it’s potentially tied to them for life.

Look at the while concept of “queer appropriation” by celebrities. Their entire life is public and ironically while feeling themselves out and experimenting with new presentations, it’s ironically met with backlash from some queer people thinking it’s a capitalist ploy to appeal to queer fans.

Being able to just ask questions and explore is a fundamental part of understanding yourself. Anonymity is a precious gift, but one that is also easy to take granted.

Edit: Also religious folk.

Tell your boyfriend if he STILL has beef that over time it’s gonna give him heart disease.

I feel for you and I’m sorry you also are going through it. I don’t blame you for taking umbridge with this all. But I also live in constant pain as well, after a dog attack a few years ago I can’t walk for more than an hour at a time, laying sitting and standing all hurt and even with pain meds, I can only get to a dull ache. I can’t work and the life I had before is gone, it was such shit trying to prove to skeptical condescending doctors saying just to do stretches and it will get better, but… Here I am still waiting.

So while I feel where you are coming from with this time of chronic pain, I am ready to deal with this and other life debilitating conditions if I also get to feel like it was to run again, to climb, to see through the eyes of an athlete. To be able to walk normally and enjoy events again. I’d take my own pain and yours again to feel human again.

Honestly, those are all selling points. I’d love to understand how a coma patient thinks a few months in, a few years in and a few decades in. What it’s like to die in war in the year, 700, 1700 & 2700. To die as a newborn and then eventually see how those very parents are affected. So long as it is randomized and I’m statistically likely to see something radically different tommorow, I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of the human experince.

What was life like for ever human that has ever existed? I’d like to see every single day start to finish from their perspective, sorted as randomly as possible.

The worst part of traditional immortality is being stuck as you, I’d like to experience the entire library and range of human experinces. It would eventually know how it started and how it all ended, while seeing every perspective that got us there. They’d be a lot of days toiling in a field, a lot of days in office cubicles toiling in excel, but most importantly I’d see the small victories and tragedies that make up every life. I think that’d be the real beauty.

“I had too many drinks at a Christmas party”

was also cited for having an open container in his truck.

I guess it was too many drinks while I literally driving. Just fucking typical for republicans 🙄

Dave Williams, the chairman of the state party, reaffirmed the plan. “I’m not going to let these sons of bitches dictate who we’re going to nominate,”

Where was Dave on January 6th?

Republicans went on to imply that other forms of milk like almond milk, soy milk, etc were communist beverage

Ohhhhh of course he did. 🙄

We love forced impregnation to steal a baby’s milk here in MURICA!

Well that’s a disappointment. I wish more Nazi groups would take after their leader when it comes to self destruction.

Tesla full self driving is no where close to ready and actively dangerous to any one around it, including and especially the occupants. But the autopilot is pretty convient and useful. I wish they would stop calling these patches “recalls”, it’s turning the term meaningless.

Edit: “If the driver attempts to engage Autosteer when conditions are not met for engagement, the feature will alert the driver it is unavailable through visual and audible alerts, and Autosteer will not engage,” the recall document states.

Super reasonable stuff.

I blame 50% William Gibson, and 50% Ridley Scott.

Well, this sort of thing is honestly above any social media’s pay grade, so I will only tell you what I did after talking with my therapist

I know how this feels and I’m sorry you are going through it too. After the only member of my family who was even remotely kind to me died (and even that was an abusive relationship), I cut off contact with everyone else related to me and my life has only improved. It’s been about 6 years now but i am much happier for it, no judgement, no yelling, no control, life is just… quieter.

You can’t control how others act, and your father has had several decades to reconsider. At a certain point, you should just protect your own well being and go no contact.

Being a part of your life is a privilege, not a right.

I’m absolutely not, I’m just saying that a noose made from CNN camera cables serves the same function as one from Fox News cables.

Not wanting to kill people does not mean I am defending them, and if that level of … lets call it nuance… is too much for you, then we are on such different planes of reality that I don’t actually care much what you think of me.

i don’t condone violence

i just think she has needed a punch in that stupid mouth of hers

These are mutually exclusive.

There is absolutely no moral high ground here and your line of thinking doesn’t work in this context.

Fuck the moral high ground, punch Nazis before they take over your government

That’s not what was happening here though, this wasn’t praxis to stopping hateful rhetoric, it’s a man feeling entitled to shake his female coworkers when they are upset. This is mysgonsy, not direction action. Punch Nazis when they say Nazi shit, not when they talk about meaningless censures.

If they’re Nazis in government, they deserve worse than a punch

This is what Jan. 6thers said about “the deepstate” actors. Are you tying up a noose for Pence as well?

ITT: Assaulting a woman isn’t a crime if I don’t like her.

I’m not trying to play at civility politics here, just reminding people that #MeToo and believe women wasn’t that long ago. Without question, MTG is a monster, but we vote her out instead of cheering violence, January 6th also wasn’t that long ago and we as a society need to be better than those idiots instead of wishing harm to the elected.

It’s not funny to say she deserved it, that’s just repackaging the “she was asking for it” trope.

No argument that she is an awful person but encouraging violence is pretty awful too. I get the impulse, but you need to reconsider what you are saying.