Vanth, vanth@reddthat.com

Anecdotally, I have a sizeable group of colleagues who cruise together. They’re old Gen Z thru to young Gen X. Some are partnered up, some bring partners from outside work. They call them “family trips”. Lots of queer couples, but not all. The queer inclusivity seems like a big element drawing then in.

I am baffled by it. I get how awesome it is to build a chosen family, but not why they’d find their people and then decide a cruise is where they want to spend time together. I don’t even try to decline politely anymore, I just straight up tell them a cruise is everything I don’t want to spend my precious vacation time on.

Money. If I can’t use it directly, it still frees me up from labor to use my time as I see fit.

More by extension. My dad was a huge Joe Paterno / Penn State football fan. He thought very highly of Paterno as a coach, and leader. I was baffled when it broke just how much he had ignored. Just so cowardly and evil, allowing that man to rape and abuse so many kids so his football team wouldn’t look bad in a headline or two.

Yeah, mostly K-12 STEM stuff. The girl scout council in my area knows me through various volunteering events and call me up a few times a year to help with something. Also a middle school that I helped develop a “music in science” couple day-long summer camp curriculum. I have a decent sized set of work colleagues I’ll draft for help too.

I don’t think I have the skills for door knocking or asking people to sign petitions. Or the right perspective. Like, I’d sign a petition to defund ICE right now, but fuck anyone I would have to argue with to get them to sign it. And I don’t like either major party here (US) so not even for the bad-but-not-tyrannical one would I do work phones or doors for.

I stretched the truth a bit to ensure I wouldn’t be listed as a “critical to be onsite” employee. My sports-induced asthma that I manage just fine was enough for me to check “respiratory illnesses”. So I worked from home and avoided the shit tasks that landed on all the people who wanted to go onsite. They did get prioritized for vaccines months before I got mine, so some pros for them as least. Barely any of the work actually required we be physically present though, it was a pile of crap.

I probably have unreasonably high hopes for this one. The original is an annual rewatch around Halloween thru Xmas time.

Yeah, this is a super common theme from queer people in small rural and/or religious communities. Online may be the only interaction they have for information and support.

I am conflicted. I don’t know what I want out of this movie. I don’t want anything at all that casts a positive light on child rapist Roman Polanski, yet I want to respect Ms. Geimer’s wishes and see that if anyone profits from all this that it be her, yet I can’t help but feel like this is still somehow exploiting her.

What I really want is for France and the film industry worldwide to stop pandering to this admitted child rapist. So many interesting voices out there and we have to waste even a moment’s thought on this crusty old pervert.

Conveniently ignoring when I gave my opinion. “Cancelling” is just free speech about white dudes. No need to white knight for him.

At a minimum, someone with really bad judgement

At a minimum, someone with really bad judgement, who cares more about making headlines than doing high-quality research, and who shouldn’t be trusted to treat the subjects of this study with respect.

Bailey was the Northwestern professor who had a live demo of a reciprocating sex toy, put on by a volunteer and her partner. It was optional to attend the demo, students were over 18 and allegedly informed on what they were going to see.

He’s also been repeatedly called out for not properly informing participants in his studies. One accusation of sleeping with one of his research subjects. And toed the ethics line on writing evaluation letters for candidates of sex assignment surgery when he didn’t hold a license.

His wikipedia article links to sources.

I caught opening night of Iron Lung last night. Gaming streamers aren’t really my thing so I went in very blind, drawn by the cosmic horror and John Carpenter vibes. I read more about it after seeing it, the budget, the low-almost-no-advertising, the self-funded theatrical release. I was quite impressed.

Melania also opens this weekend. I won’t see that one, it’s too scary for my tastes.

This is one of those starter date vetting things, like whether your date treats restaurant and bar staff well, and tips (when culturally appropriate).

Is it illegal to not stack your cart neatly? No. Do I want to date someone who puts minimal effort in and pushes simple tasks they deem beneath them onto low-wage workers? Also no.

My condolences. Where is this “competition breeds excellence” outcome that capitalism promised me?

Within the past year I shopped around for a new home internet provider. The legacy companies encouraged if not required talking to a human being to find out anything about service availability and rates and then be subject to a hard sales pitch. Appointment availability for the install was 2+ weeks out. The new fiber companies had all the info I could want clearly online, appointments available within 2 days, with minimal fuss. The legacy company humans were also often incorrect about their own product, potentially lying to make a sale.

If they act like a company from the 90s, they aren’t going to capture customers who came into adulthood after that.

That’s not even touching on the speeds they offer are slower than their competitors for a steeper price.

Shell gas stations in the US have been showing ads on the main machine for years, I’ve never seen them on the handle before. I hate it. I would expect them to break “accidentally” quite often.

Hello from Lemmy. I don’t have pets, but I homebrew beer. Maybe the billions of yeast cells are my pets? Tough to keep their names straight and they keep dying off.

I just bottled a batch of Mexican-style lager. Any name ideas? I often reference horror movies when naming beers.

In the US and Canada, however, the reference appears to be lost on some fans of the franchise […] seemingly unaware of the real-life Savile scandal that inspired them.

I’m not that optimistic. Plenty of US people would lean in all the more if they found out Savile had been “cancelled by the woke mob and ugly women angry at every harmless catcall”.

I like your answer.

I was thinking of some of my favorite movies. Some I like that subvert their genre’s tropes. Others I like are examples of excelling at the genre; being the ideal of that genre. And even “bad” can be good if it’s interesting in its badness. I think of Nicolas Cage movies, his “nouveau shamanic” acting style is over the top and ridiculous at times but his movies still entertain and call for discussion.