I often run into paywalls and move on, but I didn’t see one here.

Not saying you’re wrong, but I wonder if it’s regional or something?

On weekends, we hear fireworks occasionally on the weekends. We assume it’s for whatever sports game is in season.

But I always check the headlines real quick

It’s a form of exclusion, of othering people. I understand that may not be the intent, but it labels them as “not like us”, with contextual hints that we’re probably better off without them.

One of my kids decided to be a Pokemon card this year! They’d already found one of the custom card generator websites, so he designed the card, and we got that and an upscaled image of a pokemon card back printed, and slapped those on some foamboard with a ribbon harness!

He got a ton of compliments for it, he was very pleased with himself! Lot more adults than I expected recognized it right away, too

Wearing metas?

I read that as a joke - Nixon wasn’t exactly known for his charisma either. Both were known for the other, iirc

Not necessarily - they may just not have genuflected quickly enough, or refused him for their own ends

Yep - they’re established, so it’s ladder-pulling time!

He can always move in if he wants

Never really got this part - you don’t just move in if you want, you have to unhouse a family first.

Maybe it’s just because I’ve been on the wrong side of that…

Star trek! Vulcan mind melds (not to mention betazoids and other telepaths) are absolutely psychic

And conversely, learn to appreciate periods of stillness!

(I’m not disagreeing with you, both are valuable!)

Not sure if this is what they were talking about, but there are some Costcos that only sell to businesses. Have a bit of an uproar where I live because one downtown is switching to that, and there’s not many other grocery options in the area.

Gotta say, I’m appreciating the comments on this post a lot more this time around - last time this was posted there was a lot of anti-leashing sentiment.

I’m just trying to figure out - did the people on Lemmy change? Is it the time of day? Pretty sure it’s the same community as before!

That’s just an obstacle, and not an insurmountable one

I don’t think this has been the state of society for millenia.

Tolkien had Frodo break down in front of Sam in Lord of the Rings. Sam literally carried him after. This was written not even a century ago, and wasn’t seen as all that remarkable or groundbreaking. Hell, it wasn’t unusual that they held hands, it was just a thing bros did.

The current level of toxic masculinity is a new phenomenon, it’s not a feature of a stable society

I like a good story, with interesting characters, multiple coherent worldviews, and interesting conflicts. The sci-to-fi spectrum certainly grabs my attention and holds it while I learn about the characters and world, but ultimately, it’s about compelling people, from James Holden and Jean-Luc Picard through Cassian Andor to Taylor Hebert.

I do enjoy when the science is accurate, but it feels more like an impressive artistic flourish to me. I realized a while back that if I insist on accuracy in my media, I’ll miss out on a lot of good, fun, even classic entertainment. It irks me when something isn’t internally consistent, but a miss on scientific accuracy is more like spotting the boom mike in a shot - mildly annoying, but usually worth focusing on what they’re trying to say.

Ugh, do you know where they’ve been??!

Okay, so… Aside from the creepy terrifying robot thing, what’s happening in this picture? Is that a door with a full plate glass window… in a wall between two hallways? Is the bot just standing in a large empty room staring through a door without opening it?

I mean, almost all of them kick various kinds of butt as normal humans!

Status bar? I see the opening in the back of the case for the for the camera, but no status bar.