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  • Oh, bones is def ok the spectrum, but that’s explained away by being caused by her upbringing… Since she was in the adoption system due to her dad iirc.

    She’s also rich due to her stubbornness and “pulling herself up by her own bootstraps”.

    She also is drawn to Booth, a childish man who constantly makes fun of her peers, and has a derogatory nickname for people in her profession (squints), but he’s an old values man (reads the paper with his coffee and prefers it to bones’ iPad, sleeps around pre-bones but loves every woman he does sleep with, he basically rebuilds their house himself, is a company man who regards the bureau above all else, and he likes guns but keeps his safe like a model citizen should)… and is hot.

    There’s also an embarrassing amount of obvious product placement in the show (the cars, the diff apple products they use and comment on throughout the show) that I’m pretty sure they were self aware of it and making fun of it later on. …

    The woman who is in charge s2 and later is not nearly as smart as any of her subordinates, meanwhile the guy who is in charge during season 1 always seems to have more respect given to him than his successor. Other women who are in charge also usually turn out to be the big bad at the time.

    I don’t remember the woman deciding to keep her baby. Was that one of the one-episode people who are adjacent to a victim?

    Sorry. Went down a rabbit hole here. But yeah, as a kid I was always curious how such a conservative leaning news channel like Fox could have such shows that are either super liberal or super raunchy… Turns out a lot of them have a lot of conservative coded messages. The writing was pretty standard for a crime procedural.

    Still trying to figure out how such a gay friendly show like X-Men got made…



    1. Admitting that I don’t have control over my symptoms.
    2. Meds. Taking vivanse and wellbutrin in the morning and experimenting (with Dr approval) Adderall in the afternoon
    3. Making sure I have some exercise as part of my morning every day routine (biking/walking on my way to work, going for a walk before walk when I wfh)
    4. Getting out for a walk bike ride during the day
    5. Talk therapy with a CBT pro


  • Fyi I don’t agree with the previous commenters ideology about two separate classes for women.

    I however agree that we can’t discuss this rationally today because social media (including lemmee) is a terrible forum for this discussion, because, unfortunately, a person who is AFAB and has a DSD, or other naturally occurring condition, which gives them more or less testosterone/lactic acid/something else than the typical woman, and thus an advantage, gets conflated with having a trans woman compete, because then the people who feel strongly about trans people on both sides come out of the wood work and start yelling…

    And then everyone gets pissed and/or understandardly triggered and nothing can be argued.

    By naturally occurring I mean w/o the use of drugs/doping/surgery. Which in my understanding is what’s the case with the boxer.

    I don’t post this to argue or convince. Just clarify what I think they’re trying to say.

    I won’t respond to the “are they female”/“what to do” debate, only that this forum is terrible to have these debates.

    Thank you for coming to my Ted talk/soap box lecture


  • As others have pointed out, the rules of competition don’t apply since there’s exclusive content at play.

    As a metaphor, It’s not like one restaurant serving a popular type of food vs multiple restaurants doing so. It’s having one Italian, one Thai, one Chinese and one American restaurant being the only ones in 100 miles. Look! There’s competition, 4 restaurants! Unless you only want some pad Thai.

    So now instead of fixing cables issue of $60-100/month, they made it more complicated by paying $60-100/month to 3-5 different companies instead of one.

    As a real life example. If you have kids, or are a big Star wars/marvel fan, 9/10 you need Disney+. It may as well be a Monopoly now so they can raise their prices as much as they want. Parents and nerds will pay through the nose for it.

    Source: am a parent and a nerd (but I pirate all my stuff anyway)



  • Bones had a lot of subtle things … Each character has some weird quirks that almost always has the future conservatives would tell them.

    (Spoilers for a 10 year show)

    If the top of my head …

    • Both of the women (bones and the hot girl intern) who were proud of having a lot of premarital sex end up accidentally getting preggo and don’t even think of not keeping it
    • The super duper rich guy, although he loses all his money due to outside circumstances, he works his ass off all the time, and becomes super duper rich again
    • The only “poor” later season intern is a southern guy (ya know, from “real America”) who works hard and gets rich by capitalizing on his family stuff
    • The sexy “free spirit” artsy girl is an airhead in most areas of life.
      • Forgets she was actually married, (and secretly wants the black guy more than the rich white guy)
      • She’s a programming genius, but her program gets hacked in the stupidest way possible
      • Of course she has an out of control hard rocking dad, who ends up getting drunk with her fiance and getting him tattooed (because you can’t trust drifter dads)
    • The og intern is also poor, also works hard, but is not rich for two reasons >!He’s obviously on the autism spectrum and also turns into one of the multi-episode killers also showing to not trust people with mental issues!<

  • I’m not sure if this is supposed to support or counter my point.

    It sounds like you’re supporting it because it’s brainwashing you to think, “meh. Work sucks. Just deal with it and don’t try to improve it”

    It reminded me of another point that in one episode when Hals company is trying to frame him for something the big wigs did… you find out that he’s never worked a friday in years. So him lacking commitment to try his hardest actually works in his favor. … As well as the fact that he matters so little that nobody noticed.


  • Few things for the family

    • Malcolm gets called out by EVERYONE of the main characters and major side characters at one point or another in the series for his crappy attitude… It’s a running joke by the end of it…
    • This is one of those fox “see! the poor don’t have to be poor, they just need gumption and having less kids” shows… (Bones is another ex.)
      • Malcolm’s always whining and it causes him to lose out on many major opportunities (both relationship-wise and career-wise)
      • Hal says they have sex several times a day, even when they’re camping with another family. Thus he’s always tired and can’t concentrate
      • In one episode, Lois and Hal have to stop having sex for a week because of some medical issues, the grass gets attention and turns green, hal gets a promotion, and they stop being so trashy. All in one week. Once the issue is gone and they can have sex, everything goes back the way it was, grass looks like shit, house is a wreck.
      • In one episode they show how each time they have a kid, the parents lives get progressively worse.


  • It’s not great but I honestly like it. For a few reasons

    1. It forces me out of the house to get my full 10k steps in. Which I never get when I wfh due to my ADHD and putting it off.

    2. I always feel if my coworkers are online I’m hesitant to ping them because they may be busy and I don’t wanna bother them. If in the office, I can see if they’re not that busy and have been able to say hi.

    3. I have a toddler and when she’s not in daycare she, or my partner, likes to come in and break my flow

    We’re 3 days a week in which is good and bad since I def am able to see most coworkers at least one day a week and also have two days I can wfh and either leave early or have an easy morning, but is weird due to when people come in.


  • DSA: “hey, Biden sucks because he lets genocide happen”

    Rational person: “well, I don’t like genocide… who’s the alternative?”

    Dem party: … Biden is our candidate …

    Rep party: Trump Trump Trump!!!

    What they don’t tell you is that most American Jews on the super religious part of the spectrum love trump because he explicitly endorses Israel as well, and Bibi is the same friend of right wing extremists/dictators that Trump is.

    Personally, I’m not pro Palestine. I’m anti Hamas AND anti Bibi… Just Pro peace and both govts don’t want that for different reasons.