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  1. I suspect others feel similar to the way I do. I have been chatting with many here for close to a couple of decades in several website iterations (TwoP on--there's a reason I have not changed this dumb username). This iteration of the discussion in particular is honestly one of the most inclusive spaces I've found online full stop. Many of you have been with me through the deaths of two parents. To be told without discussion that we're doing it wrong, to be threatened with deletion, and to have such a refusal of engagement on how to improve, is infuriating, infantilizing, and depressing.
  2. It's not just you. It's "you people in the demographic we're not interested in are making trouble with your rationality so shut up while we quietly let the active threads with good community die. But we're not going to engage with you because we've already made up our minds."
  3. Same, please. I am beyond frustrated with the current situations, as others have articulated.
  4. I found this episode to be deadly dull. Actually had to come here to read the summary (thanks for that @CrazyInAlabama!) to remember what any of the pitches were.
  5. I started it last night but did not finish it yet. It did not grab me at all, despite the fact that I like Eric, Antonia, and Jet. The premise leaves me pretty cold.
  6. That was really interesting (photo of Darnell aside), thank you for posting it!
  7. I second this recommendation. I've had one severe bout of vertigo and numerous much easier ones. For me, the Epley maneuver is somewhat helpful but the half-somersault maneuver is much more helpful. There are numerous videos to show how to do it. Best of luck--vertigo is awful!
  8. I thought it was supposed to be an example of what the guidelines describe as "highlighting threads and posts that foster constructive dialogue." Which baffles me because I don't think referring to other posters as "Karens in training" and calling them "unbalanced" exemplifies constructive dialogue. So I am also confused about what the pinned post is meant to convey.
  9. I hate the condescending use of the royal "we" in the note about whatever the issues are with the white hot passion of a thousand burning suns.
  10. This forum has been a nice break and a refuge for me from TwoP to previously.tv and now here. I don't get why the urge to shut down our interactions rather than say what the issue is and ask to fix it. I've been around the internet a while and this group is generally one of the most respectful and mindful that I've seen. Not sure why this "unbroke" thing needs to be fixed. And yes, if it is not okay to snark in this space anymore than that's a big shift that needs to be communicated. I've gotten a lot of support from fellow posters here and I'll be sorry to see it go.
  11. I wondered the same thing. She has been written as being close to her parents so why weren't they there?
  12. I just could not find it in me to care about this episode. Voigt is the worst thing about this show, IMHO.
  13. I remember a tornado warning when I was living in Toledo (Holland, OH, actually) in an apartment just off highway 2 and tornadoes were spotted by the airport that was just down the highway. I had to try to wrangle three cats into a windowless walk-in closet under a comforter (with a battery operated radio). I'd get two in, one would shoot out, go grab him and bring him back, another one escapes. It was kind of Three Stooges, Feline Edition, but I finally managed and we were fine. A colleague of my husband at the time was from CA (where I have lived for the last 3+ decades) and was only trained for earthquakes. So he took his kids out onto the front lawn because you don't necessarily want to be indoors when the ground is shaking and they watched a tornado go by. They were also fine but I believe his colleagues set him straight post-haste when he told the story. I also remember a tornado warning when I was a kid and living in Indiana in a mobile home when my mom hustled my sister and me--and my gerbil in his cage--out to crouch in a ditch while the weather cleared. Thank you for indulging this walk down weather memory lane.
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