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I had no idea how badly I needed Lewis Black to take on cybertrucks.
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On 5/7/2024 at 12:56 PM, chitowngirl said:
When I went for my first colonoscopy at 50, they found and removed precancerous polyps. If I had not gone for the initial one, I would have developed colon cancer and it might not have been found in time.
I don't think that's the case. This is from MD Anderson's website:
QuoteNot all [colon polyps] will turn into cancer. Even those that could turn into cancer someday aren’t necessarily guaranteed to. They just have the potential. That’s why they’re considered “pre-cancerous.”
I'm not saying it's not a good idea to have them removed, but if you don't have them removed, there's actually a good chance they won't turn into cancer. This is from the Cleveland Clinic:
QuoteMost colon polyps have the potential to become cancerous, which is why healthcare providers remove them during a colonoscopy. But very few of them actually do turn into cancer, and it takes a long time for them to do so. Routine colonoscopies remove polyps before they have the chance to become cancer.
Around 75% of colorectal cancers start from adenomatous polyps, and about 80% of all colon polyps are adenomas. But only about 5% of adenomas are actually malignant. The risk of a random, average-size colon polyp becoming cancerous is estimated to be 8% over 10 years and 24% over 20 years.
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On 4/16/2024 at 10:42 PM, zenithwit said:
Considering A&F is mainly a "millennial" brand, it's interesting how the same trends are being repeated with Gen Z only with the addition of social media.
And we can guess how that's going to turn out.
On 4/16/2024 at 10:42 PM, zenithwit said:This really felt like a Frankenstein documentary to me. It seemed like they had two separate documentary projects and tried to mash them together. I think both parts had their merits but they really seemed to be stretching to make a connection.
I agree. It just didn't seem to be a very well-made documentary, but the subject matter carried it for me. I'd never heard of Brandy Melville (when I first saw the title, I thought maybe it was a show about Brandy Glanville, on one of the Real Housewives show, and I still can't conjure "Brandy Melville" and instead always think, "Ashley Madison"), and I'm not on any social media, although I've heard of "haul" videos. So this was eye-opening to me.
I couldn't believe their clothes come in only one size. And it's even harder to believe it's that successful with that business model. But it seems to work.
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On 5/6/2024 at 4:27 PM, Yeah No said:
Yeah that was a "straw man argument" if I ever saw one. Thank you, you are exactly right about that, I didn't say they were jerks.
Can you explain how this was a straw man argument? You said they're "all" going to be jerks until that one in a million that isn't, and when I said that wasn't my experience, you said I was lucky and gave some examples of some who weren't the one in a million for you. Since the only choices you said were possible were "jerk" and "one in a million," it seemed they would have to be in the "jerk" category.
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1 hour ago, Yeah No said:
Also, most of my classmates were Jewish and wanted to marry a Jewish woman. I was raised an Episcopalian. I didn't meet any of those either, and went to a Jesuit University where most people were Roman Catholic. I thought maybe I'd meet a guy there but I didn't realize how different their upbringing was from mine.
And this makes them jerks?
Quotethey're all going to be jerks until that one in a million that isn't.
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1 hour ago, Yeah No said:
Just factor in that they're all going to be jerks until that one in a million that isn't.
It's not that binary, in my experience. Not everyone I don't want to spend my life with is a jerk. In fact, most aren't jerks at all; they just didn't align with what I wanted in a relationship.
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19 minutes ago, Dimity said:
One of my uncles married in England during WWII and his wife was a war bride who came to Canada aboard the Queen Mary. Apparently a very memorable voyage!
To gauge just how memorable--were they serving mutton? 😀
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3 hours ago, Cloud9Shopper said:
I would bet any money no one gets outraged if a man decides to opt out of a prostate exam or a colonoscopy. (I also won’t be getting the latter when the time comes.)
Actually people do get outraged if men put off prostate exams or colonoscopies. They're more comfortable bossing women around, but men do get it, too.
I think one issue is that women have the babies, and there's almost always doctoring going on then, so we just get used to it. So it goes from you need to have a doctor if you're having a baby to you need to have a doctor to keep tabs on your baby-making bits to you need to have a doctor NOT to have a baby. Men don't have such an obvious point of ingress into the medical system, so by the time prostate exams and colonoscopies come along they have decades of not going to the doctor and not having to explain why they don't.
But my friends who are preventive test/procedure evangelists don't seem to discriminate on the basis of sex with regard to who they harangue. I just keep my mouth shut. They mean well.
Of course I would mean well if I cited statistics on the risks of various procedures. Or on false positives for various tests/procedures and the financial, physical, and emotional costs of dealing with false positives, but that's always countered with "If it saves just one life..." which is an emotional stance, not a scientific one. So I just keep my mouth shut.
An important tactic is to not discuss such matters with people you know don't agree with you. There's no reason people's frequency of doctor visits should come up unless they bring it up themselves.
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27 minutes ago, athousandclowns said:
We toured the Queen Mary when it was docked in Long Beach?
I did, too, and at one point we were in the very bottom of the ship, with the "ceiling" waaaaay above us and I started picturing us being that far below the waterline, and had to make a conscious decision not to panic. I breathed very steadily and looked straight ahead, while standing not close to the people in front of me. I made it out okay, but have realized that spelunking is probably not for me.
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On 4/30/2024 at 10:28 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:
Makes me not want to do preventive care, to be honest.
I don't do any preventive care. I believe in not looking for trouble, and it's worked very well for me so far. I used to go to the doctor only because I had to to get a prescription for birth control pills, and since I quit using them, I haven't gone to a doctor unless I had an actual problem.
And sure enough, you can now buy birth control pills without a prescription, which would have freed me from the tyranny of the "annual exam" for all those years. Or, you know, been able to go through life like a man, just living in my body and not treating it as a potential source of trouble that must be closely monitored and tested and invaded.
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On 5/3/2024 at 12:48 AM, Yeah No said:
And the Queen Mary II is supposed to have better stabilizers than cruise ships because it's a true ocean liner.
My dad was one of the World War II soldiers who were transported on the Queen Mary. The only thing he ever told me about it was recalling the vomit coursing down the stairs. He blamed the mutton.
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24 minutes ago, EtheltoTillie said:
Chiming in on this caption thing. Captions on is my default for everything. Today I join the crowd seeing that the Max captions are default off. Ugh. Even when I end an episode and go to the next. Just leave it at the last setting I used!
It's worse than that! I just started a program on Max and walked away for about 5 minutes, and realized the captions aren't on. Argh. So I turned them on, and decided to go back to the beginning of the show so I'd have the captions for the whole thing.
So I rewound and got to the gray static-y HBO thing and started from there, and when the show started, it didn't have captions! It turned them off on the same show I had just turned them on for, and had merely rewound to the beginning.
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5 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:
Not to be too flippant, but Google is free.
Not to be too flippant, but Google is not free. You may not be paying anything out of pocket, but you're definitely paying.
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I should point out that my ire with captions resetting to "no" has to do with watching from the cache--I'll turn on the program and go away for 20 minutes or so and come back to start watching it and that's when I remember that Max always turns off the captions. It's probably my punishment for gaming the system and skipping commercials.
I have Hulu but haven't been watching it lately because my Max is expiring in a few weeks so I'm prioritizing it, so I haven't noticed if there's any caption chicanery going on.
Oh, and another annoyance, probably Roku specific. If I do a search from the Roku screen it will show a given movie and then list below that where I can watch it. But it's wrong! For example it says it's included with my Spectrum account, but if I go to Spectrum it says I have to pay for Paramount+ to watch it.
And there was a movie that the Roku search said was available on Hoopla. I clicked on it and it did indeed go to Hoopla, and to a screen that had that movie, but if I clicked on "watch" or "wishlist" it wouldn't do anything. So I did a search for that same movie within Hoopla, and it didn't find it.
But that's one nice thing about having the standalone DVR--I can go into the cache and see what all screens I saw, so I can at least re-create what I saw and know I'm not losing my mind when I recall that such-and-such screen said I had access to a program but such-and-such-other screen said I didn't.
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On 4/19/2024 at 7:02 AM, chessiegal said:
I took one for the team. This is from her web site.
QuoteShe is a proud alumni of Emerson College in Boston where she majored in Journalism with a Multimedia focus.
Even I, an alumna of a famous football school and not a published writer, know when not to use "alumni."
On 4/19/2024 at 12:40 PM, Crashcourse said:Seems like she's another influencer.
Excuse you. According to her website, she's a thought leader.
QuoteShe tells the stories of the world as a published writer, photographer, traveler, and thought leader.
QuoteAmanda has intensive experience working with renowned clients in the fields of innovation, tech, nonprofit, health, science, entertainment, art, finance, entrepreneurship, real estate, architecture, food & beverage, design, fashion, music, environmentalism, investing, smartphone apps, film, aviation, public figures, influencers, founders, authors, news outlets, consumer products, fundraisers, social orgs, travel + tourism, and much more.
And much more? Really? Much more than the 29 she already mentioned by name?
QuoteBorn and raised in the hustle of New York, Amanda...
Hustle but no bustle. What part of New York is this?
On 4/25/2024 at 9:34 PM, chessiegal said:Julie in Munich: As if her upspeak wasn't annoying enough, she threw in some vocal fry for good luck.
I admire your skill in differentiating upspeak and vocal fry. I actually thought she was avoiding the fry pretty well, but it came on strong toward the end, for some reason.
The husband's job confused me. He said it took him months to find a job with a German company, but said he works 100% remote. So why did it need to be a German company? Especially if, as he claimed, engineers aren't paid very well in Germany.
I was surprised that $1200 would get them that much abode in a major European city.
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Max is doing this thing where they turn off the captions every time you tune into a program. I have a standalone DVR that has a cache, so I almost never watch anything live--I let it cache for a bit so I can skip commercials if there are any.
Max is the only one that does this with the captions--no other platforms mess with my captions settings, so I can't just develop muscle memory to turn captions on every time I want to watch something.
And speaking of Max, I have had it with their pushing the credits into a little box in the corner. Sure, you can bring it back to full screen if you remember how to do it for that particular streaming service, and if you fuck it up you'll probably end up back at some home screen somewhere. And you can still hear the music even when the image is in a little box. But despite this, once the image goes up into the little box, the spell is broken.
Last night I watched My Dinner with Andre, and it ends with Wallace Shawn in a cab riding through a rainy New York City late at night, accompanied by a musical piece I always find lovely, but it was perfect here: Eric Satie's Gymnopedie. At least Max let most of the credits go before putting them in the box, but that might actually be even more jarring, because they lull you into thinking you'll see all of the credits, and then suddenly you have to scramble to find the right button to push to bring them back, and a few seconds later the movie is over.
That's one thing I really like about Kanopy--they don't cut the credits off. I guess they don't care if you watch something else, since you have to "pay" for each movie, unlike the other streamers where they suffer a dire existential threat if a viewer doesn't continue watching something, and they act accordingly, even if it ruins the movie a viewer is currently watching. I hate it.
I'll put up with the shit for $2.99/month for six months, but when that six months is up shortly, goodbye and good riddance, Max.
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On 5/1/2024 at 1:10 PM, nachomama said:
And I adore Mr. Bates (Toby Jones) and I do think the Brits know how to make something like the post office seem interesting.
They're kind of cheating by having a post office that has its subpostmasters financially ruined, jailed, and driven to suicide even though they did absolutely nothing wrong and it was the new computer system that made it look like they were stealing.
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That Zendaya can really rock a pair of shorts. In fact, I loved all of her clothes in this, except for a French-tuck sweater, and that's just on principle because I hate a French tuck but she looked fantastic in it.
I loved the scene when Patrick shows up at Stanford while Art is practicing, when they were chasing each other. Really, that's all you need to know how far back they go.
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2 hours ago, nachomama said:
There's a whole segment on the Graham Norton show where he talks about how everyone comments that he looks like Cate Blanchett. It's hilarious.
OMG. I saw that, and had forgotten it!
And actually, that appearance is the only reason I watched this show at all--I'm usually just a Call the Midwife gal. But for some reason I went nuts and watched this, and Nolly, and Mr. Bates vs The Post Office.
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I hate those sweeping camera movements they had in the first scenes showing them blocking or rehearsing or whatever, where they swing the camera around to the other side of the room to show another character instead of making a cut. I almost turned it off but hoped maybe it wouldn't permeate the whole thing, and sure enough, it didn't. I'm so glad they cut that crap out, because I thought the show was delightful.
Although I was a little distracted by some crinkling on the area below the outside edge of her left eye (right eye, to the viewer). It's like it had tape on it or something--didn't look like skin.
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This show really benefits from being watched at 1.3 speed.
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On 4/23/2024 at 12:02 PM, Corvino said:
As I hinted above, it made one of my friends cry, and usually I love to cry at sad stories, but I actively resisted doing so at this episode because I had such a feeling of being POUNDED into doing so.
I admit that I teared up at the end. And laughed, when Jack said he was going to kiss her one more time, because two kisses would be deviant.
I liked it a lot more than most of y'all, and I'm not sure why. Alice (I hadn't noticed that Celia is an anagram of Alice!) was not likable at all, and I was distracted by how emaciated she was, but she obviously was a damaged person so I cut her some slack. No clue why Jack put up with it, except people do some crazy, inexplicable shit when it comes to relationships. I find him generally appealing, but does anybody else think he looks exactly like Cate Blanchett? It's unnerving. By the end, I really did feel their connection. Or maybe I just willed myself to feel it.
I read the comments here before watching, and decided to see what I thought after the first episode. It hadn't really grabbed me, but I fired up the second episode, and then watched the whole thing. I don't regret the 5 hours I spent watching their messed up lives.
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13 hours ago, endure said:
I’m in Vancouver Canada with Shaw, now Rogers, we didn’t get this episode, we got two super fans discussing their best and worst of the entire series. Odd I know but I think I needed a break. 😀
I think that's what we got in the U.S. a couple of weeks ago--two women who know each other and maybe have a podcast. So maybe y'all are just a little behind.
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I just realized I don't actually know what a monkey's anus looks like, and I'm sure not gonna google it. But here's what I think it looks like.
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To Subscribe Or Not To Subscribe, That Is The Question: Paid Streaming Services
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I just tested a couple of different programs on Max, and my "always" setting on captions has stayed on. Maybe they fixed it??