There are 12 different versions of the stone on Spotify with all the live options. It is not one of their mass appeal songs that is going to get played by more casual fans and many fans have their preferred version of the 11 live versions on Spotify

I see her as a victim of circumstance with her upbringing who is trying to do her best with limited tools. The boys will all have tons of childhood trauma to work through as adults, but they will recognize that Lois was a way better mother than what she was given, and they will be better parents for the next generation while still bleeding their own issues onto their kids

Probably Claire, she’s had a fun easy life & has a beautiful home and family

Claire has had some hardships out of her control, such as having an emotionally abusive mother for the entirety of her life, but relative to most people it’s very fair to say she has an easy life. Her family was incredibly wealthy and provided a safety net and a level of privilege that few in the US get to experience. Being a stay at home mom/working mom for teenagers is not easy, but being in a stable economic situation funded by one income and supplemented by your parents is a level of comfort that few people have.

My headcannon is that they live in the same building and Sandra asked Dina for a ride one time right when she first started and Dina told her she doesn’t take customers for rides because she didn’t remember that Sandra worked there. Dina completely forgot that Sandra lived there and Sandra never brought it up again.

What episodes do you see Dina and Sandra’s apartment?

Dina’s is the one where her birds escape and Sandra’s is when Jerry and Garrett play VR games

Gotta get better at defending corners, but hard to complain when we are top of the league!

Grey street, 41, Crush, dancing Nancies

Idk if it's THAT bad lol a mom being overprotective of her only son that she raised alone in really bad neighborhoods is probably better than letting the streets raise him

Lot of space between “letting the streets raise him” and sabotaging relationships and invading his privacy.

I applaud your commitment to trying to leave on the best of terms, I would strongly advise against caring for the company beyond what is in your handbook, particularly if they are not a healthy employer. I have done this three times as a key contributor who made my own contingency plan with my manager at the time I have notice. (In a clinical counseling environment, not HR, so trying to stay for client care).

I agree that neither of them were wrong for their personal views on marriage, but Amy never said she didn’t want a future with Jonah. I’m more upset that he painted her as the bad guy and put her on the spot while she was already dealing with so much.

This is often the breakdown of discussion about Amy. Amy assumes that she has the most going on and that her problems are larger/more important than everyone else’s problems.

Similar to the Sorenson hit vs. Cleveland.

Except Snead’s was actually clean. I would not highlight the Sorenson hit because it’s a pretty egregious ref error.

HR will sometimes try to present itself as some kind of support system for employees, this is what 'HR is not your friend' is warning against trusting. You're usually better off staying away from HR.

Company cultures can be incredibly different, particularly for profit and non-profit ones. HR exists like everything else on a continuum, there are some companies where HR occupies a much more supportive role in evaluating policy, benefits, etc from an employee centric perspective. There are some where HR exists to meet the bare minimums of labor laws and treats/expectations employee turnover to be a revolving door and keeps costs down.

I think “HR is not your friend” is a platitude that people say that doesn’t really mean anything anymore, or it means something very specific to the situation and it’s easier to blame HR. For context, some of the reasons I have heard this said about me or others in the department:

Ellie wouldve wanted to be the cure. Hes hardly guilty

They are both guilty. Both of them made the choice for themselves and used Ellie as justification for getting what they wanted. Also, wanting to be the cure and actually coming to grips with the fact that you have to die for something that isn’t a certainty are two totally different things. I can say I would give my life to be the cure for cancer, but when it comes down to me being on the operating table, I am going to want to be pretty sure it’s true.

If your company can afford it, pay it out. If your company can’t afford to pay PTO out,you have bigger problems. Companies that don’t pay PTO out on voluntary resignation are signaling to employees that they are either: cheap, financially unstable, have high turnover, or some combination of all 3.

The opener soothed concerns I had about transportation for the games. Parked near the Kauffman center and hopped on the first streetcar that stopped, rode to the city market, walked one block to the shuttle which had plenty of room, easy as can be. Went to the game, caught the second wave of shuttles, walked to the market and got some pho, waited in line and got on the 2nd streetcar that stopped. The wait times weren’t bad even with the high volume of a beautiful Saturday, the Current, and the big 12 championship all simultaneously.

You know what you are? A line cut facilitator.

Line cut facilitators are allowed when the inconvenience to the rest of the line is minimal (ordering together or sitting in a group at a restaurant) they should not be allowed when there is undue hardship on the rest of the line- like a bathroom or waiting in line for transportation.

The show showed an egregious chat and cut, but I think the chat and cut has an equation, just like type + distance. If they planned to meet up or the original line holder invites them to join them at a table to chat, it’s not a chat and cut. If there was no established plan to meetup and no invitation to sit together by the original line holder, it’s a chat and cut.

Arthur Bryant’s is a few blocks East of the museum and is a solid barbecue option. My other recommendation would be to get the Z Man sandwich at the Joe’s BBQ stand at CPKC. The other recommendations are really good too. The Royals are also in town that weekend if that is appealing

Amy is the main character.

Like the office, Ryan is introduced as the character to set the show in motion and give us a character who “settles” in to the new dynamics, but Michael Scott is clearly the main character over the run of the show.

That was also 20 years ago…

I agree with your view of the dynamic change but I feel like people tend to unfairly view Cheryl as not a part of the comedy or a hindrance on it without recognizing the fact that part of the comedy is she's just as unreasonable as Larry and is a very self centered person in her own way and I tend to find it very suspect when people love Larry but hate Cheryl for exhibiting these traits

The reason a lot of people don’t like Cheryl, Ted, David Schwimmer, etc. is that they are on a similar plane to Larry in their self-centeredness, but they take almost no flak for it in the show because they only express it privately or in socially acceptable ways for their wealth class.

Yes it's funny. It is funny how Cheryl does that

I agree- she plays the foil to Larry perfectly throughout their relationship on the show

Glenn has strong ideas about how the world should work- pro-life, full time care for kids, pastors having ultimate authority and doing what they want, etc. Glenn is generally pretty flexible, but when Glenn is challenged on certain beliefs, he will not change or compromise them.

Tbh I don’t think all Christians are brainwashed by any means but Glenn strikes me as someone who is. He has to get rid of a lot of harmful beliefs during the show like how he got with Jerusha by essentially harassing her. He takes Pastor Craig’s word as law to the point where he would give him 1000$ to get Myrtle into heaven and doesn’t seem to see anything wrong with the fact that Pastor Craig has been “falsely accused” of SA THIRTY different times. It would be really sad and upsetting if it was real

Tbf, we are all a little brainwashed. With all we are supposed to learn/know/have an opinion about, there isn’t a way to do ALL the work to create your own original thoughts about everything.

When Nancy pulls the gun on him before he is let in on the whole upside down thing and he just says: WHAT?!?

This is precisely why this book is so good. There are so many lingering questions and what if scenarios that all take the story in interesting directions. Did Daisy ever tell Tom that she did it on purpose (if she did)? Did Tom and Daisy agree that Tom would convince Wilson to kill Gatsby so that they’d both lose a lover and start fresh? Did Daisy know/suspect it was Myrtle? How much did Tom actually care about Myrtle and how much did he just like having her need him?would Daisy have ever actually left?

I don’t know why people hate on teens for just being mildly annoying on tv. Also, imagine how brutal life could be for Emma if people at school ever caught on to her dad’s grill videos or saw her mom’s livestream sex show with Jonah. Let’s also not act like having Amy for a mother would be easy. You established why Adam would be a difficult dad. Amy is very quick to minimize other people’s feelings and needs when she gets frustrated. Amy is very self-righteous and often folds under pressure. Amy is one of those people who pretty much always thinks they are right. Look at how Amy treats Cheyenne, mostly supportive, but manipulative and undermining Cheyenne’s choices and feelings frequently also.

It depends on licensing. I would not be shocked to find out that some of the “therapists” on curb are not licensed and get their business through word of mouth and don’t charge through insurance. Anyone in the US can rent an office and have people pay them to talk about their problems. The legality comes down to what is promised, what is advertised, and what work is done. She could be a guru, coach, advisor, etc with a certificate of some kind, or just a complete quack that people trust, but is not beholden to any licensure requirements or confidentiality agreement. It really makes sense for the people on curb to pay out of pocket for someone who works outside of licensing and insurance because they heard from several others at the club who liked her

That would be foolish of them to do, considering some of them are celebrities and probably would not want some of their private conversations make it to somewhere like TMZ. Going to an unlicensed therapist who’s not bound by HIPAA or any form of NDA is playing with fire.

They aren’t going to therapy for its intended purpose- none of the characters in the sessions are actually interested in therapy. Larry and Jeff are trapped and don’t want to be there and Irma and Susie just want to complain about their lives. They can do that somewhere with someone they know who knows enough about their lives and social circle to feel comfortable.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Do not ever try to tell me what genocide is. I've been to aushwitz and seen a book with millions of names who died several pages, hundreds of people who share THE SAME SURNAME AS ME erased from history. 10,000 Palestinians dying in a war they started is not genocide. You want to talk about bombings and ethnic attacks. Do you know how many busses in Israel have been blown up, destroyed by Palestinian terrorists. Or Israeli athletes who had their limbs dismembered. I have sympathy for the Palestinian people most of whom didn't choose to live as Hamas armor. But if you compare what's happening in Gaza to a genocide you are insulting the people who died in actual genocide. Don't forget how this war started. Israel has had to defend itself from extermination since before either of us were born. Palestinians have received billions in aid every year. Money Israel can't touch. They had 10 years to lift themselves out of poverty, to make peace with Israel. How about this. How about you go live in Gaza or Israel and tell me you know what the hell you're talking about. I've held rocket heads launched from Gaza into Israeli villages. I've been near bomb threats and terrorist attacks. And if you want to talk about rhetoric then we should. Because the leaders of Hamas and Gaza call for the erasure of all Jewish people. Outright. And that sounds a lot more like genocide to me. Or the slaughter at the Nova music festival. That seems like attempted genocide. Tell me how long have you really known about this conflict? Not just been aware of it but understood the 2000 years of history behind it and the complex geopolitical nuances involved?

Nowhere did I say that the magnitude of what is happening today is remotely to the scale of the holocaust- and I won’t. Making a like for like comparison is vile and disgusting. I’m not Jewish and will never understand what that experience is like.