Activity from showbiz_liz

You should not value the good opinion of bad people more highly than your own sense of right and wrong. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

So you used to go to bed at 1 and now you’re trying to go to bed at 10 or 11, but the wakeup time has only shifted an hour earlier? The problem might be just that it’s too extreme of a jump. Try going to bed at midnight for a while. (I’m exactly like… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

You say you knew what their staring meant. But you also say you have trouble reading cues. So what makes you feel so certain of what this person was thinking? [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I think it’s significant that, while you say you tend to overshare, you have actually really UNDERSHARED in this question - I mean, you have been deliberately vague as to the exact circumstances you’re asking about. To me this suggests that you do at… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I think this might be along the lines of “don’t bring a magnet anywhere near a computer” - really important when I was/we were young, much less so now. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

But I also feel like I'm dodging a sort of responsibility to live my truth or whatever, or like I'm being a coward. I think the recent trend in queer spaces, of being expected to rigorously interrogate and label so many aspects of one’s… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I almost always win Civ 6 with a Science or Diplomacy victory, but a couple of those Diplo victories have been truly Machiavellian. The best/worst was when I played as Australia, which benefits from having war declared on it and from freeing other… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I am horrible with faces and names. I have forgotten the names of people I was DATING. Can you give the people who make these mistakes a little grace? They’re not saying “hey I think you and that guy you utterly loathe are essentially the same person… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Oh I have ADHD and I totally do this - sometimes to an excessive degree and sometimes not. It’s great for quieting racing thoughts and allowing the rest of my brain to focus on what I’m doing. I think some of what you’re describing is completely… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Ok first off: you’re not unemployed, you just aren’t employed on a full-time permanent basis. The reason I make a point of that is, you are framing every job experience you’ve had in the absolute worst possible light. How about this: you didn’t work… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

I hadn’t heard of this at all until yesterday, but the name is so good that it immediately went on my watch list. [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

Here’s where I fall off the logic train - why assume it’s very specifically aliens causing these inexplicable events as opposed to, say, fairies, or humans from another dimension? [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

a person i know who works closely with Congress said that this looks like an intentional distraction By congress from the outside but in truth, all of the fucking congresspeople are legitimately, absurdly, unhingedly obsessed with this UFO shit… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Speculation about whether intelligent alien life could possibly visit Earth is basically irrelevant to the question at hand, which is “if aliens DID visit Earth, would they choose to interact with this planet by mysteriously getting up to decades of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Unfortunately google image search does NOT do that now, not even close. Nor does google shopping. I remember this site and it was incredibly useful, and was taken down because frankly it benefited individual consumers more than it did any single… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 10 months ago

The rifle-with-a-transporter-on-it seemed like a bit of a stretch, too. Why in god's name did they stop making those things?? We could probably list about 50 times over the course of this show when they would have saved the day. [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

The comments on the New York Magazine article linked here are really something. [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

Okay, so what could be "vile" about this? Why would it be upsetting for some people to see this kind of humor? I think it's gotta be based on a misunderstanding. If you think that the people enjoying this joke are literally enjoying… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 10 months ago

Oh wow I had forgotten how incredibly long and incredibly paginated those recaps were [more]
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FanFare comment - 10 months ago

The actual problem here is between M and one of the other two people you were hanging out with, I’d put money on it. (And frankly, if I’m right there’s a good chance it’s one-sided, but even if both of those people have seriously wronged her, her… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

But I'm not sure I see much evidence for the "initial chaos" interpretation. The one consistent picture of time travel this show mainly sticks to is that there is essentially one timeline, or perhaps three timelines with a single moment… [more]
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FanFare comment - 11 months ago

Ok I don’t REALLY think this will happen but I honestly feel like there’s a 5% chance of Ted/Trent endgame here. Maybe it’s just that Trent is a chronic smolderer. [more]
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FanFare comment - 11 months ago

Totally safe - but this is what buckets are for! I am very barfy in general and trust me, buckets are your friend going forward. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Janet is up to something. Listen to what she says when she oh-so-casually offers to create people for the experiment: "If the Judge restores my powers in the Medium Place, I can do it." I don't think she just offered to help because she's… [more]
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FanFare comment - 11 months ago

“Debris is consistent with catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber,” US Coast Guard press conference [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Because a deleted comment of someone else’s regarding a different deleted comment of mine in a different thread appears to have misunderstood my sentiments, due to, again, all the deletion making these ridiculous slapfights impossible to follow: I… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 11 months ago

I will try to rephrase this in a way that won’t court deletion: as a gay person, I am unsettled by the idea that I might visit a doctor who takes my self-description of my sexuality and presentation as something that makes me biologically distinct… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I honestly don’t mean this in a fighty way: I have no idea what you mean by that. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 11 months ago

I wonder if this isn't the first step to him beginning to fully understand and master the game, versus his reliance on his ability to motivate others to do it in his place. I don’t know about this… it seems to me like this entire season… [more]
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FanFare comment - 11 months ago

That is why I was thinking there might be three universes. Jonas doesn't exist in Hanna B's universe, and 1888 Jonas doesn't have any memory of meeting Hanna B, so I don't see any other simple explanation. The other explanation is that… [more]
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FanFare comment - 11 months ago

Defector has been covering this whole thing very closely, I’ve learned quite a bit even as an east coaster and baseball agnostic. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I wonder if the "fix" for going to more than 3000m is their 'dynamic hull monitoring' system. Still I wouldn't go into one of those until they built & destroyed through testing quite a few of them just to be sure they got their… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

But it is true that even when they sign waivers, people don't really believe in the risk...deep down they think it's just something lawyers make companies do, because if it was that dangerous it wouldn't be allowed at all. 100% this. I… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Someone asking about recovery of bodies… Coast Guard representative says something like “so, this is an incredibly unforgiving environment”… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Uhh yeah I assumed literally everyone would take “or anything” as “this is sarcasm.” SpaceX is scattering exploded rocket debris over protected wetlands constantly. [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

…and formatting a sentence this way doesn’t imply sarcasm or anything [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

It is a testament to the quality of this show that Wöller could wind up being the secret most important character OR could just remain the background flavor character we've seen so far, and I would be completely happy with either scenario. (The thing… [more]
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FanFare comment - 11 months ago

For example, Space X, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic all rely on experienced inside experts to oversee the daily operations, …and notably, none of these companies has ever had a catastrophic equipment failure or anything [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I've also noticed that he's usually done this while Rumi's asleep or falling asleep, and when Rumi wakes, Rumi's kind of just...dazed. That he's not fighting or trying to escape troubles me I suspect he’s not fighting or trying to escape… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I haaaate combat and loved Stardew Valley. It was my first game. My strategy was just to totally avoid the mines until I got a really good weapon via fishing, but you could play it for hundreds of hours without ever doing the combat or fishing if you… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

It sounds like the clients are not going to change no matter what you do, so I think your choices are either 1. The department starts accepting things in the incorrect format and fixing them for the clients as part of your normal workflow, or 2. You… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

Something which also sorta jumped out at me: I have terrible anxiety, and I hate being the center of attention. I do currently see a therapist for it, and it's gotten better [...] [My parents] don't seem to believe that my anxiety is a real… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

However, her husband works for a company that makes planes used in war. I mean wow. Next time she tries it on with you, just say “oh hmm maybe some dye is bad for kids but at least it doesn’t kill as many kids as your husband’s planes!”… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 11 months ago

I really do love Evil Willow, at least in theory. (Like, in my fantasy headcanon world where they stuck with the 'abuse of power' angle rather than the 'drugs' angle and where Willow finally came to the realization that abusing her power was hurting… [more]
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FanFare comment - Last year

The billboard thing seems to me like an awfully weird example to use as evidence of lazy writing. It’s deliberate Looney Tunes logic. It’s not as if the writers engineered that scenario because they couldn’t think of something else. [more]
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FanFare comment - Last year

Cause, yeah I know Willow is an exceptionally smart and dedicated student and we obviously see other ritual magic users who are implied to be at high level of skill due to age and training, but if magic exists, does things, and can be a learned… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

The loan shark was incredibly, mind-bendingly stupid, and I loved it for precisely that reason. [more]
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FanFare comment - Last year

I'd call it getting real and raising the stakes. Not so much literal end of the world stuff, but more real life, interpersonal drama. But it was just SO. FUCKING. MUCH. Buffy gets: hell-based PTSD, massive self-loathing, desertion by… [more]
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FanFare comment - Last year

As long as your FIRST photo accurately represents what you look like, I don’t think you need to get rid of all the other photos you like. But if you don’t change the first one - look, it’s not an issue of people not liking baldness so much as people… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

I used to work in international development, for an ngo that collaborated closely with various UN agencies, and this episode was so spot-on that it had me laughing til I cried. I have been in more rooms than I can count where privileged, educated… [more]
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