Haha I feel that’s pretty normal tbh. Most people I know don’t have spare space. Couch or floor or too bad get a hotel. Maybe they have a hide-a-bed or a morris bed, but usually not.

It’s more that I can’t bear to get rid of stuff “just in case I need it, you never know when something is going to happen”. Poverty mindset. I actually almost never have people over and I don’t really want them over often, tho one of my close friends lives a few hours away so she stays sometimes.

And if I can get rid of something junk and still maintain the things my mind has deemed necessary backup, all the better. Tho I’ll probably disassemble part of the frame to store it all upright when not in use.. I move stuff around a lot as I remodel.

I have a plant grow tent for year-round veggies in that room, and can use it as an office too, so not totally wasted space when not in use. It’s a big, old, much in need of expensive repair sort of place that I got cheap years ago, and it’s getting improved as I go.

Fun thing about that video: laughter is a social signal.

Most people when they watch or read funny things alone will not laugh nearly as much (if at all) as when they see the same thing in a social setting, even if they are just as amused by it.

Because laughter is a signal that we get the joke (In a social setting where the laughter reaction is appropriate).

That’s why there are more nuanced labels, like “this caused a sharp exhalation through my nose” or “I chuckled in public and people are looking at me”. And we mostly all recognize the significance of that, because it’s rare we bust a gut solo in inappropriate settings, too.

But you can’t say “that’s really amusing” or similar, even when it is, because that’s hurtful to people as it’s phrasing often used derisively. So we pretend to have extreme reactions for hyperbolic reasons, I guess, and this is what happens.

Humans are really fascinating context dependent entities.

I misunderstood this very much until I read your other comment and realized the guys name is John Hurt.

Thought you were saying it was a painful performance or mis-cast or something :p

I replaced all the windows the first year I lived here (they were shitty wood single pane double hung, and I used to work for a door and window company so it was an easy call), but left the storm windows for the extra airspace. The doors/windows aren’t drafty, the structure of the house itself is, especially where different materials tie together. I can’t see light through any of it but I can feel the air movement. Arguably worse. It’s just settled over time, and come apart at the seams. (I can relate)

I need to remove all the siding and exterior insulation, reseal, seal the foundation, reinsulate, and reside it to take care of the problem. Which is going to be very expensive, and why I haven’t already done it. I’m looking at roughly 1/5-1/4 the total I paid for the place to do this.

This isn’t a small draft issue, unfortunately, it’s a huge one. I’ve already done all the small stuff cuz it’s so expensive to not.

Ah, sorry, it wasn’t clear through context.

This is exactly as interesting as the kid who broke Tetris for the first time.

I’m not super upset by legal acquisition if it’s not available here.

Thanks! It’s on my list now. I’m actually excited that it’s foreign media but not anime. (Anime is fine, but sometimes you don’t want the sameness)

What’s BBs?

Idk, but pulling out to leave their customers completely fucked probably isn’t the right answer. At that point, the rest of us pay the “insurance” through disaster relief, and we might as well just cover insurance with taxes nationally. Cut out the middle man and their cash grab entirely.

If they can’t figure out a solution that works, and keeps everyone covered, they simply shouldn’t exist since they aren’t providing the service they claim to.

Scientific discovery is very rarely “eureka!” And very often “hmm, that’s weird…”

But also, can we talk about a high school with an observatory? Like hearing about some of the programs and equipment modern schools have (robotics and genetics labs/clubs, for example) makes me really really regret that I grew up rural in the 90s. We didn’t get shit beyond a drivers ed “simulator” from the 70s, and I feel like I missed out on early exposure to so many things I’d have excelled at. Instead, I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.

Good for those students! That’s something that’s going to stick with them, and I hope it pushes them toward careers in space science!

Your cat looks like a nicer version of my cat.

Nice as in temperament.

Personally I don’t think that’s the point at all. Even if there are multiple episodes of a show watched in the same day, there are 2 things missing from movies that make shows considerably more appealing.

The first is that with shows, you already know this is just buildup of more story, so if it’s slow or character development lags, as long as you are still into it, it’s fine, they have so much time to tell the story and develop everything fully. Movies, unless planned as multi-release franchises, rarely have this going for them. It has to engage you enough to want to slam down 2 hours of time upfront. Most movies fail spectacularly to build their characters enough for me to want to drop that sort of time on the nothingpotato predictable ending, but I’ll gladly do so with shows.

The second is flexibility. If you want to watch 4 episodes that are 30 min, you can, but you can also choose to stop after 2 if it isn’t holding your interest or you want to do something else. You can pause a movie that isn’t engaging you enough and come back later, but let’s be real, we all know how that turns out 85+% of the time..