My sister had to come out to my parents for like the sixth time. They just pretend they don’t hear it. So operation Not-Subtle Propaganda commences. I was visiting for the long weekend and put on movies with LGBT characters to get them desensitized (sensitized?) to the idea of gay people existing.

Ok, so maybe Forbidden Fruits wasn’t one to include in this first wave. TBF, I don’t think either parent clocked the gayness. They are so stubbornly blind to it.

Now accepting suggestions for next visit I take in ~June or July. They are Hallmark movie people so it can’t be too outrageous, FF was really pushing it even without The Gay Agenda™.

I would think it’s not just people avoiding his movies because he’s a sexual assaulter, but the studios too. If I’ve got a several hundred million dollar project, I’m not going to make a known serial assaulter the face of it. I’m not going to want to be in any way liable if he assaults his female coworkers, I don’t want to roll the dice that the public won’t turn against him when more allegations start coming out. Not when there are other perfectly bankable stars who aren’t confirmed sexual assaulters.

He’s a proven liability and one would think studios would want to avoid him and keep their investment safe.

Eeeeh. Not in the tier of Jared Leto, but definitely in the tier of “why does he keep getting jobs, plenty other actors with skills equal to or greater than his who won’t sexually assault their colleagues”.

The article. The snapshot is fairly accurate. She was catching up to the mens’ race support vehicles, they stopped her for five minutes. She lost her momentum and her groove, ended up finishing in 74th place.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/04/sport/cycling-women-belgium-intl-scli-spt/

And this article says perhaps the entire women’s race field was paused, not just the one cyclist in the lead. But anyone who’s ever done any sort of distance sport event, you know stopping for 5 minutes can absolutely destroy your performance. A mental and physical disruption.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nicole-hanselmann-omloop-het-nieuwsblad-2019-cycling-race-men-belgium/

My dad has a Geo Metro, I believe 1998. I flipped the odometer past 200,000 when he loaned it to me as my college junker in the mid 10’s. He still has it as his gas efficient commuter, I expect the meter is past 300k now.

RRR rewatch. A friend hadn’t ever seen a Indian epic before so introduced them to the genre.

Before that, Mantis and Killer Boksoon. Korean action thrillers about contract killers.

Yesssss, Z peeps, draw attention away while millennials continue to ruin other things with our avocado toast and useless degrees.

☝️user tag checks out

Two posts of this from a brand new account. Yeah, nothing weird here.

No, they’re for you as the user only.

I mostly use them to 1) track interesting people like there’s a user on here who’s a Jellyfin Roku app developer. I don’t remember their username, but pay attention to their comments when I see the user tag I set for them 2) people who are bad faith trolls whose usernames I won’t remember but don’t want to get sucked into investing time answering their questions when they’ll just be racist asshats in response.

It’s a feature of the Voyager app and from what I can gather, at least some other apps too.

You have to turn the feature on in settings, then just click into the user profile right next to where one would block a person, there’s an option to apply a user tag.

I’m not very good at remembering peoples inside-joke Lemmy handles that mean nothing to me. I liberally use user tags to keep track of people, most often people I want to warn future-self away from engaging with so I don’t waste my time. Racists, bigots, trolls, sea lions, etc.

A company I used to work for that made some equipment primarily used in laboratory settings wanted some photos for marketing materials. Me, being the only lady engineer there, was asked to be in them. Hair, makeup, lab coat even though I was on the machine shop floor for my day-to-day job, the works. They couldn’t find a male engineer they considered photogenic enough so they asked the cafeteria manager, aka the janitor with additional duties to keep the coffee pots brewing and napkins on order. They even gave him fake glasses to make him look more studious. He did make for a way sexier scientist than I did. Straight up grey fox science man. He watched enough House MD to spout good fake medical lingo, making me laugh too hard thru the entire shoot.

Rollerskating-junk-monster

Didn’t even need to know it was Oz. The image immediately came to mind.

Piss, poop, farts, and burps.

Tron. It ends with tossing out the one before and letting Jared Leto get his stink all over it.

Marvel Cinematic Universe should have stopped sometime before Phase 4 (Eternals, Black Widow, Wakanda Forever, Multiverse of Madness).

The Matrix should have ended at 1.

The Jason Bourne movies should have ended when Jason Bourne’s story was concluded, without extending it to Aaron Cross’s story, played by Jeremy Renner.

I use Drip for basic cycle tracking. I don’t use it for fertile phase tracking so no comment there.

For cycle tracking, it does what it needs to do. It’s easy enough to setup and completely forget what tracker/spyware I used to use. Heck, I think it was Flo I used to use.

And f-droid or another alternative app stores not mandatory, Drip is on the Google Play store at least. Not sure about Apple.

Fire offenders, fire leaders that cover for them, and don’t hide the reason from employees that remain. Make examples of them succinctly and professionally.

We had a known offender for years, the whisper campaign was strong. He was finally encouraged to leave following “performance issues”. All that did was signal to remaining offenders that if they do a good enough job keeping it quiet, they won’t even be fired if they’re caught, just allowed to exit quietly. And knowing that guy and some of the men he worked for, they probably gave him recommendations for his next job.

Keep only within specific, narrow size parameters. I want the right size boxes because I move frequently; not so small as to be inefficient, not so large they will be back-crushing when full. The rest are broken down and send to the recycling bin.

40% tomato meter, 96% popcorn.

Anyone who uses RT still, is that 96% number real or AI/bots/pay-for-reviews?

If real, the number surprises me. Maybe it’s a bit self-filtering, with audiences primarily made up of Michael fans already predisposed to rate it highly so long as it’s not too controversial.