Law enforcement used Facebook private messages to investigate and prosecute a woman for an “illegal abortion”. This is not a hypothetical, this happened.
I care about my privacy because I don’t want right-wing weirdos and perverts incarcerating me for controlling my own body.
There are more reasons. This is just the one most recently in the news as a glaring red flag real-life example.
My youngest sister has never watched Sixth Sense so that’s the plan the next time one of us visits the other.
I suspect even though she doesn’t know the twist, it has invaded pop culture references and memes enough that she will figure it out early on in the movie. I remember even just knowing there was A Twist^TM was enough for me to spot what was coming much earlier on than the reveal. Really looking forward to seeing what she thinks of the movie from her Gen Z perspective.
Yeah, I would call that a “killer of the week” format. There is a new crime/murder every week. Sometimes there is a season-long story as well (Natasha Lyonne’s character running away from the Vegas baddies) and sometimes it’s just the killer of the week story. Murder, She Wrote is a good example of the latter; you can watch MSW episodes in pretty much any order, it doesn’t matter because each episode is basically self-contained. Any story external to the killer of the week is just to service actors being replaced or setting Jessica Fletcher in different locations beyond her hometown so she can face a new killer of the week. MSW is a whodunnit and also a killer-of-the-week show.
It’s been a while for me and I never did watch all of them, but no, I think Sherlock is a whodunnit, heavy on the drama, plus the twist of some narration from Watson’s blog.
The first episode opens with several people seemingly taking a pill to commit suicide. But someone is making them do it somehow. We don’t know who, we don’t know why. Who did it? Whodunnit genre.
Where if it were a Howcatchem genre, the identity of the baddie is revealed up front and the episode is about how the detective figures it out and nails them. How did the detective catch them? Howcatchem.
Monk, if you ever saw that one, would sometimes do whodunnit episodes and sometimes howcatchem episodes.
The subgenre Columbo falls under is a “howcatchem” or an inverted detective story, as opposed to the more typical “whodunnit”.
Just in case OP likes that setup and wants to keyword search for more. One I like and has a second season in works is Poker Face starring Natasha Lyonne.
I don’t claim expertise, but after living in four different coastal areas of three different bodies of water, I’ve not heard one. It’s always just “6 hours to high tide” or something like that, they want to know time to high/low point so people can plan accordingly.
Yes, mostly learned through endurance sports and multi-day backpacking trips that make it easier to sense during normal activity days. Hunger for sugars and salts is very different from hunger for protein.
I also know bodies are dirty liars. No amount of craving means my body needs another ice cream sandwich.
I don’t know how to answer “exotic”. “Exotic” can easily slip into xenophobic territory.
Maybe I answer with a restaurant from a specific culture that I had never been exposed to before? In which case, Himalayan/Tibetan/Nepalese. I could eat momos every day. But I say that about every savory-wrapped-in-dough thing. Dumplings, empanadas, bierocks, meat pies, xian bing, piroshki, is there a culture that doesn’t have some variation of that? And it’s always good. If ever there is need for a flag to represent Humanity, it should be of a savory pie.
I don’t like to analyze myself because I might not like what I see
^ Trump in an interview in 2014
I’m angry we’re on a path to re-elect a piece of shit to lead my country, a person who knows he’s a piece of shit but actively avoids thinking about it.
Also, I’m a woman. Segregating on gender for no damn reason also makes me angry.
We have a work area with school desks for some reason, of the crappy right-handed variety. So I notice when colleagues awkwardly try to use the desks and they’re left-hand dominant.
I have a friend who is left-handed and insists on shaking hands left-handed. She will stare down anyone until they offer their left hand or do a weird fingertip shake with their right. Anyone who manages to shake her left hand without looking like a goober, she excitedly welcomes to the left handed club.
I apparently need to clean up my list. I use Letterbox now, migrated from ImDB a few years ago so the oldest all have the same “added to list” date.
That bucket of transfers from my old IMDB list include:
Timothy Chalamet’s Wonka - watched it already and forgot to log it
Drive - same
Borderlands - just released
Blade - new one as part of MCU, supposedly out next year but I’m noticing very few names attached to it
Project Hail Mary - not out yet
Wild - the idea of tiny Reese Witherspoon hiking with a massive backpack tickles my funny bone, just haven’t gotten around to it
All Quiet on the Western Front - I think I’ll have to be in a particular mindset to watch this and it hasn’t happened yet
Hush - will probably watch it in another month or two as Halloween nears, aka Mike Flanagan season
Do you ever leave the house? Like to go to work or the library or to hang out with friends? Just leave as if you’re doing one of those things, and then meet your date somewhere.
If you never leave the house, that is something you might consider addressing before you start dating. There can be lots of reasons to leave the house that don’t involve an unwitting stranger getting pulled into your rather unique family situation.
Well, to be representative of humans, they need a sampling of it all, for better or for worse. That is a strength of humans: diversity in backgrounds, thoughts, experiences, strengths, weaknesses, and capable of working together regardless.
Hmm, if I sort my Letterboxd watched list by my highest rating, the first non-english movie to come up is Parasite. I don’t think that’s actually my fave, but it’s up there.
I liked Monkey Man, best non-english language movie I’ve seen so far this year.
3 Idiots, just like anyone who’s gone through engineering school and has seen it.
Seven Samurai and Rashoman
Try it with bottled beer. Websearch “jelly beer”, a few countries do it but I mostly know it from Thailand.
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It’s fine as a one sentence guideline for small children to get them to think how others are affected by their actions. A first step in formation of their values and civic participation.
If you’re an adult whose moral framework stops at the Golden Rule and who expects the world to follow the Golden Rule, I have a bridge and a cutting-edge new AI model to sell you.
You asked, I answered. Thinking about what right wing weirdos and perverts might do when in power is absolutely part of why I care about my digital privacy.