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So in the news of addressing people in the manner they desire to be addressed... My mom's name is Charlee. Pronounced Charlie. She joined a women's book club because she likes to read and she wants to get out and talk to more people. So her first day of book club, she introduced herself. And apparen...

Yay! That's great!

Again... Putting this in Rocks because I'm not lost. I didn't hate the first episode of Batwoman . The opening scene has seriously bad CGI and I had to talk myself out of judging the show for it. But I don't hate the show yet. It's pretty clear who's who. I'm interested in how it turns out. It will...

How much longer is your lease? Because you need to get the hell out of there. In the meantime, if you can get your hands on supplements, grab two. Take a mega dose of Vitamin C to help stop the cortisol and adrenaline in your system. And take some GABA to help your body relax and your mind stop thin...

Thank you for that summation. I appreciate knowing that he was just conning people. Side Note: When I went to look up the ratings for this show to see how it did, I found an article on Forbes discussing how the show wasn't real... Because the dude isn't actually a billionaire . *sigh* Glad I didn't ...

I'm putting this in the rocks thread because it is better than it sucks... The Discovery Channel has a reality show called "Undercover Billionaire." The premise of the show is interesting: billionaire goes undercover as a newb in order to start a million dollar business with nothing in 90...

Again... Putting this in Rocks because I'm not lost. I didn't hate the first episode of Batwoman . The opening scene has seriously bad CGI and I had to talk myself out of judging the show for it. But I don't hate the show yet. It's pretty clear who's who. I'm interested in how it turns out. It will ...

My mom did that, too. Now that we don't have Ess, we don't need a back-up fridge, but I'm the same way. I hate running out of the basics.

Because you don't buy a second thing of milk when the first milk is getting low.

Well you did specify nasty insects... ;) Just because I was genuinely curious, I looked up the number of insects in, say, Texas - because I know they have more bugs there than we do. But I really have no sense of comparison. Here's what I found: There are 100,000 or so species of insects native to t...

Ha! I saw that on Atlas Obscura today! It's crazy cool!

Dude. I live in Washington. We don't have nasty insects. I also live in a county nearly the size of Rhode Island that's covered in evergreens. We have tons of Christmas tree farms around. So getting a live tree [with no nasty insects] involves walking outside.

OK. So Christmas is my jam; it starts early in our house. And I've been worried about it because I have no idea what our traditions are gonna look like without Ess. So I talked to Gi about it. And one of the things he said was that we needed to think about getting a fake tree. We usually go to a tre...

I think that DC Super Girls was... Maybe for a kid audience, not a high school audience. I watched it when I was in a very particular mood because it was too much for 99% of the time. I don't remember (but I really could be wrong) liking shows that spastic when I was in high school. (While I am not ...

Is the strength of the dose negotiable? If a lesser dose will knock out the pain, you might be able to reduce the side effects.

Would an alternative prescription be helpful (not sure why the pain)? Could a drug like gabapentin work?

Not sure where to put this, but I thought it was really good. It's just under 45 minutes long. Jonathan Van Ness's Getting Curious on why the census is important If you listen to podcasts elsewhere, it's the latest version of Getting Curious. It has a very liberal bent, and JVN is very gay. He's als...

OK. So today, my sister posted a pic of her team at 2K games with Idris Elba. I am officially jealous of her life.

*sigh* I kept reading that article wondering where his outrage was. And then I read the headline again and realized it was "crazy for" not "angry over". The Outrage Machine is working too well. More on-topic... I imagine that Karloff would be so pleased with the state of food now...

I stumbled upon a show called A Billion to One . It's a project from a company called CollabFeature - they are a loose film company made of filmmakers from all over the world who work on projects together. Out of 16 episodes, I've made it through five. They're short, addicting, and very bingeable. T...

I'm putting this in the rocks thread because it is better than it sucks... The Discovery Channel has a reality show called "Undercover Billionaire." The premise of the show is interesting: billionaire goes undercover as a newb in order to start a million dollar business with nothing in 90 ...

They don't logic far enough. If gun control measures take legal guns off the streets, then the number of guns will be smaller. If the number of guns is smaller, then the value of a gun will be higher - whether it's legal or not. If the price of guns is higher, then the poorest people - law-abiding o...

I love this story. I used to have the worst anxiety when it came to falling asleep. Ess would tell me stories every night so that I'd get my mind off of whatever it was fixating on. And it didn't matter if I had woken up at two in the morning; he never complained about it. He just would start tellin...

OK. I found out Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye, but the podcast started pre-Queer Eye) has a podcast called Getting Curious . He's a sparkly unicorn sort of person and his podcast is basically him finding people with answers to his completely random questions about topics that he's curious about. The ...

I'm still having hang-ups with fiction. I feel really awkward listening to it. I think that's because it was so Ess' domain. I want to adventure more in that direction, though. What I'm listening to now depends a lot on my mood. I have a lot more that I've got on my list to listen to in the future, ...