Hulu began as a partnership between multiple companies (Disney/ABC, Fox, and NBC IIRC). Disney is the majority shareholder now, but NBC is still in the mix (from a quick Wiki check). So I don’t expect the apps will merge so long as Disney would possibly have to cut a check to someone else for Disney+ content.

I bought What Color Is Your Parachute? back in 2010. Never actually got around to starting it until recently, though. Maybe later revisions are different, but I don’t like the whole “service to God” bullshit it pushes at the very end (and very slightly in the early portion I’v read) and makes me question the validity…

Great to hear! I’d largely stopped with Lifehacker after the G/O purchase, the site and Kinja experience just became so bad. I can’t say I’m a big fan of Ziff Davis, but I don’t expect it could be any worse than G/O. Hopefully whatever replaces Kinja is also a great improvement...

One notable thing that doesn’t appear to be happening (or I haven’t seen anyone report on it): Reversing the law that exempted student loans from bankruptcy claims. Biden can’t reverse that himself, of course, but he was a big proponent of it so him publicly directing Dems to do so would be nice (as it can likely help …

The car batteries need friends

I do not think that existing within a class or group of people authorizes you to speak on behalf of the whole group...

Same. Had depression, went into the military, went from ~260 to ~180 during BCT (~10 weeks), still had depression.

As someone with depression, and from casual conversations with many dozens of others who suffer from depression/anxiety, I formally declare that this list is not doing more harm than good.

Actually, no I won’t. A dental visit went quite wrong and now I’ve given up on this conversation, gg

(Cleared, will respond much differently in a bit.)

I’ll accept “and it shouldn’t be” when the drinking age is lowered back down to 18 and car insurance rates don’t suddenly dip when someone hits 25 or w/e that actuary cut-off is.

The student CHOSE to take out those loans knowing full well they have to be repaid.

Guess I’m going to see how much wiggle room there is. I currently have about five months saved up (without any emergency savings) and initially I was going to leave my job last week. But the company asked me to stay another four months, and I agreed in exchange for cutting my hours in half while getting a 25% hourly…

I agree, and I said it was foolish. I’m just noting that when you consider those failures of our health care system—that humans taking medication intended for animals is just a thing that happens--it’s not as foolish as it first seems.

While I am laughing at those who think they should take it as well, this isn’t really surprising thanks to how we handle health care in the US.

I did take a dead TV (that had been sitting around for years) to an electronic recycler, and some books to Half-price Books, and it barely make a dent in the mess.

The way my depression operates has thankfully never led to trash building up (though anything that requires sweeping/scrubbing/vacuuming is rarely handled.) And I have trash cans all over my apartment, more than one per room, so noticing the uncommon wrapper sitting on a table and throwing it in the can is relatively…

...these words are listed because the contexts presented haven’t changed since they were first used in that demeaning fashion. And either the word itself or the “full” word it’s derived from are also still in use for their original, non-malicious, descriptive intention. (And the medical field has largely moved on from…

it assumes that everyone talking with those phrases with this “ableist” mentality in the forefront to intentionally be mean towards others.

As a millennial I just assume I will never retire. If I’m lucky I’m dead before I’m 60; if I’m not then whatever I managed to stash in a 401k is pulled out when I’m 65 and still have to take whatever meager jobs I can to survive. (Assuming I haven’t already had to empty the 401k for some other reason.)