Same as following musicians or authors: subscribe to communications.

Film festivals tend to be annual; the successful ones, at least. Get on the mailing lists for the festivals that show the sorts of films you’re interested in so you get their schedule next year before the festival starts.

Follow content creators who follow the film festivals and films you tend to like. YouTube, blogs, podcasts, whatever. Even the festivals themselves often have social media accounts you can follow.

Heh, banks are absolute shit at the soft entry points, like calling up with minimal personal information and a teller opening the door wide for you.

There was another person in my hometown with the same name and we used the same bank. They gave her access to my account multiple times. I had long passwords and an account flag reminding the tellers to confirm Date of Birth EVERY TIME. They still let her withdraw several hundred dollars from my account (not that she was trying to to steal my money, just that she requested a withdrawal and they didn’t confirm the right account). Account closed, bank reported, and I am 100% sure they would make the same fuckup today if I gave them the opportunity.

You would be terrified how easy it can be to get access to accounts without a password or even ID.

Fitness: cycles through the year, some combination of running, indoor climbing, rowing or dragonboat, backpacking

Creative: woodcarving, music, gardening

Moneymaker: nope, I am fortunate enough to have one job with good salary. I do not turn hobbies into side hustles.

Instead of moneymaking, the third category I look for is social. Many of my hobbies can be solo, so I want to make sure I’m doing something that has me out meeting new people. And that my socialization doesn’t become predominantly meeting friends in bars.

Just water. Other than coffee in the morning, I mostly drink water.

I sometimes have half-emptied water glasses scattered all over, worst when I’m stressed about something or feeling under the weather.

I agree it gets very boring when you are too careless to accurately articulate your views. Good luck!

1. What’s going on with overpaid CEOs and underpaid workers is not nepotism

2. cheating means breaking of rules, and they’re not

You can argue that we should change rules to disincentivize some of the behaviors we’re seeing and to make them “cheating”. And I would’t argue against you if we could somehow make those improvements. But if you’re framing “cheating” as against yours or my personal moral framework instead of law, that is not something you can expect everyone to agree with you on.

Which is the way it’s designed to work, so not cheating.

Also, the definition of nepotism involves favoring relatives. I get what you mean, but it’s not quite accurate. There’s certainly favoritism going on, just not between relatives generally.

Define cheating. I doubt many CEOs would consider anything they’ve done to get to the position they are as “cheating”.

To “cheat”, one must break the rules. And the rules have been designed to not only allow for but encourage current behavior.

Well, it is public knowledge that layoffs and furloughs are happening, so sadly, you’re not wrong.

And they somehow enticed Kelly Ortberg out of retirement to take over as CEO. There’s the hella juicy c-suite compensation package you talked about. He was already riding golden after he maneuvered that Rockwell Collins sale/merger/whatever.

For a short time I had the pleasure of working with a small site that treated the union as a partner and not an adversary. On the company side, it was an EH&S manager, not even the EH&S lead, who led annual negotiations with the union. There were disagreements and compromises, but both sides walked away every year feeling benefitted and ready to collaborate for another year.

Well, Corporate can do better than that. They sent in HR to run things this year. Everything is an aggressive conflict. EH&S dude was immediately recruited to a company down the road and left. Cue HR’s surprised Pikachu face when all goodwill with the union disappeared overnight and the union is just as ready to play hardball.

I am glad I got to see one example of a company and union working together for mutual benefit. I think there will be vanishingly few situations like this throughout the rest of my career

Nothing substantial, just parroting propaganda. Union workers are lazy. Unions are anti free market. Unions get in the way of businesses being profitable, which would in turn benefit employees.

I work in a manufacturing facility where the assemblers, mechanics, machinists, and technicians, are unionized. My white collar, not unionized colleagues simultaneously express jealousy about the benefits the union members get while also saying they shouldn’t exist while also complaining their own salaries are too low and not keeping up with inflation.

My dudes, this is what unions are for. If I worked one of the covered jobs, I would join the union in a heartbeat.

Join them, don’t try to tear them down.

Carol Burnett had an interview show back in the day. She was good at it, pulling out great stories from her interviewees with empathy.

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee was an interesting premise but I never cared for the actual result as much as some people did. I think I just didn’t like Jerry Seinfeld, even before he started whining about how out of touch he is with anyone under 30.

Seth Meyer’s day drinking with celebrities bits. His one with Rihanna stands out against the others.

He was creepin’ on other customers. When he was asked to tone it down, especially when it came to talking to minors, he got mad and started yelling and shoving chairs.

This morning coffee is so good. Lactose-intolerant partner is gone for a week so I bought real cream to go into it. I don’t mind the plant-based stuff at all, the occasional real cream is all the better.

Sub-zero degree sleeping bag in the trunk of my car, plus a jug of water and some MRE-type food packs with water-activated food warmers. I grew up in a very rural area and got stuck on the side of the road in a blizzard for too long; I came out ok but it was terrifying. Now I live in a densely populated area that doesn’t get blizzards but I still prep.

I used to let my toilet paper run nearly down to zero before I bought another pack. The pandemic lockdown months changed that. I used paper towels and liberated a couple rolls from work back in the day. Now I keep more on hand before triggering next buy. Never again.

I’m a good example of “we prep for our fears”. I also do backcountry backpacking and everyone in that hobby does to some degree. I go out with a nurse sometimes and her first aid kit is nearly three pounds while mine is a couple bandaids and rubbing alcohol swaps.

No. Next.

Oat for most things. Extra creamy.

Almond for a fewthings. Like I prefer almond in a bowl of cereal. Silk has an unsweetened one with extra protein that is my go to.

Visualise (picture, imagine, whatever you want to call it)

I ignored this portion of the instruction because it was unnecessary to answer the question of what might happen to the ball if it were pushed by someone. I didn’t visualize anything until moving on to the spoiler questions. Even then, my brain mostly went “nah, we’d just be making up something to fill in details irrelevant to the question, don’t waste the energy”.

The same question was posted yesterday. Are you a bot fishing for engagement?