Avatar

CakeAndPie [any]

CakeAndPie@hexbear.net
Joined
8 posts • 66 comments
Direct message

Complain on the teacher eval?

Hope you’re not being charged.

permalink
report
reply

Weird how all those airlines didn’t have to dot any i’s or cross any t’s before wheelbarrows full of money were rolled out.

permalink
report
parent
reply

They just have to murder 1 fewer person than team R and they become the lesser evil and entitled to your vote.

permalink
report
parent
reply

It’s for the next round of payments. They aren’t going back to take money away which was already sent out.

permalink
report
parent
reply

I started waking up to an alarm 7 days a week. It has helped me wake up earlier for work. Unfortunately, my sleep time is still 4am so I end up almost fainting from exhaustion at random times in the afternoon/evening. I’m not sure it’s an improvement, but at least I don’t miss morning meetings.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Omelas is a powerful parable, but it isn’t applicable to our society because we are all locked in; there is no decent society to go to, no place to escape to. We cannot leave.

“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” Is An Inapplicable Parable For Our Time

Omelas is everywhere. There is no road to lead you away from it. All the alternatives get bombed to smithereens or bullied into submission by the IMF.

Omelas’ prosperity is widely shared. In our world, more and more of us struggle for daily necessities.

And if there were only 1 kid being tortured, I mean, that would be a nice change.

Omelas is a paradise compared to what we have.

permalink
report
reply

Biden was on board with baby caging when Obama was President. I know it subsequently became a tribal identifier / catchphrase but it’s not really something Trump came up with.

permalink
report
parent
reply

That would make it harder to collect data / spy on everyone so I’m afraid the tiny un-turn-off-able microphones are staying.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Yeah, exactly. The viewers are cheering on Walt and Skyler is the bump in the road, the unfun bitch yelling at the kids to stop having fun.

I mean, the showrunners also had Skyler do all sorts of shady things to make her seem “complicated”. It was an attempt to make her interesting next to Walt but basically it just removed whatever sympathy viewers might have for a person in her situation.

permalink
report
parent
reply

A big chunk of the reason Skyler drives people up the wall into intense loathing / hating reactions (quote: “I hate her ever-living guts”, quote: “I hate her ball busting, control freakish, white bread, housewifey milquetoast ways”) is misogyny. She’s a wife and the wife’s role in a story is to support the male protagonist. 100%. No ifs, no doubts, no quibbling. Even if the protagonist is an antihero undergoing a downward spiral into crime and murder, the wife must help out, or at least, understand.

Skyler doesn’t support her husband in the wish fulfillment journey of weak nerdy white teacher transforming into international drug lord badass, therefore she makes a lot of people’s heads explode with hate.

I’m not saying this applies to any of you, I’m sure your reasons for hating her are valid and based on something totally unrelated. I’m just saying this is “a big chunk” of why Skyler is one of the most disliked characters in TV history.

If you’re interested in watching a discussion of the extreme hatred of Skyler and an analysis go check out Jack Saint’s video, Why Do You Hate Skyler White?

permalink
report
reply