The woman on the left runs libsoftiktok on twitter, possibly the most influential driver of right wing outrage culture and really daily maga "news" in the country. Yes it's insane, but it's also true, she is far more influential than fox news or tucker Carlson or really anyone other than trump himself.
The legacy networks got ahold of streaming and are putting on their normal network crap but now you can say "fuck" so it's edgy.
There is still a lot of fun and unique television being made. Certainly miles ahead of the film industry.
Apparently I'm the only white millennial male on this website so I guess I'll give a bit of my perspective.
My experience is in commercial construction in a non-racially diverse area. The company I worked for was all genx upper leadership, vast majority millennial labor (both white and blue collar), and a handful of boomer mercs doing sales/bus development while waiting for retirement. Sidenote, I never saw a non-boomer in any sales or business development role, kind of odd.
As a regional subcontractor/supplier I was able to work closely with companies from under 10 employees to those with a national/global presence. We were always looking for people on the blue collar side so basically if you could pass the welding test or whatever equivalent you were hired. There didn't appear to be any favoritism or discrimination with women.
White collar is a bit different. My observation throughout the industry was certainly that being a woman added a bonus positive quality to career progression. This doesn't mean incompetent women were being hired or promoted, just that unspoken value discussed all over this thread of "all things being equal, we'll go with the woman".
This never made me angry or anything, I just looked at it similar to how fat and ugly people are disadvantaged, or in my case how a "shy" quiet guy who is very uncomfortable with small talk will top out at a level before someone comfortable with talking to clients. Construction is still male dominated and I didn't mind the efforts equalize things.
That's all, merry Christmas.
I'm not so sure I agree with you. Not including the "families with money" as we are talking about here there is a huge value in just having family support to fall back on. During trump 1.0 a trumpy acquaintance of mine was going on the usual "well my family was middle class and mommy and daddy didn't pay for my college and I had to live at home after graduation to save money to buy a house, where's my white privilege? Why can't everyone else just do that?". I told him being a white male second Gen college graduate that was able to live rent free with his parents is a massive privilege that he for some reason thinks of as a hardship. No his parents aren't rich, but he'll never be homeless or unable to aquire appropriate clothes for an interview.
Anyway he's a recruiter for corporate dentists or something now. Also still a total fucking moron and one of the stupidest people I've ever had the pleasure of interacting with.
It's a struggle, yesterday was just a really "bad" day. Pain meds not working, stomach doing acrobatics, barely strong enough to get from the living room to the bathroom, just everything fucking sucked. It had me scared about how maybe the decline is faster than I thought and I was reevaluating my entire timeline outlook.
Today has been a very very "good" day. The swing is wild and all the stuff that seemed overwhelming and sucked has been totally minimal and easy to deal with. It's a real motherfucker mentally as I continue to give up more control of my life and let other people do things for me.
Something else that has been really hard is my dog died back in August. I adopted her 6 months before I was diagnosed and she was an absolute rock in my life, a soulmate dog if there ever was one. She got me though the dark chemo days the way only the non-stop love of a pitbull can. Going through yesterday without her snoring on my lap was very difficult and I would have given all the money I have left for her to be back with me.
Ready player one keeps the spirit of the book but adapts it to be more appealing in the visual realm. I think both versions are appropriate for their medium.
I was not aware of this person until recently but in my first interaction I learned he thinks it's normal to piss and shit in/on your clothes. It was there that I decided they were not worthy of additional energy on my part.
All moved in with my mom and her husband. As a very independent 43 yr old who prefers to be alone with my dog, it's actually quite a relief. I had been struggling to feed myself properly and my house was a disregarded mess. I have had an amazing team of friends and family cleaning the old place out for me and it's wild how much crap I've thrown away. I'm well below the American consumerist bellcurve and it's still just so much junk (humorously probably a third of it is gifts I've stuck in closet and never wanted or used but couldn't trash because of some idea of respect). Anyway, it was the right time for this change and I feel much more comfortable.