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wild_turkey

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  1. If only we could guess what the black stuff is hiding.
  2. Where did the premise say anything about selling out your autonomy? I would interpret it as you are putting in the same amount of work from home that you would in the office, and that your professional autonomy is essentially equal. With regards to the 5 hours you are supposedly saving by not getting ready for work and commuting each day, I think it’s a fairly big assumption that most people would fill that time with productive personal activities. Some people would, especially those with demanding schedules who struggle to balance family commitments and personal interests and are highly motivated to make both work. But I think a lot of people would simply sleep more or waste time doomscrolling their phones. Meanwhile, the extra $120k could easily cover time saving expenses like a landscaping service, housekeeper, meal prep, etc.
  3. It’s probably the couch thing. It’s well known that JD Vance likes to have sex with couches, and that oddity might be okay because lots of people have weird kinks, but most of those couches were less than 8 years old, which even Megyn Kelly would agree is a bridge too far.
  4. I would prefer he commit seppuku.
  5. For as nice as Carol’s house is, having her fridge pushed up against a wall is not ideal. Have fun opening the left side door. I know they built the house for the show and there probably wasn’t a lot of thought put into the kitchen layout, but come on.
  6. Same. I apparently have different TV tastes from some of the posters here. I spent too much time pausing and consulting Google maps and looking at photos and other random shit from the checkpoints on his route. Enjoyed watching Carol finally take some time to fuck around.
  7. I wish she would ask them: -where did the genetic code for the virus originate? who or what created it? -what is their end game? Pretty basic big picture questions that might help her understand what type of adversary she is up against.
  8. Interesting to read these takes. I’m definitely team Carol. Maybe she’s a bit of a bitch but the situation kinda calls for it. I like her bitchiness. There are other shows where I can’t stand a main character that other viewers seem fine with and that usually ruins the show for me, so I get it.
  9. Based on the ratio of dead people (~1 billion) to remaining live people (~7 billion), the average corpse would feed 7 people for how long? Assume average body weight of 180 lbs and ignore for a second the corpse has a lot of water weight, that’s 25.7 lbs of tissue per living human. Perhaps they are supplementing it with other dead animals or another nutrition source because that wouldn’t last very long. And then what happens? Start sacrificing the critically ill?
  10. Sort of disagree. I think this is the expected pace of this show, which will gradually set the stage for this bizarro dystopian world, and the viewer gets to contemplate the problem through Carol’s eyes. The story advances by revealing small bits of information about the conflict, rather than major action sequences. Last episode, we learned that they cannot lie and their condition is likely reversible. This episode, we learned that they are willing to withdraw for either emotional reasons or their own safety, and that they most likely consume the dead. I think that’s the expectation for the average episode.
  11. It will be hilarious if CA has updated maps for 2026 and TX does not.
  12. The minor frustration I had with that part was that everything moved a little too quickly. The pres and VP were have a late night discussion about strategy, then by the following day, the sub had already been photographed and the weapon retrieved. It also seems a bit foolish that the pres and VP would think they could pull that off and somehow keep it a secret. Callum was immediately aware that something had happened. Didn't they realize that the very same intelligence sources that alerted them to the presence of the sub in the first place would also be capable of knowing the weapon had been moved? When it comes to rebuilding trust, they just keep digging that hole deeper.
  13. Searched and didn’t find a thread, just sporadic mentions in the Netflix meta thread (which is awful for discussion). The show deserves its own thread. Season 1 trailer provided for anyone unfamiliar with the show who might be interested in starting it. There are 3 seasons available now, so probably best not to read beyond this point if you haven’t seen all of them. Curious what others think. I like the show quite a bit and think a lot of the characters are well written. Especially like Stuart, Eidra, Dennison, and Todd Penn. I get a little tired of Hal at times, but I think that’s supposed to be the case. Kate and Hal seemed to have a dead marriage from the start that existed purely for political and career reasons, so I enjoy the show more when they aren’t forcing themselves to be together and the other plots can be front and center. The second half of season 3 was great. The coverup hits a little close to home with the current political landscape, but I enjoyed the different characters’ involvement and some of their reactions and moral struggles with it all (or seemingly lack thereof).
  14. For whatever reason, they do not seem to have the ability to do this or else it would’ve been their first move months ago and we would’ve already been fed the falsified version. It’s the easy out that they haven’t taken, which could only be because it’s not actually a viable option.
  15. Gotta love the daily reminder that we are winning bigly on affordability and stopping men in women’s sports and transgender for everyone. I was starting to worry that grocery prices were going up and I might get my dick chopped off at my next primary care visit. Looks like everything will be okay after all.
  16. Really liking this show. I’m predicting some combination of the following: -Carol gets pissed off and intentionally uses her ability to freak out on the hive and cause them to shut down, killing many more in the process. -They respond to this by confining her to some kind of sound proof room for the mutual protection of Carol and the hive. -Carol needs the help of another unconverted human to escape her confinement. -At some point, she discovers more than just 12 unconverted people. -Season 2 will include efforts to cure people and restore them to their original form.
  17. This is incredible.
  18. I know someone really close to the Bill Cosby case and they said that he wasn't into rape. He just liked the fantasy of nonconsensual sex. But his partners always said yes after receiving quaaludes. Maybe a few of them forgot their safe word and I realize that could be misconstrued by some people as date rape, but they never said no, at least not after they unknowingly consumed sedatives. They never said no. It may have looked legal to a passerby.
  19. It’s nice having a show like this that is actually worthy of some discussion between episodes. It helps that Apple still slow releases the episodes.
  20. Since when is funding schools a priority?
  21. The timing isn’t terrible in retrospect. The shutdown is over which allows the media to move on from that, to immediately be replaced by new Epstein information. Mike Johnson had to swear in Rep Grijalva and away we go. Whether it was planned that way or not, we’ll probably never know.
  22. Yeah, I get all of that, but for the 6 Democrat senators who voted to end the shutdown, was there a hidden agenda pertaining to the Epstein files, or was that merely coincidence?
  23. Does the abrupt ending of the government shutdown have anything to do with the Epstein files or purely coincidence that they are happening in the same week?
  24. For anyone who has paid any attention to him, he’s an awful human being who frequently posts racist and inflammatory shit online.
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