You have a lot of unattractive people too. The system needs everybody.

If anything, the attractive are in over supply and good nondescript character actors are in demand.

It’s an easy game not to play.

The pool of talent wanting to be in film is incredibly large - when Iived there it felt like half of LA was trying to make it in the entertainment business. Even the LA Police have casting leave written into their contracts in case they pick up a part.

So yes, the system is exploitative. But every person there is willingly playing that game using the cards they have available to them. Most of them lose.

What?

GenX Canada. Better by every measure. I don’t have children so it has helped with financial stability to an amazing degree.

The ol’ rank and yank.

If I hadn’t heard the 99%Invisible episode about the Ambassador Bridge that story would have made a lot less sense. https://99percentinvisible.org/category/infrastructure/

This article reads like the Maroun family have poked the beast, who is now angry that he didn’t wet his beak.

We might have invented baseball too.

But we feel that way about curling, which we want to own, but was definitely invented in Scotland.

I am sad to report that this is already a word. My condolences.

Grilled cheese sandwich.

Patrician

Government. I don’t understand how they are still using the hellsites and that social app.

You can add my post 😀.

Wikipedia gets strange in some articles, and this is definitely one of them. St Brigid is a Catholic thing, not a wheel of the year feast. Why the conflation here? I don’t know.

There are a number of articles that talk about the “awakening” aspect of Imbolc, and it is associated with other hibernating animals peeking out of their dens to see what’s up. So the groundhog in the American context is a natural one.

You probably know this, but it’s what remains of the Celtic festival of Imbolc. It’s the first of the three spring festivals. Ostara you definitely know since it was coopted by the church along with the eggs and rabbit symbology.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I didn’t say it was a good reason.

It’s American.

There is a lot of incremental research that gets transformed into ZOMG YOU GUYS!!! by the research office. The journals are full of papers demonstrating a complete rescue of a disease model ( and I’m an author on some of them). What the papers are really demonstrating is the inadequacy of the animal model.

Dude it’s worse than that. I was a working neuroscientist for almost twenty years. So…jaded.

We did something to the mice then rescued it in a different way. Hooray! Next we’ll save test tubes from cancer…again.

Confirmed. My wife does not consume my “cooking”. She will let me grill though…sometimes.

The cost to reach them to diagnose and replace outweighs the decreased maintenance. Digging is really expensive.