PBS FTW, been digging their stuff since I was a toddler watching Sesame Street lol. Their PBS Eons channel (on YT…) is great, when I was watching more video content I enjoyed their streaming service for a range of stuff too, can’t remember what it was called now though.

So yeah give em some bucks folks and watch cool stuff, they really need it.

Couldn’t agree more. Parenting failures are the root of so much (though being charitable, there are many parents in working conditions that basically destroy their ability to parent effectively). Regardless of parents, any kid is shaped (raised) in big ways by the communities they participate in. I’ve got no problem telling a little knucklehead - even one I’ve never met - to quit mistreating folks in various ways when I see it. And I wish more people would too.

But I also recognize that has the potential to really blow up (even violently) depending on the kid’s parents and the scenario. But still, many of us just recoil from even the idea of a disagreement, and that’s the mechanism that allows this stuff to fester in our youth. Take responsibility for your society, be mean to a kid who needs it today!

Ah, but yet…

Gross.

First I’m hearing of a King of the Hill remake. Nothing is sacred :(

Woof, that’s hilarious and annoying. Food service from what I understand has super thin margins - things like fountain drink sodas (and alcohol sales at other spots) do a lot of the work on keeping the place economically viable. Not excusing that guy’s pettiness but if you see weird behavior around a specific ingredient or item, it’s probably something along those lines.

FWIW (and I recognize that few will read this other than you, thread is quiet and getting oldish) -

I think you’re exactly right. The left in the US utterly fails - not only to reach, but even to understand - rural folks. I count myself among that group, though I’m deliberately tryna get better (I have a quarter of a local cow in my freezer, as one instance of that - better in so, so many ways than factory farmed meat, and the flavor part of that is lowest on my list of improvements).

And this failure is so thoroughly damaging to everyone’s interests in the US, and it makes me increasingly angry over time. The alienation it produces in folks like you is exactly the mechanism that allows for the current administration, by my measure. Republicans lie constantly (and I know many of y’all know it!) but they at least pretend to take your concerns seriously. The Democrats (yes, for anyone else reading, I well understand the difference between them and anything actually politically left) just shower y’all with disdain - if you’re ever even mentioned as remotely important.

The rural folks in this country understand very well that their concerns are actually critical to an even minimally-functioning society. If only anyone else did too. Such a stupid, shameful way for us all to behave. Y’all are backed into a corner like the rest of us, but differently, and all you get is lies from one party and outright vocal disdain from the other. With zero true sympathy anywhere, except from your own. Shameful!

Jesus FUCKING Tapdancing Christ. I guess IT showed us clowns can be monstrous, but what the fuck.

Yep this has been my experience as well. I’d add to that list - a power outage in the middle of a session. None of the staff knew what to do. Big open building full of stations, all active, all down mid process.

After the confusion died down and the staff had been told what to do, they were offering to continue or at least put the partially-centrifuged blood back. I said no thank you for the possible embolism and dipped. I’m an engineer. I know those machines are engineered very well, but I also know the limits of engineering and edge case testing.

Add to that 2 or 3 incidents years later where they wrapped my arm so poorly afterwards that I started bleeding everywhere after a few. One of those being a time I specifically asked them to be careful because that exact person fucked it up last time.

I don’t strictly need it these days so I’ve stopped. But yep, just yet more indignity and danger for the poor, go USA!

No u - go learn.