What does Seal have to do with all this?!

I did say stealth sequel, so be wary.

Same author, great story, very different book. I’m sure you will still enjoy the read though.

It is a wonderful stealth sequel to Snow Crash as well. Good callout!

I have two dogs and four cats.

When I refill the pet fountain, my golden retriever loves to drink from the water as I pour it in.

It’s pretty cute, but I realize all the other animals have to drink her watered down spit.

I am lucky enough to live in Minnesota, where we already prioritize green spaces, and all those leftist values are generally centrist. And yes, the rest of the comment is directed at those in the thread who call us racist Nazis for being Americans who dare resist.

Sock shoe, sock shoe, because I have a golden retriever and don’t want her fur on my socks.

My protest was to leave and never return. I have been on Lemmy since that week.

The drug war has destroyed way too many families.

The left eats itself, but only faster than the right does. I thought the left might unite under the threat of fascism, but this thread shows that the far left and the far right just want most of the world dead. They want revenge, not solutions.

I increasingly feel that the only way to pull out of this is a new centrism. The opposite of neoliberalism, focusing on human rights, living wages, and liveable spaces. Environmentalism too, if that is even possible anymore. Basically things that are hard for anyone to deny the value of.

Work on your negative self-talk.

Each time you remember something and cringe or insult yourself, you overwrite that memory with you feeling shitty about it. It’s a terrible feedback mechanism.

Instead, laugh at your silly mistakes, celebrate your successes and failures, and forgive yourself.

It will take a long time to unwind the stuff you have done to yourself, but this is one technique you can just start doing - recognize when you are beating yourself up and do a little better.

It’s about the remake.

IBS for me is dietary and stress/anxiety related. Certainly worth discussing with your doctor but if it is a new issue, I would not assume IBS.

I thought I was dying in my 30s.

I have IBS and it just skyrocketed in its effects on me over a period of a few years. Doctors had no clue.

I lost my job, went bankrupt, and had a lost decade.

Turned out I had a hernia that turned my IBS into regular intestine blockages. Public benefits paid for the surgery, and here I am almost twenty years later. (Worth noting that I met a woman who never thought she would find love or get married, and she demanded I get the surgery.)

I am back to being unemployed and need some simple remote work, so if anyone has ideas, much appreciated.

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I enjoyed it but don’t see a season two holding up, should they decide to do one.

Yeah, if you put in the opening the line “They have a plan,” you better damned well know what that plan is.

In the end the plan was “We’re gonna kill 'em all!!”

You are 100% correct.

I have rewatched the series and come to some peace about it, but it is still the first one to come to mind for this thread.

Religion was always woven into the series, and the original was somewhat Mormon inspired.

But that last bit, the evolving nature of god and the whole new set of questions was what I was hoping it would touch on.

The end of Battlestar Galactica.

They literally tied up all the loose threads into a bundle labeled “God did it” and then refused to speculate about God because that’s distasteful.

It’s sci-fi. You speculate. It’s what the genre does.

And if you don’t want to leave your house a ton, find online hobbies that let you find and meet people, like card games, board games, roleplaying games, etc.

Granted I had my board gaming friends but when COVID hit and we couldn’t play, I made a D&D campaign for them.

We had never played that together before but everyone was in, and one of the players had never played but had read a ton of novels (Dragonlance, Frizzy [Drizzt!], etc) and was fully committed.

Now we have all taken turns as the DM, and two of us usually swap out for our own stories.

I only ever got gilded two or three times on Reddit, but I remember the first.

Someone posted “I have been streaming a lot of Ice Cube lately.”

I replied “You can’t stream Ice Cube. That’s just water.”