Of course. I would love to see my mom again, and I would love to be that lucky lottery winner. I’d love to get better grades in math, too.

So… Ranch dressing?

It fucking depends on the target weakness bro.

I did not like LOTR as much as most. It was meh, for me. But I learned to read on the Hobbit and read the series before I was 11, so, I do not know if anything would have made me happy there.

I really want to watch orphan black!!!

Didn’t John Doe get cancelled? I liked that show while it lasted.

The ncuti episode with the social media wonks needing to be talked to safety struck me as absolutely and completely perfect. I am in awe of it. It’s so uneven, though, other episodes are awful.

That’s the one.

Landlords as the people who rent out places to live to other people are responsible for the house. It’s not raw unimproved land. Houses need to be built. They’re objects with many moving parts, subject to a lot of technical challenges, and code enforcement.

If you allow that object rental has a place in society, I struggle to understand how houses are not ethically the same as renting lawnmowers. You can be a predatory arse or a fair dealer about any rental situation.

Churchill never had to learn plumbing in a rural area of a state because he had to do the work himself because there was nobody to do it for him.

EXCELLENT POINT. “Class status” is not anything objectively measurable. Wealth is.

I aspire to be independent. To be free to do art and sell it without worrying about food or housing.

Bro they are being facetious to make a point

See, that’s an excellent point! But “landlords suck” as a stance doesn’t allow for nuance like “some landlords suck and some tenants are abusive dirtbags”, it paints all tenants as pure victims of a system and all landlords as evil overlords. This lets people who are tenants feel righteous.

I’m trying to point out that “landlords are evil” is a stupid stance because how and why you do things matters. Everything counts in large amounts, and I have had good landlords before. Tenants who have never done their own property maintenance rarely understand what goes into property maintenance.

Someone created the house. The house didn’t grow there organically…

Does this still apply to the apartment building I once lived in which was built and run by an immigrant family as a long term family investment, and they charged a really reasonable price?

Just curious.

I think that one episode of The Last of Us might have been one of the single best episodes of television ever made.

Oh, you want Pluribus.

Firefly was mind-blowing, back in the day. So was Stargate SG-1. CSI, for all its faults, was fascinating at the time. Blue Planet was gorgeous. Fullmetal Alchemist. Pushing Daisies. Dead Like Me. The Middleman. Wonderfalls. Numb3rs. The Last Detective. Have Gun Will Travel.

I have a soft spot for Dr. Who, and the old Star Trek stuff. Loved House. For all it’s flaws, Sherlock was excellent. Dexter was fantastic for a little while. The X Files - so much wrong with it and honestly hard to care because of the acting. One Punch Man. The Expanse. Poirot. MASH. Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. Wire in the Blood. Babylon 5. Titus.

I liked Hogans Heroes. Highlander: the Series. Airwolf, when I was young and uncritical . Forever Knight.

There were some middling shows with exceptional episodes - Supernatural, “jump the shark”, others that were good.

I haven’t watched much tv lately. It’s hard to like fiction as much as I used to.

I strongly recommend watching “Priscilla: Queen of the Desert” as a cathartic road trip Aussie comedy palate cleanser.