Company affirmations and cheerleading. Things like that. And they would browbeat employees. Massive social pressure to conform and to make the company part of your identity.

Nope, “cult” is not too strong a word. Those are cult tactics.

I wonder if they did a lot of drawings in dirt to get practice.

Public knowledge vs. common knowledge. They want to prevent it from being the latter.

They want land. They will murder to get it.

Does that mean they don’t (or can’t) steal information when you’re screen casting?

While we’re introducing Canadian fries to the world, everyone should also learn about Newfie fries: https://www.therecord.com/things-to-do/getting-to-the-bottom-of-newfie-fries/article_5d089bb9-2330-5bc0-bfef-62c682497853.html

(Photos don’t do it justice.)

We really don’t.

It’s exactly what you think, but also, this is the internet ruining you.

There is no assumption on my part about a preference between two candidates.

If you vote for anyone other than the Dems in this election, you’re as good as voting for Trump, which is voting for genocide and losing your democracy. I fucking hate what’s happening in Palestine. I’m also realistic enough to see that you’ll lose your country if you don’t protect it.

I wonder if it’s because 2-year-olds are usually pretty noisy, so when they’ve fallen asleep, it’s easier to forget that they’re even back there.

If Ruby’s guess near the end is right, the whole point of her being there, haunting her, making people run away, was to make specifically this one man run away in terror, and there’s no way whatever that was had anything to do with anyone else abandoning Ruby. She simply says something so terrifying that people run away, that’s it, it doesn’t matter what exactly, and it doesn’t even have to be the same thing for everyone.

Which makes me think that perhaps it’s like psychic paper: she could say anything (or even nothing), and the experience would be the most horrifying, disgusting, or terrifying thing to the listener, enough to drive them away from Ruby forever.

I have a theory that they were reinforcing, for the much younger crowd, that these were special babies who were very capable and independent in ways in which regular babies are not.

I deveoped varicose veins within my first few years of working on till in a grocery store. This was in my early twenties, and for the rest of my life. The company doesn’t care, even while you work there. Fuck these policies.

The human ears on the ducks, the musical change when the daddy is singing, and the way he sings, the uncertain fate of the tadpoles, the dolly being dizzy in the head because the daddy says so, the fact that the daughter is a doll,… so many reasons: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PWMAYFNIAco

I don’t want him in the Ukraine, doing the same things he was doing in the US.

They wind up with a humanitarian aid camp.

HA! Mine is an acronym: not another user name.

My sensitive, eczema-prone skin say, “No.”

Them, too.