Milo Thatch

Milo Thatch

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    I like how a lot of politicians treat abortion as the single most important issue in the U.S. these days even over issues like political corruption or global warming. Meanwhile I'm just sitting here, never going to have kids including biologically so the issue will never have the slightest bearing on my personal life, one way or the other even a smidgen
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    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    The Roe v. Wade repeal is an extremely important issue simply *because* it undermined over 50 years of legal precedent and protections and people have died precisely because it was repealed. The reason that it's focused on as much as it is (as opposed to something like the economy and environmental degradation) is simply because it's a frankly easy thing to fix for voters to digest: ensure everyone has ready access to abortion.

    By the way the equivalent of what you're saying is pretty similar to GOP talking points against protections for LGBTQ+ people: why should we focus on their rights and representation and diversity? Don't we have much more important things like the housing crisis? Only a small percent of the population is gay, I don't know who is personally gay, global warming is a much more pertinent issue to fix than ensuring LGBTQ+ people have safe working environments.
    LeftyGreenMario
    LeftyGreenMario
    I think it's valid to express deep concern why climate change, biodiversity loss, political corruption, and income inequality didn't figure in the national political discourse as often as abortion despite hurricanes having killed literally hundreds of people (disproportionately poorer communities which includes black neighborhoods) and causing billions in damage, the ongoing CO2 emissions that have been done little to stop, and the constant biodegradation that threatens all sorts of organisms, but on the other hand, I think the landscape is a give-and-take.

    Most voters don't rank climate change or political corruption or income equality OR abortion as their top issue unfortunately. "The economy" is. Despite this economy in the U.S. being one of the best in the world by most metrics and having recovered the best from COVID and inflation. While income inequality may be a component of the nebulous "the economy", in reality voters are more concerned about the price of groceries and gas than the fact billionaires are allowed to exist and coexist with the housing crisis; no one cared that heat waves killed homeless people but everyone perked up when eggs cost slightly more). And immigration is another top issue for voters despite its issues being massively overblown in reality and neither side really wanting to loosen draconian immigration restrictions to reduce the amount of undocumented immigrants as well as punishing businesses who exploit these workers for lower pay. Abortion tends to rank juuuust after those two though, because people losing rights is kinda fresh on their minds and it tells good, colorful stories of people losing access and dying terribly, and in a way that's entirely preventable. It's worth thinking deeply why those stories make national news and not the fact record heat waves, hurricanes, flooding have killed records amount of people.

    But evidently, due to the amount of staggeringly disappointing sit-outs this election (and with abortion winning down the ballot in several states somehow), voters are clearly not ready to have that conversation.
    Sprig
    Sprig
    It does bother me that Biden apparently did so much to fix the economy and people just

    Don't even give a shit

    You'd think that if economy was the issue they cared about the most it'd be the one they're most bothered to educate themselves in
    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    Hey Milo-I like Mulan 2 and Brother Bear 2 and don't think they were bad-but there IS one Disney animated film that came out in 2004 I never liked even as a kid when I rented it on DVD from Blockbuster one time-"Home On The Range". Oh my God..........have you heard of that one? It's so infamous. And it was also made back when Michael Eisner was in charge of Disney-yikes. I didn't really like anything about it, especially the garish art style.
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    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    BTW I talked to MiracleDinner recently and she thought that Toy Story 4 was just "decent". I personally enjoyed it myself, but I do admit Woody leaving the rest of the toys to join Bo Peep-I don't know-felt kind of out of character for him. I probably would have liked the ending more if Bo Peep and that Polly Pocket police officer toy (whatever her name is; I forget) and the sheep and all that had joined the rest of the toys and gone home with them. It wasn't bad, but it could have been better. I enjoyed it anyway, but hey, again, that's just me. Despite my enjoyment of Toy Story 4, I remember being REALLY disappointed with "Lightyear". It was set in kind of an alternate universe and-I don't know-just really didn't because of that feel like a Toy Story-related movie. It was just...kind of weird. One of the things about the plot that really puzzled me was that Emperor Zurg wasn't actually a person-a villain-but this suit of armor floating around out in space aboard this spaceship that the villain of the movie somehow just found. What?! I don't know-"Lightyear" was just a really bizarre spin-off animated movie. It was just really really strange and honestly didn't feel at all like a Toy Story movie and THAT was my biggest disappointment with it. I mean I didn't like the fact that it didn't go with the original story and lore of Buzz Lightyear's character-well-the character the toy version of him was based off of. To be honest, if the story of the movie had stuck to the original lore and been faithful to that and set within that same universe, I think it would have done a lot better because it would have been what people were expecting. Like-we never once saw Star Command in the Buzz Lightyear movie-not even once! And what about Booster and Commander Nebula and XR the robot and Mira Nova from "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command" TV show? They were nowhere in the movie either. I would have liked to see them too. I loved that show growing up.
    Milo Thatch
    Milo Thatch
    I admit that with Brother Bear 2 it might have helped with it being my second least favorite Disney DTV sequel if it wasn't for that, while I don't dislike it, Brother Bear is my least favorite of the original Disney movies where I've seen their DTV sequels, that list being
    Aladdin, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, 101 Dalmatians, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Lilo and Stitch (only seen Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch here but including this), The Emperor's New Groove, Bambi, Brother Bear
    and I also felt like Brother Bear 2 had some flaws that were present in the first movie, like the comedy not always being too good, for example I don't care for the moose in either movie.
    I like Indiana Jones but I'm not as massively into the series as some people are, I've only seen the first movie and Temple of Doom.

    I remember being decent with Toy Story 4, but don't remember it that well. I know some people on YouTube who want to closely analyze the movie really don't like it, and I remember being okay with Ralph Breaks The Internet when watching it without hearing criticisms, including liking it slightly more during rewatch, but thinking I should maybe rethink that when watching one video slamming it into the ground after both times I watched the movie.

    I just have mixed feelings on Lightyear; almost everyone agrees that it's the weakest of the movies Pixar's made in the 2020s and I agree too, but I remember originally mildly liking it when watching it six months ago and my mother liked it decently too, but yeah, when rethinking it I wouldn't go as far as to call it good. Some things it did I actually did like as I thought the beginning where Buzz keeps trying to steer the ship to change the timeline and how time progresses was really cool and well-written, and I thought it did an okay job making the alternate timeline feel bleak. I also liked Sox and that the movie had a bit of heart. That said the elements people criticize such as it not feeling like much of a Buzz Lightyear movie, that some of the side characters aren't funny (especially that Mo character) and that Zurg is a serious villain when he should be hammy plus that he's not Buzz's father like Toy Story 2 said are all problems. One other flaw that annoyed me was at the end where Buzz refuses to have trained soldiers help him in his defense force and instead chooses to keep ONLY his team. Despite that his team spent the whole movie mostly sucking badly, so that seems like just a selfish decision that could endanger everyone.
    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    I saw "Bambi II" was on that list. Bambi II-I liked it, but yeah vastly inferior to the original cartoon. Aladdin The Return of Jafar, personally I thought was really good, but that's just me. I liked both the Aladdin sequels. The live-action Aladdin, I haven't seen it yet, so don't have an opinion on it, but generally people aren't liking the live-action remakes because by making them realistic it kind of ruins the magic-people like the original animated versions more-too bad Disney still isn't getting that. Given that, people probably thought it was bad. But me-I don't have an opinion on it because I haven't seen it. By the way I really like Lion King II and most fans seem to agree with me that it's good. Lion Guard TV series is set betwen Lion King I and II and I've heard it's really good and I'm going to give it a try sometime. Lion King 1 1/2-I don't know whether it's "good" or not but it's at least really really funny and I liked that a lot, plus seeing the backstory behind how Timon and Pumbaa became friends and met and raised Simba.
    Milo Thatch
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    I like how the Flynn Rider unpopular opinion/swords meme makes it look like he's consistently standing his ground despite others intimidating him, when in the actual movie he's just in the split second of not having processed the threat yet and then fully caves in the instant after.
    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    Love your new profile picture and name. It's a flashback to my childhood. I love Atlantis The Lost Empire and grew up with it. The sequel wasn't as good, but I liked that too.
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    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    @Milo Thatch Oh ok. By the way since your user picture is Milo Thatch that reminds me-one thing I wondered about as a kid was-Commander Lyle Rourke-he has gray hair and looks old-how is he so buff?! I mean I think he's, like, sixty something-he at least LOOKS old to me. How is he so physically fit and powerful as an old man?! His muscles are, like, huge! 😆
    Milo Thatch
    Milo Thatch
    Oh you were referring to me taking a while to respond, Stats work baby

    I mean, to work his way up and lead a mission like that he has to have well above average muscle for his age. Though some people get gray hair more on the quick end to be fair, so maybe Rourke is not quite that old and more like early 50's
    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    @Milo Thatch Oh yeah; that makes a lot more sense LOL. Mrs. Packard (the cranky old lady who smoked) was really old though. I think she was the one on the submarine that manned the radio and stuff. LOL she would be talking to one of her friends and then something bad would happen and she'd be like "Hang on Margie; I'm getting another call..." XD She was such a pessimist too, which also was funny, like that one time she sarcastically said "We're all gonna die." I mean Dr. Sweet and Milo and Vinny and Mole and Audrey Remirez were my favorites but Mrs. Packard was pretty funny. I also remember when she read over the intercom that note she found somebody wrote as a prank that said "Attention! Tonight's supper will be baked beans-musical program to follow!" and she basically was like "Who wrote this crap?" That's one of the lines from the movie I remember the most as a kid actually-it was so darn funny. That and the L removed from the Motor Pool sign prank.
    Milo Thatch
    It seems really rare that I'm one of the people more excited for that there are new Percy Jackson books coming out than for the TV series. In particular that there's going to be a sequel to Nico's book released last year is really exciting for me as I loved the novelty in ideas and character development of that book a lot even though a couple parts of it could have been executed a lot better like its pacing. But even then, the silver lining to the first book having those flaws is that the second book improves on them and keeps the great parts of the first book that will likely make me appreciate it even more. That there's going to be an eighth book solely focused on Percy is cool too.
    Milo Thatch
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    How do 4 out of 5 people not know about Dick Cheney now lmao
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    The question's options don't necessarily mean that most people have never heard of Dick Cheney, Don't know could also include people who have heard of him but don't have a strong opinion about his favorability.
    Milo Thatch
    Milo Thatch
    I know but for these polls it's absolutely always been where any politician who's known, a lot of people have distinct opinions about their favorability, which is what makes me wonder if people just forgot who Dick Cheney was
    Milo Thatch
    I swear the structure of learning content in my Stats Experimental Design class is so bad in spots. Like why can't you just put the SAS coding formulas next to each analysis concept in the PowerPoints instead of making us fish around the textbooks for the coding, where sometimes words you look up have more than one meaning so you're running around in circles trying to find the right coding. And then a lot of the time he spends like the entire class on fairly easy to understand stuff but then does a 3-minute glossover of much harder material, and usually doesn't even explain in class how to do the coding which you NEED to know to get any of the questions on the midterm right coming up. I have an office hour meeting with him tomorrow so I'll try to explain that the coding needs to be seen more easily but while maybe he won't, if he just gives the "you should be able to find the coding" dodge when we're not able to instead of change anything I'm going to be frustrated.
    Milo Thatch
    I know some people really don't like how My Hero Academia ended, but being in the middle of Season 3 of the show form myself, I really hope that's one of those cases where there's just a popular/viral nitpick like "Deku gets a new job people see as slightly too silly after saving the world" instead of say "Deku turns out to be a bad person who endangers the world".
    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    I don't watch that show but I can kind of relate because I've seen a similar thing with how a lot of MLP G4 fans kind of over-critique the later seasons of Friendship Is Magic. I think the whole show itself was really good, even the later seasons. Like, I don't think there was that much stuff bad with the later seasons. But yeah. Fans can be finnicky sometimes with critique of stuff. So yeah. I can kind of relate. Of course, that is if the series ends ok and not great but doesn't end bad.
    Milo Thatch
    My dad still wants to keep my app store blocked at 22 lmao I've already bought a new phone I use anyway. I'm so happy I'll be moving back to me college tomorrow so I don't have to deal with that screen time overprotectiveness for four months straight (as I still have slower connection because I don't want to use the house Wi-Fi server and have him find out & threaten to pull funding)
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    Koopa Klaus
    Koopa Klaus
    Yeah, I feel you there. Almost everyone loves their parents, but curse their overprotective nature. It doesn't matter the world is a dangerous place, sheltering your kids will only do more harm than good.
    MegaBowser64
    MegaBowser64
    I believe a certain amount of sheltering and restrictiveness from parents can be constructive, but there's a point where you can't tell your kids what to do anymore and just hope for the best.
    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    Roy "Bully" Koopa
    @G Major Steven Stone I have three and a half hours of screen time a day and found out that's actually healthy when it comes to the Internet. If you get more than that it can be bad for your mental health, and on top of that, your online social skills will go down. Like, not making this up; it's been researched and tested. Surprised to find out my parents were right that I need to limit it. In the past when I had more than that amount of screen time it would be bad for my mental health, and I WOULD actually get worse at online social skills, so apparently this is what's best for me. However, I am allowed to use my computer offline pretty much as long as I want all day long. Anyway, as far as the screen time I get, hopefully your dad allows you at least THAT much screen time. If not, eh, when you move back out again you can do what you want. Other than limiting my screen time to that amount of time, my parents pretty much let me do my own thing with everything. They don't try to censor stuff for me anymore because they know I'm an adult and can handle a lot of the stuff they sheltered me from as a kid and a teenager, and pretty much all of the stuff I do they allow me complete privacy with, such as letting me watch whatever I want on YouTube, etc. And I really respect them for all that; not all parents can do that when their kids grow up. Sometimes they have trouble letting go. Once I'm done with college I'll be living in an apartment in town near our home but I'll still visit my parents often. Anyway, my parents are great when it comes to letting go. They allow me freedom and complete privacy with pretty much everything.
    Milo Thatch
    I am so happy over my summer internship I'm getting paid $19 an hour just to organize names for a polling company in an airconditioned room, as opposed to my last semester at college where I got paid $10 an hour to organize plates in a hissing with heat and humidity room.
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    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    Congrats you are getting paid around as much as city carrier assistant (not a dig at you, that's decent money)
    Milo Thatch
    Milo Thatch
    Yeah it is a decent pay. For each of my last two semesters I'm taking five classes including at least one Statistics class for my minor in said field, so since I'm not planning to work resultingly the pay really helps.
    Milo Thatch
    I am DONE with summer classes for the summer, I took a US Criminal Law class and a Comparative Politics class. I preferred the US Criminal Law class because it was in person and not as stretched out (I'd been doing the Comp. Pol class since the middle of May so it's almost the entire summer) but both were good
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    i just finished all mine too! i did cna certification + cpr certification + intro to infection control + a writing course + a computer course

    not as bad as my 8 courses in 8 weeks but man getting all As was tough sometimes

    im heading into advanced anatomy for the fall to clear out nursing prereqs
    Milo Thatch
    Milo Thatch
    @Veneer Wait, you did eight courses in eight weeks? Was this in high school or early college? What were they?

    I know one of my friend's girlfriend is interested in physical therapy, but I'm curious to know what you're planning to get a job in
    Ten
    Ten
    college, i was uhhhh 15? 16? due to covid high schoolers were allowed to take actual (NOT dual credit) college classes over the summer and i maxxed out my credits since they were all free. they were anatomy 1, dosage and calcuation, nutrition, art appreciation, health and wellness for life, medical law and ethics, and i think one i'm forgetting lol. one of these professors flat out denyed my autism accomidations so hard that i up and took my midterm without accomidations (which is illegal btw) and it got him in big fat ass trouble LMAO

    im gonna do basic nursing first but really wanna get into radiology. there's also a bunch of certificates in the medical field that can instantly let you work (CNA, QMA, phlebotomy..) that i am also picking up.
    Milo Thatch
    I wonder how Trump would have reacted if there was an attempted assassination of Biden
    MegaBowser64
    MegaBowser64
    Despite how he clearly holds zero respect for Biden, I don't think Trump would ever endorse an assassination (or attempted assassination) of him, nor do I think Biden would ever endorse an assassination or attempted assassination of Trump. I suppose both would probably give morally required condolences etc. and be done with it, of course taking necessary action against the attempted or successful assassinator.

    And regarding an attempted assassination being theoretically not as bad as an actual assassination, that doesn't really work seeing as the motives and intentions of murder are the same regardless of results.

    Edit: I tried to keep this politically neutral so let's try not to have a huge argument here
    Superchao
    Superchao
    You know, there's some things that are probably just too potentially inflammatory even with you guys being generally chill about things, so honestly I'm just gonna say to not bring up that particular current event.
    MegaBowser64
    MegaBowser64
    Oh. I missed something big. Trump was actually shot. At the time of commenting I had no clue on what had happened. Ummm. Ok. Wow. I just read it 30 seconds ago. Aaaaanyway, take my earlier comment with a grain of salt now that I know there was a real event that this profile post was talking about. Now I definitely agree it's best to leave this topic alone for now.
    Milo Thatch
    Whenever I've looked through 2000s music and the song topic is about a guy wanting to impress a pretty girl my relate-o-meter drops to 0 considering
    Milo Thatch
    When you realize Smolder's dragon lands story from The Hearth's Warming Club is essentially the plot to Saltburn
    Milo Thatch
    I haven't played the fan localization of Investigations 2 so I have no attachment towards it but Sebastian Debeste is clearly a better name than "Eustace Winner". At least the former name doesn't just slap on a common English word as its last name
    Superchao
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    Milo Thatch
    Milo Thatch
    Hmm I guess that improves it by a bit. I still think Capcom needs to have moderation and not oversaturate actual English word names though as that would feel goofy/gimmicky
    Ray Trace
    Ray Trace
    I have people on my route with the last names "Hand", "Hacker", and "Slaughter"
    Milo Thatch
    Grave of the Fireflies, more like Grave is where I'll be laying before I can easily access the movie
    Milo Thatch
    Schaffrillas; "Pixar movies should be more like Luca, and less like... ehh, Elemental.."
    Schaffrillas 1 week later: PLEASE PIXAR AT LEAST LET YOUR MOVIES BE MORE LIKE ELEMENTAL! ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR FAMILY MOVIES/UNNECESSARY SEQUELS!"
    Milo Thatch
    "YAY LET'S SHOW VIDEO TITLES SPOILING EVERY JOKE IN INSIDE OUT 2 EVER! NO WAY ANYONE LOOKING THROUGH VIDEOS HASN'T SEEN THE MOVIE YET"-YouTube
    Milo Thatch
    I just finished Danny Phantom yesterday with Phantom Planet, which… tbh kinda lives down to its acronym. The show as a whole was pretty good though with a worth watching first two seasons, at least.
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