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I feel like my boss is starting to get too nosey.

Just play along with it, if you can. Having a positive boss relationship is so important for your mental health and happiness. I would avoid any possible negative interaction with your boss and try to keep it as positive as you can. Even if it means pretending you enjoy her company. Try to make everything into a joke if you can, like you're making light out of her questions instead of answering them in a trial sort of way. It'll make her think you answered the question and also keep things light.

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I can't stand human contact

I want to be able to be good around people, to enjoy their company and vice versa. But it can be sooo difficult. I don't blame you for feeling the way you do. We all need time to unwind.

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My sixteen year old has been asleep for over 40 hours.

40 hours? Man, that's a lot of sleep! Sometimes I get 11+ at a time, but never that much! He must be part-cat.

But more seriously, maybe spending more time outside would help him? Going outside helps give me more energy. But like I said, I have a bad habit of sleeping too much to. And sleeping too much makes me even more tired. It's a cycle for sure. So something that helps me is drinking lots of water and then also taking Vitamin C tablets/chewys/etc. Hopefully he can find a more active schedule he enjoys to keep his motivation up :) Even fitting in the smallest stuff helps

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Why do people act up sometimes?

It's kind of in our nature. When we are babies, before we can even talk, the primary source of communication for all of our needs is crying and being as loud as possible. And that gave us food, shelter, hygiene, etc. Growing up and shedding that habit is hard. (I'm a huge cry baby myself) So when people throw tantrums it just makes me think of how their inner-baby is surfacing again. Some people are better at putting that behavior away than others.

But it all just depends, I guess. People with more temperamental personalities will most likely act out more than people who are mild-mannered. And the way you are raised is a big factor, too, I think. And whatever the issues is, and whatever place you are in in life. There's way too many factors to try to think of them all...

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Black holes.

Are you referring to the Event Horizon spacecraft? Because if so, I think I've seen that film 5 times and I have no idea why.

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I WAS LOOKING THROUGH A MAGAZINE

There's a famous painting of a pipe called "The Treachery of Images," by Rene Magritte. It's very popular for it's context. It's a surrealist work that highlights the idea that words and objects are not the same thing. A representation of something and the thing that it is are not the same thing, which is really really interesting, especially because meanings can be interpreted so differently. It makes me think that the genuine significance behind you actually being present in the gallery is because you are living in the moment for yourself, you're writing the story, you're seeing things for how they truly are. Everything in front of you is fact. And an image is just a shadow of that moment that can be interpreted a thousand, million ways but the moment has passed.

I don't know, that's kind of where my mind went. It's a very interesting thing to think about.

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Confused about it but she kept saying that you wanted to leave at the house what you doing out there is a good time for you guys cause of the 6damage of the window and the kids told her he's wasn't

Can you maybe explain a little better? Space out some sentences, explain more slowly? It's hard to follow this thread and it feels like lyrics to a song.

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can someone explain to me why are flat earthers growing by the numbers believing something so stupid?

I'm pretty open when it comes to strange beliefs, too. And VERY tolerant, I think. But when it comes to flat earth I have zero inhibition to speak my mind.

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can someone explain to me why are flat earthers growing by the numbers believing something so stupid?

In my town there is a guy who has two vehicles, a small old beat-up car and a slightly bigger beat-up truck. He has spray painted both of them with flat earth propaganda, and even when as far as to permanently mount a telescope with a leveler on top of it to one of the cars. All over his vehicles are links to his youtube channel where he talks about his beliefs about flat earth. His supporting argument in one of his most popular videos what that because a drop of water hits the grounds and splats, it must mean the earth is flat. It took me a while to figure out that he wasn't joking, despite the glamorous charade, and I still to this day can't understand why he or anyone else thinks the earth is flat.

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Alien Covenant is not a good movie and we should stop watching new Alien films because it is so bad.

True, it definitely seemed to me like the movie took itself super seriously. It was really dramatic and dark, and even gratuitously. However, personally for me, I appreciate movies that put out the effort to be beautiful cinematically; shots, cgi, special effects, costume/set designs, etc. That's something I really appreciate because a lot of movies that aim high don't meet the mark (probably due to their smaller budgets) and visually pleasing movies are more often liked even if the story is unoriginal and the acting is sub par.

I think another reason I liked the movie when I first saw it was because I really enjoyed the very mystifying Prometheus. And since this movie was on Prometheus's tail end, I connected them together. Even though Covenant takes everything from Prometheus that was likeable and kills it almost immediately. It really only served as a connection between Prometheus and Alien, which I like was a fan-service. The old fans of Alien could say at the end of Covenant; "Oh! This is how Alien started, neat!" And call back to it.

But yeah, I agree and disagree with you. I can see how on it's own it's not great. And how it doesn't really compare to the other movies of the series because it definitely falls short. But something about it was still interesting to me. Maybe because I liked the actors, and also like I said before it was visually pleasing, and even though predicable it had stakes to invest in.

Rant over

Lano wrote:

twosocks wrote:
Not every movie is going to be a real winner winner chicken dinner. To be honest, I liked the movie Bats a lot growing up. And I liked Alien Covenant, even though it was so sad. But everyone has different taste.

I honestly do not feel this is a matter of taste. Shallow, barely explained character motivation, lazy writing, overused tropes....I mean, I'm sure some people enjoyed the movie, but not because there is anything good about it.

Bats is also a movie like that, I hardly remember now, but I did enjoy it when I watched it, and remember enough about it to know that it's kinda of a silly b type movie that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Covenant takes itself INCREDIBLY seriously, which is what fans wanted, but ends being a silly movie since it was so poorly done. If it took the time to laugh at itself, it would be better, but even so, that wasn't the kind of horror sci fi I was led to expect by everything that came before it.

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