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I always feel very sensitive and protective about Prince and his death. My mother also died the same way. She accidentally forgot her fentanyl pain patch was still on or it never came off ( we don't know) she put a second one on before bed and fell into a coma. She died about 24 hours after I found her. I'm sorry to bring everyone down by talking about this but I remember being so devastated when I heard how Prince had died. It's such a dangerous medication and my mother was on it under a doctor's orders I don't even want to fathom the dangers of the stuff on the street. Rolling Stone did a really good article on the music industry and fentanyl. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/musics-fentanyl-crisis-inside-the-drug-that-killed-prince-and-tom-petty-666019/ Again sorry to destroy to tone of the board I just don't know how to discuss Prince and not talk about this.

I take affront with Jason saying Purple Rain is a better movie. Under a Cherry Moon is by FAR the better film. Maybe I just really hate The Kid the character he plays in Purple Rain but I always feel like it's just a depressing watch except for the music parts. Oh and seeing that lady get thrown in a dumpster. That will never not be so crazy it doesn't delight me.

No please you go! I'm so sorry I just saw this this . I've had a migraine all week

I also do not drink coffee but I know from observing coffee drinkers decaf isn't great?

I legit thought Tanya was going to try to fight the plane when she was fleeing . I thought that for way to long. It looked like she was squaring up.

I said to myself "Sir are you telling me you were a homeless in a plane? Are we just not going to discuss that?"

So I'm no business woman which was why I was curious as to how big a business has to be to have a board directors. Margaret kept talking about how she had to sell her box of burnt hair son in law on. According to a Forbes article I found: "The general thesis is that as the businesses grow in size and complexity their board should grow with them. A group of professors across multiple universities concluded in a 2005 study that corporations increasing the complexity of their operations by introducing new product lines or expanding into new territories had a tendency to increase the number of directors on their board. The conclusion seems logical. If you are a company that has 10 gas stations and you are looking to add an 11th – you probably shouldn’t implement a board of directors. But if you are a small precision motor manufacturing company and you are expanding from automobiles to healthcare equipment a board can be extremely valuable." So now I wonder is her company diverse? What do they sell? How many votes would she need to get Jake as her successor? I want to know more!!! ( Also I should probably stop thinking and researching when on my migraine meds because this is the hot take no one asked for).

We need to talk about that guest room he was staying in and the terrifying number of dolls it had.

Ok so was I just on a bunch of migraine meds or did they say they hadn't had sex in 3 YEARS? When did they get married? How long have they been together? Sex isn't everything but like if you aren't together in 3 YEARS and you are a relatively young couple and not asexual.. perhaps you should go tot therapy? Talk? Not be married to a bag of mayo?

I'm lying down and I need to lie down harder is how I'm doing. It's Too Much. My face is red with second hand embarrassment yet I can't look away.

The mom says at the very start that "decaf coffee is her only luxury" when she accuses an employee of stealing it. That made me so sad. Not even regular coffee. Decaf.

I have Concerns for whoever ate the cereal

I've never seen A Transformers BUT I love youtube film critic Lindsay Ellis. Adore her. She's so smart and so funny. She also loves Transformers and did an amazings and insightful series on film study through the lens of these movies that I can't recommend enough. Her episode on Megan Fox especially was very good.

To parrot June: Are The Men Ok? Men of the board how ya doing?

She was in her 80's. She was the last of my grandmas siblings and she was so kind and caring to me after my mom and grandma died. The funereal went really well actually I went with a new friend who was so kind and drove me because I don't drive. She made the whole day bearable.

I love the Runways and can't wait! I may miss out on most of the fun because the funeral is on Monday

I'm so sorry you guys my great aunt died yesterday. If I could go next time I would appreciate it.

Shut your dumb logical face! My sharing a birthdate with Sarah Paulson MEANS SOMETHING!!

Ok but was it like parchment parchment paper or ye old parchment paper? Because our boy could just be a baker. I think I even have some scraps off the last roll in my aluminum foil/ pot holder drawer I had from the cookie baking banaza I I went into for a library tea a few years ago.

Gee thanks I really needed this anxiety!! Lol I'm kinda of kidding? I do know I was pulling stuff from 2005 up and mostly wanted to get you guys the most recent info. I was *hoping* that maybe there had been some changes since the older ones had been written but it doesn't look like it's been advanced much. A lot of the articles were on whether or not it should be funded via congress or this newish idea of a private sector thing that fell through. I don't know there were so many acronyms and letters I got very confused very fast.

I'm now convinced this guy just had a psychotic break most of this movie never happened and he wonders JFK and the surrounding crash pad hotels in a pilot's outfit. Just muttering about time and scribbling on things

So based on all this evidence do we think he just walks around in a pilot's outfit he bought somehow? Is he trying to go full Secret here and manifest to the universe his dreams?

You obviously have never lived with a environmentalist grandma who believed in washing and reusing aluminum foil,

Look sometimes you live in a red flag factory

Don't tell June but our Air Traffic Control system as a whole is deeply fucked. It's apparently outdated, understaffed, and underfunded. Many employees have been fired and it's only gotten worse since the pandemic. I read this truly terrifying blog post that was written last year during the shutdown of last year when LaGuardia shut down because people called out sick in protest. Here are some of the highlights (aka the moments when I wondered if i should ever fly which is something I love. I honestly feel safer and happier in a plane than in a car which I'm terrified of.) "You see, the ATC is a bit of a mess. Underfunded and at times badly managed, the FAA's NextGen air traffic control began replacing older systems more than 10 years ago in 2007. It's not scheduled to be completed until 2025, and that was before Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget proposal, which includes a 2 percent FAA's budget reduction. At the same time, Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS), which has been in the works since 2000, is slowly completing its rollout. It's scheduled to finally be in place at the end of the year. Then, and only then, will the US finally have a single national software and hardware ATC system." "As for those TV shows and movies showing advanced equipment suited for a starship? That's fantasy. So are -- fortunately -- death-defying crashes, as a controller dies at the mic and planes collide in mid-air. Air traffic control, especially at the airport level, is still very low-tech. Nothing beats the good old, mark-one eyeball when a plane is within visual range of a runway. This, of course, requires bright, alert workers with their wits focused on their job, rather than, say, how they'll make their next mortgage payment. There are currently about 14,000 FAA air traffic controllers. But, with their great responsibility and the sheer scale of their work, it only takes having a few not at work to cripple the country's air traffic." Knowing the crashes are not something that happens often made me feel better but I'm still not sure how I feel knowing that it's all pretty much manual eyeball work ! I like the comfort of thinking it's Star Trek up there. Give me this false sense of safety please. I read several other articles a while ago about how the TSA actually hasn't done much of anything to improve our safety and is also a security blanket that just makes us FEEL safer but that's another story for another time. https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-the-air-traffic-control-system-works-and-fails/ Here are a few older articles on how deeply fucked we all are: How we are understaffed: https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/14/news/economy/air-traffic-controllers/index.html apparently at their lowest in 27 years at the time of this article but that was 2015. I imagine it's only worse now. https://www.economist.com/international/2019/06/15/air-traffic-control-is-a-mess a really interesting looking article from the Economist that I can't read because I refuse to give them my email. But if one of you jerks is fancy and smart and have access somehow and would be so kind as to copy and paste it to me in a dm I would love you forever as only a nerd who loves free articles can! Is this ethical? no. Do I have a bone to pick with the Economist for being to expensive for me to ever afford a subscription after my uncle told me to get one to help me with my ACT's? Yes.