Some kind of “empathy score.” Not sure what the formula would be, but it would reflect how readily they feel empathy for another person, and how many other people they can care about.

A narcissist would have a 0 – they can only care about themself. Someone with very limited empathy would have a small number – say, they can only care about their immediate family, and they need to really get to know someone before they care about that person. People who naturally care about others, even if they don’t know the other person, would have high numbers.

This number would sometimes just flat out tell you that certain people should be avoided, or certain conversations are pointless with that person. Or if you do need to try to convince them of something, the number may show you how to frame the conversation. E.g., show how it’s in their own interest if they have a low number.

He’s alive because he manipulated Lindsay Graham into taking his place in hell, for now, using some kind of underworld parliamentarian loophole that he learned when he clerked for Satan.

Only Murders in the Building features the HOA. It’s a TV show, and also I haven’t finished it yet, so it doesn’t quite fit your question. But it’s also a good show.

High level racquetball is incredibly boring to watch. They need to tweak the game so that each rally goes for more than two hits.

I hadn’t heard of this one before, but it apparently got great reviews at Sundance.

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUhnIY3oRM

Otis Redding - Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C-VscEQugk

Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuanwn3v-2I

You bet! Knowing that you want someone to tell you what you want to hear is a perfect example of self-actualization. You’ve combined your own desire for group interaction with the confidence of an individualist — and that’s the game right there. Personal, but not pretentious; informed, but wanting input. And we’re only going up from here.

Might have been!

I had a friend in elementary school that was a little slow sometimes. One day we were walking home from school, and out of nowhere, he asks, “Why don’t they just make the Playstation 9?”

It took me a minute to figure out what he even meant by that. The Playstation 2 had just came out. Did he think that companies already have the schematics for all of their products decades into the future, but they’re just rolling them out one at a time anyway? Does he think that they already know what the PS 3 through 8 are going to be, and they can just…decide to skip those?

It was only about a year ago, right here in a fedi thread, that someone shared this PS2 commercial and I had a giant AH-HAH! moment that was decades in the making.

Oh, interesting. I’d go with Memory Alpha too, then. But yeah, definitely a pivot point in the series, and the first one that really took the post-war setting seriously.

I think you mean episode 18, that one is the second-to-last of the season.

And that is exactly the episode I was thinking of, too. I didn’t know which episode number it was, I just remember when I was watching DS9, there was an episode with the filing clerk, and I thought, “Oh, this show is actually going to be great if it stays like this.” I just looked it up on IMDB, and it’s S1 E18.

Jelly on top, absolutely. In all sandwiches, ingredients must go from least dense at the top to most dense at the bottom. This is part of the sandwich bitelaws.

IMO the existence of soup in a bread bowl shows that tacos and soup are even closer to each other, evolutionarily, than most scientists think.

CMV: pasta is an unleavened bread

Yes. A few weeks ago, some coworkers and I mapped out the entire sandwich taxonomy. You attain sandwich nirvana once you derive these definitions:

1. Hot dog is a taco.
2. Taco is a subcategory of sandwich.
3. If the sandwich contains an additional piece of bread inside of it, it is now a lasagna.
4. Lasagna is a subcategory of sandwich. 🤯

Now it all makes sense. Be at peace.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Thank you for reminding me of that one. It’s one of those movies that I mentally put on my “to watch” list when it came out, and I just realized that somehow I never got around to it.

edit: Oh dang, I never watched Her either. That is like, the most relevant movie of all time right now, lol. Need to get on that.

1. The Princess Bride
2. In Bruges

That must have been so good. I saw Emo Philips at a comedy club a few years ago without knowing who he was. I don’t go to many comedy shows, but that was definitely the best one I’ve seen. Probably even moreso because I had no idea what he was like. :D

Paul McCartney at a music festival in 2013. I know that part of it was just being starstruck by him, but also, it really was an amazing show. I was also as close as you could get without being in the VIP section. He was like, right in front of me.

Cirque du Soleil performances are way up there, too.

Maybe a kind of teal, sea green.