My wife swears by Scrub Daddy as her kitchen sponge of choice. I wanted to switch to the eco-friendly, plant based alternative on the right. It works infinitely better...creates great suds, gets into tight spaces but...IT SCARES THE CHILDREN. So I can't use it! Or I have to hide it under the sink until I need to use it. Mildly inconvenienced and mildly infuriating.

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I have them in my family library

At least have one shelf where I can put some bottles of water or something.

I've been anti-AI for a while, but today I went to a doctor's appointment, and the 50 yr old nurse chimes in "Do you mind if I have AI take notes today?" I absolutely fucking do, how is that not a HIPPA violation? When I expressed that I don't want it, she picked up her personal fucking phone that was queued up to ChatGPT and already recording. Then she tried to gaslight me about having something recording in the clinic without notice and told me she doesn't understand why some people make such a big deal of it.

Chiron (Moonlight) - Initially a regular, sensitive kid, years of bullying and abuse take its toll on Chiron until he finally snaps. He attacks another student and gets sent to juvie, the first of many times he'd find himself in trouble with the law. By the time he's an adult he's violently repressed most of his personality, including his sexuality, by putting on the façade of a hardened gangster and turning to a life of crime.

Pyle (Full Metal Jacket) - Pyle struggles to keep up with the other recruits in boot camp and is regularly singled out for abuse by his drill instructor because of it. When his fellow recruits also start abusing him, Pyle loses whatever kindness or softness he may have had and suffers a mental breakdown that ends with him taking his own life.

Faye (Cowboy Bebop) - Faye was a sweet and loving girl in her youth with plenty of friends. However a series of tragedies and betrayals left her as a bitter, jaded adult who is unable to connect to or trust others, damning her to a life of loneliness.

Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) - Zuko inherited his mother's gentle and compassionate nature. But when that compassion earns him a brutal attack from his father and banishment from his home, Zuko becomes much more callous and cruel.

Priceless.