The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

[DarkMetroid567]

Those don't even exist anymore. I would say your argument is completely backwards. Historically, Reddit was intellectually diverse. Now, it's entirely one sided. Go to r/all and find one right wing post. Anything that doesn't fit the narrative of Reddit moderators and admins (side note, did you know Ghislaine Maxwell, wife of Jeffrey Epstein, was a Reddit admin?) is banned and scrubbed and removed from the site.

The point is moreso is that those factions haven’t gone away. Voat failed, Truth Social is whatever, 4chan isn’t as big as it once was, and Twitter is… Twitter. They’re still on Reddit.

I don’t doubt that a lot of the Reddit admin leans left, but I think they’re more interested in the almighty dollar like our pals at Disney. Also I do remember the Maxwell stuff, she may have been a mod, which is whatever. Being an admin would have been kinda crazy.

EDIT: MistedCompass is right I’ll stop lol

 

[Rich T]

Guest services in Planet Coaster 2. It’s nice that they haven’t abandoned paper maps.

 

[TP2000]

Having been alive but possessing no recollection of the day, I found it a very informative and well done museum.

I remember the day like it was 2 weeks ago. I had taken that entire week off to do some stuff around the house and then was going to La Jolla for a long weekend. On Tuesday, 9/11... Turning on the radio at 7:30ish am and hearing odd commentary instead of music.... Wandering out to the living room and turning on the TV after the second plane had hit the second tower and falling back onto the couch. Then to hear the Pentagon had been hit, all planes were grounded nationwide, and the President was aboard Air Force One but not yet headed to DC because DC may be hit by.... something.

The rest of the morning and afternoon were a blur, but the TV was still on. About 4pm I went down the hill to the Ralph's Fresh Fare to get some groceries. They'd turned off the Muzak, and the store was quiet but still open. I saw a few familiar neighborhood faces and we smiled tightly at each other, but no one talked. But oddly, the fact that Ralph's was open was comforting.

I was worried about the entire country for weeks. Michael Eisner gave a nice speech a few days later on Disneyland's Town Square. Memorably, about a month later, Haunted Mansion Holiday opened for the first time. And it was a HUGE hit, and the lines were long, and people smiled, and it seemed like America would survive. But it was a very rough couple of weeks.

My pain and turmoil was very minor, but still memorable. I don't know that I need to visit a museum to see the immense pain so many of my fellow Americans went through that day at the hands of Islamic terrorists. The office secretaries that burned to death at their desks. The stewardesses who had their throats slit in the galleys of jetliners to bleed out alone. The passengers sending short texts to loved ones on 2001 flip phones before their plane exploded into the ground. The terrified payroll managers that jumped to their death from the 90th floors of their offices to avoid a worse fate via fire. Etc., etc.

It's not something I would want to pair with a fun vacation weekend, I'm afraid.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

I remember the day like it was 2 weeks ago. I had taken that entire week off to do some stuff around the house and then was going to La Jolla for a long weekend. On Tuesday, 9/11... Turning on the radio at 7:30ish am and hearing odd commentary instead of music.... Wandering out to the living room and turning on the TV after the second plane had hit the second tower and falling back onto the couch. Then to hear the Pentagon had been hit, all planes were grounded nationwide, and the President was aboard Air Force One but not yet headed to DC because DC may be hit by.... something.

The rest of the morning and afternoon were a blur, but the TV was still on. About 4pm I went down the hill to the Ralph's Fresh Fare to get some groceries. They'd turned off the Muzak, and the store was quiet but still open. I saw a few familiar neighborhood faces and we smiled tightly at each other, but no one talked. But oddly, the fact that Ralph's was open was comforting.

I was worried about the entire country for weeks. Michael Eisner gave a nice speech a few days later on Disneyland's Town Square. Memorably, about a month later, Haunted Mansion Holiday opened for the first time. And it was a HUGE hit, and the lines were long, and people smiled, and it seemed like America would survive. But it was a very rough couple of weeks.

My pain and turmoil was very minor, but still memorable. I don't know that I need to visit a museum to see the immense pain so many of my fellow Americans went through that day at the hands of Islamic terrorists. The office secretaries that burned to death at their desks. The stewardesses who had their throats slit in the galleys of jetliners to bleed out alone. The passengers sending short texts to loved ones on 2001 flip phones before their plane exploded into the ground. The terrified payroll managers that jumped to their death from the 90th floors of their offices to avoid a worse fate via fire. Etc., etc.

It's not something I would want to pair with a fun vacation weekend, I'm afraid.

The like I gave your post is because I feel the same way as you. It was a horrible day (and days after). I think it is wonderful that there is a museum and memorials built for people to honor and remember the innocents of that day and to learn about the event but I think it would be tough to see. Someday I will probably go but I will need to be in the correct headspace for it. And someone earlier mentioned the price and I don't think $30 is too much for the museum, seems pretty on par with other museums that aren't the Smithsonian.