We’re All A Little Mad Here

that's not what that scene was about. lestat is throwing a fit at louis (has been riding a breakdown for 5 whole episodes by this point). up until the second he sees regina. when he comes out of the diner he is a changed man. he tells louis to stop seeing her with his last shred of self-power and then flees. that scene was meant to show just why louis went so far with regina, how overwhelmed with grief he is, because lestat is hit with the same hammer (he stammers "you have an injury she didn't have, your heart works fine" and even regina calls him out on it immediately "but i look like her" and he has to put on sunglasses to shield how raw he is just from looking at her). it's meant to show how louis is not just hallucinating this, because it hits lestat just the same. "no spark right?" but they're looking at each other like they're standing over claudia's corpse (or ashes) still.

yes. that scene wasn't meant to highlight how apathetic louis is (he admits it himself "i don't have an answer" but that's also deceitful. he is too lost in his grief over claudia, lestat got shot but louis clearly knew he is still alive) or how self-centered lestat is. it is meant to show how irreconcilable their differences are at this point in their life (each taken with their own flavor of immortal personal drama/trauma) and STILL give them a moment of being perfectly in sync in their love for claudia, in their grief over how she passed. and suddenly the irreconcilable differences fall away and what's left is two people, two beings who are mourning and clearly still love each other deeply - a glimpse of a possible way to bridge the abyss that separates them, opening up a future where they might find companionship again.

but it is too raw and they cannot tell each other this, so we are being shown their reactions instead. lestat cannot bear to look at louis after, and he flees. goes back to the studio and writes his first sincere song since the season started. for all the trauma he's been shoving under the carpet, this is the one he chooses to confront, and comes out of it a different person. we'll see what louis does next episode.

And he knows it. He loves her more than life, he remembers her heartbeat and her eyes are burned into his. And his guilt is eating him alive

As it should

He loved her enough to remember her heartbeat 75 years later. He loved her enough to pour every ounce of his immortal nonsoul into a lung collapsing ballad. He loved her enough to remember the good amongst all the horrible. He loved her enough to never recover from what he did to her

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

Like Pride and Prejudice but instead of the love interest getting dissed for his toxicity and then reforming, it’s just two people bonding over dissing a dead toxic asshole.

1. if you get the “answer my call” text, NEVER ANSWER THE CALL. 

They are calling you because they want to have the conversation verbally, and be able to lie later about what they said or didn’t say. Force them to continue via text or email- force them to continue the conversation in writing or not at all. 

2. “Lack of 2 weeks notice is unprofessional!” or the other version, “Not providing notice is illegal!”

No it isn’t. Neither is true. 

And in the US, all states except Montana are “at will” employment (though you may hear an employer refer to it as “right to work” to make it sound better, it’s the same thing). Sure, at-will employment means they can fire you without cause, BUT! It also means that you are not legally required to give a reason for quitting, or to give notice of any kind. 

Is it polite to give notice when you can? Sure. Do bosses expect it? Absolutely. But that does not make you legally required to provide it. 

3. The only thing I would change in the worker’s interaction here was their response when initially asked to come in. 

Employee: “Hey Mark. Sorry I’m unable to cover the shift tonight because I’m studying for my exam tomorrow.” 

Don’t give a reason for your lack of availability. It may be tempting to. You may feel rude if you don’t. 

DON’T DO IT.

You do not owe your boss any information about what you do off the clock, and any reason you give will only ever be used against you. 

Boss: “Hey I need you to cover Jasper’s shift tonight.”

Employee: “Sorry, I’m not available.”

And leave it at that. 

Do not elaborate. 

Do not offer additional information. 

When you boss asks you to elaborate, because they will, be polite but firm. “With respect, that’s personal. I’m sorry, but I’m unavailable to cover this shift/work late/come in early/etc.”

Be a broken record- you’re unavailable. That’s the only information they need to know, and it’s the only information they have a LEGAL RIGHT to know. 

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

like the way he asked "what is nur-ate-iv?" makes me think man TRULY was not catching all of the words getting tossed at him so fast the second his eyes were even a LITTLE open. like he wasn't asking "what story did you come up with?" he's asking "what word are you even saying to me right now?" man got like 0.2 seconds to be like "oh i'm awake now?" before he was getting PELTED with english because shane had a forty step plan that couldn't wait like. three more hours.

daniel like "inherited"? the sudden feeling of no one else being there but armand, and armand claims he's not the one doing it, but he gets that too.

Does that mean that louis "inherited" lestat's condition of seeing phantoms of "dead" people?