Science VS! Has a good podcast episode about happy people studies. TL:DR There is real benefit to maintaining at least a few real close friendships throughout life. Apparently commiseration and friendship actually goes a long way.
https://www.playpodcast.net/podcast/science-vs/#e3279-sD83GUY07wsiOuqBS8Mag Edit; better explanation and no Spotify :)

Hoodwinked is a good one. I remember being 10 or so and watching that in the theater and being soooo overwhelmed by its wackiness and fast-pace. It quickly becomes obvious it’s sort of a weird self aware movie, much like Shrek!

A lot of small coffee shops will allow them in their bulletin board area

Haha, what’s the right phrase?

He already owns 2 8tb 2.5inch SSDs he is looking to house

His personal system is MacOS but I know he works on windows at work. I believe ZFS is an option. I guess, the easier the better. Something that isn’t a ginormous project. I suggested a home server with Truenas, just because that’s what I have. I don’t want to send him down that route if there is an easy option he can just buy and go and be satisfied he met at least RAID 1 safety net.

Thanks. It’s intimidating writing a post and what’s unnecessary info. Here’s some more! He deals with high resolution video and photos so speed and higher bandwidth is definitely a priority. Upon speaking to him he seemed to have a natural interest in a raid 1 or more option. I think this is just from surface skimming reading. I know he has 2 disks now ready to go. I think his ideal world is a disk that shows up on various computers as a single disk. He works probably 50/50 MacOS and Windows.

He is not IT tech literate but is certainly capable of learning and taking extra steps or guides, if necessary.

Yeah the common ground comment grinded my gears, too. What exactly is the common ground left?

I agree. The Clinton’s had some heavy baggage and a straight old white dude would’ve been interesting! Idk if he would’ve won but simply having his platform endorsed would’ve changed history. He was just as angry as Trump was. If only Harambe didn’t die.

PR stunt exposed

This is a public push for a look of authority. This also surely pumps up the rest of them. The headlines feed them like little serial killers. It’s getting scary.

He watched too many Parks and Rec episodes with Men’s Rights activists and didn’t understand the satire

The gun is made from lies telling people they will be alright

Checking Reddit during major events it is so bizarre how hollow it is now. It feels so redacted and full of chipper bots. It takes going to special interests subreddits to get to any semblance of realness. Looking at digg today felt the same way, like a mining system for marketing analytics or product pushes