Pluribus Season Finale (spoilers)

Pluribus has often seemed to be in conversation with other postapocalyptic stories. Here, it’s injecting nuance and ambivalence into the overarching theme of The Last of Us’s first season, which ends with Pedro Pascal’s Joel massacring health researchers and foreclosing the possibility of a cure for the disease that decimated humanity, just to save the life of his surrogate daughter, Ellie (Bella Ramsey). While we may, yes, empathize with Joel’s choice, its wrongness is obvious. 

What’s thrilling about Pluribus is its moral uncertainty. Some things, like the future of humanity, are more important than one woman’s happiness, it suggests. But in a war between billions of pod people who’ve achieved world peace (never mind that they subsist on human remains) and two fallible, self-righteous curmudgeons with an A-bomb, who are you rooting for? 

 This recap by Time Magazine suggests that Carol decides to join Manousos becasue she wants to prioritize humanity over her personal happiness, but that is not what happened - she realized that Zosia did not love her (because there is no such indvidual person Zosia). 

Also, why the bomb - Manousos is trying to reverse the Joining process (which we know is possible) and SAVE humanity, not just destroy the aliens. 

But I did love Time's observation that Joel saves Ellie and sacrifices humanity because THAT'S WHAT WE DO.

I hope Pluribus Season 2 is great.

 

White with boobs

 

Can you imagine having the balls to post something like this as your dating app profile?! And this guy is like a 6. Maybe this works for him? Maybe he thinks he's funny?

We'll see???

Maybe I get irritated too quickly, but this lack of enthusiasm is so off-putting to me. 

 

 

Veteran interview

I have only the very vaguest recollection of participating this interview. It's not dated but I'm guessing about 10 years ago.

Veteran Storybook Project — Danielle Masursky  https://share.google/fSxcXlGL5TvWHMENk

Let's Go

Trying to get together my with cousin over the weekend. This is sort of a pet peeve of mine: don't ask for my suggestions and then pick your own place. (Plus I greatly prefer Asian to Mediterranean.)

Scam Central

I was having a great conversation with this guy on the dating app for over a week, but when I suggested getting together, he said "we'll see." The only reason someone would refuse a date is they're married or they're a scammer. I had originally thought it was the former but, after this exchange (plus I hadn't noticed the awkward syntax: "I will love to"), I realized it was the latter. Next day he unmatched with me...beat me to the punch lol

Such a bummer though. He seemed quite interesting and interested. Definitely a cut above the usual scammers, who are pretty easy to recognize (as I have noted in other posts). The new thing is to ask for your phone number right away (it used to be let's move to What's App, but I guess people got wise to that red flag).

Total honesty, belatedly

 

Turns out, this was not an accurate representation of why I didn't hear from him between Sunday and Thursday. Early in our  Saturday dinner date, he told me he'd had a date on Wednesday night. (I suppose he was waiting to see how that went before he reached out to me.) Not sure why he felt the need to inform me, but it kinda ruined the vibe of our date...despite a promising first date, the tone on Saturday shifted to buddy dinner (he even showed me the other woman's profile on Facebook Dating and we talked a bit about dating apps). Needless to say, we won't be seeing each other again.