This was the part that I wouldn’t do just because I view the sink as mostly clean and plunger as mostly dirty. So unless I were to sterilize the sink afterwards I wouldn’t put a plunger in the sink.

Because not only did he not make the above distinction, the comments try to devalue anyone with that diagnosis.

This is a good steel man response, very much like Facebook posts I have seen lately. It’s really sad how much the right has abandoned listening to experts and just assuming we can apply “common sense” answers to fix problems that are complicated.

I didn’t get through it. I agree with your comment about the characters not resonating. I got about a third of the way in and just decided to go on to the next book in my pile.

You are right of course, but that’s part of the joke. I think it’s provokes such a viseral response because it’s directly “against” the reader, not many of us can claim to be directly impacted by genocide for example, even though it’s way worse.

Just in case you forgot the /s tag, that person’s job isn’t to collect the carts scattered across the parking lot, it’s to move the carts from the cart area to inside the store. The right way to handle the lack of cart areas isn’t to make the workers job harder, it’s to complain to the store.

Oh, and let’s just continue to screw over astronomy research for the foreseeable future. https://www.astronomy.com/science/starlink-satellites-disrupt-cosmic-studies/

This aligns with what I have heard from folks I know in that world. Fear motivated by exaggerating one off and isolated incidents. The information silos in the conservative world (especially news) is frightening.

I had thought that they were going after more retirement benefits, only thing I saw in the article was a $ 5k 401k contribution. The comments didn’t make sense calling this deal something that would help them to “retire with dignity” whatever that means. Would have been cool (but next to impossible) if they would have gotten back some sort of pension.

My 4 year old’s memory ability is all over the place. One day forgets mid sentence what he was talking about about or can’t remember if he is wearing pants, then later says, “remember 3 months ago when you promised me a Popsicle” or repeats verbatim the theme song for some random show.

Shocked face… No surprise to anyone who has actually worked in that environment.

This. I wish I had more than one up vote I could give for this comment.

Lol, right. That’s laughable saying that china is fighting colonialism and not replacing it with their own version.

Prairie dogs along the front range of Colorado, deer in the Colorado mountains…

Wish I could try Wayland, can’t seem to get it to load. Fortunately when they pushed the update of Wayland as default they didn’t remove x11 support. Still been pretty happy with kde neon for the last few years

Nooooo, say it isn’t so!

Please don’t do that while hiking around others, lots of people go hiking to get away from constant sounds like that.

Bit difficult to keep using it since they killed sms interoperability. I understand the security concerns but if no one uses it, doesn’t really matter does it.

Thanks for sharing, internet archive has a ton of this type of stuff and it’s fun to dig thru!

Thanks for posting, I had forgotten about these books. My parents had a copy.