Exactly. Everyone has been very lonely since he died.

Also, if you really must, electric leaf blowers exist in a broad range of price points and capacities (and are much quieter than gas powered ones for the same CFM).

I don’t think it’s an accident they used your deadname handle. Unhinged is right, lol.

Thank you! Stickers suck.

My five year old does not share my opinion. Send thoughts and adhesive remover.

If I recall correctly, he doesn’t like carbonated water.

I like “nerve-wrackingly principled” as a descriptor. Seems to fit a lot of FIRE’s work.

I’m not familiar enough with all of their work to know if they apply their principles equally in all scenarios, which is critical to maintaining nerve-wrackingly principled stances.

“The days are long but the years are short” is the most apt description of parenting I’ve heard yet.

This is mostly driven by the fact that early internet companies monetized via ads, and the model proved very sticky. Now consumers expect everything for free and firms need to resort to turning the consumer into the product.

You can start to unravel this by switching to paid search and email.

We have two of those, but thankfully they leave the task of aggressively waking us up to the kid. They’re only aggressive about letting us know when it’s dinner time and weirdly relaxed about breakfast time.

Ours is five now, so it’s usually better than that now, but today was before 6.

Your kid wake you up early, too?

I can remember my own, my wife’s, my mother’s, my late father’s, and I guess if all else fails I could call the parents of my friend from middle school.

I used this a lot when working tech support. I also had a slightly different version taped up in my cube (not my pic, but identical alphabet).

My favourite example is “authentic” Japanese Curry. British colonial navy decides curry is delicious and includes it in galley meals, then Japanese navy decides to copy British navy wholesale, including the galley menu. They adapt it to suit Japanese pallet’s and boom: Authentic national dish.

Leave us out of it. We’re a sovereign nation. It’s not up to Canadians to fix your broken politics.

Oh fuck yeah. The New Colossus is my palette cleanser game I play after I finish something bigger and meatier. Never a wrong time to kill a bunch of Nazis, but it did feel newly relevant last time I played through.

My understanding is that American understanding of suburb vs. urban don't really map to Canadian cities cleanly, partly due to governance culture differences but also because Canadian cities are generally more dense (if still not Europe dense).