Oh GODDAMNIT 😭😭😭

That fucking middle bit.

Manosphere and objectively wrong. As a 41 yo, female-perceived person, the guy friends in my age cohort are muuuuuch more able to get it than I am. And I'm not unattractive or a parent!

German (and Danish, and Spanish, and... whatever else is sitting neglected on my learning list) can wait. The CDT can't. 😁👣

In terms of ego, tech bros *hate* that there's other valid stuff in the world that other people could be better at than them.

In terms of money, how can you control the world if there's not One True Technology, but rather a diverse ecosystem of lots of little different types of technologies?

It would have to have ALL the Trek, though. And that one episode of Reading Rainbow, as a treat.

Doing something wrong/badly.

I wouldn't say I *love* it now, but I've finally learned that doing a thing poorly is way better than not doing it at all, and the more you let yourself do things imperfectly, the faster you get good at them. And with noticeably less stress/burnout.

From your fingertips to God's ears

I ... just thought it was obvious? But also my brain loves languages and pattern recognition more than most so I'm probably an outlier.

"Chanteur," if Randy is he/him. "Chanteuse" is the feminine form.

Not necessarily. If you're almost clear of an intersection and someone comes barreling through on a cross street, you've gotta get your 🍑 outta their way asap, not slow down and get t-boned.

Similarly, if someone starts merging into your side, sometimes moving ahead better avoids the sideswipe.

Every time I take a toll road I find myself wondering why they don't do this.

I think it comes down to the fact that people would avoid toll roads even more if they were also "everyone gets speeding tickets" roads.

For me, it wouldn't be that I count office co-workers as friends. It'd be that commuting to work means I'm already out of the house, which removes a major inertial barrier to other out-of-house activities.

"I could do X thing/see Y person on the way home" > "I have to put on pants to [X, Y]"

Hey brain -- I'd really rather be using my energy to get shit done than having to piss it away resisting the urge to curl into a ball on the floor, thankyouverymuch.

I love how the little guy looks like he's a runner shaping up on the blocks to take a big sprint 😅

They did Chicago dirty putting it on the bottom of the page like that.

The only 3 real ways to do hot dog are NY, Germany, and Chicago. The rest are for people who don't actually like hot dogs.