Parenting

I took “father” to mean a priest here. Is that fresh-faced scrawny dude legit supposed to be her dad?

Even the smallest meme can change the course of the future.

I think I like this one best of all.

Especially in a community with 5 posts in the past month.

Super common name. Still have to spell it out for people.

Basically bobcat-in-a-box

And obligatory XKCD

I’ve been stewing on making an “unpopular opinion” post about how neckbeards ruined the internet by demanding everything be “free” (meaning ad-supported) and then using ad blockers (meaning the normies had to pick up the slack).

Sure, the wolf shouldn’t have been trying to eat the stork.

But did you see how viciously the stork pecked at the wolf?

The wolf has a right to defend itself until the stork is no longer a threat.

Gandhi + Alf

Yellow Mountain Imports is great.

Humanity is so fickle, it’s impossible to tell.

In the US, we went from overwhelming opposition to gay marriage to overwhelming support in less than a decade.

On the other hand, we went from aggressively eradicating CFCs and fixing the ozone hole to dragging our feet on renewable energy for several decades.

Even further back, we went from back-to-back world wars and economic collapse to a tentative global peace and prosperity.

Monarchy seemed inevitable for ages, and then multiple democratic revolutions all sprang up in quick succession.

Equality was fundamental to the Constitution, but we still haven’t healed the wounds of slavery.

There seems to be no telling. Some problems languish for a long time, but then see massive improvements in the blink of an eye. Some obvious fixes lay dormant for an offensively long time.

When I think about this stuff, I get a weird mix of hope and despair and guilt and frustration and impatience.

It seems unfair that we got stuck with these particular crises, with no guarantee that we’re actually prepared to handle them. (Maybe that’s the entire story of humanity.)

And then I remember what Tolkien had to say about such things:

If you have multiple cats and kids, it becomes like The West Wing.

The goat scream?

What is naive realism?

People also drink coffee while driving. It’s a depraved world out there.

“Done is better than perfect.”

Everything is political.

I’m just stuck on the notion that “the existence of social media” is his limiting constraint here.

If my time consulting is anything to go off of…

The agency provided several options. The client liked 3 of them and wanted them all smooshed together.

Client opened up the agency’s .pptx and moved some things around until they had this monstrosity and said “There! That’s what I want. See how easy that was? Why do we even pay you?”

The designers quietly held back the urge to quit on the spot, but the lead said “Absolutely, that’s a great decision, we’ll have a final version for you tomorrow!” And the designers took great joy in delivering precisely what the client asked for.

One day we will just stick with standard time.

(Or we’ll try permanent DST and experience all of the negative effects and then either go back to cycling or realize we should’ve done permanent standard.)

And those configs are clearly the result of someone else stitching together three different examples from different versions, with some settings that are silently ignored in the latest version or only exist when compiled with special flags.