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As someone who’s been hearing impaired my whole life, yes. The urge to punch the person in the face right at that moment sometimes seems irresistible.

It’s a toss-up between Elon Musk and people saying “WHAT?!” when I tell them I’m hearing impaired.

Damnmit. I asked that kid to clean off this coffee table and now there’s a pepper grinder, a bag of terrible candy, three remote controls, and some crushed fortune cookies, all under my back.

As someone who speaks Spanish

culoclean

choking on my White Russian

Your wife sounds like mine. I value transparency and openness fundamentally, but after a decade of “no” to almost everything, I’ve learned that if I just do stuff without asking, she frequently says, “Oh, that’s a nice idea.” If I ask, however, it’s “not a good idea,” “not now,” “we don’t need that,” etc.

Not that strange, but certainly fucking annoying: at universities it’s becoming more common to have “closed searches” for upper administrators like presidents, provosts, deans, etc. This is very much a labor/management thing, and historically (in the US) public universities have had open searches, where faculty and staff get to meet candidates, ask them questions, etc. Upper admins have taken over all decision making power in recent decades, but in the past few years they’ve even started preventing faculty/staff from even knowing who is applying to be their new uni president. Under pressure to do something about “the consent of the governed,” admins have “allowed” some faculty and staff to view interviews and things, but are forced to sign NDAs to do so.

At public universities, using taxpayer money, promising large amounts of taxpayer money to some person. It’s stupid and annoying.

Those three people already know each other, so…

You’re doing the dangerous thing: identifying fascism where Americans have been taught it’s clearly not possible because it’s “our team.”

You’re right, of course.

I would watch the shit out of this YouTube channel.

Privacy mushroom?

Works in XFCE, too (well, Thunar/XFCE, anyway)

You win the “most mind-numbingly predictable reply all day” award. Congrats.

Yeah, people who grew up with boomers as parents, teachers, bosses, weird aunts, etc. Find the ultra- reductiveness to be very silly. The labeling of the entire post war generation as incompetent neocons has never fit well except in the minds of people whose only knowledge of history comes from tiktok. Where do they think their anti- establishment ideas came from? Do they think the hippies and civil rights activists were millennials or something?

Depends on the metric. Direct threat to democracy, increasing violence and dangerr for millions of Americans, harming economic futures for Americans, etc.: probably Trump.

Sheer body count: maybe Bush, but don’t forget about all the people who would still be alive or more healthy if Trump had not actively sabotaged COVID response.

Okay I’m back to Trump.

We just never invested in that with our kid. We said things like, “it’s fun to pretend” and “some other families believe…”

It isn’t hard. I grew up believing Native Americans were Israelites and there were ancient records written on metal plated under a hill in central New York. Many families believe our don’t believe certain things.

Your logical argumentation is compelling.

*grudgingly

Okay, maybe that actually counts. I don’t use the word in this context, but others do and I grudgingly read it.

Yup. And the people living in deep south Texas have, in some cases, been living there since long before the USA was a country.

One of my favorite time travel versions in SF is that of Connie Willis: When you try to travel back in time, if you would have changed the timeline by any noticeable amount, you either (a) just don’t go–the machine doesn’t work–or (b) you go, but the timeline adjusts by like dropping you in Siberia 20,000 BCE or the center of the Pacific or something. Either way, the timeline is what it is, and you can go observe, if you’re very careful not to change anything. Your time travel is part of the timeline, and obviously it didn’t change anything significant because here we are…