As an addendum to some of the other good advice here, swap out your soap brand every so often. I like to bounce between anti-bacterial, anti-fungal tea tree, and something moisturizing. I think it helps keep from getting the stuff growing on you from getting used to any one thing, though I’ve not done cultures to test.

While I don’t recommend buying an Amazon device these days, if you have an older one you want to use, you can send support an email telling them you bought an ad free one and it still has ads. They’ll turn them off.

Depends on your standards. Looks disgusting to me.

Health-wise, you have a cup of sugar, a pouch of probably sugar, a PB and sugar on starch slab next to a pile of salty starch and a stick of salt water, with a cheese stick on the side. With not much protein or fibre that’s a lot of food to leave you hungry soon after, and not a lot of nutritional value.

Taste-wise, eeugh, but that’s just personal preference.

‘Old enough’ is a troublesome concept. I’ve met parents in their 40s who I wouldn’t say met the mental competence minimum to be capable of informed consent, so age isn’t really the measure.

If you want to give a kid the chance to learn tech but not be messed up by it, the best advice I’ve seen is to keep it isolated and user focused. The computer is a place they can go to when they demand its utility, not with them all the time and demanding their attention. The computer is a tool to let them do something else, not a way to cure 30 second windows of boredom with a stream of content. No internet or uncontrolled content, only curated software with no social aspect so they aren’t open for exploitation. The internet is basically a ‘no’ for maintaining sanity and safety. They’ll get access to all sorts of things as they get older/gain autonomy, so you won’t have to worry about when it’s appropriate to give them access.

Call? People still do that?

Holy shit, you’re right!
I gotta go do a thing. We probably won’t talk later.

Trump has a lot that seems might be wrong with him, but schizophrenia never really seemed to be on the list. Narcissism, dementia, psycho-/socio-pathy, compulsive lying, and possibly more, but I’ve never gotten the feeling he displayed the hyperpatternicity I associate with schizophrenia.

Seeing as the US mint is planning to discontinue pennies and the general outlook on the future of the world, that could be not that far off.

…fake and gay

Hey now. Let’s not blame gay people for the common-sense-defying demon-wizard sorcery that engineers get up to when someone threatens to take away their calculators and caffeine.

That’s the difference shareholders make.

I’m no brainologist but I wonder if things like this might be more related to autistic cognition. There seems to be something similar in the space of not attaching the same significance to events others find emotionally charged.

US slowly working its way to a Japan style monetary system where the fractional unit ceases to be used as the buying power of the main unit dwindles.

Did you know Japan had a coin called ‘sen’ which was 1/100 of a yen? They aren’t made anymore. They’d be near useless if they were because a cup of ramen is ~¥200, or 20000 sen. Although, it would be pretty funny in a show to see some ancient Japanese guy paying for his lunch with his sen collection while some uptight salaryman loses his mind in line behind him.

Pretty sure that’s not what they’re talking about. They’re talking about how the entire comic is drawn almost entirely in black (rgb(_0,0,~0)) and white. (rgb(_255,255,~255)) There’s no ambient light level or distance effect because it’s a drawing, and you can’t see anything in the way the guy is drawn that would suggest any particular ethnic background.

Thank you.

People the investor bots will love it.

Great, now I can ask the BS machine to summarize the BS created by another BS machine that spans 20 pages to say something that a human could have said in a paragraph, and did, but had their paragraph shoved down to the fifth page of the results by the other kind of BS machine we call bots and the other just plain BS we call ads./s

Not to get sidetracked but what is the significance of the red right arms? Scots burn quickly in sunlight but not usually in such an isolated way.

I plan to get a few. I want to do rain water collection for plant irrigation.

Also, if I can, I’d like to make one into a taiko drum.

Thinking about what a PB benny would actually be… Bread with peanut butter and ham, and a sauce of mixed peanut butter and butter? I almost want to try it.

Cat: Why are you teasing me by putting this food where I can smell it but not eat it?