Who the fuck called it “girl math” and not “galgebra”. Come on. 😜

Saying bye to someone, I tried to say, "peace," and, "cheers," at the same time. Ended up telling them, "cheese." 🤦

When I was younger, I was very blasé about the idea that, as a parent, I would defend my free time and mental energy by restricting my kids' extracurricular activities and not become one of those parents who spends all their time and energy taking their kids to sports and clubs and shit.

I think I wildly underrated the joy that is watching your child do something that they are both good at and enjoy. Taking my kid to a theater audition or signing them up for the all-star team knowing they have good chances of success there and knowing they're gonna have a great time doing it… It's so soul-filling, y'all. I don't know if I can talk about it in more detail.

Still, we have the conversation about trade-offs with our kids. We don't let them have every evening of the week: parents get evenings for their stuff, too. But we're spending way more time on their logistics and activities than I anticipated and while dealing with the logistics is a pain, watching them do the actual thing is so good.

Is it just me or does Bandcamp's online web UI not let you do things with playlists and such the way their, e.g. iOS app does? Is there something I'm missing with this?

LB: Would appreciate a boost for visibility.

Does anyone that follows me on here have personal experience with Dupixent (aka Dupilumab)?

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you have a chance to go see a production of Hadestown take it. Go see Hadestown. It is my favorite musical. We saw it last night on tour through Austin and the cast absolutely killed it. I don't wanna say too much because I wanna let people experience it, but the musical is good on so many levels. I could go on and on about the music, the characterization, the themes, the politics… and then the costuming, set design, acting of any given production. Just… ugh. Go see Hadestown.

I'm 44 today. Love it when my birthday lands on a Friday.

Just saw a thing that was, like, trying to be fun trivia thing for people casually happening past. It said, "What TV show is this quote from: Winter is coming?" And, like, I don't like Game of Thrones, but I instantly became annoyed-shading-to-mad (I haven't had the best day, either). Like, it's not from a TV show! It's from a book! Books exist! My brain instantly rewrote it to someone asking what movie "Not all who wander are lost" is from which is what really got me.

Like, I know these are popular adaptations, probably more popular than the originals, but… they are adaptations! The books are the canonical versions as far as I'm concerned. And even if people have only seen the movies or watched the show or whatever, I would hope they were aware they're adaptations from books and not be alienated or whatever if the question had asked what book series it was from?

Yar.

The sad thing is that until recently, Discord had what I would consider very reasonable parental controls. Basically everything about it was biased against letting parents have access to their child's account or take action on them/their behalf and towards "have a conversation with your child." You could see how many people your kid had DMed with this week, how many servers they were active in, how many new servers they joined, but I don't think you could see the names of the people they'd DMed with and you certainly couldn't see the contents of those DMs. Their support pages about this literally said that they wouldn't provide that information. That they wanted to provide enough information to facilitate a conversation between the parent and their child. That's great!

Now this. 🙃

@researchfairy Maybe you have thoughts and opinions you'd enjoy sharing?

OK. So, like, how does the economy of Star Fleet work actually? The show handwaves the personal-level parts by being like, "There's no money. People just replicate stuff," which is fine, but…

Like, I'm the United Federation of Planets and I have this hybrid self-defense force/scientific-exploratory thing. Occasionally it wants to built a starbase or some new ships or repair stuff at Utopia Planitia or whatever and it needs raw materials to do this.

Are there UFP citizens on some planet running a mine? Like, in theory ethically in whatever way that means I don't know much about mining. They have cool lasers instead of tunnel collapses and the Black Lung, maybe.

And those people, being UFP citizens, "just replicate stuff," so they have what they need and they're happy to mine things, I guess, and they ship that metal off to somewhere for it to be allocated to new Oberth class ships for Star Fleet or a new civilian hab on some other planet or whatever?

Is this what we're thinking more or less?

Do I reach any stationary nerds on here? :boosts_ok: I'm looking for some recommendations. It's time for a new notebook and I want to make some ergonomic improvements for my uses over my 13cm x 21cm Moleskine.

Big Deals:

• I'd like to maintain roughly this same size.
• I'd like it to have a hard cover.
• I'd like at least 31 lines per page.

Would Quite Like:

• A dotted or light vertical line at 50% of the page width.
• Margin or gutter guides (something to remind me to leave room on the left of writing for marginal symbols).
• Built-in book mark.
• Band or clasp to hold it closed.

Ideal, but not that important:

• Pen holster (or can accept an after-market one).
• Movable pages.
• Page numbers.

I know the last two contradict. That's fine. Those are really in the realm of whatever.

The word that is a pretty funny word if you think about it. I think we have two pretty distinct usages in English, but most people prolly can't articulate what they are. Like, you have the pronoun that (e.g. "I love when that happens"). I'm not sure if it's strictly a pronoun, but it has an antecedent like one, so close enough.

But then you have the other usage like, uh… "I think that it's great." Which doesn't have an antecedent and is more about relating the phrases "I think" and "it's great".

Anyway, I've seen people complain about "double that" sometimes and say, like, "What's that second one doing in there?!?" In sentences like, "I knew that that would upset her," the second one is the pronoun-ish one and the first one is the, uh, other one. They're not the same word twice, they just look/sound the same.

Anyway, does anyone know what this non-pronoun usage is called?

Is there a website one can feed the title of a work to see if it's in the public domain yet? Like, I guess I could look up the current expiry year and then look up the original publication date, but really I just wanna type "Where The Wild Things Are" into a box and have it say yes or no.

Fellow people who think about things like using heading levels semantically: How do you deal with tools like Google Docs that have both a "Title" style and a "Heading 1" style. Do you use H1 for the title of a document? Do you use Title and then have more than one H1 and "the next level down"? Do you use Title and then use H2s as "the next level down"? Why would they do this to us???