As a (roughly) centrist myself, I don’t think they hate us. They just see us as an obstacle to progress. Which we are, but we’re also an obstacle to backsliding. Even from within it’s easy to see that centrism is a weak position and it’s not surprising it would be despised by those with strong convictions.

But me, I’m fine with being an obstacle. If they think their way is better, they can prove it; then they’ll have my support.

My daughters love “Battle for Polytopia”. Some DLC but not infinite.

This was the one that made me think, oh, I might have ADHD!

Huh, I’ve always been a tea drinker rather than coffee, and I’ve always found tea more calming that coffee or caffeinated sodas. This could be why.

It could also help explain why my mother, who I’ve suspected for a while was undiagnosed, favored tea over coffee all her life and really went off the rails once she developed a caffeine allergy and stopped drinking it.

Excellent write-up. Will it also work from threads?

Great prank, I’d definitely notice… after trying to open the wrong side twice.

Another one: Replace all the bath towels with similar, smaller towels.

For once it’s not just work! There’s still plenty of work, though: Monday is the first day of school and we’re pulling out all the school uniforms, making sure everything fits, seeing where the gaps are. Backpacks are already stuffed with necessary supplies. So the last thing is to soak up as much pool and waterslide fun as we can!

Oh? They both read to me as “We can’t change the past, only the future”.

Those sentiments seem identical to me.

If I know long long it takes to get somewhere, I will somehow find myself leaving the house with exactly that amount of time, leaving no space for delays. This is bad. So instead I’ve started saying “I’m going to leave at this time, which is definitely more time than I need” and then not looking at a clock when I get there so I never find out how much closer I could cut it.

The other strategy is to plan to eat when I get there, before whatever it is starts. I will be motivated to get there with enough time to eat.

Interesting! It’s always been a grievance that none of Chicago’s many public waterways are swimmable.

150-minute Director’s Cut answer: Michael Bay

Short answer: Yes.

That the most digestible way to teach ethics to humans is through narratives.

I’m not currently depressed. I do experience depression but not constantly. Two of my children and many of my coworkers do not deal with chronic depression (as far as I can tell).

Thanks for excerpting the main points, appreciated.

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She’ll need to work with the home country to get baby issued appropriate citizenship and identity documents, but just to travel home? Birth cert and mother’s docs should be enough.

IIRC the mother needs her own proof of citizenship and proof of birth for the infant.

It’s cleaning day! I try to make day one of my (Monday-Tuesday) weekend the day I ball hard on laundry and yardwork, then in the afternoon I pick one room and deep clean it and in the evenings I clean out the fridge. Then on the second day I do paperwork and make the kind of phone calls where they put you on hold while playing videogames.