that is also how it’s always been explained to me

if i roll up to a punk show and someone’s jacket says fuckin “CABBAGE” across the back, that is immediately my favorite person in the building

I was at cat lounge/rescue/adoption place in my area recently (not to adopt, just to pet the cats) and one of the cats, a maybe ~7mo female tabby with a slightly fucked up ear named Maggie, after spending most of the time I was there hiding in a corner, decided she liked me, came up to me, sat down on my lap, and refused to budge. One of the staff members came up to say “hey man you’re at your time limit, but I can see you’re in a situation here so just… whenever is chill”

You know, you might just be on to something. He sure didn’t seem like he was particularly into it.

I don’t. Maybe I should. I have housemates who use the garage for their actual cars, so I do feel like I’m trusting them to keep the garage door closed, but then again, one of them works from home, so he usually keeps an eye on things. Also, my neighborhood is like super dead, basically nothing ever happens there.

Might not be the worst idea, though.

Best way to cure yourself of this is to become a teacher in your field, especially if you do any teaching of anybody who isn’t already specializing in it (K-12 or for-non-majors college classes). I’m a music teacher and yesterday I had a kid struggle for a full half hour to play a kick drum on a consistent quarter beat. Literally all you have to do is lift your foot up and put it back down again, but at one point he actually asked me “when I pick my foot up, it keeps hitting the bit of the kick pedal above it and that’s throwing me off” and I had to explain to him that he could move his foot half an inch backward and that would stop happening, because apparently he was unable to intuit that. Didn’t seem to help him all that much, though.

He was also wearing running shoes with the laces taken out, which leads me to believe that this is not the only basic thing this ten-year-old child struggles with.

Sorry, I know this isn’t geology related, but I needed to rant about it.

Yeah, I just try not to be agate-keeper.

The person I’ve started seeing from Hinge in recent days told me that the biggest reason she rolled with my profile was because I seemed like I was “relatively normal” and not a techbro or finance bro. Apparently this is prevalent enough around here that for someone who’s not into it, a profile that features a dad joke about the members of punk and metal bands standing really far apart because “your band width determines your speed,” offers “Live Without at an abandoned Denny’s in Houston” as an option for a past event to time travel to, and lists “worker ownership of the means of production” as a “simple pleasure” qualifies you as “normal.”

But hey, that in turn means I’m not attracting the kinds of girls who go for techbros, which I see as an absolute win.

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But… that’s socialism. What you are describing is literally socialism. It’s workers owning the means of production. What exactly do you think socialism is?

Socialism is when the government does stuff.

I agree, we should throw him in prison for the rest of his life.

how about the Abu Dhabi Tour? A week-long stage race on the least interesting terrain on the planet. The first stage frequently has a finishing straight that’s 60k long.

Free Market Capitalism is based on the infinite human ability to create and innovate.

No it isn’t. It’s based on the infinite human ability to exploit others for personal gain, and its functioning for those who benefit from it is predicated on the existence of a working class that produces more in value than they are allowed to benefit from.

Socialism is not communism. It is based on the idea that workers should have ownership over their work, and it has been put into practice in the form of worker-owned cooperatives, like the Mondragon Corporation in Spain, as well as many that aren’t the size of entire small cities. My argument is that an economy organized predominantly by that model would work much better for everybody.

You trying to give them lasting psychological trauma?

My sister once got my attention from a distance by shouting “HEY, DIPSHIT!”

polyjuice potion does change your voice though, when harry and ron turn into crabbe and goyle in book 2 they specifically speak in their voices