How much do you trust your father? This could go great or terrible. She could be a friend’s daughter who he genuinely thought would be a catch, or she could be a prostitute he’s trying to use to manipulate you. You’d be in a better place to know.

I also don’t really do it. I get that it’s a social ritual though. The listener demonstrates their interest in the speaker by caring or pretending to care about the minutiae of their day.

I’ve always been inclined toward the maxim, ‘Small minds talk about people. Average minds talk about events. Great minds tall about ideas.’ However, it’s hard to go from nothing to deep insight, so starting with an event can be a great step into tbe conversation.

A long time ago I saw a thing about how foolish the creator thought it was people had stopped using awnings. They keep out the worst of the sun in summer and let it in during winter, when the sun is at a lower angle. My immediate next thought was, ‘why don’t we have solar panel awnings?’ They don’t require making holes in your roof you then have to worry about leaking. They can be mounted at the same angle as the roof so they wouldn’t be less efficient in many places. They could be added like eaves and keep the sun from heating the walls too, a huge benefit in hot areas.

Correct, for killer functionality to work you have to connect the camera to an automated turret system.

I want one. I just can’t justify the expense while my old phone still works.

‘It says… no tresspassing?’

There are no runes on the clam. The runes are in your eyes.

Holy crap, it’s a jerb. I thought the mexicans took all of you twenty years ago.

The most pernicious self-deception is that things are as they appear to be. The second is that they should be.

Then let me take a crack at it. You are subtly moralizing against their lives as going ‘nowhere,’ suggesting that there is a ‘somewhere’ to go, that would be better than having remained. The reality is you are also on the treadmill, and cannot leave it. You have run faster than it has turned under you, and feel like moving closer to the front of the belt has given your life meaning, just as they have continued to run with their family and friends in a familiar constellation around them and taken meaning from that, but your fate, just like theirs, is to fall and be thrown off the back of the treadmill with everyone else.

It’s the human version of the most common form of organisation. Lion prides, baboon troupes, bison herds, wolf packs. It’s the same concept: getting together to pool resources and knowledge to have a better life than going it alone. Most of the problems come from human fantasy. It won’t make everyone overflow with rapturous joy every moment of every day. It won’t be a cakewalk. But the collective power of a group of likeminded people working together has a ‘greater than the sum of its parts’ effect. As long as it can be maintained, it’s better quality of life than being alone in the world and freer than being part of a large scale society. Its only weaknesses are the primary reasons so many people don’t live like that: human unsatisfiability and military weakness. Even if you start with a great group, to maintain it you need the next generation and someone always is born or introduced who doesn’t hold the values of the group, and wants the group to change to suit what they want. And if it doesn’t self destruct, its size is limited, and can be conquered by a larger group focused on the values of their ‘leaders.’

I don’t know that it would fix anything, but I want it for itself, not for what it might or might not fix.

Dang, even Pedro looks goofy with just a moustache.

That’s a perennial problem. How do you connect the responsibility to the authority? The cashiers are the ones who have to face 30 angry customers, (face the responsibility) not the manager. (the one who has the authority to change things) Customers can complain to the cashier, but they have no authority. They can complain to the manager, but the manager is getting a portion of the money not spent on hiring full staff in the form of a bonus, so they’re encouraged to ignore the complaint. It takes a certain critical mass of customers all spending less at the store before there’s even a possibility of someone noticing a revenue drop, and no guarantee the blame will be put where it belongs if it happens.

Lemon Boy - Puzzle Pieces at the moment.
I don’t get calls much so I change my notification tones much more frequently. Currently I have Reinhardt from Overwatch saying ‘Unacceptable!’ It’s an example of my favorite kind of phone sound, which is situational injections. It’s great to have little moments where someone is talking about something and my phone decides to join the conversation.

Friend: ‘It was so annoying. How did he not see that coming?’
Phone: ‘Lucio: Why are you so angry?’

Friend: ‘I gotta hit the bathroom.’
Phone: *dramatic orchestra*

Friend: ‘Hey, how much do you know about X?’
Phone: ‘Krieger: I probably shouldn’t show you this, but I’m totally going to.’

If I go F, what’s the probability of being born in R’Lyeh?

Learn the phrase and see it everywhere: negative partisanship. XBOX vs PS vs Nintendo vs mobile, Mac vs MS vs Linux, Rep vs Dem, white vs black, old vs young, etc. etc. etc. Stupid people love signalling to their ingroup how loyal they are by attacking the outgroup.

The first higher part is basically a whimper but the lower part is more akin to mumbling or muttering.