My folks were technology skeptics and limited access to screens. We had strict allotments of time to access electronics.

This taught us how to game the rules and make up arguments to justify our discretions.

They were also lawyers, so we walked into the first trap.

This is more or less how I found myself paying rent for art. Took limited art classes, just doodled everywhere and was told to stop. Posted stuff online in the early 2000s and caught a few stray commissions.

I felt this and the meme hard.

The market has been pretty well cornered compared to 20 years ago. These days you’ve got to be pretty good to solicit commissions.

Without it the value of the Suez Canal plummets. Please, think of the shareholders.

distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring

I assure you the nightmare is being experienced more acutely and directly by the people being actively bombed.

In the sense that education is an adversary to the right wing, yes. The right wing treats those things as games. ‘It is their right to play’ as the saying goes.

In the 2002 context? No Child Left Behind was being implemented, which was essentially a foot in the door for privatizating every aspect of education so long as the students could pass standardized test scores. This implemented the conditions of today where public education funds are funneled to private operations while accepting private grants to guide and govern curriculum.

The collective age of this comment chain is now approximately 120.

We do a lil’ innvoation in the private sector here.

Fallout Tactics remains my favorite Fallout.

There’s a hilariously drawn out postgame/endgame challenge dungeon type thing that’s like 100+ straight battles.

But the main game is solidly worth the full price, quite honestly. Any sale you find is just helping your budget.

Must have made Christmas easy

Quite difficult at the time, actually.

Part of my 2025 mental and physical health plan has been building and landscaping my little slice of land to go from an unfenced hillside of lawn to a walled and terraced garden.

Removed the sod and got a dumptruck load of granite stones at the start of the year. I am building using a dry stone technique and moving it all by hand on purpose. Currently finishing the main terraces and wall base, beginning raised garden beds now. Every day I move a couple stones into place and it feels like an accomplishment that is quite literally building on itself.

I look forward to seeing how it (continues to) come together.

Bladder sourced is what the study determined, with the fluid being normal urine or Skene’s gland secretion, but likely some combination.

Plausibly there could be pure glandular secretion squirt. Or urine. But likely a mix.

Moral ABCs never disappoint.

It isn’t a paradox, or it doesn’t have to be. It isn’t a seemingly false or untrue statement that belies a deeper meaning.

It is a definitional and logical conclusion that a concept cannot tolerate its anathema and inverse.

Chemically tolerance means the limit at which something begins to degrade or an organism has to/begins to adapt. This is at least what I interpret with what is being brought up with tolerance of intolerance: when adaptation or degradation is required, the limits of tolerance have been reached.

Insert one shibboleth, like one bit of information critically wrong intentionally. Make lists of users who point it out for HR.

The first one was fairly clever in that they had probably 50 years of collective ideas and inspiration to work off of. It’s a story that needed to push no boundaries and hold to established tropes, with no expectations because it was a ride: perfect for Disney.

Now when Disney gets their hands on an established franchise full of expectations…

The language of the left in America has been so thoroughly played with by the right we have to go to absurd lengths to try and communicate any policy approach that involves public interest.

That’s likely what’s at work with these things. I even got a few chronic haters that downvote just about everything I write, even when it’s calling out racism. They’ll downvote criticism of Nazis in the effort, even.