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I was at Costco yesterday and this guy was wearing a shirt that said “my real kid beat up your trans kid so I took him out for ice cream” and I have never come so close to hitting someone in my life. If I hadn’t been there with the kids there would have been blood. A day later and I’m still mad

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“Harley, don’t lick the cat.” -Things you have to say to a three year old while getting ready in the morning.

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@scalzi.com I am re-reading the Old Man's War series in anticipation of the upcoming release of The Shattering Peace and I was wondering, are there and "official" illustrations of the various aliens? I have my own mental picture based on the descriptions in the books and there are a lot of fan

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The unmitigated gall of a company that scraped the entire Internet to train its AI to get upset and claim intellectual property that someone else did the same to them is staggering www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Maybe by the time my youngest gets to this age I will be able to understand how a simple instruction to a 6.5 year old of "Get your shoes on please" takes 10 minutes, repeating 17.5 times, two trips up stairs (when the shoes are in closet where they always are), a trip to the bathroom,

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Oh wait, it is day two right? So the Ukraine/Russia War is over, 25% tariffs have been imposed across the board, and egg prices are .99 cents a dozen, right?

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Is there a term for the way apps and software companies constantly "update" their app/software to change things that worked just fine just so they can make it look or seem different for the new version, but make it measurably worse than it was before?

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

So sitting here the the Children’s Hospital waiting for my son to be discharged (still don’t know why he has bled twice now), looking out the window at the rooms across the way and I see they seem to have a lot more decorations and toys and stuff in them and was wondering why.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Hot take: The school could opt to do remote learning every time there is just the chance of snow and I wouldn't be made because I value kids safety above all.

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I think about the time S.H.I.E.L.D stopped The Hulk with a puppy bomb at least twice a week. One of the best moments in comic history.

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He is SUCH a whiny baby Flags to be raised for Trump's inauguration, despite half-staff order for Carter's death www.npr.org/2025/01/15/g...

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I should not be as excited for a grocery store as I am lol www.wpxi.com/news/local/w...

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[werner herzog voice] the looney tunes are an abomination. the little bald man shoots the duck in the face but he lives. the coyote is crushed by many anvils, and yet he continues. these unnatural beings cannot die - and without death, what is the value of life itself?

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So I came across the box with all my old CDs today and was showing them to my son and he wanted me to play some. I realized then that I don’t have anything to play an CD with anymore. None of my computers have disc trays, my car doesn’t have a cd player, nothing. Blows me away that something that

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Have a second kid they said. It’s not that much more work than one they said. It’s twice the blessings and joy they said.

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I am so over people being attacked for doing necessary things to go about their day as a “you don’t care about climate change/the economy/society/whatever moment by people that spend more time hunting for gotcha moments to make themselves feel self righteous. Context I made an off hand comment

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment