There went all his hopes for an army career. No more pitching for the Mets. No more professional arm wrestling. No more rowing competitions, or stirring huge pots of gruel.

A ten year old can rush out into the road and become paralyzed for life.

I got my 75 year old father into video games.

With him, I started by getting him an xbox and an xbox live account (which allows playing multiplayer games online).

We play World of Tanks now together quite a bit.

He looks exactly like he sounds.

Do you have evidence of this mass banning wave you’re referring to?

Any day now, Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, will go down in flames. This will prove once and for all that Elon Musk is worthy of derision!

what?

Once you’re 54, it’s just too late man

So the energy comes from sunlight and ambient heat, which provides the energy to evaporate that water, overcoming its adhesion and cohesion.

Did Trump “target” entities for cancellation during his first presidency?

And after a while you’d come out of that state

Steve Jobs roided

You going to HR can also take place of talking to him yourself. You talk to HR and ask them to tell him to let you work, they talk to him so you don’t have to try and navigate his bullshit and you get the issue noted to support your side of things.

This is how humanity dies.

Why in god’s name would you escalate to writing?

It sucks. I don’t have children because I’m barely functional. Can barely keep a roof over my own head, let alone maintain a romantic relationship.

I’ve wanted kids for a long time, but the only relationship that showed promise of that ended with a bunch of cheating and abuse. I eventually realized even if I was willing to put up with it, I couldn’t subject my kids to having her as a mother.

So I’m going on 42 and don’t know if I’m gonna make it.

I’m an uber driver. I get to be outside in the daylight all day. Work whatever hours I want. It’s nice.

I mean why think it won’t work.

It doesn’t make any difference what got us here in the first place. What matters now is what options are the best from now moving forward.

These scientists seem to say that trying to reverse climate change isn’t the right path forward. I wonder why.

edit: I wonder what makes them think that reversing climate change won’t work.

Someone was so offended by their misreading of my comment that they went through and downvote-bombed every comment in my history.

What exactly is “good faith commerce”?

That doesn’t seem to register as a coherent concept, considering good faith has to do with considering the whole of the interaction instead of one’s own side, and business is when each person handles only their own side of the equation.

Seems like an empty phrase to me, unless you can enlighten me.

You know what the difference between a near monopoly and an actual monopoly is?

In one scenario there’s competition and in the other one there’s not. Basically one’s a monopoly and the other isn’t.