I stopped listening to him because he was super arrogant and condescending and self important, didn’t know about the other stuff

Not denying Dawkins is plenty smart about some things but man, I miss Carl Sagan

I think I just learned I might have a degree of claustrophobia or something because reading the second part made me suddenly very anxious

Don’t worry, I bet you’re still gonna have a great time with your home server, love seeing people set up stuff like this for themselves

Billionaires are the worst in so many ways

The longer I look at it the more fun it is to alternate my understanding of it between milky way sky and shimmering canyon river

What an awkward job that must be

This is rad

Screw the courts, free Waldo

This is good. Putting on a nicer shirt helps me as well. I’m not in a white shirt and tie by any means, but just something nicer than my casual tees really does seem to make a difference in getting me in a good mental place for being more focused.

I’m sure for some it makes no difference and I would hate to sound like I’m supporting the stupid office dress code policies that I loathe, so please chime in if this doesn’t work for you

I got this one too, high five

And how do you and your fellow planes feel about that

“Well I know you’re not rich. Dang, you must be one lazy sonovagun.”

For all the goobers who aren’t rich themselves but still say stuff like this

As a haver of kids: Sure, why not? I’ll take some smoke breaks as a non-smoker, too. I’m saying this unironically or whatever by the way, that second part isn’t supposed to be a gotcha or anything. I’m also a worker in the US so I’m biased, used to workplaces that go the extra mile to try and squeeze every ounce of both productivity and humanity out of you. Give everyone all the flexibilities!

I think this is an important part of protesting that goes overlooked by the “protests don’t immediately solve the problem” people. I’m in a very conservative area as well but when I protest I get more support than opposition. It helps other people realize that hey, maybe I’m not actually surrounded by people who are okay with this. Maybe there are actually a lot more of my neighbors who aren’t okay with things, and there’s actually hope that if I start acting up more, I’ll have support. Hope and morale are pretty important for resistance movements.

• People every time a post about protests is made: “This will accomplish nothing.”
• Those same people when asked what they’re personally doing since they talk like they know what will and won’t work: “Also nothing.”
• (Bonus points for the ones who say violent uprisings are needed, but are not violently rising up themselves. Double bonus for “well I don’t live in the US.”)

Protests aren’t the solution on their own, they’re a step in the process of people getting to the point of doing something about the situation they’ve found themselves in. You can’t fix a problem if you don’t first acknowledge and accept that it’s a problem. Stop crapping on people for protesting. Instead, encourage them to use that energy to take things further. And if you know so much about what will actually work and are going out of your way to tell people what they’re doing isn’t going to work, maybe you should be doing the thing you claim will work so you can lead by example instead of armchair directing.

I do

Not even those ones where you hold the tray of flash powder?

Noot noot!

Dude I made a Mexican food casserole the other day for the first time and my firstborn asked me to make it again, best feeling. High five brother

I got worried the first time they started giving the UI all the rounded corners and more clicks to get anywhere or get anything done. Now there are corpo-cute little waving hand graphics and stuff in the UI. I’ve been migrating to local “pass” because these are always bad signs for a product