Fries and salad, I think

Cringing means you’re better now than you were then.

Besides, after seeing the debate, the sense of doom is going to keep me up all night anyway.

Obviously society is broken, and guns are doing a lot of the breaking. The people teaching these classes agree about that as well. But they’re not in a position to fix that. They’re trying to use the skills they have to mitigate one part of the fuckedness. Maybe two parts: a kindergartner could perhaps save their friend’s life one day, and in the meantime they’re already having justified nightmares about shootings, so maybe the lesson will let them turn those dreamstories in a slightly better direction.

Train station cat has so many people to judge

It could only help.

Don’t go petting Bison.

I don’t really care if you die but they don’t like people petting them, and those of us who respect them enough to just watch them don’t want overfamiliar people causing them to stay too far away for us to see them.

Do feel free to pay a visit to a pet shelter and spread some love around even if you can’t take one home.

Feels pretty scary to the parent as well

Permanently, possibly.

TOLDJA SO CHAMPEEN 2024!!!

Hey, I learned something new today, thanks!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-shoe_firm

It was actually cleaning companies that worked after hour and used children in cleaning slaughterhouses. Which is of course terrible and dangerous. (Slightly less traumatic than actually killing the animals but still inexcusable.)

I’m not recommending it. It was what I was referring to as dystopian.

But even in my childish '60s childhood there was a bicycle accident where knowing something to do about stopping bleeding would have helped both the other kid and me.

Having been in life-or-death medical situations since then, it’s a lot less mentally traumatic if you know something you can do and focus on trying to do it right, instead of trying to figure out from scratch what if anything you could do.

Rather than me copypasting a link, you Google

“Child labor slaughterhouses”

and pick a news source that works for you. (Because NYT works for me but might give you a paywall, whereas CNN pops up a bunch of irritating ads for me, for instance.)

Could we please get going with this technology?

Sewing is the legit reason for irons.

How come it tried to send me to make a left onto a major thoroughfare from a tiny side street rather than the major one with a controlled left arrow (a blessed rarity in my city) a few blocks away? Yeah maybe someone did it and scraped a few seconds off their time because they got lucky with the cross traffic, but someone who doesn’t know the area is gonna get tboned.

Jack would like a word

What I want is specifically “no left turns.” Because that could actually save me time. “Fewer 🚦s” and “no dangerous instructions” would also be good.

I expect a lot were raised as such by their parents/community, which isolates them from society as a whole. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out once they get exposure to other mindsets. And gurls.

Plus being able to figure out a semilegitimate excuse to blow stuff up. “This could be very dangerous so we’re going to do several things to make it safer. That’s teaching safe lab techniques, so it’s educational!”

You make good points. I can’t stand linen myself, I find it scratchy and itchy, makes my skin peel, but I realize I’m in the minority, and if you like it, it’s worth making it last.