It’s a Lemon Tango moment!

At least one door should open via a mechanical key and mechanical handle from the outside, and I firmly believe the internal door handles should all function mechanically as well. There shouldn’t be “usually you use a button but in an emergency this thing that looks like a bit of trim is the actual mechanical handle” that shouldn’t be allowable by code.

Pluto wasn’t demoted. It didn’t get a pay cut or see a loss of benefits.

Our vocabulary has gotten richer and more specific as we’ve explored Pluto and things like it. As we launch missions like New Horizons out there, we’re going to need new terms to talk about the things we find. We sent a whole probe to Pluto; Uranus and Neptune had to share.

Science!

Yeah Tom Scott did one of his linguistics videos about that, he had a word for it but some questions aren’t really questions they’re basically just rituals, though rephrased a different way makes them genuine questions, and when you have major dialects of the “same” language like British and American English, we use different ones. “Are you alright?” is basically a noise of greeting in Britain and an expression of genuine concern in America, while “How are you?” is the reverse.

You want to make them stop and process, answer it with “I can still walk, how about you?”

High school English classes kind of beat the habit of reading out of me. I mean first of all there was this sense of new = not valid; To Kill A Mockingbird was the newest work of literature I studied in high school, written in the 60’s about the 30’s, everything else was 19th century or older. The Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare, Poe, the goddamn Bronte’s.

I stopped going to book stores. I stopped going to the library. Adult reading is like rubbing wood chips in your eyes. It’s dry and awful.

My grandmother handed me a book. A paperback novel called Utopia by Lincoln Child. It’s a kind of whodunit mystery thriller set in a futuristic theme park, and the main character has a teenage daughter who has an mp3 player. And that caught me off guard. Because I was a teenager with an mp3 player. This book was new. It was written by someone who was still alive, about characters who were my age and my generation. And the book was kinda okay.

I miss my gramma.

To make that $3000 at her normal rate she would have had to work 30 hours in that same week, which I bet is a tall order for all the unpaid hours that takes attracting customers individually.

I generally mourn actual Hardee’s. There were several things i miss from their menu pre-Carl’s Jr.

There’s also one of those adjustment pots on the main board you get to by sticking a screwdriver in a hole on the back, but people don’t tend to mess with that much.

“So what do you like? What do you want to do?”

doesn’t even react as if she heard me make a mouth noise

I’ve tried that enough times to know it doesn’t fucking work.

Rich Evans once said of Who Framed Roger Rabbit: “Bugs Bunny gave Eddie Valiant the spare tire (instead of a spare parachute) because Mickey Mouse would never do anything funny.”

You seem to be implying that you put nutmeg in mashed potatoes as a matter of routine.

that’s what I said.

Gender Gending Rodriguez.

It was this webcomic that put this idea in my head and I just can’t stop seeing it everywhere “I don’t like this because I’m a woman” comes up. The original commenter also slut shamed the model in the ad which is why I figure it’s either homophobia or sex negativity in general.

But yeah yeah I know homophobia is bad and you can’t accuse women of being bad.

I think libraries are still allowed to let people read the books, yes.

I can’t help but think of that episode of TNG with the following exchange:

Q: “What must I do to prove to you people that I’m mortal?”

Worf: “Die.”

Q: “Oh, very good, Worf. Eat any good books lately?”

have a bunch of books that are age appropriate to 12 year olds, let them wander around and read the first few pages of each, and go “I want to finish this one” and check it out from the library? I hope that’s what this is, that sounds the most sane.

I thought they’d have foods that were related to certain books, like a book with a prominent apple in it, here have some apple. But that feels more like something for 5 year olds.

The irony is that you would think nerfing a nerf gun would improve it, because it’s more nerf per nerf.