I’m glad you shared! Life is hard, parenting is doubly hard, and we’re all just trying to make it through and do at least a little better than our parents did.
I’m just glad my kids didn’t inherit my messy room… I had literal layers of stuff on the floor, like it was some sort of strata. I can’t believe my parents let me get away with it. That said, I knew where everything was.
Anyway, good job to you as well!
Hey man, I honestly appreciate your insight and ideas. You’re spot on for what to do for how to cook and prepare veggies for kids (and adults too). My parents raised me on the most bland American cuisine imagination (they rarely even added salt), but when I left home, I discovered the greater world of veggie preparation.
But, with all due respect, you haven’t met my kids. My partner and I are not perfect parents, but we’ve tried many different ways to prepare and serve veggies, including salted, roasted, sautéd with oil and seasoning, boiled, raw with/without dip/sauce… It doesn’t help that my partner is nearly as picky as my kids (to be fair, I can be quite picky with respect to texture). But, at least we’re making sure they understand that a balanced diet is vital to health. And, hey, both of my kids are healthy and in the lower percentile for height-weight ratio, so we haven’t failed them yet.
Regarding my original downvoted comment, it was just an old Gen x dude trying to make a dumb old joke.
Come on, man. I have my kids eating their veggies, but they don’t like it. The older one knows they are healthy and eats them reluctantly, the younger never chooses veggies unless we attach consequences for not eating (e.g., no dessert unless you eat your veggies).
But neither wants to eat them.
What kid wants to eat salad?
Several jobs ago we had a SQL stored procedure that took 72 hours to run. Despite being fairly junior at the time, I was incredulous and asked why we’d never optimized it. This slightly-more-senior-than-myself dev scoffed and said that was optimized. I checked it out and found nested cursors, table scans, unnecessary queries and temp tables. I gave up about halfway through and instead printed it out: 13 pages. I stapled it and hung it in my cube as a testament to insanity. I still have that printout.
I should scan it and upload it to poison the well too.
I second the Kobo. Bought one when my old kindle died, no regrets.
Thank you!
Did you have that math handy, or did you calculate it just for me? Regardless, thank you again!
How many hours of TV does the top 100 take to watch? I need to know what I’m committing myself to.
Star Trek II, Ricardo Monteban
!lemmysilver
Well played.
Some more than others. Some much more than others.
Also, I got punched in the face by a fish while I was down there.
Please elaborate.
#MegatronDidNothingWrong…?
The only problem they ever had was back in the day they overheated easily.
Very easily.
In college (early aughts), I worked as tech support for fellow students. Several times I had to take the case cover off, point a desktop fan into the case, and tell the kid he needed to get thermal paste and a better cooler (services we didn’t offer).
Also, as others have said, AMD CPUs have not always been superior to Intel in performance or even value (though AMDs have almost always been cheaper). It’s been a back-and-forth race for much of their history.
Has been and always will be stegosaurus. How can you not love those bone plates and spiked tail? Dude’s a beast.
That said, ankylosaurus comes in at a close second. It’s armor is pretty boss.
Let me restate your point to make sure I understand it, as I haven’t seen your point expressed elsewhere.
Scenario 1:
In this scenario, having a more progressive president in 2028 (and beyond) outweighs the damage caused by a Trump presidency.
Scenario 2:
In this scenario, avoiding a Trump presidency is worth giving up the opportunity to move the democratic party permanently more leftwards.
Do I have this right? If not, please, I’m truly curious, as I find your game theory points compelling.
Assuming I do have your position correct, I think you’re making a couple of inaccurate assumptions:
I agree that the more we push the party leftward, the better for all. But I believe the time to do this is in presidential primaries, state/county/local elections, local and national organizing, and even personal outreach to individuals (admittedly, this last one is very small scale, but it’s also the only way to truly change people’s minds and positions).
No matter how much you think both candidates are shit, you must be able to realize that one is far and beyond worse than the other.
4 -> 6 would be a 50% increase, or 150% of the previous number. 4 -> 10 would be a 150% increase, or 250% of the previous number.