Ok, I also don't like glamorizing a cooperation but I'll let folks in on something as a parent; kids genuinely are interested in occupational stuff, especially if they see it regularly. Just at Target, for instance, they sell kid sized target branded cashier make believe stuff. And I do mean branded, with all the store brand names and everything.

I'm not getting my kid this mostly cause I'd rather not support the brands, but I do think it's important to let kids know that it's ok to work these jobs if that's your deal. If anything, we as adults need to make the jobs give a living wage and not be expoitive, and to do that, you also have to teach the next generation that these jobs have value.

(And honestly, I prefer it over glamorizing police or military, which we've done with toys and events since forever!)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles

I will be looking deeper later myself when less busy, haha.

Feels like an insult to guys in photos just living their best life with rubber ducks.

Obligatory fun fact, Bob Ross speaks the way he does because, in military boot camp, he felt like everyone was too aggresive and angry and he promised himself he would never use that tone with people.

I remember that story mostly cause I like the image in my mind if a Bob Ross really not fitting in in the military, haha.

Man, is it something about kblin that makes people think everything is a conspiracy? These comments are something else, It's such a benign post lol

Keep posting, jeffw, someone has to keep news feeds going one way or another. I appreciate it at least!

Oh, this guy's probably lying but this happened to me growing up. By law they couldn't just evict us when the land developer wanted to turn the apartment complex into condos, but they didn't want to buy us out either. Here's what they did:

(1) Raised rent as much as they legally could as often as they could, and (2) Run renovation construction on the building as early as they could for as long as they could, which at it turns out, was several years of high school, and a year of college. Jackhammers, man.

Luckily, their plan backfired in large part because my dad was a functioning alcoholic in IT who was somehow able to pay for extra rent increases yet also didn't have his shit together enough to look for a new place to live. Going back a decade and some change later, the entire block is generated with new asshole-modern condos except that one shit hole apartment building we lived in, haha.

I like that even a well paying job sounds ridiculous when paid out in equivalent hashbrowns. Look at Mr. IT over there, earning over fifteen hashies an hour. Must be nice eating so many hashies, yum yum.

Bezos made 7.9 million an hour, so converted to the new metric, he's eating 2.25 million hashbrowns an hour. Seems a bit excessive, you're definitely going to have indigestion.

I mean, I want one but that's still unaffordable for me and like, a vast majority of people. Beautiful car, though.

My pro move is too change halfway in the same clip so at some point the orientation is just wrong no matter what you do. I also do diagonal shots.

I'm not allowed to film anymore.

I'm also annoyed by it. I get why it exists, as I've met people with zero clue about drive space, but Windows really shouldn't permanently attach training wheels to the bike.

I'd love a Windows hard mode button, but I guess that's just Linux now. If only work didn't need me to have Windows.

You know, even before COVID-19, there would be flu, rsv, etc. outbreaks and there would barely be a blerb about it. People would send kids to school sick, literally everyone would catch it, and it sucked. Maybe less lethal, but it still sucked. And I always caught whatever was going around cause we just didn't have the culture here.

At least now there's more recognition, some people might wear masks, and there's a fighting chance I don't catch the thing everyone gets that season (at least in California where it's still ok to wear a mask without ridicule).

Except my sister gave me COVID two months ago since I let her stay here to avoid homelessness. Can't fix bad habit family members, and getting a false negative on a test gave her confidence to get me and my baby sick. Ugh, bad times.