Because the rest of us respect people who create things.

Do you have one with fewer pixels? I had a big breakfast.

I find that a little witty.

Pro tip: you can save 1/3 words by just saying “I agree.”

Quiet people serve as a mirror to people who can’t shut up. That becomes uncomfortable for people who don’t like what they see.

On the other hand some people could stand to say a little less.

Lemmy has pretty active communities for both bunnies and foxes.

That’s a good point, but is it free? Can I use it without giving Apple any money, or do I need to have an Apple product to run it on?

My job isn’t important, but I make good money and my work-life balance is excellent. I get to spend time with my wife, my kids, and my cats. So I’m good with it.

I’ve never been able to picture myself at an important job. I don’t know what that would be.

I’ve had my LG for like six years, no problem. I even connected it to the internet.

Plastic straw pollution doesn’t have a measurable impact on the environment.

The entire thing about banning plastic straws comes from some high schooler using back-of-a-napkin math to guess how many straws are in the ocean in what was clearly a successful attempt at starting a science fair project the night before it was due. Some news station picked it up, and then a bunch of science-illiterates ran away with it.

You can’t determine the impact of pollution by count. Straws are tiny and weigh almost nothing. If you skip buying one pair of sneakers in your life, then you’ve successfully reduced your plastic use by almost a lifetime of plastic straws.

Removing plastic straws is probably the single least impactful way to reduce plastic pollution. It’s pure virtue signaling: it’s about presenting an image of being environmentally conscious while doing effectively nothing to help the environment.

I learned to touch-type QWERTY in late 90s chat rooms. By 2006, I was bragging about my 100 WPM speed in my online dating profile. I met one girl who challenged me to a typing contest. She won, then I won, and then we called it a draw. We’ve been married for 13 years and had our third child last month.

When I was learning to touch type, I found it helpful to practice in my head even when I was away from the keyboard. Like whatever I’m thinking about, I’m picturing a keyboard in my head and where each letter of each word is. It slows my thoughts down a little, but that’s not always a bad thing.

Technically I’m in a city. It’s just suburban and car-centric. If they wanted to make it more walkable and add public transport, I’d love that, as long as my kids still have their space to ride bikes, and my wife still has her car.

Even then it’s fairly walkable. I walk my daughter to school when the weather and time allow for it. I could walk to a grocery store; I just couldn’t transport my groceries home.

But that wasn’t the question.

If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?

Could I afford it? Yes. Would I do it? No.

I live on a suburban cul-de-sac where my kids can go outside and ride bikes with the neighbors. Also my wife is handicapped, so a car is kind of essential for her. When we lived in an apartment the long walk from the garage to our door was difficult for her.

Other than those things, I’d much prefer to live in a walkable city. Maybe when I retire, if we can find the right place.

Peanut butter, jelly, bread.

But if I’m doing it healthy, then add eggs, spinach, blueberries, yogurt.

But why would they do that? Besides opening themselves up to getting caught and informing extra people who didn’t need to know, why try to rush the announcement at all?

If there was no benefit to anyone, then it’s more likely that this was actually a typo.

There’s obviously a coverup here, but I don’t see why making the announcement as quickly as possible would benefit that coverup.

I think we just need to revise the laws to say that a cop’s testimony doesn’t have any more weight than anyone else’s testimony unless it’s backed up by their bodycam.

Taking cops at their word made sense when we didn’t have this technology. It doesn’t make sense anymore.

It seems like it should be unnecessary, like we already have ways of conveying this sentiment, so why have a button with such a narrow function?

But on the other hand, making it normal for people to admit their mistakes online? That would be a huge step forward. And if there’s a button there for it, it would get used.

I wanted to be a writer or maybe an artist. I figured I had to do something creative and big, because I could never picture myself doing a normal 9-5 with a wife and kids or whatever. I was smart, but I was a bad student and couldn’t force myself to put in the work.

Turns out it was just undiagnosed ADHD. Now I work as a systems analyst (Excel guy) with a wife and two kids. Later today or tomorrow it’ll be three kids.

I’m lucky. My job is interesting sometimes, but mostly it’s easy and I get to spend the important parts of my day being a dad, which it turns out I love.

Sometimes I draw for fun as a creative outlet. I’ve made a few webcomics. I’m working on a longer comic for my daughter featuring a character she made up called “Princess Super Speed Girl”.