You don’t necessarily need to be old enough to remember the song.

You just need to have grown up with parents that loved playing the soundtrack to Forrest Gump

I got that ‘just one more level’ in my game but have sacrificed sleep I need for work in the morning. Huzzah!

Also the first Canadian to eat a carrot

Real men do whatever they want

There’s a part of me that hopes willfully ignorant parents do go to measles parties specifically because the lesson they chose to ignore will instead be learned the hard way.

On a more positive note, Wells reported that the outbreak has seemed to sway some vaccine-hesitant parents to get their children vaccinated. Just yesterday in Lubbock, over 50 children came into the city’s clinic for measles vaccines. Eleven of those children had vaccine exemptions, meaning their parents had previously gone through the state process to exempt their child from having to receive routine childhood vaccines to attend school. “Which is a really good sign; that means our message is getting out there,” Wells said.

I’m doing my small part.

Went from 100% lurker on Reddit to regularly active lemmy commenter

All babies looks ugly to me

Yeah this is in line with how I see babies and kids, so that’s gonna explain some of it. It’s definitely an unwritten rule to say babies are cute.

Though my cousin had a couple kids and the youngest was the exception to the rule when he was like 2-6, just the cutest little thing.

So I don’t know.

It goes a step beyond for me.

I look at kid pictures of myself and think I was an ugly looking baby. Everyone else thinks I was cute. Which I take to mean everyone is being polite, but I couldn’t care less because I don’t remember being that kid whatsoever.

They’ve been doing this for years.

It’s why I’ve made a ‘save for later’ collection of things I either use on the regular like my favorite soap or face cleanser, or really low cost things ($1 or less) I could make use of like single use eyewash to put in a first aid kit, things like that.

Annoying that I have to play their stupid little game, but this lets me bump it past 35 without it being wasteful

Kind of a tangent, but this is probably a good opportunity to throw out there that Amazon is pretty often not the lowest cost place to buy something these days. For example, I needed a specific but simple hand tool and Amazon wanted $5-6 for it but the harbor freight on the way to work costs $2. Worth a second search

French supreme court*

That’s true they’re pretty good now.

The context of my comment that you had no way of knowing is I’ve got a family member who is into photography, like buy themselves a 3k camera from something or other fancy brand level of interest in it. You can tell there’s a difference, even on my newer iPhone.

But yeah it’s pretty darn good for a pocket camera!

Fascinating, thanks for the link.

I’m no photographer but I do whip out the phone while out on a trail somewhere and occasionally go out near sunrise or sunset. I know using a phone will never be real camera quality but it’s fun to try anyway. Article has my gears turning on where those special times could yield interesting results

What are these, enchiladas for ants? Yes, it is. For a family of ants

If they keep attacking all my favorite streaming sites then I guess I’ll have to finally figure out this torrenting and Usenet thing.

Funny that you posted this now. I spent half of my day pruning bookmarks and all I got done was whittling it to 3600 from at least 5000.

Before today I’ve gone 15 years not ever trying to manage them…and will probably not touch them again because another round sounds like work.

How could you forget to mention the dumbest name for a MacGuffin ever, “Unobtainium”?

It’s so bad that it belongs on mystery science theater 3000

Brave New World

We’re already living it

This guy has it right. That’s basically my mom’s kitchen gadget drawer. Junk drawer has duct tape, 3 leftover zip ties, some loose AA batteries and the big screwdriver everyone seems to have

Was just looking at something like how to execute on that this morning as my morning coffee dive down an internet rabbit hole.

There’s this guy named Michael Bazzell who used to make a podcast about stuff like this, and he also wrote a book called Extreme Privacy that I thumbed through this morning. He talks about where to go to get a ghost address, how to buy and set up a cell phone to be virtually anonymous, how to buy a house anonymously or how to re-title your car to a trust or LLC, and pretty much everything in between. Even talks about what information to not divulge when you go to the ER and details what to consider you put on your kids birth certificate.

So if anyone is paranoid enough to know how to avoid getting suicided, I’m going to bet on this guy’s advice

See, if I had that guys place you would find these 4 utensils in the sink because I’m a monster