marzhall @ marzhall @lemmy.world

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Y'know you jest, but when I was very young I didn't understand why all the other kids I could just call by their first name, but the girl across the street I had to call "Miss Shell"

I have a take on this that I think no one will have fun with:

In my opinion there is no moral way to keep a cat as a pet.

Allowing cats to roam as they desire results in the aforementioned ecological damage. The opposite - keeping cats locked in a few thousand feet at best for twenty-odd years of life - is cruel.

As someone who was raised in the woods with outdoor cats and couldn't imagine keeping them inside - even though we lost two as I grew up - it's a circle I just can't square. So I figure that if and when I get cats, I'll dodge the question and adopt some older cats who were already raised inside and couldn't be trusted to go outside safely anyway.

Honestly, the most surprising and exciting moment was seeing the dog being pet in Daemon X Machina 2. Not being able to do that was torture in the first game

Lol, right? I can't even imagine the PDF in my mind, much less rotate it

Thank god I at least can rotate it using a computer or I'd be stuck

We had some that grew right under the faucet outside, and I'd share grab some and throw it in the tea when we were making iced tea. Tried it years later with dried leaves, it didn't compare.

For sure. It's the classic:

Reading this now, and it strikes me as all the things I should have been taught about the Nazis beyond just the enormity of their cruelty:

Most important of all, how often just a little pushback stopped them stupid.

A student strike in German-occupied Belgium was enough pushback to stop the enforcement of the extradition of Jewish people there.

Italy, an ally at the beginning, would just say they would extradite their Jewish population, then not actually do it, in a loop, leaving the Germans frustrated simply by being lied to to their face and incapable of making progress.

You're left with a picture of a bunch of bureaucrats following orders who are incapable of comprehending disobedience nor knowing how to handle it.

Also kills the opening line of snowcrash,

"the sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel"

Not to mention the small joys of tuning to the "encrypted" 18+ channels in the hopes of seeing a nip in the fog

Definitely, but I actually just use the spatula to scramble - so no bowl to clean and no fork either! The bottoms of the eggs grab the pan as they cook, so it doesn't really require much whipping power to get 'em good and scrambled. 100% recommend

The other thing I learned from shouty chef: the salt goes in at the end, when they're almost done. They're much creamier that way, you don't get the 'egg water' separating from the eggs

Sure, but how do you get them to vote about it?

Turnout at the polls is definitely impacted by:

• knowing something is even being voted on
• being reminded and having expanded how important something is
• just perceiving other people are going to go vote too

and so it's important to discuss something that's going to be voted on, even if the audience has already made up their mind.

Started doing that a year or two ago when I saw a video with that chef who gets real mad about everything where he lazy scrambled, and I was like, huh, you know what? Why the hell am I wasting a whole bowl that I have to clean?

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tl;dr: price gouging sparked by bird flu. Shame their ticker isn't $SCAM

If he suddenly really wants to do his laundry one morning, don't ask questions. (Wet dreams and embarassment being the context here.)

That's about all I can think of that's gendered, really.

I was ~9 when I got the talk from my Dad, and it was basic stuff about just the mechanics. It set things up so that, around 13, I went to him with questions about how I was feeling re: puberty. So even now it'll be helpful to do the talk and show that you're available as a resource.

In your case, your son likely has some idea from internet pornography and whatever he got in school, but it would still be helpful to go through the basics with him. I'd frame it as "I'm sure you know most of this, but i just want to make sure you know what's important." It might also be helpful to make clear that pornography is as much acting as TV is - don't set his expectations on it, it's people faking things for money.

Going over the importance of condom use also helpful at his age. Keep in mind, it's not necessarily about what he's going to use right away, but making sure he knows when he does need to know.

Then, I'd just be there for him and ask if he has any questions, and answer them frankly. Tell him he can come back later if he's unsure.

It's awkward and tough I'm sure, but it'll be a help not just now, but going forward. Good luck!

Damned if I went looking for it and couldn't find it. I've since lent it to an intern, put it in a funny place, moved twice, wasn't anywhere I hoped.

In any case, I'll try to recreate what I remember of "What I Heard 1.0":

• Daft Punk - One More Time
• Kavinsky - Nightcall
• Benny Bennassi - E.T remix
• Madeon - Yelle Que Veux Tu remix
• Eric Prydz - Call On Me
• Lemaitre - Blue Shift
• Digitalism - Blitz
• Justice - D. A. N. C. E
• Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand but a remix that said "Adam Jensen" which I can't find :(
• Digitalism - Circles
• Daft Punk - Digital Love
• Studio Killers - Ode to the Bouncer

YouTube playlist here!!

There is one missing track here as far as I remember - a Benny Bennasi bomb that I've looked for many times over the years, but haven't found. And I've listened to a lot of Benny Benassi :(. Hopefully the CD shows up one day!

Edit: added nightcall, remembered I had that on there!

Geeze, I gotta make sure never to wear a Daft Punk shirt to bed, I'll wake up Around the World.

At a buddy's wedding. Said buddy had endured college years in my car with my one mix CD, which included the classic "Call On Me" that he'd heard so many times it had become a running joke - and which one night when he was out switching his laundry, he heard in the distance at surreal volume and realized that there was an apartment close to us that was blasting it, just as I happened to be walking from that direction (and jamming to it).

Well, of course, it started blasting at his wedding twelve years later, and we went mad - I gave him props, and he said he didn't ask for it, the DJ just picked the right jam. Was a great moment.

Every birthday card with your name in it is for you.