dracaena marginalia

lol I went to college with some kids from Hotchkiss and whew is that description a stretch.

who could possibly have seen this coming

I'm so sorry, Bitters. She was a good girl 🩷

I also have this One Weird post-Covid symptom, which is that now, every time I get a virus, 4-6 weeks later my toes get sore and swollen for a few weeks. I would love to never have that happen again!

My kids bring home so many different respiratory infections every school year, I could be their Rosetta Stone of viruses

Ok legit if they need volunteers for a clinical trial of this, sign me UP.

an elderly woman says it 's been 84 years ... Alt: Titanic lady says it's been 84 years ...

The oldest I have ever felt was when I called my pediatrician's office before I started grad school to see if they could send my vax records and the receptionist was like "from how long ago? Oh, sorry, we only keep paper records for 20 years."

Ooh interesting, definitely something to chew on; I feel like there is something to tease out here re: pushing back on Protestant values and the concept of predestination.

(I think there are, of course, many cases where people do their utmost to protect their kids, and fail, and that doesn't make them bad parents. In this case, I'm hard pressed to give people grace for a variety of reasons.)

Yeah, I guess my take on this is, they might not be "bad people" per se, but I'd argue one id the key features of being a good parent is protecting your offspring from harm, and at that very basic level, they are failing *regardless of motivation*

I mean, I feel this response deeply lol

I always figure "well, yes, that is indeed probably how I look after 30 hours of travel in the back of a plane" lol

Same (though it helps that I am apparently the only person in the world with my name)

just heard a guy on youtube say "in the grand scream of things"

Oh my god this is perfection

1. Merchant marine/preschool teacher/poet and 2. Defense contractor/engineer-turned-owner of a garden center

Ok but also he is an idiot, so.

Ohhh yeah it hadn't occurred to me that he was imagining himself as the protagonist of a mediocre action movie but...this is definitely it.

But now I really need to know: would he go one one of those Segway tours, or is he afraid of being taken down by someone on a skateboard

I guess he is imagining being the passenger, and like...opening the door and rolling out while it's in motion?

Also one hot dog feeds two children, so it's really even more like 75 cents/kid.

Interesting - I agree on urban being highest; it would also be really interesting to look at political polarization - are more politically homogeneous places more likely to be higher-trust? Does it matter which way they lean? And to how large of a unit (town, county, state) does trust extend?

LOL yes, perfect; I will consider this as I gaze lovingly at my collection of corporate fleeces.

with respect, no. The US military murdered 175 schoolgirls because it chose to outsource decision-making to a robot.

Oh, like when people say "fuh-NANCE" instead of "FEYE-nance"

I pronounce it like I really believe in the river, but idk if that makes me sound like a Dirty Commoner

Back in ~2016, my then-preschooler used to measure time in "Sofias"

Few farmers, lots of sailors

And, how does using it to write the formulaic stuff (which we used to give to junior staff as essentially a practice round) prepare them when we get a request for something truly creative?

Agreed - I'm seeing this now with proposal writing - it is legitimately faster--when I need a formulaic response to very directive terms of reference--to have copilot draft it and then I can go in and edit/refine. But how do junior staff know if what they have is reasonable or shit?