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ITT people taking issue with parenting methods not even being advocated for. If you take your children to public places, of course everyone knows they are children, but they still shouldn’t be pulling stuff off racks, running around screaming and licking the windows, or putting hands on other people or children.

You don’t have to yell at them or beat them or anything else, but if they can’t pull themselves together in public then work on it and consider not bringing them to such places. My mom made us all repeat the rules before we left the car (no running, no putting things in the cart without being asked, keep one hand on the cart while we are moving or something like those) and if we didn’t follow the rules we all went back to the car. Simple as that.

Edit: sometimes you gotta go do something and take the kids. If they’re acting feral at least maybe don’t be the parent who looks like they are totally cool with it and just pretend it isn’t happening?

I just have a little too much fun arguing with people trying to rationalize something that really just doesn’t need to be rationalized to be valid

We have that in common.

It seems like there’s an argument for axes of rotation to be made but I can’t find it. Or at least why a sliding window isn’t the optimal steering strategy for first person gaming but I can’t find the race.

To be fair, I am not even (outside of flight based games like aerofighters assault once upon a time) an inverted thumb stick user…

I agree. But it still feels right for up and down which is the only thing at issue.

No reason up and down can’t make sense that way and left and right be for rotating a different axis. Like driving a car with a joystick doesn’t mean if you expect pushing forward makes it go forward then logically when you go left or right on the stick you expect the car to strafe.

Me: right stick

Computer: … Welp

Tipping makes sense. Idk it’s like if the joystick is the top of your character’s head.

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I mean it just needs to be unique. Otherwise what’s stopping someone else from pretending to be you (if they got control of some other credentials) or weaseling out of something you did in fact sign for.

To quote Mr burns “you can’t all sign with an x”.

Do not put salty, uncooked noodle shards in your prison hole.

Lol perpetual 7 inch teleport

You got me. I was taught incorrectly in high school. I always assumed it was the same thing as different pronouns in those particular cases for, as an example Spanish “se” vs “le”. You’ve made me a better member of the alt write, formerly grammar nazis.

Who*

“Whom” is an indirect object pronoun, not a direct object pronoun.

Because that fork has trisomy 21.

Sick band name

Frames like that are excellent birth control.

Full auto.

Thank you! I skimmed for that and gave up.

I have kids now so some of this applies less but!

I totally agree with you. I don’t usually have a checked bag when it’s just me, so there’s no waiting around the baggage claim to look forward to. I DO NOT stop to pull my overhead bag. I’ve either got it under my seat, already pulled it from the overhead, or I fuckin eyeball that thing like there’s about to be a missile intercept (because there is) and I grab and pull while I walk. Once I leave my seat there is no pause. In the same way, if I’m inside on the window, I’m watching for space and when middle seat moves I follow. None of this “oh shit I forgot the light turned green”.

Even now with kids we are only slightly slower than that. I have to let the gremlins (who you probably didn’t know were on the plane because they’ve been hyper entertained out of their fuckin minds) be line leader to walk off the plane and I need enough time to stand up and get the bags off the seat behind me onto my body to urban pack mule that shit out of here.

What I’m NOT doing is texting my boyfriend oblivious to the cues being presented to me, smashing through the line because I’m an inconsiderate fuckwit, or standing up when it’s my turn and gazing into the overheads like I’m lost in the Arby’s menu. Stage your shit and get the fuck off the plane without stopping, then walk like you got some place to be or move to the side. No big deal.

More importantly than any of that though, I’ve got this really weird superpower where I can listen to what the fuck the FAs say. If someone needs to get off the plane first, I can stay seated and wait for them to haul ass off the plane. Or at least I would, except it’s always like a herd of cattle with no awareness instantly reacting to the sound of the seatbelt light turning off no matter what.

“cryptic command like knowledge” which is mostly acquirable from 2 or 3 minutes reading the wiki.

Idk, I would probably just say it’s more flexible, but less discoverable.

Very succinctly so I don’t end up writing another wall, I generally agree with you on these points. Where we differ I think is that I feel context can add depth and richness (as in the Jester painting) but that the work itself should contain some INTRINSIC depth and richness.

The analog discussion I think we are having is “are placebos good medicine?”. Do you feel better after taking them? Sure. I suppose that makes it hard to say they are not medicine. At the same time, it’s the act of consuming them that gives them the effect, not anything to do with the content.

That sounds like a different kind of art altogether. The experiential kind of art where the point is the unspoken discussion between the artist and the audience, or just a commentary on the audience, is pretty cool. Marina Abramović is an icon of art in that category I would say.