So, a slight interruption into my normal content, but I am starting my last year (inshallah) of grad school, and starting to think about my capstone project. So if you're a follower with a more academic bent, I might reach out to you for advice. Feel free to tell me no.
@sgodofsk@R1Jack@allie__voss If you luck out you can get a kid with Downie-IQ (never diagnosed) but normal and thus with all the behavioral problems, too (ask me how I know)
@LiteralSheridan I will say that Thank You for Smoking was a fun read, although I didn't like the ending and also I suspect someone's ability to enjoy it is limited to people who remember 90s politics
Today should be Richard Best Day. Piloting a Dautless dive bomber, he sank two japanese carriers in battle of Midway.
He led his squadron in the attack despite an oxygen system malunction that burned his lungs and permanently disabled him. Hall of Fame American Hero. Unbeatable.
@MartinSkold2@GarrettPetersen Star Trek's entire force structure/breakdown doesn't make any sense, actually (mostly because we're shown so little of the crewmen's lives
@WASPmexicano There's a book called "The Missing of the Somme" by Geoff Dyer that discusses a lot how the public perception of WW1 is not how people generally felt in the 1920s and is mostly a product of the Great Depression and the rise of Hitler
there’s a video of some lady filming and judging a mom for changing her baby in the trunk of her SUV, being obnoxious over her not using the public restroom instead and number one, that’s weird af to film that and number two, I’m old enough to remember the PSA about the baby
@RogueWPA@jneeley78@jbarro My answer to Josh's question is "when many of them became failsons (or daughters)" though how much of that is simple elite overproduction and how much is a generation of strivers and grinds hitting the banks of career/life Hyphasis is debatable