Douglas Blaisdell

Avid Ponderer, Country Bumpkin, Engineer, History Buff, Firearms Enthusiast, Obscure Audiobook Fiend, Aspiring Objectivist, Ceaselessly Singing

[Douglas Blaisdell @eudaimoniacal]

Spending time with children, I’m experiencing a sort of culture shock.

Little boys and girls constantly call each other “bruh” like frat boys and the mullet has inexplicably made a comeback.

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I can spontaneously stop my hiccups on command. Is this normal?

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One of my favorite lecture series to listen to was Leonard Peikoff’s The History of Philosophy, so I was ecstatic to find out Amanda had a tape set of the missing second half of the series that goes from Kant to Rand. I’m so excited to listen to it!

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I have really struggled to identify the common thread in the extremely eclectic collection of music I listen to. When people ask me what kind of music I like, I genuinely have no idea what to tell them. Just very specific songs in random disparate genres 😅

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@DrMaxham 5 out of 5 sheep zombies vote for the brains

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I feel like a moron whenever someone asks me how old I am.

While I could always give an immediate reply as a kid, I have to take a minute to calculate it now.

I simply spend zero time thinking about my current age in daily life, so my age doesn’t get updated in my memory 🤷‍♂️

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It’s terrifying to me to have a doctor try to explain to me what my zodiac sign means about my personality. I thought middle school girls were the only ones who took horoscopes 100% seriously until I started spending time in California

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So, I’ve been to a couple smog check kiosks for the first time in my life. These are some of the most jank businesses I have ever seen

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Sometimes I wonder if garbage bins are specially designed to be as loud as possible when you roll them out to the curb

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I saw my first Waymo self-driving taxis this week. They look so crazy

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Me: …and Susan B. Anthony had taught school there.

My girlfriend: Oh, is that where she sewed that flag?

We were both laughing so hard 🤣

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I know I parked by a brand new Mercedes and a sports car on a nice California street, but come on, this hurts my poor Camry’s feelings

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My girlfriend was looking at a list of state populations yesterday. Her conclusion was, “Let’s move to Wyoming.” Hell yeah.

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@DrMaxham It definitely sounds like a place the government needs to preserve

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@dsutherland00 That’s amazing!

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Unexpected downside to being back on Eastern Time: no one has posted anything for me to doomscroll early in the morning before getting out of bed

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Going back and forth between rural Idaho and LA is a strange, surreal experience. One day I’m going to a gun show in the local elementary school gym and the next I’m having lunch with someone who actually believes in astrology. It’s hard to believe these two worlds coexist.

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@HippyMomPhD @_samantha_joy @seanjs Having attended @KetteringU, I highly recommend it. I wouldn’t go as far as to say it is the best way to learn, but you get tons of work experience if developing that is your goal. Plus working a co-op full-time half the year makes it much easier to pay for school.

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@DrMaxham 😬

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@DrMaxham Did I just nuggetify the chicken??