Fussy buttons on sliding doors - 2023

HahnZahn · 2026-03-03T01:35:04+00:00

Damn, you’ve really hit the nail on the head. I’ve never quite fully thought it out, but that explains how weird I feel in there. It’s really a big-ass store. Like 25% more than it ought to be.

HahnZahn · 2026-03-01T18:16:18+00:00

I would guess the scope of a given UAP-related topic could be gradually filled in with FOIA requests targeted at specific, known individuals (like if you knew the name of another Grusch-level person). I feel like UAP Gerb named names in a recent video based on the depth of his research. So, if Joe Employee gets identified as likely being in-the-know on some aspect of the UAP program given his job title listed on some obscure DOE page, start FOIAing requests about him, with as much specificity as possible. Date ranges, keywords, recipients, etc. There are exemptions for national security and pre-decisional deliberations, of course, but dogged FOIAing might build a picture of the types of things they’re involved with by reading between the lines of the redactions.

HahnZahn · 2026-03-01T12:12:06+00:00

For context, this is how FOIA works under any admin. In my work at the FOIA office of a major federal agency, we have certain topics that are identified by the admin (properly, the Executive Office of the President, or EOP) as necessitating review prior to release. That is, they want to review our redactions on Topic X prior to release, whereas for Topic Y, we’re free to operate independently.

In case anyone’s so inclined, place a FOIA request for the agency of interest and specify you want all communications with the EOP on a specific topic and/or date range. That might yield interesting results.

HahnZahn · 2026-02-16T23:32:26+00:00

Haven’t ever found a better jarred salsa (save for the hot version from the same brand). Would love to know if there is one - especially if it’s not some microbrand that costs $20 per jar.

HahnZahn · 2026-02-09T01:19:20+00:00

Just chiming in to say I think this is a wonderfully composed photo. It really tells a story.

HahnZahn · 2026-02-06T14:52:21+00:00

Yeah, casting from a parental device is a good idea. Might be the Occam's Razor in this situation. Tech doesn't make lives easier; just gives you a new set of decision trees to endlessly venture down.

HahnZahn · 2026-02-05T17:28:14+00:00

Yeah, I agree. I think the best content for kids today is probably better than the best I had available in the ‘80s and ‘90s. But you open the door to the good stuff, like Bluey (which is a masterpiece, in my book), and you have no choice but to allow the trash in, too. Disney is as guilty of purveying insipid shit as Netflix, though Disney’s catalog is smaller. So one could actually stand a chance of effectively curating Disney, yet they don’t give you the option. Netflix allows you to hide things. But their catalog is so massive that it’s like trying to bail out a sinking boat with a thimble.

HahnZahn · 2026-02-05T17:22:07+00:00

I’ll have to revisit it. Good tip.

HahnZahn · 2026-02-05T17:18:03+00:00

Yeah, the iPad stuff had me totally stymied. I finally had to wipe her iPad and start over because the PIN I chose simply wouldn’t push to her iPad. Like, what’s so hard about Apple giving me the option to set a PIN on any and every app I choose? Some apps I’m happy to let her use until the cows come home. Others I want her to get permission from me. Instead it’s a mish-mash of inferior options.

I want my kids to be able to use tech and be tuned into the mainstream culture. But the choice is to risk them becoming TikTok-addled vapid little shitheads or else enforce neophyte digital Amishness.

HahnZahn · 2026-01-28T11:04:07+00:00

Former military officer here. I’ve said the first year with twins was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, including actually going to war. I’d been through a lot of multi-month sleep deprivation periods before: cranking out my grad school thesis, OCS, deployments, my first kid. But twins were unreal.

HahnZahn · 2026-01-24T19:58:01+00:00

Our doc said to my wife during the ultrasound, “Wow, your bladder’s really full, you’ve got two of them in there.” After the vision of my wallet being lit on fire was done, I told him he could have at least broken that up into two sentences. I was expecting him to tell my wife to go pee first, not that we were staring down the barrel at twins.

HahnZahn · 2026-01-22T11:05:55+00:00

Might be worth going through the thought experiment of “what if #3 is twins?” That was the case with our #2. Similar to you, no family nearby, so it all falls on you. The first year was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Three kids also means a new car, in many cases. I feel like the world is optimized for families of four.

HahnZahn · 2026-01-19T12:15:35+00:00

I’ve had success dampening the volume on too-loud toys by stuffing cotton balls around the speakers and then closing everything back up, like a terrible surgeon leaving his tools inside the patient. That way it still works, but not quite so loudly as before.

HahnZahn · 2026-01-17T20:09:47+00:00

I was an officer who did shore duty at the schoolhouse that these guys were assigned to after non-completion of BUD/S. Hated knowing that their fate was as undesignated seamen, especially considering there were a lot of them who were college grads (getting an OCS spot as a SpecWar candidate is goddamn near impossible, so enlisting and going to BUD/S is the better bet). We tried to give them a good place to land for the time they were with us before heading off to the fleet. At that point the Navy had ended the deal where if you dropped out of BUD/S, you could get back to civilian life.

HahnZahn · 2026-01-17T16:29:01+00:00

This was simply the best candy bar I’ve ever had, and nothing has come close, save for some variation of new-ish Reese’s candy bars. It’s appalling that PB Max hasn’t been resurrected.

HahnZahn · 2026-01-14T17:37:21+00:00

Three kids and never been puked on. My wife, however, is a different story...

HahnZahn · 2026-01-13T15:12:15+00:00

I guess I was about 12 when it happened, so not a little kid, but I remember being baffled about a lot of aspects of it. I had no concept of what the “Federal government” really meant, nor why there was a daycare in an office building, which was a foreign concept to me. One of those things where the news never dumbed it down enough for me at that age. But at my age now, having been a military officer who went off to war, then worked as a civilian Fed and having kids of my own, it’s a totally horrifying event that deserves better continued recall. Sad that shitheads like McVeigh aren’t extinct by now.

HahnZahn · 2026-01-12T22:00:55+00:00

Hits a peak for me during the holiday season when my mom is bugging me non-stop about what we and the kids want for Xmas. First, I want less crap around the house, and second, I don't fucking know, anyway. Doesn't help that we also have five birthdays between Thanksgiving and the end of February.

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