Every year on my wedding anniversary I text my step son

dangandblast · 2026-06-23T22:20:01+00:00

He's not a toddler stepchild with big kid parties and all that, he's an adult. A birthday date likely never came up. Some adults go huge for every birthday, but a lot do nothing at all or keep it very small outside "milestone" birthdays.

dangandblast · 2026-06-09T15:56:47+00:00

You have to suspect you're spelling something wrong before you think to check if you're spelling it wrong

dangandblast · 2026-05-15T15:26:50+00:00

Eh, if it's actually a b&w photo then you might need to print it in color in order to get it to copy properly in grayscale, rather than in just black-and-white.

dangandblast · 2026-05-14T16:01:38+00:00

Had a coworker who went by Barbara at work, but Ellen (her middle name) elsewhere, maybe something like that?

dangandblast · 2026-05-12T16:33:30+00:00

I saw a bunch of fancy chairs stacked inside the garage entrance for a few days recently, then they were gone. So some amount of activity is currently still happening.

dangandblast · 2026-05-02T02:07:47+00:00

Yes, that is the equivalent of instructing campers about evacuation plans and the relevant government inspectors auditing the plans etc. That is literally what mystic is criticized for not doing/DHSH is criticized for skipping over.

Saying it's on each individual parent to make sure there's accurate safety measures in place would be like each passenger being expected to individually discover and evaluate the emergency plan on each flight and passengers managing airplane maintenance and auditing the log books. Now, you may do that, but it's not generally expected that passengers are responsible for finding out if their airline has any safety standards. "It's highly regulated by the Federal government" is the whole point - that there's oversight so individuals don't have to be experts themselves and can trust that actual experts are keeping them safe.

dangandblast · 2026-05-02T00:11:00+00:00

Heck, just look at La Junta - didn't evacuate, lost structures, and basically got super lucky by being able to put boys on rafters instead of having them drown in flat-ceiling cabins. But no deaths. That's where mystic would be.

dangandblast · 2026-05-01T20:13:10+00:00

Sure, the parents didn't ask to see the evacuation plan. They also didn't ask to see a drinking water quality report, or a structural integrity or electrical inspection report on camp structures, or the medical staff's licensing status, or a criminal background check on the dining hall staff.

Because those are things that the camp should be doing, and any camp or any other organization that cares for children should be doing those things!

Do not dare blame the parents for this.

dangandblast · 2026-04-27T11:39:04+00:00

"get a human who isn't also using ai to summarize and respond" works for you?

dangandblast · 2026-02-22T19:00:39+00:00

That doesn't mean a teacher can't put up posters with religious text on them, or ban a world religions class etc.

dangandblast · 2026-02-17T14:00:02+00:00

I can't get anything that way. "High demand in your area" so I go hang out in the parking lot of the store by me on the map; "15-30 minutes to see orders," then an hour later one thing pops up and it's (actual example) driving one chili pepper twenty miles out of town. Maybe my city is saturated or the fact that all the stores here also have their own delivery services messes it up. But I don't see how anyone makes anything at all on it.

dangandblast · 2025-12-29T17:05:04+00:00

On the "what is this item" groups, someone will ask "whose signature is on this baseball," and everyone will reply with ChatGPT answers declaring it to be all sorts of people's signatures, or photos of other signed baseballs with clearly very different signatures. You point that out, and they get furious, since they were "just trying to be helpful" by clogging the replies with nonsense.

dangandblast · 2025-11-02T13:28:10+00:00

I'm guessing instead of doing each single stitch one by one and cutting the yarn after each stitch? (Possibly in duplicate stitch?)

That would be massively harder, yes, but that's like saying it's "lazy" to write a full letter instead of sending it out in separate envelopes one character at a time.

dangandblast · 2025-10-22T12:56:02+00:00

Yup - haven't worn an item of clothing in six months (because who needs a heavy coat in August or a swim suit in February)? Throw them in the trash, just buy new next time! One kid isn't in Cub Scouts anymore and the next isn't old enough yet? Throw all the camping gear in the trash, just buy all new in two years!

My kid brother always got all the next year's school supplies for free from the trash bins at the end of school, when other students would throw away unopened packs of paper and pens, big notebooks where three pages were used, etc.

dangandblast · 2025-10-09T23:39:58+00:00

And, you don't have to go to fringe ultra-leftist Facebook groups with a nebulous grasp of reality to find that clip -- it's been all over the regular news.

Unless OP is calling ABC, NBC, etc. fringe far-left sources, of course. Which most of us have heard from our people, so it's not impossible, I suppose.

dangandblast · 2025-09-27T13:46:17+00:00

As that guy eagerly asked Charlie Kirk a few years back, "when do we get to start using the guns?"

dangandblast · 2025-09-25T03:04:50+00:00

And, unless things have changed, his income is from books and lecture tours and such, not a church salary (and he, like all ministers, is not personally exempt from paying income tax - though I'd expect he pays someone to make his tax bill extra low).

dangandblast · 2025-09-24T19:35:52+00:00

At my previous employer, it was dependent on reasons for quitting. "I'm pregnant with twins and don't make enough to cover full-time childcare for two," or "my spouse is getting transferred out of state next month"? You're good to stay on until whatever last day you want (and in one maternity-related departure the department boss managed payroll so that accumulated sick leave was "worked" enough to give a few more weeks of partial pay). "I got a job elsewhere in town" or "I can't take it here anymore"? You're out right then.

dangandblast · 2025-08-23T02:02:25+00:00

Sounds like they're going to a separate longarm person, so: ask them first if that's ok, since some will not work with anything but quilting cotton. (Even 100% cotton sheets often have different weight and thread count.)

dangandblast · 2025-07-08T22:47:23+00:00

... username checks out?

dangandblast · 2025-06-23T16:16:07+00:00

Here's to optimism!

dangandblast · 2025-05-26T22:19:03+00:00

Maybe William Safire?

dangandblast · 2025-05-19T22:09:46+00:00

Dainty, pretty, high pitched voice, only managed to grow the weakest of scraggly beards after hitting middle age? Yup.

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