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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/parenting@lemmy.world

Title.

We're planning to get the kiddo a puppy for Christmas and while reading Sterling, the Best ~~Fork~~ Dog Ever it occurred to me that I could blend in bits of wisdom about caring for a dog (no, puppies do NOT go in the dishwasher).

Are there any other Pre-K level books that could be a fun bed time story while also driving home that doggies will drink water when they want, you don't have to force them to drink?

[-] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

Battlestar Galactica will always be my comfort apocalypse.

[-] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

Please elaborate

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Put another way: What happens to the S&P 500 when the Baby Boomers see a spike in death rates and their estate liquidates their assets?

[-] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 months ago

Isn't that the shtick of ::: spoiler PIC's Jurati-Borg ::: ?

[-] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 months ago

"I'm here to apply for the position of your Next Bad Decision. My parents always said I was a mistake, so I think that makes me well qualified."

That's literally how I got my wife.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

It appears that Sync sorts by numbers > Capital Case > lower case, as noted by !RimWorldPorn being sorted above !android rather than with !rimworld in the subscriptions list as I would have expected.

It's a small thing but just seemed odd. Is this intended?

App version is v24.03.26-14:56 (122)

[-] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago

I dunno, Makita and some Milwaukee tools are absolutely worth the money, especially if you're willing to buy into their battery ecosystem.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/daystrominstitute@startrek.website

Many times Star Trek has taken us to the future only to reset the status quo at the end of the story arc. Tapestry (but in reverse?), that time Voyager crashed in the ice, and all that.

How likely is it that Discovery went to a mutable future, just one of many, especially with the Temporal Cold War, Carl, Q, Trelane, Janeway, the HMS Bounty, and any number of other temporally active agents out there in time? How locked in is the 32nd Century?

[-] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 11 months ago

Since you chose CDB, here is an interesting bit of trivia about that song in particular:

The song uses a clever play on words to promote Southern rock music. ... The "it" that the South is going to do again, it is implied, is to produce additional popular rock groups.

Daniels factually bristled at more nefarious interpretations of what the "it" was. ... Daniels told Billboard, "I'm damn proud of the South, but I sure as hell am not proud of the Ku Klux Klan. I wrote the song about the land I love and my brothers. It was not written to promote hate groups."

Maybe use the songs as an opportunity for discussion ... or save it for your kid-free time.

[-] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 11 months ago

But it's not Fallout in Space. I can travel from one edge of the map to the other in Fallout or Skyrim and stumble upon a pitched battle or a cultist ritual or a lost dog or a juicy plot hook. In Starfield I can travel from one interstitial area to the next interstitial area to listen to a bland NPC tell me to go to the next interstitial area.

It's okay. I look forward to mods. Right now it's like somebody reskinned Super Mario Bros from the NES with a generative image AI trained on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day and Mass Effect 1 stills.

[-] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you enable developer options and then disable animations, your phone will feel 1000% faster on any OS.

[-] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

Make sure you have a towel. I say this as a guy who dried off after showers with an old tshirt the first week after I moved because I am a great planner.

Extend that to other less glamorous essentials. Think about the mundane things you use daily that blend into the background.

[-] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

Looks kinda like the OG tricorder Spock carried in TOS.

https://trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/tos-tricorder.jpg

[-] r_thndr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

To be fair, capitalism seeks the lowest market clearance price. Until price hikes start showing a lower net return, prices will go up.

Not that I care, me cap'n's hat never left the boat.

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