Demanding or needing one is certainly childish. Constantly reminding someone to apologise is just plain parenting though. Forgiveness is nontrivial.

The truth has no path, it’s all chaos

Your dad’s pretty young but his interests are basically the same as Stan Pines’. Have you considered getting him a copy of Gravity Falls?

I can answer this without even bringing you an essay based on vast personal experience. Get this: you exist, and your circumstances and experiences are hardly uncommon. How could it be anything but highly likely that women who also don’t conform to those views also exist?

Fucking insane

I only insist on this point of grammar for myself and to my kid, who is still young enough to need instruction on grammar.

As a matter of style, I don’t prefer there’re in written form, but it’s fine spoken. But yes, I do stand on the point even with contractions.

I don’t have a specific policy proposal for you. Needing a long term loan to have access to transportation or a place to live is already a pretty grim situation, but building a punitive and dystopic privacy nightmare on top of that doesn’t really meet my criteria for “unpleasant but necessary facts of life, might as well accept it”.

We’re miles away from a sane reality, and all I’m doing is pointing that out - we’re not going to have a good time whether we decide to accept it and let things get worse or start fighting our way back. It’s all a nightmare.

There are vague cases. A band could be a singular entity or a group of countable members, and whichever you use would come with a shading of connotation about that. “The band are all upset about this deal… The band isn’t taking its roadies for granted.”

The one thing I will insist on is the use of is/are. It’s pretty simple, if referring to a countable set, use “are”. E.g. there are four turtles in my sewer. You would not say “there are too much shit on this webpage”, because that shit is uncountable.

Credit reporting is an evil practise. It needs to end.

I missed out on the joke, but at least you’ve reminded me I need to get a copy of Futurama.

Here’s one for ya: Hermes killed Thoth and got the knowledge of alchemy from him, resulting in the syncretic creation of Hermes Trismegistus and the hermetic tradition. Then later we killed Hermes and got the scientific method.

At the board meeting, I want to hear when they decided to broadcast that they’re expecting to get sued, but in a really cute way

We’ve all heard talk about “hybrid warfare” and how Russian intelligence has done some amazing thing in the last decade, but it really is just “promote bad leaders to break democracies abroad”. Statecraft is so much easier when you can pick your own adversaries.

That’s not what I’ve heard

I had really good success doing a daily page of A5, few months ago tried to upgrade to doing art least 1 page of A4 per day. I’ve slightly fallen off the habit.

Thank fucking god, it’s been a minute since I heard anything that makes sense from this government

Yak Bak

Hard to condense this to an integer. There were times of feast and famine. I was given a lot of freedom that I knew most parents my age would gasp at, and I had some perks. That said, I did come from a broken home and I was the product of people who probably shouldn’t have had a kid. They have their own circumstances and issues with their parents as well, so the brokenness really is generational. I’ve done everything in my power to break that pattern and it’s working so far.

I will not say I was spoiled, but I was certainly given too much to eat and not often enough sent outside to play. I was always going to be an oddity and a misfit, so it would have been nice to at least not be fat.

All of that and I still was extremely privileged. The overall number needs a context. If we’re framing this against global childhood, I’m at least a 4. If we’re zooming in to kids in my immediate cohort, probably closer to a -3.

Good year for animation, '87.