It's a good thing the 7yo's R/C truck is already incapacitated. The puppy chewed the charger cable in half. And laid a bunch of landmines on the carpet. That $#¡+ is hereby banned from the bedroom.

@lgtwriter Yup.

@lgtwriter The Melon Husk fanboys are going to go down with the ship, is all I can say.

@lgtwriter My SWAG: it's a combo of shorts cashing in, and idiots thinking they're bargain-hunting.

@robfwtx First two years of college (1977-78), punch cards were the only way to interact with the school mainframe. Drop off your deck at the station, come back later for results. Yeah, it was a good way to get serious about debugging.

On occasion, people would forget to not leave their userID/password cards in the recycling bin. That offered opportunities for goofing off.

@Susandoyle The correct response would have been, "How do *you* know what a sex call sounds like?" 😆

@Catman720 They're denying women the right to bare arms???

@Irmaplotz I posted this earlier tonight: https://counter.social/@FARfetched58/109707851924026698

@Susandoyle When I was in college, we called it "Sadistics."

@JeSsA Bride of Florida Man

Some cute overload for the evening: #DogsofCoso

@Gerry Not me, although (God willing) I'll probably go until 70 at least. I'd have been happy to retire at 50.

I remember what my mom said, about 20 years ago: "I don't want to work, and I don't need the money." My own work has been rather interesting the last couple years, one reason I haven't seriously looked for a different job. And hey, I'd be hip for a consultant gig on occasion. But I'd as soon go on walks, play disc golf, and screw around.

The 13yo went ice skating today with a friend of his. He came home and told me, "Some girl asked me for my number!" with this "WTF?" tone.

Later in the evening, as I was getting the 7yo out of the bath, he came in to tell me his primary crush… likes him back. He was giddy.

The male version of Turning Red, without the shape-shifting. I guess I'll have to give him the updated version of The Talk (he got the abbreviated version at age 8 when he was texting with a girl in his class).

@JohnnyGenX @tyghebright @desbearado @Graci Yup, same!

@tyghebright @JohnnyGenX @desbearado @Graci As a kid watching the original Scooby series, I knew I was "supposed" to think Daphne was the girl I "should" be attracted to, but I still liked Velma. I was the smart kid, she was the smart kid. We had that much in common, and for me, that was enough.

If it turns out Velma is lesbian… well, we weren't going to get together for real anyway. It's all good.

@nealfig That was a major point of the sermon I heard today: God is ineffable (can't be described/completely undersood).

In my mind, science is how we come to understand God's creation. Religion is how we understand our purpose within that creation—we can't understand our Creator, but we can understand what we're supposed to do: help, love, share.

@th3j35t3r Back before things went to $#¡+, somewhere around 2014, we used to say: "Facebook makes you hate people you know in real life, Twitter makes you love people you never met."

Some of us think the triggering event was the FridayFlash (fiction, not boob shots) community moving to the book of face, where it (and its founder) died. Others say "David Bowie may not have been holding the universe together, but…"

By 2016, you could no longer pretend to notice the rot.