Me: I just wish I was a better dad
Wife: you are a great dad
Me: then why do I sometimes get so angry at my daughter
Wife: I think you can be a great dad *and* sometimes get really angry
Me: Bandit doesn’t
Wife: Bandit is amazing
Me: I know
Wife: he’s a cartoon dog though
Me:
Wife: maybe don’t compare yourself to a cartoon dog
Me:
Wife: did you forget he was a cartoon dog?
Simple, but not easy.
https://youtu.be/4JE-xeYvXhk
"America sees the absurdities—she sees the kingdoms of Europe, disturbed by wrangling sectaries, or their commerce, population and improvements of every kind cramped and retarded, because the human mind like the body is fettered 'and bound fast by the chords of policy and superstition': She laughs at their folly and shuns their errors: She founds her empire upon the idea of universal toleration: She admits all religions into her bosom; She secures the sacred rights of every individual; and (astonishing absurdity to Europeans!) she sees a thousand discordant opinions live in the strictest harmony ... it will finally raise her to a pitch of greatness and lustre, before which the glory of ancient Greece and Rome shall dwindle to a point, and the splendor of modern Empires fade into obscurity."
- Noah Webster, 1781
Een vleestaks kan gunstig zijn voor de natuur, dieren, boeren en de volksgezondheid. Consultancybureau EY bestempelde de heffing als ‘onuitvoerbaar’. Maar dat onderzoek, in opdracht van het ministerie van Landbouw, is volgens experts gekleurd en eenzijdig. Niet zo gek, omdat het ministerie de opdracht zo formuleerde dat de uitkomst vooraf al bijna vaststond. https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/onderzoek-ey-naar-vleestaks-eenzijdig-sturend-twijfelachtig-en-gekleurd
Tolkein: "What if there was a magical artefact that let you communicate across long distances, but it was addictive and secretly spied on you and fed you disinformation and filled you with paralysing despair?"
Me: "That's a phone."
@mary and I watched Flight of the Navigator last night. I loved that movie growing up and is is still good! Tonight we watched Life After the Navigator and it's about the life of the child actor after the film...People, don't treat your kids like adults, know where they are, and keep them as far away from addictive snares as possible. It was a sad story about Joey Cramer's fall through the cracks, but he has gotten up and we're rooting for him and everyone else in his shoes!
I swapped out Linux Mint for Devuan today on a couple of displays in the house. Mint was getting kinda bloated and I needed very few of the packages that I saw in updates. Not a fan of systemd either. Seriously though, I haven't missed fooling around with wifi drivers. Between those and a problem with the USB installer, I wasted more time than it was probably worth.
Nostr:
acd1f62fad47b98657ac57e91c34613201d0ad273f331b67799874b887c42c60
Marathon Training:
https://theoutpost.life/marathon