Ned

it gets better. kids now upper single/lower double digits, and I can reuse stuff for dayzz where it was previously multiple changes per day

bonus trauma memory: just about to go to work, no wait I need a new shirt, tie and jacket

now I’m late ¯\(ツ)/¯

nah anatomical L/R socks are god tier, they are my sensory delight and demand

podcasts ftw for any house chores

I love music, and spend hours listening to tunes with my ridiculously expensive IEMs while working but for some reason it doesn’t cut the mustard with house admin

Can I just say I think this was eloquently put, and I philosophically and intellectually largely agree. In Australia where I live voting is compulsory; in that context there is less conflict in that “d, all of the above” praxis can be actualised simultaneously.

However, I am ambivalent about it in the context of the USA, however, where militating every possible vote against someone as egregiously awful and negatively impactful as Donald Trump seems from the outside to be a no brainer.

I say this admittedly selfishly, as the decisions he/his handlers make particularly in the realm of rolling back of environmental rights seem to impact the entire world for generations to come.

However, maybe this is just our Great Filter ¯\(ツ)/¯

Life will continue, perhaps it’s for the best it does so without H “sapiens”

But I weep for my (and all of our) children.

I was just there and learned the same thing! 2023 is wild, but better than the alternative I guess