Not a parent, not friends with my adult sibling: I suspect having emotionally mature adults around them would help. Also, don’t constantly side with the child with easier needs when there is a conflict between children. (Example: I wanted to not hear my brother’s music in my room. Brother wanted to play his music. Brother got his way. I got ear plugs.)

Don’t make the older child always do the selfless thing because they’re “more mature”. They shouldn’t have to share everything. (Example: brother got to ‘help’ blow out the candles on my birthday cake. He spat all over it because he was a toddler.)

LPT: if your puppy is startled by the clicker, you can try using a metal lid instead. (Metal lid, like from bottled juice or coffee, with the safety indicator popper)

Agreed, it’s gross seeing poo bags on the trail.

I have a dog. I scoop the poop. I use bags that claim to be compostable and I put them in the bin. I don’t like carrying a full poo bag. That’s why I have a little scent proof zippered I hang from my leash. I don’t leave the bag on the side of the trail and lie that I’ll totally pick it up on my way back.

At home I use these magic corn based ones that dissolve in the toilet.

My main use case is “hey, I need to make a change to this system I touch once a year. The documentation is thorough, dense, and I don’t know where to look. What button do I push to do Y?”

Are you my boyfriend/roommate?

Edit: he and I are both IT folks, but he handles all the Windows issues in the house. I handle Linux issues. He handles the router because it’s closer to his desk so it’s easier for him to threaten.

Have you tried Rayon? It’s a semi synthetic fabric made from cellulose and iirc biodegradades decently.

The creator is active on a professional slack I’m on and they’re lovely and receptive to user feedback. Their tool is very popular in the online archives/cultural heritage scene (we combine small budgets and juicy, juicy data).

My site has enabled js-free screening when the site load is low, under the theory that if the site load is too high then no one’s getting in anyway.

My understanding: dairy cows interact with humans on a regular basis, for dairy stuff. Beef animals don’t interact with humans nearly as much.

Ever since I ordered a 7-cheese macaroni and cheese side dish that lovingly named each cheese and didn’t mention it had chunks of bacon mixed in, I ask to be sure.

Fuck you, Applebee’s.

Please let me invert y-axis for games where I control the field of view. Nothing takes me out of a game like suddenly staring at my feet when I try to look up.

[not the person you asked]Colleges are having a rough time of it in today’s political environment, so keep an eye on that, too.

Does you college library subscribe to the Chronicle of Higher Ed? I find it neat to read the headlines, see what other people are thinking on.

My undergraduate school didn’t assign grades below a C. If you did piss-poorly, the class just didn’t show up on your transcript. This encouraged me to take classes I might otherwise have avoided, if I was worried about my GPA.

That’s what I do! I tell my partner he’s a good pupper. I tell my dog he’s a tiny asshole. Both are true.

Partner’s allowed to use any terms of endearment that would apply to our dog without them being read as gendered, on the theory that brain wires get crossed and I’m happy to be in the same love-nickname-category as the pup.

Luxury is drying your folds with a blow dryer in winter.

I use a horipad-brand wired switch-style controller on PC. I use it because it fits better in my hands/ergonomics. I have a post-it note on my monitor reminding me of the button layout.

I know a few trans librarian acquaintances who got the fuck out of Florida because the legal environment was getting too spicy. So yes, generally agree that if you fear criminal prosecution for doing your job something is wrong. In the trans librarian case, it’s Florida. In Doge’s case it was their behavior.

Not sure where I’m going with this, thinking on which set of folk feared repercussions enough to change something (environment or behavior)

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The online card catalog my library uses recently added an “AI Research Assistant” feature. While debating whether to turn it on (we decided against), this blog post came up. tldr the assistant won’t return results for certain topics. The is Not Cool. That (and the fact the flipping assistant can’t even limit itself to suggesting resources available in our library) is a deal breaker, without even getting into other considerations.

It’s novel on someone else’s home.

The sort that would want a Hitler clone would be happy with a direwolf-style pseudo-clone with good marketing.