The answer was in us all along.

Today is my birthday and this is very much how I feel about growing older. It’s not at all what I thought it would be.

Apparently they do their laundry in the garage?! In that garage?

Edit: my comment is based on OP’s second picture, in the comments. Also, they do laundry at all?!

See, this is how trickle-down economics are supposed to work!

“Eh, worth it.”

Colossi of Memnon

Some wear lab coats and blue nitrile gloves!

Oooh I love debating semantics. Is a sieve an appliance? A slotted spoon? They both work in the same way as your water filter.

Common usage of the quantifier kitchen appliances indicates use of electricity. I would describe my electric coffee grinder as a small appliance, but not my mortar and pestle.

niece/nephew (we really need a gender neutral term

Nibling!!

After much hesitation, I bit the bullet and installed Linux Mint on my old netbook from college, an HP Mini 210. It runs MUCH better than the stupid limited Windows it had, and it’s great for running old DOS games for my kid. Firefox is… another story.

That is a beautiful comic, thank you for sharing. Congratulations on making it through.

It says a lot about the culture of the 60s and/or Pohl himself, that the first conceivable use for “instant ordering” would be for drugs.

… Pocket bar? Googling it gets me nowhere. Surely he didn’t mean a bar of alcoholic drinks? Maybe a pocket pry bar?

Oh yeah, we use these “decimal feet” rulers at my job, for surveying. Nobody bothered to tell me ahead of time, so my first few days out in the field were pretty much a complete waste. I still maintain they are an abomination, the worst of both systems.

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Will this blue obsidian crystal amplify my positive energy?

Fair enough, life is complicated enough as it is! 🫡 Glad you were able to simplify at least one part of it. I completely understand not monetizing a hobby, as it would suck all the joy out of it.

Dude. We are about to sell our home because clearing snow off our long, steep driveway is a massive pain. It has taken years off our lives. We were seriously looking into snow removal robot but inflation and tariffs put that way outside our price range. You might be underestimating a potentially huge market. I would’ve never thought that’s something that could be DIY’d!

Feynman, mainly because he was an amazing professor and knows how to talk to people.

Einstein and Newton disliked people, so they would be terrible conversationslists outside their areas of expertise. I think that was true of Leonardo as well. Edison is also out because he was a dick.

My thought sas well! I’d rather stumble upon this than shit like “vegetative electron miscroscopy”.