Yo, same!

• Breakfast = leftovers, something hearty
• cereal and milk = dessert any time of day

We have the same bowls. I was like: hey whatcha doing with our bowls.

Agreed, for any non-trivial bug I just start dumping text into a word file to track what I’m doing. Like: error messages, values of variables at key places, libraries used, URLs of documentation and background reading and stackoverflow pages looked at, test fixes and their effects, etc. Then if someone asks me wtf I’ve been doing all day I can easily show them. Also, if I have the same problem a couple months later I can remind myself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame

US vs El Salvador, Pok-Ta-Pok (Ulama), 2023: https://youtu.be/Q4xpNCNXet4?t=21362

waiting that long sounds worse the older you get.

in 10 years the worst of the boomers in power today will be dead.

I remember thinking this about the WW2 generation back in the 90s. The result:

Romans are assholes.

First time I’ve heard this. People in Rome are like people in NYC: busy with their own lives, unwilling to take any BS, but generally helpful if you really need it.

Also, I think mainstream Americans expect people to be bouncy and grinning all the time or else they say you have resting bitch face and a case of the Mondays. In a lot of cultures, grinning at a complete stranger is condescending and makes you look foolish.

This is kind of cheating, but here’s a movie-length edit of Patrick “Picard” Stewart as Lenin from the miniseries “Fall of Eagles”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsiU0P-swYE

You don’t watch Troy and think it’s odd the characters are speaking English.

I get it. But movies that try to be realistic get extra points from me. Props to Apocalypto for having the actors speak in Yucatec Maya. (even though the movie and director have problems in other ways.)

Obviously I pick up the phone and tell them some lie that I am shopping or whatever

One thing I’ve found is that I usually don’t have to give an excuse. I can just say “I’m busy” or “I’m taking care of something.”

I keep a book nearby in case I really need an activity/excuse.

Such a good movie. It’s got battle scenes, but really it’s about operational maneuvers and logistics, which is rare, and they make it interesting.

Downfall / Der Untergang

When my BFF’s cat died, they were crying, upset, completely disconsolate. I was a bit suprised that they were even sadder than when their father had died. They said: “it’s because my cat never told me I was doing everything wrong.”

Likewise, there’s a saying along the lines of: every man is a hero to his dog. Some people talk to plants, or hug stuffed animals. So I think there’s value to that kind of relationship. Obviously if you ONLY talk to plants or stuffed animals then you might get a little weird, but otherwise it seems OK.

Fails to consider the case in which the 2-year-old sister is now male.

In ancient Rome, geese are credited by the historian Livy for giving the alarm when Gauls invaded (see Battle of the Allia).[9][10][11] Geese were subsequently revered in the supplicia canum annual sacrifice, and the Romans later founded a temple to Juno, to whom the geese were considered sacred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_goose

Yeah, that sounds about right, I just started reading up on it a bit more and realize there’s a lot I don’t know about it.

I recently took over !localllama@sh.itjust.works

That’s really cool, fam, it’s an important topic and I’m glad to see it getting independent support here.

!gothindustrial@lemmy.world is going great, we got some new mods and frequent posts, I’m building up a backlog of music to listen to!

I suspect comment-OP just lives somewhere that giving teens sex education is considered odd and unethical. Unsurprisingly, teenage pregnancy is often the result, so with good intentions they are giving the best advice they have.