keep thinking about the MS office suite post from yesterday. i think people should buy children nice office supplies and stationary for presents more often. not the shitty art supply kits in the black plastic boxes those were awful. i mean like four legal pads, a pack of post its, nice new pens and pencils, maybe a 3 ring binder or a folder if you make sure to check the 3 ring isn't too brutal for their little fingers. definitely a hole punch, who doesn't like making confetti. not school supplies either but office supplies just for them, to use for whatever they want. if you have old office supplies consider donating them to a friend with kids, or a teacher, or a school program. that stuff is like gold when you're a kid and people are always giving you crap paper and crap implements that just make it harder to write and draw with

My kid is 5 and I definitely concur. She gets so frustrated with shitty crayons and paint. We got her a set of nice gel pens and her writing and drawing not only improved overnight, she gets so much less frustrated when she’s drawing and she’s happy and excited to put her ideas on paper.

yeah! giving kids bad supplies because they're going to "ruin them" just makes learning harder. kids deserve nice stuff. who cares if they use it up or break it, that's what it's for.

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this is a legitimate problem in robotics.

like, if you're a bomb disposal guy and your team has a cool bomb-disposal robot which you've given a cutesy name to, you may hesitate to put that robot in harm's way, which is NOT OPTIMAL in the bomb-disposing field.

it also doesn't help if you hold funerals for the robots after they get exploded (this happens pretty regularly).

anyway nobody has worked out how to stop humans from pack-bonding with literally inanimate objects and they probably never will. (like even knowing it's a problem, I *still* think those EOD robots deserve funerals).

In 2007, the US military rejected a multi-limbed anti-mine robot because it's demise was too inhumane.

ALT

oh perfect, this is EXACTLY what I was talking about

Scientists in films: this alien/AI is not human and therefore undeserving of any kindness or sympathy

Scientists irl: This is my friend Robob he's five feet long, has ten legs and was built to explode mines and if anybody hurts him I will tear apart time and space to get revenge

You don't realize how much ads take a fucking toll on functionality across the internet everywhere until you've used adblock for like over a year and move over to a different account or device that doesn't have it and just have your shit fucking shit itself over having to load a few news articles cause there's so many goddamn ads on them. Fucking google be trying to crash on my laptop when I have 4 or 5 ad-ridden news articles ridden but can handle 15 or so tabs with no ads just fine. Like for fuck sake.

When you're used to having ad block and have to deal with an ad-ridden news article, that shit ACTUALLY feels like malware like it's fucking supposed to be, like 2007 called or some shit I swear.

Consider: a gay dude and a lesbian who are BEST friends and also dating the same person but not each other because they are a gay dude and a lesbian but their mutual partner has a weird enough gender for it to work

Polycule that's lgbt like all at once

A ring species but for gender and sexuality

apparently i'm blogging in the year 1502

The Onion really ain’t fucking around.

ideologically i disagree with outside cats but i cannot deny the allure of being able to just meet a little guy anytime anywhere

"Vagueposting Ea-nasir" like, I'm pretty sure in order for it to be vagueposting it's gotta be at least a little bit ambiguous who you're talking about. How many Sumerian copper merchants do you know?

Very pro weird girl. Not budging on that.

teal and orange truly is the greatest color combo in the world. like name one better combo

this is spiritually healing to me

a platypus palette?

PERRY THE PLATYPUS PALETTE???

i hate polymer clay ash trays i hate books clearly written to be enjoyed in soundbites by booktokers i hate mindfulness becoming the new dieting i hate clothing hauls i hate influencers pretending to be authentic in fake candid pictures i hate cute pastel two-piece gym sets that cost 100 euros i hate microtrends i hate celebrity makeup brand launches i hate ten step beauty routines

i love small red pottery human head bottle (Yangshao culture, Banpo to Miaodigou phase, 4800-3500 B.C.)