I actually read it that way and thought it was an odd choice to highlight that.

It didn’t occur to me that that might not be what they meant until I read your comment.

Happy to have helped!

I’m not British or Australian, but this is what I’d want.

You can buy various HMDs that essentially mount to your existing glasses (I bought and fiddled about with one during the lockdown) and attach to any computer that supports USB. I haven’t looked into whether there are any wireless options now, but you could satisfy at least some of your desires with that kind of thing.

The art kinda reminds me of Thank Goodness You’re Here:

That’s the main character, but there are also characters more resembling the mascot you’ve shown. This looks closest to me:

Maybe it’s just me.

I once was let go from a job in favor of someone who was later found to be spending most of their shifts watching porn. I don’t know if they suffered consequences for that - they were offshore and had no on site supervision.

To be fair, that person was more qualified than I was at the time, but I didn’t watch porn on the job, so …

Yeah, I saw the other comment indicating that elsewhere in the thread and tried to edit my comment, but I think lemmy.world and Cloudflare might be having connectivity issues of some sort right now so edits are mostly a no go.

The state I grew up in is not one of the 31, so that’s why the concept is alien to me, I suppose; the state I live in now is one of them, but I doubt I’ll give my kid any alcohol for some time. Regardless, thank you for following up!

I’ve never given my kid alcohol, but I think the reason kids can have communion wine is that the law addresses a blood alcohol level. This is to accommodate things like communion wine and medicines, like NyQuil, that have small amounts of alcohol as one of their ingredients. (This is based on a post I read back when I used Reddit.)

Pretty sure that if a legal authority saw you hand your five year old a beer or spirit, they’d have something to say about it.

Grapes are awesome, frozen grapes even more so. Not only are they grape great by themselves, but you can use them in lieu of ice cubes to keep your drinks cold without diluting them.

My wife is awesome! Thank you for noticing.

My friends were a mixed bag in terms of how they reacted. However, I don’t think I would marry any of them, so I’ll have to agree that few are as rad as my wife.

My dad died at 77, but I assure you he was extraordinary, rather than average.

That is indeed what I thought of, but I wasn’t sure whether to believe it since I’ve never heard it used in isolation. Again, I appreciate the answer.

I like the quote, but what does “yang” mean in this context? Thanks in advance.

I know I do.

When I met the woman who would become my wife, I knew nothing of biology. She wasn’t a biologist but was far more knowledgeable on the subject than I. (Side note: this is still true.)

She told me that fruit is an “interkingdom, interspecies orgy” since it involved multiple partners and participants of both flora and fauna varieties.

Fascinated by that, I posted the message on my Facebook (it was a long time ago and I didn’t know they were evil). Suddenly, all my friends thought I was weird.

Back near where I grew up, there was a farm that offered the same thing, but with sheep. I always wondered how one would breed for that.

I’ve never studied anything about genetics or DNA, but I didn’t know that until the first time I showed my then girlfriend (now wife). Once the general premise became clear, she said something like “I should have guessed, since the title is made with A,T,C,G.”

I use user notes for this - notes like “argues in bad faith,” “is knowledgeable about x,” etc. Then if I feel talking to someone is a waste, I still get their input if I want it but know whether or not to engage.

Misread that as “orcs,” prepared to change my world view, then had it roughly yanked back.

My then two year old did the same thing with a cork trivet.

They’re five now. I don’t … Think … They’d make the same mistake.