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fathermcgruder,
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@Hypx we love the H₂ilux, don't we folks!

fathermcgruder, to Parenting
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New trick for getting my picky kiddo to eat her veggies:

I put all the music on my phone on random and whenever she wants me to skip a song she doesn't like she has to eat some of her veggies first.

#parenting

@dadsplain

fathermcgruder,
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@dadsplain Now playing:

fathermcgruder,
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@CrimeDad @dadsplain And apparently the images in Lemmy replies don't show up in Mastodon either lol.

fathermcgruder,
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@Kolanaki @dadsplain oh no

fathermcgruder,
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@Tolookah @dadsplain after dinner it turns into a kitchen dance off.

fathermcgruder,
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@rxin @dadsplain it's VLC for Android.

fathermcgruder,
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@hitmyspot @dadsplain I think that is kind of what we've been doing. I didn't know it was a named method. We don't force her to finish her meals completely. She just needs some encouragement to improve the vegetable variety in her diet.

fathermcgruder, to dadsplain
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Wife's away, time to turn off the AC and get a nice cross breeze going!

@dadsplain

fathermcgruder,
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@streetfestival @dadsplain I deserve to have a little bit of warm and quiet.

fathermcgruder, to nyc
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NY Gov Hochul delays controversial NYC congestion pricing plan ‘indefinitely’.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/business/ny-gov-hochul-delays-indefinitely-controversial-nyc-congestion-pricing-plan/index.html

I'm sure lots of revenue will be missed now that NYC congestion tolling has been killed, but was it earmarked for specific mass transit projects or was it just going to be used to hire more cops and whatnot?

@usa

fathermcgruder, to usa
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Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/solar-project-destroy-thousands-joshua-100000768.html

It's crazy to me that a destructive photovoltaic solar project like this one is considered reasonable, but a new nuclear power plant within or adjacent to a city is beyond the pale.

@usa

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@Umbrias @SirBoostALot @usa The Joshua trees are relevant because it's an indictment of the system that produces the incentives that make destroying a forest of them a good business plan. We have the technology to safely generate plenty of reliable, clean electricity nearby to where people will use it. Instead, we go out into the desert and then pick one of the worst spots in the desert just to cheaply conjure up some renewable energy credits and call it good for the environment. It's sickening.

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@SirBoostALot @Umbrias @usa I have no affiliation with the nuclear power industry. I just think global warming is an important problem that cannot be solved by wind and solar power. The risks associated with nuclear power are very small and completely outweighed by the benefits.

The Joshua trees are not a red herring. Their sacrifice is completely unnecessary and it exemplifies the insanity of our clean energy policies.

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@SirBoostALot @Umbrias @usa Once again you are missing the point about the trees. They are not being harvested. They are being cleared away to make room for a PV solar plant that could go in any other sunny location. I do not personally care very much about them, but they are part of a special piece of wilderness that is being destroyed for no good reason. As for nuclear power safety and importance, here is a good article to help you find some perspective: https://earth.org/nuclear-which-is-the-safest-energy-source/#:~:text=A%202013%20study%20commissioned%20by,fuels%20from%20entering%20into%20the

fathermcgruder, to asklemmy
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What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?

@asklemmy

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@bitchkat @asklemmy Here you go: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/comment/794446

Cc'ing @Taleya and @AlternateRoute because they also asked.

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@RBWells @asklemmy It seems like it's a you-and-me problem since we both misinterpreted the message similarly lol.

fathermcgruder,
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@RBWells @asklemmy Maybe I am missing the joke, but you understand that no one was sick, right? There weren't even any travel plans.

fathermcgruder,
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@RBWells @asklemmy I had a party at my house and both my mom and my friend, John, came over. They had a conversation in which he told her about a good website for shopping for airline tickets and he emailed her the link. Subsequently, she couldn't find the email, prompting her to ask me via the message I quoted. I didn't know they had that conversation and it seemed like my mom was saying she had actually gone to urgent care.

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@enbyecho @asklemmy I'm well aware that I'm somebody else's elder. I meant it matter-of-factly, like "geriatric pregnancy".

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@enbyecho @asklemmy Well, geriatric pregnancies start at age 35, so it's really a flexible adjective. If you took it incorrectly, that's on you.

Based on the mixed responses I'm getting, it is not an established stereotype that older people write emails and text messages poorly. If I knew it was then I wouldn't have asked if others had similar experiences to mine in the first place.

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@jlow @asklemmy https://jorts.horse/@fathermcgruder/112536047583834481

fathermcgruder,
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@Kory @asklemmy I'm 38. To me people older than that are objectively older people. I can't think of anyone younger than 45 with whom I've had this problem.

dansup, to Pixelfed
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Still working hard on Pixelfed Groups!

#pixelfed #groups

fathermcgruder,
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@dansup @yaqub @pixelfed @gbraad will Lemmy communities appear as groups in Pixelfed? I think that would be good.

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