TIL: "A hunting boomerang is delicately balanced and much harder to make than a returning one. The curving flight characteristic of returning boomerangs was probably first noticed by early hunters trying to "tune" their throwing sticks to fly straight." — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang
someone set the alarm clock in kiddo's room for (a sensible time, tho not necessarily sensible for a Sunday). so naturally, I'm the only one in the house who's woken up by that.
explained to my elderly neighbour that moss and lichen eat rock and shit earth, so putting weed killer on it is kinda counter productive in a place where you can hardly dig five centimeters before hitting rock
there's one lesson that every immigrant kid learns from their parents as soon as they're old enough to be sent to buy bread. It's the same lesson no matter what their skin colour, creed, or even relationship to their parents is, and it's the opposite lesson that most non immigrant kids learn:
an interesting aspect about the corruptibility of power is that people in power are utterly unable to learn from their failures, barely able to learn from their success.
the only thing they can do is to react to people beneath them having success, and going: i don't want that, then throw everything in their power to make it go away.
They often don't even recognize new forms of success until it's too late for them, so it often takes a new generation of power hungry bastards to react to that…
if the kids find a way to overthrow the bastards, they'll have about 30 years to build a world somewhat resilient to new bastards trying to destroy it.