@Madcucks@paypig.org - https://paypig.org/@Madcucks @Foxfoley@paypig.org - https://paypig.org/@Foxfoley When I was in second grade I tried to check out a book from the school library and was told that book was for 5th graders only (the highest grade at that particular school). I asked if there was some sort of permission form I could have my mom sign (because she would've been totally on board with it); the librarian said no. No matter what compromise I came up with there was no way around it, and I was so upset I started to cry... whereupon the librarian, in a panic, foisted the Nancy Drew series off on me. What gets me about it, to this day, is that my mom went to a great deal of time and trouble to inculcate a love of reading in me. She always encouraged me to read what I wanted and to come to her with any questions; she'd spent the better part of a decade doing this by that point. I wasn't lying or exaggerating when I told the librarian that my mom would've been fine with signing a permission form and going over the book with me to place everything in context.

If Escher was a minimalist...

The fact that truly domesticated bears do not exist and are not for sale is a failure of both capitalism and Science

Trying to pull together an interstate move is making me wish covid actually had the mortality rate we were afraid it did 13 months ago

... which frog fucked the alligator

"Every time things get more "user friendly", they get stupider."Well, there you go. Computers are so ubiquitous now that they're made for the masses, which means they're made for morons like me who have to get a 3 year old to show them how to do shit on one. They're made for the lowest common denominator.

Nature in the South right now: What if I reenacted the Dust Bowl... but with POLLEN?!

I'm glad Steve went with DeF as abbreviation of the name for this place because in the past year I learned that certain diesel engines require Def- a mixture of water and urea. So now every time I see DeF it makes me laugh

Time for States to stop whoring themselves out for federal money and start just ignoring the Feds

There's some kind of joke to be made there about ectoplasm, other kinds of bodily fluids, and various kinds of cheese, but my brain can't quite cobble it together at the momentRE: https://degenerates.fail/notes/8jqi9p2oey - https://degenerates.fail/notes/8jqi9p2oey

~ bounces door off wall, slams it closed, wrenches it open again ~ Eminem plays in the distance, slowly getting louder ~ GUESS WHO'S BACKRE: https://degenerates.fail/notes/8jqi67mk1w - https://degenerates.fail/notes/8jqi67mk1w

slams the door open & puts a hole in the drywall Home sweet home

Good time to do a lot of boating with your guns!