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@zina200045 The moment you're no longer the dumbest person in the room, start looking for another room. Never grow complacent. Never coast. Choose something you tolerate to work with. Don't work with what you love, because you won't love it for long. Get into shape. Keep in shape. Take good...

@hardworker211 Surely the same would apply for a pacifier?

@zafer What can I say? The past was wild.

@nina1125 Yeah, I was actually delighted to see them appear locally a few decades later. Or I suppose I had mixed emotions, because building them is fun and now children won't experience that. Yet another activity turned into a purchase.

@mbinks89 Corn starch or potato starch in water, to make a non-Newtonian liquid. Loved playing with that as a kid. The more I think back, though, the more I realise that the stuff we did back then probably wouldn't fly now. Like, when I was five or so, I made, at kindergarten, a hot air balloon...

@glenwoodinncc Looking back, I think I gradually moved away from habitual swearing years before I ever thought of starting a family. I think that's just a part of growing up. Note the qualifier, though: habitual. Swear words have their place in the language. It's just that that place isn't...

@joevic In the same vein: snap a match without breaking it clean off, then place a drop of water in the break and watch the match straighten itself again.

@obamawoodhollywood The etymology of ‘kike’ is pretty interesting, too. It's always been a derogatory term, but it was originally used by German-American Jews as a derogatory term for Russian Jews. Possibly because their surnames tended to end in -ki or -ky.

@otisortiz Frankly, I think it's a worrying trend that we refuse to utter the words no matter the context. That's ascribing way too much significance to the words themselves, and too little to the attitudes behind their pejorative usage. It's as if people think forcibly removing a selection of...

@misterp Don't you mean authoritative?

@eugen We use black pudding for that. It comes ready made, just needs to be sliced and fried in a pan (or not even sliced if you buy pre-sliced). Delicious and shock full of heme iron. It's not something you can store in a cupboard for months and then pour directly in a bowl, though, so it's...

@jaenalyn I have to agree. The best fragrance is of your own clean, healthy self. The notion that we have to – or, in severe cases, the mass delusion that we want to – hide behind a wall of artificially introduced fragrance is just another example of industries promoting self erasure to turn a...

@nycetmz In Sweden it's available but not free like the other shots you typically give a child. They were evaluating whether to include it (and a shingles vaccine for seniors) among the free offerings, but I think the pandemic paused the process. As for encouragement, it's … sort of neutral, I...

@gavenv Would he be okay with your daughter being raised the way her ancestor was raised a thousand years ago? If no, then he evidently recognises that parenting styles evolve. Remind him that parenting styles evolve across single generations as well, that what was considered right and proper a...

@gell Second? OP needs to get word from a first. Nurses can be great, but they're not qualified to offhandedly suggest adding water to the diet of a newborn with undiagnosed stomach problems. I'm actually surprised and a little worried that a nurse would do this – or rather, not know not to...

@anndryperez I'm more integrity conscious than most people, so I definitely see where you're coming from. My counterargument would actually be just what you brought up: issuers already see how much you paid, when you paid it, and where you paid it. If I'm buying something sensitive I'm already...

@cutin How would it be insecure, let alone crazily? It's not as if the credit card network isn't already set up to send transactional data in a secure manner. Literally all we're talking about here are a few extra bytes in the payload. In fact, this is pretty much standard for modern payment...

@cutin Ah, I think you're misunderstanding me. What I mean is that the receipts should be actually sent to the credit card issuer, so the card holder can see them all centrally in their banking app or whatever.

@jasonclegg Except sometimes I simply don't want a receipt. I shouldn't have to divulge my e-mail address or create a new one just to get rid of the paper receipt. Our relationship is strictly transactional in nature. You don't need to be able to contact me. I'll know where to find you the next...

@saylormom Sounds like merely being in possession of an avenue for arbitrary people to put arbitrary data into your possession – such as, say, an e-mail address, a phone number, an IM account, or a mailbox – would expose you to this liability.