They had put this white picket fencing around the stage - tall enough to stop them from swarming the stage, but not actual stage fencing. Toddlers after all. But these kids would grab it and shake it violently, and since it was wooden and heavy, would fall either on them or over.

We'd also have to escort Barney and crew around the convention, like his secret service or something.

Here's a bit of cognitive dissonance I'm struggling with, twice recently I've felt defensive toward Elon Musk and Peter Theil as people mock them for their autistic traits.

With regards to Theil, don't for a second think that I don't think he's a bad actor (and not in a Nicolas Cage sense). Surveillance death tech is vile and goes against my sense of morality. I hate it. Attack him for that. 100% valid, attack him for it in the strongest means you have available, it's unlikely you'll have access to the type of weapons he has anyway (or maybe you do... YOLO!).

Musk is a shit talking bellend... and the Cybertruck is rubbish imo, attack him for that but the mocking for autism... Fuck off.

The fetishism of autism is also a little odd and gaining popularity. Maybe the word people are looking for is meticulous when describing someone with exceptional ability to process data? Obviously people are free to say what they want but I don't have to agree with it either.

Like I say, cognitive dissonance a gwan. People are weird.

TFW your kids randomly call you “dad” instead of “daddy”

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Didn't we already have those in the 80s?

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Well flock me silly.

Guess solar mining isn't worth it :(

Ya huh! I set it to forward 100% of zaps to you! Did my diabolical plan not work?

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*grumpy posting*

I swear to all the gods, Microsoft is a worthless fucking company that does not deserve to put out software anymore. Holy hell.

Extremely antagonistic towards anyone who slightly has any sort of leanings towards privacy. Use a privacy browser? You can't log into any of our shit. Use a VPN? Yeah, go fuck yourself.

Windows 11 is a goddamn nanny state of a fucking operating system While, I'm at it.

(Yes, I'm grumpy because I was forced to boot into the window side of my computer for a thing.)