I love this, but also found it hilarious - especially the towel as a helicopter blade trick and your description of it being “very undesirable for the fly.” I’m picturing your partner or housemate sighing and being like, “there they go again, herding flies.” I can definitely see it working though.

Weird! Thanks for letting me know. I guess that’s what I get for using an app (Sync) that the developer abandons for months at a time.

5. Go straight to jail.

Edit: No idea what’s up with the formatting. In my app this shows as step 5 but it seems to render as step 1. Is the Lemmy DB done in CSS?

Ya know what? I’m happy for them.

Well that’s pretty much how I already live my life, so it should be an easy transition to indoctrinating my kid into nerdy shit.

Obviously she’ll rebel and get super into sports or cars or something, but what can you do? 😄

Yes! I legitimately looked into this for that very reason. Instead, my wife and I have a rat puppet that we’ve personified to the point that we consider it part of the family.

That’s awesome to know. I suppose they’re really just a game of “let’s pretend” but with a bit of structure.

Well played.

For me they’re aspirational. I haven’t played a pen and paper RPG in over 20 years, but like to imagine I’ll find the time. With a baby on the way, in about 8 to 12 years I’ll have a captive audience to play with, between her and my wife.

It’s the same with our giant shelf of board games that are better with 3 players. We’re playing the long game here.

I know what you mean there as well. I was always very arachnophobic but over the last few years have mostly gotten over it by treating the spiders in my house as something like hands-off pets and giving them names. Jumping spiders are amazing little creatures but, yeah, the lifespan makes them a non-starter.

If you like sci-fi, check out the Children of Time series. It’s about a race of uplifted jumping spiders. The author does a great job of building a concept of their society based on their current characteristics as a species.

This is fucking precious.

As someone who adores rats, I absolutely hate how short their lives are. I’d love to keep some as pets but I couldn’t emotionally handle having my heart broken every 2 to 3 years when one of them dies.

Hey now, AI transformed him into a tool who goes onstage to talk about AI. That’s transformative.

Absolute poetry:

I know you want to be the next Steve Jobs, and this requires you to get on stages and talk about your innovative prowess, but none of this will allow you to pull off a turtle neck, and even if it did, you would need to replace your sweaters with fullplate to survive my onslaught.

Throwing a dart at that poster and letting that determine your fate, right?

I’m still stuck on Notion. I keep looking for OSS alternatives but nothing I’ve tried has all the features I want.

I literally have no memories of this show, but it was apparently a staple of my wife’s childhood. She often sings the theme song at me. As such, I’ve downloaded it all in anticipation of when our incoming baby gets older.

Probably not in that dude’s queen bed (unless y’all are into that).

Doctors on X? Of course they’re endorsing drugs - they’re currently high on MDMA.

Yeah, I grew up collecting vinyl so that’s probably what got me into the habit all those years ago.

If it helps, I - a stranger - am absolutely livid on your behalf.