…and that you ditched that perfectly operating gas stove for an electric.

A Swiss Army Knife is like a little sword… might be worth 3X to 5X.

It’s hard to understand step 5 of math prior to being taught steps 1-4.

Did he press the doorbell, or just rubbit?

Initial mass is 0.1.

C'mon guys, he probably gets a new bottle of Listerine every decade, whether he needs to or not.

As dopey as that idea is, looking back at 2023, there's still a non-zero % chance that a biolab somewhere would have thought about doing it.

About once a year, I read a review for a book or hear about one in some way, but my library doesn't have that book. But, they can get it on intra-library loan. My local library is one of the biggest "bang for the buck" uses of tax dollars.

He is like one step away from becoming the next "Voytek the beer-drinking Nazi-fighting Bear."

I noticed the writing version of that on The Motley Fool discussion boards.

Boomer dad here, changed plenty of diapers, went to many many games/matches/concerts/shows over the years from having four kids. I look around and see coworkers missing important events of their kids' lives, and am reminded how glad I am to have made the choice I did. I worked a few years longer than if I'd made my career my #1 priority, but retiring at, say, 57 vs. 60, my youngest would've been in college, and I'd still have missed a huge part of what I consider important.

Plus, I know my kids' friends, many of my kids' friends' parents, and they know me. Parents who don't let their kids stay out after a certain time do let their kids stay at my house for a bonfire because they know what's happening and what's NOT happening.

At my automotive electronics company, when we started working on components for electric vehicles (high voltage, but not as high as lightning or high tension wires), anybody who was going to work on EV had to take a "High Voltage Course." A little bit of it was "how not to screw up components or invalidate a test," but a large part was "How not to get killed."

I am in age between those two people. We had a hammerfore.

Over the eons prior to ~6400BC, envy, hatred, jealousy, anger and other bad things snuck from “The Otherworld” onto our realm. Maybe there’s another bad thing, and the spirit of this Good Boy is vigilantly watching the doorway, keeping that other bad thing away. Glad he’s got a couple of his favorite toys.

It's easy to forget how significant one week is to someone who hasn't gone one week ever.

I hear this sentiment fairly often. I always wonder if those people actually do *anything* now, like give a stocking hat to a hatless homeless person or share their lunch or something that doesn't require being extremely rich. I work with a group that spends a week hosting church youth groups in the summer, and we build wheelchair ramps, re-roof and re-side houses, fix plumbing...various things like that for elderly, handicapped and poor people who don't have anybody to turn to. It's amazing what you can do with a skilled adult, a couple semi-skilled adults, and some teenagers that are eager to serve. And none of whom are rich.

Once people find out, you are really knowledgeable in some area, and they are constantly seeking advice, or rather validation for what they want to do anyway, because what they really do is sometimes the opposite of what you advised. It’s a good self-defense mechanism to act like you don’t know anything around those people, since it’s very annoying, and sometimes even painful because they do the opposite of what you said, and sometimes even blame you, for some reason, despite not taking your advice.

When life gives you cold tea, have ice tea.

I'm hearing them in my head with Austrian accents.

I was at a coffee place a while back, and at the table next to me was a group of teachers (which I knew from their conversation). When their friend arrived, they looked over at my table with just me sitting there and asked, "Can we take one of your chairs?" I replied, "I don't know...*can* you?"

I waited many year to do *that*!

People forget that the US, after WWII, had conquered and occupied many of its enemies. But, once the economies were stable and there was a political system in place to replace the dictatorship, the US *left*. No other countries ever did that. Look at the difficulty in Soviet satellites breaking free once communism was weakened. History is replete with countries fighting for independence, but there aren’t many examples of a conqueror saying “You’re ready for independence. Bye.”