”but what has it gots in its pocketsesbaggses? This riddle is not fair! Not fair!”

May I suggest not doing that again?

I’m totally judging you for being a good human. Thanks for that!

I think we’re gonna need more photos. Just to be sure she’s settling only all warm and snuggly.

<me trying to be cool so Willow comes over and says more than hey>

It was not her turn with the brain cell….

only if the draft is from above. if the draft is from the side, then it probably weighs less, and if it’s from below, well, floofball is floating.

Seems like an invitation to sit with them to me. Just snuggle right on up!

I was thinking the opposite. The right one is plotting. The other is death-glaring because it involves the demise of the food-servant.

One of them is very concerned about the plotting of the other.

I feel like the cat sitter got buried in the back.

If you need 1’s, for candy in the machine that doesn’t take 5’s….

Well to quote the bus lady with the coin hopper… “I don’t got 4 quarters for a dollar, but I got three,”

I’m not a robot. I’m an android. There’s a difference.

Cats and many other animals will have loose skin for defensive reasons.

Honebadgers can almost completely turn around even if you have a firm hold on it, making it hard to pin down.

It also provides protection from getting clawed.

Mostly, it started with small startups and then big corpos thinking “hey they were successful! And their team looks happy!”

So they emulate it. The thing is something that works for groups of 5 doesn’t work so well for more than that.

Also, yeah. There’s probably somebody in the corporate decision tree that realizes it’d increase opportunities for middle management to suck the soul out their minions, but usually the people pushing it are just stupid, and trying to be “hip” and “cool”, and all “how do you do, fellow kids?!”-ish cuz they read about it in a Forbes magazine.

They ain’t called fundays.

it’s hilarious how the idea of open concept office is “to encourage cooperation and stuff” when in reality all that happens is that it drives people to get noise cancelling headphones so they don’t hear Garry chewing gum as noisily as humanly possible, or all the “hmmmm Mmmhhmmhhh” sounds he makes while eating lunch at his desk. (Seriously, Garry, you’re not making love to it.)

Or Chatty Kathy on the phone gossiping about this or that.

People are weird. the world was a better place when we didn’t realize how weird.

For IT or something, if you have an outage because a piece of hardware failed, then you need to look at your network redundancy. single points of failure like that shouldn’t exist- and it’s been that way for decades if not longer.

if IT is in on a holiday, it’s more likely either that their company wants on site coverage because “reasons”… or it’s patch day.

… damn, I was hoping I was the friend….

So. Any time find it yet?

The only really relevant thing in that article is

“Generational trashing is actually eternal human behaviour,” wrote the novelist Douglas Coupland in an essay for The Guardian earlier this month. And he should know: he coined the term “Generation X”. Baby boomers, he recalls, once poured scorn on Gen-Xers like him, who themselves grew up to be sniffy about the [avocado-and-toast eating habits of “snowflake” Millennials. And now it’s the turn of Generation Z, with their TikToks and identity politics, to be judged by their elders.

There’s actually a scientific term for this: the “kids these days” effect, which can be traced all the way back to the writing of the Ancient Greeks. “Since at least 624 BC, people have lamented the decline of the present generation of youth relative to earlier generations,” according to the psychologists who named the phenomenon. “The pervasiveness of complaints about ‘kids these days’ across millennia suggests that these criticisms are neither accurate nor due to the idiosyncrasies of a particular culture or time – but rather represent a pervasive illusion of humanity.”

The rest of the article isn’t about people forgetting how to mend a fence and generally being incapable.

Again. This fence thing didn’t have to be generational. You. Went. There.

Think about that.

You literally start off with

While I really dislike painting with a broad brush about any sort of “good ol’ days”…

I think there’s been a huge loss of generalist knowledge since Gen X. …

Your comment is inherently ageist. Full stop. And by the way, there’s plenty of boomers who never knew how to fix shit.

You didn’t have to, but you made it about entire swaths of generations.