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Lyndon LaRouche. I’d occasionally run across a few of his minions out leafletting and they oozed that culty wacko vibe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche

This (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927650524001130?via%3Dihub#sec0027) appears to be the actual paper the article is talking about.

Hey I’ve seen this movie before… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

And then squeegee down your forearms and aprons and get back to work.

You just pull the wrist hole open and dump out the excess hand water every hour or so.

Heyo!

I couldn’t tell you, TBH. I have only read the series of books.

Well it’s a series, but Three body problem. It should have been right up my alley, but I got so tired of every decision by every character being stupid that I couldn’t be bothered to read the last fifty pages of the last book.

Even if I charitably assumed the point of the book was to show that people are weak and stupid, the series was such a ham-handed strawman as to undercut its own commentary. And even worse, it had just enough interesting ideas to lead me to believe it was going somewhere worthwhile, but it never did.

It’s been years and I’m still pissed off that I wasted a week on it.

A sign that reflects the eternal truth… You don’t buy beer. You rent it.

You ever stand behind a couple of geezers in line somewhere and they start talking about some random stuff? They didn’t know each other. They were just bored.

For the confused, bells peal. Labels peel.

I think the cleanliness of the blade would be less relevant than the massive infection pouring from your pierced guts into the wound.

It depends on where you are. Public consumption laws are local.

Named after a man who went on to chair ANSI and be president of ISO. That’s a dude all about measuring things.

There isn’t near the kind of cultural narrative about stepfathers that there is about stepmothers, especially in media for kids. Kids absorb ideas from the fairy tales they see and hear. Stepmoms have to deal with tropes from “Cinderella” to “My Stepmom is An Alien”. Kids will then carry those notions, amorphous and unexamined, into their new relationship. Kids usually don’t have the capacity to recognize those kind of prejudices in themselves. So now the new stepmom has to deal with the kid’s indignance at a fictional character. But aside from the Dursleys in Harry Potter, I’m hard pressed to recall a wicked stepfather.

Then there’s the puritanical thread, and I’m a dude so I don’t even know what else is lurking in our culture that wants to take a piece out of a stepmom for being the second lady in the family.

Not to reduce what a genuinely good dad has to do, step or otherwise. But if a dad manages to use words to explain something calmly, that’s enough to get kudos from strangers on the street. I don’t think the ladies have the benefit of the same uncomplicated expectations, so they need specialized guidance.

What exactly are you looking for in advice? How to deal with the ex and their branch? How to deal with specific behaviors from the kids? You’ll probably do better to search at the level of those topics than the role of stepdad in general.

I’d suggest going for “How to talk so that kids will listen and listen so kids will talk” series. To be a good step-parent, you need to be a good parent.

Legend.

They clearly needed some good guys with nail guns and toobifores to cage this sumbitch up.

Outstanding response and highly relevant username.