Ehhh depends on the kids. For kids on the spectrum or with ADHD there is actually growing body of evidence and anecdata showing a strong link between sugar and poor behavior

Nah there’s not enough sugar there to noticably impact kids behavior or bellies. It’s basically just a peanut butter banana sandwich with a dash of chocolate, which is downright health food for 5 year olds.

If you really want to punish parents go for one of the “snacks” my MIL gave the kids: captain crunch cereal covered in frosting. I took one bite and the sugar concentration was enough to upset my stomach and leave me feeling very unhappy from the sugar spike and crash

Less sugar than most of the “healthy snacks” I see my kids classmates having at school or see in the store at least!

Honestly I might have to make some of these for my own snacking because I really need calorie dense and nutritionally complex snacks right now

I’ve seen speculation that Vance is gearing up to become a right wing media personality after Trump, which is a pretty safe career move given Trump’s track record with VPs…

Something something the cloud is not a backup

I love the photos of flooded cars with “fuck you Greta” bumper stickers

The worst part is coal is such a terrible fuel there’s no good reason to keep doing it. We’ve already mined most of the accessible coal that can be easily mined, and we have better fuels now that burn cleaner and more easily than coal, and even for the odd one-off usecase where coal is the best option we have modern alternatives that contain no coal and burn similarly.

Killing coal is one of the easiest wins Humanity could achieve because it’s entirely outmoded but moneyed interests keep it on life support for no reason other than money

Ideally they wouldn’t be able to bring the network to it’s knees like that, but sometimes one user behaving how they aren’t supposed to can highlight areas of improvement in the network configuration.

As JackbyDev@programming.dev said, they knowingly did something illegal that isn’t work related on company property and caused an effective outage in the process, which on its own can be a fireable offense, but if performed by an employee who was already on thin ice, it’s an easy out for their manager to get rid of them of they didn’t have enough reason to let them go beforehand

Funny how people did the exact same thing regarding the concentration camps the Nazis operated. People chose not to believe the reports they heard from the inside regarding the horrendous and deadly conditions. They “waited for the facts” which of course did not come out until after several years of grinding gruelling war, and well after the final solution began and the gas chambers were operational.

There’s evidence enough as it all stands right now to know that Greta is being tortured and abused, and her human rights violated, as we know so many Palestinians have already been for decades and continue to be every day. Hell, the Israeli officials are constantly publicly bragging about the violations of human rights and international law they’re committing, so maybe even listen to them when they do so?

Yeah how dare she bring food, water and medical supplies to an ongoing famine in a city that has been continuously bombarded with missiles for multiple years straight! Shows her for trying to do some good in this world!

Huh TIL thank you

So specifically I was thinking of adaptive furniture. There’s special programs in some states for folks with long term disabilities to help with purchasing adaptive furniture. Think restraints/locks/alarms for things that a cognitively impaired person might need, such as if they get up in the middle of the night, or door alarms and the like.

For a real world example, my youngest was diagnosed with level 3 autism. Because of his diagnosis he qualifies for our states Medicaid expansion which is intended to cover all of the random costs of having a special needs child that normal kids wouldn’t cost, like door alarms, a fridge lock or we almost had them pay for putting a fence in our yard because he tries to run when outside. We were looking at what could be described as a crib for kids too big for a crib, and all of the options cost a minimum of $10k and a median of about $20k. That would be an extremely easy market to disrupt with a lower cost solution since I highly doubt it actually costs anywhere near $10k to make such a bed

And quality furniture will outlast your grandkids!

I hate to say it but if you want to make a living you kinda have to interact with other people a bit. I’m currently an independent contractor for one of my previous employees. I work when I want for as long as I want, my only requirement is to work less than 32 hours a week and of course to keep my client happy. I have a boss and I do attend some meetings but it’s incredibly chill. I would however much prefer if they hired me on full time, but at this point I don’t think that’s happening.

Otherwise at home there’s always some kind of service you can provide. Painting is easy to pick up and some landlords repaint every property between tenants. Any kind of converting trash into something with value is also a good option. For example I know of a guy in town who collects furniture people leave out for trash and refurbishes it to resell.

If you’re handy you could even go the extreme route of house flipping, which usually is most profitable if you live in the houses you flip. I’ve seen a few run down houses bought from estates sell for way below market value then flip for much more, since families just want mom and dad’s house sold, and buyers often don’t want to do a ton of repairs before moving in. Alternatively buying up run down properties to repair and rent out might be a good path to a solid living too

Or just go all in with a small business. I’ve not seen sellers of affordable and decent looking Corsi-Rosenthal boxes for example, or if you can find some kind of furniture/device for special needs people there’s usually a huge premium charged for those as “medical devices” which are often paid for by Medicaid so it would be very easy to undercut established brands that way. In a similar vein there’s a huge hole in the market for durable furniture. The Amish famously make extremely high quality furniture that holds incredible value due to its high durability, and you don’t have to be Amish to make high quality furniture. Or just find something else you can sell. I saw you mention some programming skills, maybe you can make some kind of B2B app. I’ve seen it said that anything that’s a spreadsheet can be turned into an app and sold to businesses. Or just make a bunch of phone apps and see if any happen to take off.

I always return to the line from Men In Black. “A person is smart but people are scared dumb animals and you know it”

Basically every individual person in a one on one conversation can make for a wonderful interaction, but once you can’t single out an individual to learn how brilliant they are at something you just have a sea of people defined by the lowest common denominator

There’s a guy in town who refurbishes old furniture. He watches the local buy/sell pages like a hawk and grabs any nice furniture left out for free, and he’ll refurbish it to resell for a healthy profit. It’s honestly a respectable gig given how much furniture people end up getting rid of, especially if there’s young renters who just have whatever they got from a garage sale and don’t want to move half of their crap to the next place

My work has me using 3 different 2FA apps depending on what service I’m accessing. It’s great! Especially with the noticable battery consumption increase after setting up 2 more 2FA apps than I had before

Edison’s lightbulb invention story makes for a really good rugged individual story. Dude keeps trying after 400 failures finally finds the one that worked and becomes rich and famous for it

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm

Most of Douglas Self is a time capsule to when the site was setup but the loco loco section has many of the most wild experimental locomotives you’ve never seen! Many are early iterations as nobody had yet figured out the meta for building a relatively efficient and successful steam locomotive but there’s also diesel and electric designs as well buried in there, as well as late steam ideas that tried to outcompete diesels

Like seriously, what the heck is up with these? (And yes, all had at least one example built!)

I would argue the opposite, that the ability to participate in society without using a computer should be a right, and included with that should be a non-descrimination requirement as well. Shoving everyone into using a web form/app is not acceptable but it is a growing reality in too many private and public spaces (and also if I just want to quickly pay for parking why oh why can I not just shove cash or my card into a reader like you could for the last 30 years! No I don’t want your stupid app!)