If taking a two year old to the beach is any indication, it’ll make you poop sand for a day or two. Sounds rough and coarse and irritating, of course, but maybe supposed to do more?

He’s gonna be a good father to your children, take the garbage out. Stuff like that. Basic supplanting.

It’s either over the mountains, or your owl will have to thread the needle between the Azores and Greenland.

H, because I’m in Canada, and the food would be cold before the guy from D got here.

As opposed to the old “only the Great Powers have agency” gambit, which is actual Russian propaganda. Heaven forbid countries other than the US, Russian and China be even conceived of being able to take actions on their own.

Lead was out of gas for new cars starting in the '70s. It wasn’t actually banned in the US until 1996 (1990 in Canada). There were leaded and unleaded pumps all through the '80s.

Unless you grew up in the '80s. Jesus, what a shitshow. Though I notice a lot of nostalgia for the '80s from people who aren’t old enough to remember it.

Socialism so far has an absolutely terrible track record with environmental protection. Unless you’re just talking about being able to directly force societal change in general, in which case you’re arguing for eco-flavoured despotism.

Socialism doesn’t even promise environmental protection, rather being focused on worker rights and minimizing inequality.

My compost heap is now 80% bears. Did I do it wrong?

Thus converting a workforce of poorly paid fast food employees into one of highly paid utility workers.

Best I can do is SMBC

hmm. I prefer to live by “I’ve cut it three times and it’s still too short”

And the rest of the time it shouldn’t just be choice of locking them in a room vs entertaining them. Just include them in whatever you were going to do anyway. Cleaning the house? Kid gets a small/toy broom. Laundry? Kid carries empty baskets or something. Holding wrenches or flashlights for repairs is traditional.

None of these things will make the tasks go faster, of course, but the child is occupied and learning to be helpful, and you aren’t driving yourself crazy trying to run a household and entertain them 24/7 at the same time.

Car specific maybe? I was able to charge at -30C outside from a 120V outlet last winter.

And this was required because the SR-71 started flying in 1966, and the first GPS satellite didn’t launch until 1978. The full GPS constellation wasn’t finished until 1990.

If you only drive on weekends and holidays, level 1 charging is actually good enough. The cost of a level 2 charger is pretty insignificant to the price of a car, but every bit helps.

Even corporations that are cooperatives? Municipalities are corporations (in my country). Are they bastards? How about corporations that are wholly government owned? The USSR was full of those.

Altruistically? Rosneft, the largest oil company in Russia. Help climate change and cripple Putin’s war machine in one go.

For me? Central Square, purveyors of shitty enterprise software.

Mklinux. It was the only thing you could run on one of those jank-ass PowerPC/nubus Macs.

If you remember navigating with a compass and map, GPS is goddamned magical.