you can’t make a simple calculator without JavaScript

But you can make an overly-complicated one with PHP!

/s it would actually still be simple just needing page reloads

Many of the things JS is used for are better done with CSS.

That’s really cool! I’d sub if I wasn’t trying to keep my feed text-only. I appreciate what you’re trying to do, though.

a thick warm slice of bread in summer spread with butter and peanutbutter both almost to the point of melting

doing boring things to exciting music

for about half a minute I was like “how is she baking at the beach? a solar oven??”

It’s about to be! They’re already showing me, a millennial, articles about a “job cliff”.

This year?

Beach Bunny — “Year of the Optimist”

All time? Probably

Brian Adams — “Summer of '69”

There’s something about the video for Len’s “Steal My Sunshine” that’s just very comforting to me. I don’t think it’s just nostalgia, because this is how I felt when I first saw it back in the 90’s, too.

toward

Sure, but it’s usually refuge: Hauling ass towards the border, hauled ass all the way home

Give back, rude

Sell, gauche (with some exceptions for real estate and timed items like concert tickets)

Give to someone else, depends:

Is it a family heirloom? Must be given within the family.

Was it handmade? Must be given to someone else with a connection to the maker.

Is it something that if taken care of can last for generations? Must be given to someone who will be a good steward of it.

For most other things, regifting is fine, including entering it into a mutual aid resource pool.

One more note: If the gift is replaced by a nicer or updated gift from the same or related source (eg. your parents get you a new laptop, replacing one they gave you five years ago) then the older one is free for you to do as you like with.

Complicated can take time, or may require asking for help. Inscrutable sometime you just have to change direction entirely, or keep trying to go around it until you no longer find yourself bumping into it.

But some fences you can’t get past, and you have to accept that, too. The way for you may be only within the bounds of the fence. You don’t have to like it when that happens, but not linking it won’t change it. Death being the classic example.

You’ll be happier if fences in general don’t make you unhappy, and that’s part of what Aurelius means, too.

Not banned, just fed up.

It’s more like “escape” or “leave suddenly”.

You can’t change the past. You can’t make the world other than it already is. You can change it for the future, but in the present you have to deal with it as you find it.

If you are walking through a field and find a fence, you can try to go over it, or walk along it, or try to cut through it, or dig under it. What you can’t do is ignore it. That’s what Aurelius means here. Any action you take to move forward must account for the fence.

I do, when it’s just my spouse and I… but then, we don’t have a staff.

Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t see why being comfortable alone is viewed as strange while constantly needing people around is viewed as normal.

Observation bias: Someone who’s comfortable alone but uncomfortable around others will be seen to be uncomfortable by others; whereas someone uncomfortable alone has no one around to observe their maladjustment.

They are both maladjustments though; someone well-socialized is comfortable both alone and around others.

Realistic options only, please, I’m in a similar situation.

I define progress as “drawing closer to achieving goals or meeting benchmarks as time moves forward” but that’s just off the cuff at the end of a long day

We’ll use them for other data applications.