4yo holds up a magnet that is holding onto a metal bracket
4yo: “Look, Daddy! Magnet sticks to metal!”
ME: “Wow. How does it do that?”
4yo: “Um… The Force.”

Saying there are limits to freedom of speech is hate speech and you could go to jail for it.

With this ongoing pandemic and all the misinformation out there, it’s nice how journalists are constantly informing us how much they don’t like Trump.

Can’t wait until we get rid of that obnoxious, incompetent idiot Trump and replace him with an incompetent idiot who is marginally less obnoxious though most likely more pompous.

Graphics card benchmarks are always about FPS when playing Fortnite or Grand Theft Auto V with ultra settings, but I want to know what FPS it gets when you win at Solitaire.

Had to block a few people because they kept responding to everything I say with praise of how smart and right I am. I get enough of that in the real world; I don’t that online too.

Rights > “Science”

I don’t know how people will react when given the all-clear. In places where basically no one knows anyone who got sick and this is mainly theoretical, I can see people going “I got my mask and I wash my hands; I’ll be fine.”
New York, though, I could see people being more scared. Same for some other cities.

It’s people who don’t take the virus seriously versus people who don’t take the consequence of shutting everything down seriously.

I think one thing we learn from all the scientific models about coronavirus infections that also relate to climate change is that when scientists try to put specific numbers on predictions involving complex factors, they’re mainly talking out their posteriors.
I mean, seeing all the deaths with the shutdown, obviously, we’d have a much much larger numbers without these precautions, but all the models quoting specific numbers seem to have no basis in reality.

Can you believe Tommy Boy only has a 42% on RottenTomatoes?

There seems to be a group of people who were actively rooting for as many infections and deaths as possible so they could attack Trump and are now ridiculing the idea of reopening things any time in the next decade.

How did they get babies to eat before the invention of the airplane?

Some people seem to think this pandemic shows how we need a “bigger safety net,” but I don’t know of a safety net that can get people through nobody working unless that safety net is giant silos full of food.
You can’t eat money. And since most of it isn’t printed anymore, you can’t even heat your house with it.
You have to produce wealth first to be able to share it.

If only the whole world could be run by we Gen Xers, the only good generation alive.

So what’s the change of this radically changing cities? I’m thinking more people will be working remotely (no need to live near a city) and more fear of being tightly packed.

A big problem with the whole “go out as little as possible” is that supermarkets are now always out of half the stuff you need.
My wife was able to snag a package of eight rolls of single-ply toilet paper today. That was our first toilet paper purchase since before this all happened as we just happened to get our usual big package from Costco that usually lasts about 6 weeks.
The supply chain needs to make a lot of adjustments to this many people staying from home, but I don’t know if we plan to stay this way long enough for that and prices aren’t going up to motivate those changes.

I’m very curious to get some real numbers on Trolls World Tour. It’s the first big release to go straight to streaming, and how well it did could have a lot of implications for the future.

If you aren’t pushing back at least somewhat against all these new edicts from government telling people what they can and can’t do, you’re being a bad American.

Millennials will all be seniors by the time I master spelling “Millennials.”

Another Trump term sounds great, but so does a President Biden administration. I don’t know how I’m supposed to choose. I think I’ll just have to sit out the presidential election.

Some great evidence that I’m quite wise is that while I loved the pilot for The Walking Dead, I grew bored by the end of the six episode season one and never watched it again.

Am I a fun dad? Well, I say “yogurt” with the same inflection they say “Yo! Joe!” during the GI Joe cartoon title song, so you tell me.

Last time I cried, I was 5yo and had just been shot in the leg. My father immediately slapped me and said, “Be a man!”
I honestly can’t remember full out crying since I was a little kid. I have found myself more vulnerable to tearing up a bit since I had kids of my own. Last time was when the song “Running for So Long” played over the end credits to Peanut Butter Falcon.
Stoicism is a positive aspect of masculinity. Part of the job of a father is project a sense of stability for his family, and extreme emotions don’t do that.

I’m very in touch with my emotions. It’s easy because I have so few of them.

I think a problem with many on the left is they are used to being praised for their hatred and get surprised when something else happens.

I think I like Rise of the Skywalker better each time I watch it. It’s a big, dumb, earnest mess of Star Wars.
It also shows what a misstep it was to separate Finn and Rey for all of The Last Jedi, especially after they had that nice character arc (“You came back for me!”) in Force Awakens.

Partisans end up having to root for things being a big disaster because, if they aren’t, it’s good for Trump. The lesson is do all you can to avoid being a partisan.

Everyone really wants to hear from more millionaire celebrities how easy it is to wait this out.

My 6yo son saw me watching a video of Dan Crenshaw.
“Is that a pirate?”

“No. Politicians primarily steal on land.”

Started watching Devs — completely blind about it other than I knew Nick Offerman is in it — and near the beginning, two people started talking about a subject I knew (RSA vs. elliptic curve). I really braced myself, but they didn’t say anything too dumb.

The well-known FACT that it’s illegal to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater as never been applied more broadly. Perfectly legal: Yelling “Fire!” in a crowded stadium.
Also legal: Yelling “Poison gas!” in a crowded theater.
For it to be illegal, it must be a theater and “Fire!”

How many people care about climate change right now? We can barely go out and see the climate.

They’re taking our jobs and not letting us get haircuts.
The government is FORCING US TO BECOME LAZY HIPPIES!

Is everyone prepared if places reopen and it isn’t a catastrophe?

As a Christian, I don’t think I’m better than anyone else. We’re all sinners and we’re all beloved children of God.
Which also means, comedy-wise, I can’t punch down.

People like to have a religious faith in “experts” in times like this, but be wary giving anyone too much power or any predictions made on top of lots of complex factors.

Trump suspending immigration is pretty awful, but at the same time I’m kind of baffled at the thought of anyone immigrating right now.

Despite legislation, the minimum wage is and always will be $0 an hour.
It can be less than that, though, if you’re starting your own business.

The tradeoffs for reopening versus continuing to shutdown is one of those extremely complex things I don’t trust any expert on and think should be as localized as much as possible.

I see Beto is going on an angry rant. Did they fill in his skate park with sand?

Everyone agrees Little House on the Prairie jumped the shark when it added the wise-cracking robot.

I guess New York has been pretty successful. You don’t hear anyone talk about York Classic anymore.
I don’t know a thing about regular Jersey, but I’m just going to assume it’s leagues better than New Jersey.

Was always worried about how Jimmy was going to destroy Kim, and now I’m wondering if I was worried about the wrong thing. #BetterCallSaul