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According to the aforementioned brother with a doctorate, the only thing having a PhD indicates is that you can talk for a long time.

I don’t know if that’s true - I never have been and never will be in that lofty section of academics. Even if I were qualified, and I’m not, I’m not sure it sounds like much fun.

But it’s also important to remember that access to education isn’t always something one can directly influence.

My brother is the only PhD I know on a personal level and I can confirm that he is very smart and worked very hard to get to where he is. I assume that that’s true of most people with similar credentials. However, one shouldn’t automatically dismiss someone because they lack that qualification.

The day we got our most recent dog, he was delivered by his previous owner along with some supplies, including a half full bag of his food. That night, we served him dinner and he sniffed at it then just looked at us, seemingly confused.

We called the previous owner to ask if she had any ideas - I know big changes like that can be confusing for a dog, but we didn’t want him to starve! The erstwhile owner said “I don’t know. Maybe the pieces are too big for him. Maybe break them up?”

That answer always amazed me. Until a few hours prior, she had been responsible for his sustenance and she was the one who provided the food we were trying to give him. If he required extra steps, fine, but you would think she would know and have provided instructions. (The transfer wasn’t contentious - she was voluntarily moving out of state.)

I don’t remember what we did that night, but for the few years he lived with us, he would never reliably eat any of the kibble we tried for him. He would usually eat it if we mixed in wet food, but my cats love wet food and he was kind of a wimp so a lot of times he’d just sit and sadly watch them eat until they were full and he got to have the leftovers.

(I did try to discourage this behavior from the cats, but I couldn’t be there the entire very long time it took him to eat and he didn’t like his crate so I couldn’t isolate him for meals.)

However, he was never shy about human food. He knew he wasn’t supposed to eat it, so if I set it on a TV tray next to me or whatever, it was safe … But if I left the room with it there, when I came back the food would be gone, despite the mysterious fact that he was in the same spot where I left him.

I had my suspicions, but never did resolve that mystery …

I believe that’s what was meant by “egirl” in the caption.

That’s the one.

That’s what inspired me to buy mine! Still not sure I like watching the guy, but the wheel videos can be interesting.

I hope he’s in a better place than where he was then.

I’ve cooked with one of those. The idea is that you put it in your heat, then use it like a pan once it’s warm through.

I’ve only used it once so far (cleaning it looks intimidating since you can’t use water on it) and I was skeptical it would work as claimed, so I seasoned my meat beforehand.

I can confirm that it is very effective at conferring saltiness.

My mother grew up in a house in the beach. According to her, when winter froze the water over, the neighbors would drive out and spin their cars on the frozen river.

It was a different world back then, but the idea sounded terrifying to me because this was basically what I pictured happening if anything were to go wrong.

Yesterday I watched a video about a Spider-Man movie and essentially this comment thread went through my head.

When I was but a teenager, I moved into an apartment with a guy I had known for a while. I considered his ethics questionable. He contrasted them against mine and I learned a lot about myself. Life felt complicated at the time.

But anyway, the reason he was looking for a new apartment was that he had recently broken up with his girlfriend. Apparently she had cheated on him. This was back when AIM was a thing and, for whatever reason, he had access to her AIM logs. He thought she had cheated on him - I don’t know whether she did and it’s not my business - and wanted verification. He went through the entirety of her AIM logs, including mine. (She wasn’t cheating with me, though we did flirt on occasion. Out of some weird sense of morality, he warned me before he read our chat logs; he described it as “harmless.”)

I wonder what he’s doing with AI these days.

Could you just not remind me that I’m old?

My kid is still young and is growing up with a lot of their gaming done on a tablet. They’re remarkably adept with touchscreen controls, but it just seems so limiting to me.

I eventually connected a Bluetooth controller to their tablet and suddenly they’re amazed by how much easier gameplay is!

I suppose it depends on what you value. Language is more of a creative venture while math is more of a technical one. “Credit” is also somewhat of a nebulous term.

My brother has a PhD in pure mathematics. Sometimes I get in trouble (yes, hyperbole) with him because, while I’m pretty decent at arithmetic and I like numbers, he knows so much more about either than I do. For example, I recently said that 57 was a boring number (I tried to connect it to 17, which I like, but was thinking of 19, which is fine) and learned quite a lot from both him and some lemmings.

Another time I told him that I thought there was debate about whether 2 was prime and I subsequently got quite a lecture on the nature of primality.

Point I’m trying to make is, give at least some math graduates at least some credit.

Well, be careful and take care of yourself.

I know you only from your posts and barely that (I look at them as they come up in my feed mainly to go “is that violet?”), but the situation you’re describing could easily go wrong.

I don’t begrudge anyone whatever ethical fun they might wish to have, just be aware of red flags.

Did you witness the wife saying that?