Bonifratz

Meh, he’ll just forget about Iran and do Cuba next. Remove/kill Díaz-Canel, bomb some civilians maybe. Then the next target (maybe something in Africa for a change?) and so on. Who’s gonna stop him? The Senate? SCOTUS? lol

Music and chess, mostly

I love reading these in the original “rhythm”, one per day. I’ve been excited for that beanie to finally be delivered almost as much as Calvin.

I’m sure I have a bunch, but for the fediverse I think the most controversial is that I think neopronouns are a bad idea. DISCLAIMER I support queer folks, and I also use neopronouns when requested (because there’s zero reason to be a dick about it), but I think everybody would be better off without them.

The entire purpose of pronouns is to offer a quick, generic (i. e. non-individual) way of referring to people or objects without using their names. Using neopronouns which have to be communicated and learned first is the opposite of that. So in my view they’re not really pronouns, just additional names one has to learn for a person.

I think the most sensible way of accommodating all genders is using whatever pronouns are present in the language (usually male and female, or a generic pronoun), plus a non-binary pronoun if needed, like singular they in English.

Dunno about that, but the DoW is alive and well, fulfilling its purpose.

According to Wikipedia, “middle age” commonly refers to 45-60, although I’ve seen it used for 40-60 too.

I could see Calvin’s dad being in his late thirties, maybe Watterson even had something like ~33 in mind considering average paternal age in the US in 1980 was 27.9 according to this source, and Calvin is known to be 6 y/o.

The dad may look a bit older but I think some of that is due to the fashion style.

Yes, in February 7th’s strip Hobbes says she usually comes in and sends them to bed right away at 6:30. So with their notes-hostage shenanigans they managed to extend it to 7:00 this time.

Dark Calvin

What’s stopping people you know from taking this step?

I’m a noob when it comes to IT. (Even though in my family I’m the one people ask when they have computer issues lol.) I would really like to get into self-hosting and all that, and I think if I found some good guides I would probably be able to make things work, but it still sounds very daunting to me. Like, I imagine days if not weeks of sifting through online resources to fix a thousand little errors and issues that would come up. (Maybe I’m mistaken, maybe it’s all really easy even for noobs. Just trying to explain my feelings on the matter.)

Edit: Woke up to 10 replies lol. Thanks for everybody’s input and helpful links. I think this might become a future project for me, but not before winter 26/27 (for life reasons).