When I was in college a million years ago, I had a class in Chaos Theory.

The professor knew I worked on sets for the theater group, and he wanted me to build a full-size double pendulum that someone could ride on. I pointed out that it would likely kill the rider, tear itself apart, or both.

Instead I wrote a double pendulum simulator. You could adjust the weights and lengths for each pendulum and the starting position. Run it with the exact same setup and see the exact same result, or make a tiny, tiny change and see the motion was completely different.

I think I still have it somewhere. On a 3.5" floppy disk. Borland TurboPascal.

More like:

Use reports lightbulb is broken. Support spends an hour talking user through diagnostic tests. Determines that the lightbulb in question is a houseplant.

I’m not sure what country this is supposed to be but it wouldn’t be the USA.

If it was the USA, the cops that showed up would arrest the tortoise for disturbing the police.

You win.

About 40 years. We met for real when she was in 9th grade and I was in 10th grade. We started dating when she was 15 and I was 16. We got married 32 years ago.

Edit: Since it looks like we’re the oldest couple in the thread so far: first date was October 5, 1986.

What gives Israel power in the US is bribery is legal here.

I thought it was a cautionary tale about parents who overreact to their children’s relationships without realizing that if they just let them be they’ll break up on their own.

I don’t know. Future me is already pretty pissed about me forgetting to take lactaid.

The tray is for water spills more than coffee spills. If water spills, it’s much less and not difficult to clean up. When it’s a coffee spill like this, it’s much more effort to clean up.

Also, I thought I was going to have coffee, but instead I had a mess.

Yeah. The tray underneath is really just to catch water spills, but it definitely came in handy today.

I’ve done it often with the machine at work, but I’m always nearby, so I catch it before it overflows the drip tray.

I don’t know what that is, but I’m guessing it would be bad.

Yep. Started the machine and carried my breakfast out to my desk. Had to go back for something and thought, “something sounds wrong”, but it was almost finished.

The horror!!!

Been there, done that.

Glad to hear it.

I had a solid block of meetings this morning, but they’re over now. I made myself grilled cheese with tomato for lunch, so it’s turning out better than it started.

Originally the tray was there because I spill water when I’m refilling it, but it proved helpful in this case as well.

Dammit! This is supposed to be the quiet car!

Honestly, as much as I’d like to see the genocide stop, if Dems want to stand up to Trump, they should stand with the American people and stand against the oligarchs.

Decent wages. Healthcare. Housing. Education.

It’s like being on a plane when the oxygen masks drop. Don’t get out of your seat and try to help others. Put your own damn mask on.

Once the people who profit from our suffering are overthrown, it will be easier to try to overthrow the people who profit from the suffering of the world. In fact, many of them are the same people, so it’s almost a side-effect.

Move all the books to the Canadian side now.

Words matter. Fascism is a very specific thing. Calling every authoritarian government fascism just dilutes the meaning of the word.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism