I truly hope there are people who don’t get this. I want to believe.

Learning push/pop in the context of a stack provided me with a lifelong justification for being what others call “flighty”. This is super evident while doing chores and I jump from washing dishes to wiping counters to washing floors to putting laundry in the washer. To someone at that point it looks like I’ve started a bunch of things that I didn’t finish.

In fact, I paused on the dishes so I could clear a spot on the counter for them, realized I swept a bunch of crumbs on the floor that I needed to clean up, but before I could finish the floor I had to do something with that dirty pile of laundry that was in the way. Keep watching and you’d see me “pop” each of those tasks back off the stack in turn, eventually getting back to the dishes where I started.

Yeah, he’s not getting made fun of for his shoes. They’re just a convenient target of ridicule. Son is about to learn a life lesson.

I’m sorry. People are shit.

I’m with you. Hope we can do it without violence but it is looking grim.

Don’t worry, there won’t be another.

Where, might I ask? For a friend. Asking for a friend.

No, your comment was perfectly in context. I was nominating it as a perfect addition to an all time greatest list of post that, out of context, are amazing.

Only if I’m standing across the room and my brain calculates that the time it takes to close the distance is within the time remaining on the countdown and I get to do a badass flip, twirl, and slide to stop it just in the nick of time so I get to pretend I have super hero level reflexes.

I cannot do badass flips but the point still stands. I can twirl and slide though, as long as I’m wearing socks.

Nominating for best of out-of-context comments.

If you tell them they’re only going to do something equally or more stupid in the future. If you don’t they will learn their lesson, albeit the hard way.

I may not be a great candidate for parenthood…

I’m imagining these stooge’s first day on the job being like the 9/11 terrorists taking flying lessons.

“Don’t worry too much about the details, we don’t need to know how to land.”

Great recommendation and knife user therapy in one post. Thanks!

Be careful… If you get in an accident I guaran-god-damn-tee you they will use it as an excuse not to pay out. Maybe after a lawsuit you’d see some money but at that point half of it goes to the lawyer and you’re still screwed.

I actually think you’ve just described the current political climate in the US.

The idea that our government is a representative democracy is a farce. The machine has too much inertia, too much power and money

Seconded. But… Sometimes the only place I can find the answer to an obscure issue I’m having is a comment on a nine year old reddit post six responses deep.

I do find it with Kagi, but I still feel dirty every time.

If they’re lying about the casualty rate then even rational people aren’t given the facts to make intelligent decisions.

I’d bet if they were told the truth no amount of incentive would get them to sign up.

Dear future historians: You wil look back in horror but know that we feel helpless. The only parallel we have ended in a world war that had to be ended by a newly arisen superpower. And that scares the shit out of us.

My Pre and Kyocera 6035. Never forget.

I was trying to wax philosophical about what form of government is next. But, you’re right. There’s something that comes first.