This kind of level-headed consideration is why he was able to come to you with his concerns after, so good job there. I think you’re on the right track with an open conversation about coming to you with these kinds of things before they happen. “I’m concerned about you keeping safe so could we please talk something like this through before you do it next time?” Would be the line I’d use but you obviously know your son better than me so YMMV. All in all I’m glad things worked out okay and hopefully this’ll be a learning experience for mindfulness.

There’s probably a sticker with the license code on the laptop somewhere.

Time will put your enemies in the ground.

Can confirm, I’ve got an ecology degree and that line would work on me 100%.

Probably cilantro.

Wait that’s a thing?!

No, but I don’t wait for the beeping to stop.

Confirmation bias or something IDK I’m not a statistician.

That’s the cholesterol clogging your arteries.

I used to work overnights at Walmart and nothing slapped harder on my midnight “lunch” break than a couple of red hot dogs from the Circle K, especially if their nacho cheese machine was still running.

He’s blond! He’s pissed! He’ll see you in the lists!

Some animals are big enough to just have fauna, nothing micro about them. See whale lice as an example.

Legit one of the best moments of my college life was sitting on the roof of my car with a friend watching the sunset from a Margs parking lot waiting to sober up.

Congrats, you just dodged a fae bargain.

“Bug” is a scientific word that refers to members of the sub-order Heteroptera. See assassin bugs, leaf-footed bugs, etc.

But yeah language is fluid and most people call any old arthropod a bug.

I love Cowboy Bebop but that series is one giant unhealthy relationship.

There’s a romhack out there that gives this game a proper control scheme, though I haven’t tried it yet.

Until the pillow starts to get spicy…

I wonder if they’re banking on wireless chips lasting longer than physical ports. Though making them wireless also means batteries and charging ports, two parts notorious for failing.

I’ve got some decent smithing skills, I’d go looking for bog iron and skip the bronze age.

I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t pick up a stick or a rock during a hike. We’ve been gathering our own tools for hundreds of thousands of years and that curiosity and ingenuity is bone deep for us as a species.