FuglyDuck

“You’re going to need a bigger bowl.”

(You should read that in Roy Schneider’s voice.)

Well.

You could always be a bit slow about feeding them. They’ll at least come down to tell you about it.

(Can’t help with the cuddles though.)

honestly, I’d settle for a cat that looks at me like that.

I mean, don’t tell my partner I said that… she’s soooo much better. (she’d also probably dump me for the cat, if we’re being honest.) (just so people don’t get the wrong idea, we just aren’t at a place in our lives where a cat would be comfortable.)

I swear every time I see Meiz pop up in my feed, OP’s added something new for the run.

That, or I have a shitty memory. Either way kitty is living the high life!

If you like round numbers, 69 is all curves.

Also, from what I saw she was complying with the commands to clear the road.

Not that brownshirts would realize why that’s a stupid game to play.

I’d okay with that. As long as it’s still technically a planet. (what? it’s my favorite!)

Pluto is a dwarf planet, which is still a planet.

Also, they absolutely should have just made an exception for Pluto so science teachers everywhere could have used that as a fun teaching point.

that is so going to go over well.

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I was making an observation, rather than speculation.

I once made a joke about sea urchins and rule34…. Several people rule 35’d it

Says the guy who apparently can only sting together an insult.

Stuff changes. Each generation does things differently. Stone Age people probably said the same thing when they stopped teaching their children to flintknap after everyone started using bronze tools.

We abandon old technology when it becomes obsolete, and eventually the skills associated with them. And that’s normal.

We don’t have enough hours in a lifetime to learn all the stuff we’ve abandoned, and analog clock faces are going that way. It’s okay. This is normal.

I’m sure there’s something out there. Rule 34 and all that.

This is incorrect. I’m a teacher and CONSTANTLY use the analog clock for multiple reasons.

It’s the clock of record. Doesn’t matter what YOUR particular clock says, the clock on the WALL is the time we all go on.

Irrelevant. This function would be served regardless of what type of clock is on the wall. A digital wall clock would serve just as well, and likely be less expensive to maintain than the electromechanical clocks you presumably use. (something about obsolete technologies becoming increasingly more expensive to maintain.)

Reaching into your pocket to pull out a phone and look, no matter how much you want to pretend it’s trivial, still takes SIGNIFICANTLY more effort and time than glancing at the wall. Those seconds add up.

See the above reply.

Momentum. Are you PERSONALLY going to provide the billions of dollars in funding to replace every analog clock in a public space with digital ones?

an irrelevant red herring with a false dichotomy. Clocks in public places are mostly installed by the people who maintain those public places. We all pay taxes to keep those places up. I don’t need to personally fund such a project and you know it.

This is not like learning to write cursive - reading an analog clock is a trivial skill that should not take longer than a day for anyone to master.

It may be trivial, and there may be some benefit besides learning to read said clock. But like cursive, it’s an irrelevant skill that generally won’t be used outside of class. That’s how it’s like cursive. Or, if you prefer, using a slide rule. as a teacher, I am, however, sure you understand that you only have so many hours of instruction available. A day spent on this, is a day not spent on something else. You might have arguments for why this is more important than that something else, but its still an obsolete technology that, like the slide rule and fountain pens, is going away. Nostalgia is not a good enough reason to keep it around.

btw, my middle school had all digital wall clocks back in the mid 90’s, and probably had them for quite some time before i was there.

or maybe they should invest in digital clocks rather than continuing to use an archaic, obsolete technology.

Yes. You read that right.

Analog clocks are obsolete.

Same with the fountain pen and dip pens and calligraphy (and the cursive writing styles that relied on them,) carrier pigeons and the telegraph. not to mention all sorts of other technologies that are of only passing interest.

You probably don’t know how to read a sundial, or to locate yourself on a map using a magnetic compass.

While there’s some esoteric value in such skills, the skills themselves are obsolete and useless to modern life. We’re not preparing them for the past. we’re preparing them for the future.

Guaranteed the teachers aren’t using the analog clocks if they don’t have to either.

(edit, I can’t find the full article, everything points back to that atlantic article. The gyst that they cropped out so crudely is two fold: the point of cursive was to minimize blotting caused by lifting and setting the pen across each letter when using a pen with a nib. It required a relatively light hand when writing, so as to glide over the page and not dig itn. Ball point pens, on the other hand, transfer ink differently- you’re rolling a ball over the surface- and they require significantly more pressure. the fluid motions of cursive writing cramp the hand sooner compared to print, if you’re writing with a ball point.)

Even ducks hate slop!

I know, right?

for the record, this might give you an idea of how much floof that thing has. They’re where we get angora wool from.

they’re bookies… and they use wombats as enforcers.

I reckon the quokka is more cute than the bunny.

I dunno. rabbits have it on floof if you go with the angora. Quokka take it on charm, though.