My little pup definitely has favourite spots to shit - often it’s in front of a house he knows another dog lives in. It’s not exactly the same spot every time, but there are very much creatures of habit and I wouldn’t rule it out.

And in the time it took you to check all those futures you could have finished the task and also gotten lunch.

Other people waiting to ask ADHDers what point they were originally trying to make before they interrupted themselves to ramble for five minutes about a dozen other things…

And knowing they won’t remember.

Demonstrating that they’ve always known, and just haven’t cared.

Grey text is looking out for their safety, good for them. Blue text is clearly communicating their boundaries, good for them. Neither is phrasing their needs as I would, but that’s small potatoes. I’d rather date either of these people than most of the ones replying in this thread.

Wold Newtonry

Yeah, what you’re saying makes sense. I like “bad personality indicator” as an alternative, since it conveys to me it’s one of many indicators you might process, maybe not even consciously. I’ve just had rather negative experiences being “tested” and hearing that world applied to any kind of casual social interaction gets my hackles all the way up.

You’d fail my test if I learn you have tests for people.

Maybe it’s just a matter of phrasing, but the idea that I could be kind to our server all night, tip well, generally hit it out of the park, but be disproportionately judged for failing to do this one small thing because it’s your personal test? Sets my social anxiety off enough that if I knew that were on your mind I’d probably just say we’re not compatible.

Obviously, keep an eye out for shitty people, and don’t put up with bad behaviour, but also judge people as people, wholistically.

I approve of asking for a source. I downvoted because they were a dick about it.

Well, okay, I guess that sounds good, too. But make mine cellular peptide flavoured.

No problem. Reverse the polarity of the main deflector dish, then reroute power from life support to transmit a resonance pattern laterally across the external inertial dampener array. The resulting subspace flux will energize your Heisenberg compensators, so you can simply purge the pattern buffers and attenuate their power output to re-energize your dilithium matrix. You got this! That’s the power of math, people!

Hate to be negative, but I have to agree. Bluey is a great example, and Sesame Street is another. There are shows like that I’d be happy to have a toddler watch. This just seems to offer a convenient distraction to allow parents five minutes of peace in exchange for familiarizing their kids with the Star Trek brand from a young age. Cynical and disappointing.

Starring Captain Pike? I’d watch.

If they’re buying this, they’re taking care of their kid. Why else would they be buying a diaper bag?

Worrying over internet comments is a sure sign of anxiety, possibly OCD, maybe even PTSD if there’s a particular trigger.

If I were calling about a reference and heard this story related, I’d say to myself “great, so they’re willing to ask probing questions to clarify requirements.”

That could save weeks of work on some projects, and I’m not so desperate for clients that I’d want to work with one who would walk over a simple request for clarification.

You prompted me to look up an article, and it’s an interesting history. Apparently, “the American way” didn’t actually appear in a comic until 1991. It’s almost exclusively a phrase for radio and television.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/heres-how-supermans-iconic-motto-of-truth-justice-and-the-american-way-evolved-over-time-180986927/

Is this that feminist riddle again?

For me it’s usually a matter of overestimating how many chances I’ll have to read while I’m out. Or how tired I’ll be when I finally do get a moment of down time. Hard to read through closed eyes.

It sounds like you’re thinking of Tom Welling of Smallville. This is the Superman from Lois and Clark in the ‘90s. Costumed in episode one.

Edit: clearly doesn’t mean he’s not a loser, though. But I enjoyed the show.