What's everyone up to right now?

[ignoramus]

Freezing and hiding from my kid.

911? There's a mother who's being stalked by Chucky! Please come quickly!

[Rev. Rye]

I've been working on a semi-formal internship doing the books for my boss' businesses. I spent most of the day working on categorizing expenses for this year and the last one. We've got the groundwork down, but we're still kind of stuck on which transactions really belong in which category (they're not all tying with the totals from last year). There has to be some program that simplifies the process of sorting out which numbers in a set add up to a certain number.

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Also, Mumkey Jones, one of my favourite YouTubers, had two of his channels nuked by the YouTube bots, and it appears that it's because of his videos about Elliot Rodger, which focus more on trying to understand how the fuck he ended up the way he did with plenty of insulting the absolute incompetence that underpinned everything he did, and not actually condoning his hateful bullshit.

Apparently, one of the videos that got struck was (if I'm getting it right) a clip of himself on a "Date" with an Elliot Rodger body pillow, celebrating his running out of Elliot-related topics to talk about (for the time being) and giving him the date he always wanted. It's actually fairly wholesome, if such a thing can cover a man in a monkey mask frolicking about in a park with a body pillow of a spree killer. He uploaded it as private as a test. The video never got a single view, and Team YouTube is still insisting that they had humans look at it and still decided it was hate speech.

It looks like one of his friends also posted the same clip:





For his videos relating to the situation (on the one channel that didn't get nuked):








And for a glimpse of what the videos were like

[Cecelia]

Starting to wonder if I'm becoming one of *THOSE* mom's. One of my friends got their daughter an Poopsie Slime Surprise Unicorn that poops rainbow colored poop for Christmas. And all I could think was "No way would I buy one of my kids something like that". But then I thought "Wait.. am I becoming ONE OF THOSE MOMS!" You know, the ones who don't get the hip new trends and everything and tries to be a 'moral guardian' I mean I don't think the toy should be banned or anything. But I'm surprised it exists. And I'm still not sure I'd buy my kids one if they wanted it.

I mean if my daughters want GI Joes, they'll get GI Joes. If I had a son who wanted Barbie, he'd get the Dream house and everything. But am I different from parents who want their kids to only play with toys associated with their gender? Is it really different? Am I being no-fun mom? I really hope not.

[RhettaMae]

Getting woken up by alarmist friends asking me if I survived the earthquake at 5:30 am. Looking for new friends.

[tackattack]

Starting to wonder if I'm becoming one of *THOSE* mom's.  One of my friends got their daughter an Poopsie Slime Surprise Unicorn that poops rainbow colored poop for Christmas.  And all I could think was "No way would I buy one of my kids something like that".  But then I thought "Wait.. am I becoming ONE OF THOSE MOMS!"  You know, the ones who don't get the hip new trends and everything and tries to be a 'moral guardian'  I mean I don't think the toy should be banned or anything.  But I'm surprised it exists.  And I'm still not sure I'd buy my kids one if they wanted it.  

I mean if my daughters want GI Joes, they'll get GI Joes.  If I had a son who wanted Barbie, he'd get the Dream house and everything.  But am I different from parents who want their kids to only play with toys associated with their gender?  Is it really different?  Am I being no-fun mom?  I really hope not.

No you're not. It's the same reason I don't buy my kids a drum set. It's more pain for me to deal with than for them to enjoy.

[Angrboda]

Morning coffee and reading the news. Some significant Chinese developments. Talk of tariff reductions on car exports to the U.S. chief among them.

[DodosAreDead]

Starting to wonder if I'm becoming one of *THOSE* mom's.  One of my friends got their daughter an Poopsie Slime Surprise Unicorn that poops rainbow colored poop for Christmas.  And all I could think was "No way would I buy one of my kids something like that".  But then I thought "Wait.. am I becoming ONE OF THOSE MOMS!"  You know, the ones who don't get the hip new trends and everything and tries to be a 'moral guardian'  I mean I don't think the toy should be banned or anything.  But I'm surprised it exists.  And I'm still not sure I'd buy my kids one if they wanted it.  

I mean if my daughters want GI Joes, they'll get GI Joes.  If I had a son who wanted Barbie, he'd get the Dream house and everything.  But am I different from parents who want their kids to only play with toys associated with their gender?  Is it really different?  Am I being no-fun mom?  I really hope not.

Hell no. Not getting a, erm, unicorn that poops rainbows won't kill them. A no-fun mom is one with whom the kids won't have any fun memories to recall when they grow older. Not one who doesn't get them certain 'hip' toys.

[brewer]

Starting to wonder if I'm becoming one of *THOSE* mom's.  One of my friends got their daughter an Poopsie Slime Surprise Unicorn that poops rainbow colored poop for Christmas.  And all I could think was "No way would I buy one of my kids something like that".  But then I thought "Wait.. am I becoming ONE OF THOSE MOMS!"  You know, the ones who don't get the hip new trends and everything and tries to be a 'moral guardian'  I mean I don't think the toy should be banned or anything.  But I'm surprised it exists.  And I'm still not sure I'd buy my kids one if they wanted it.  

I mean if my daughters want GI Joes, they'll get GI Joes.  If I had a son who wanted Barbie, he'd get the Dream house and everything.  But am I different from parents who want their kids to only play with toys associated with their gender?  Is it really different?  Am I being no-fun mom?  I really hope not.

I can't believe you made me go and find that.

[*Deidre*]

So, my boss is being let go and one of my team mates is being fired. But my team mate doesn’t know this yet. I was told to keep it quiet and I just think it sucks. The guy isn’t right for the job at all but why not tell him? He keeps texting me that he is excited about his vacation coming up and he’s going to be fired in a few days. Ugh, corporate America. :/

[Angrboda]

Enjoying my lunch. The meal itself wasn't anything special, but the dessert was quite good. Meals-On-Wheels included a fudge brownie in today's meal. I'm not a big chocolate person, but this brownie was quite good. Sometimes the simple pleasures are the best.