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The guy’s first grade class is sharing what their favorite salty snack is. One kid said, “Cereal with salt on it.”

This is like me when I’m painting, except that I de-aesthetize things by destroying all contrast.

In today’s, Bad Dad chronicles, I did not notice the guy did not have a winter jacket on when I took him to school this morning. He only had a hoodie on and didn’t say anything about being cold the whole walk there. (He did get a school loaner jacket for recess.)

Back in the day, I had a checklist of the things we had to take to daycare posted on the wall next to my keys. I eventually tuned it out, though, and had many frantic dashes back home, then back to daycare, then to work.

10-4-4-4-4-12.

Trying to use Home Depot’s curbside pickup. “Just park and tell us you’re here! We’ll bring you stuff out!”

So, far I’ve used their web form to say I’m there, listened to a podcast for ten minutes, then tried their web form again.

I continue to wait!

Five minute later, I just went in. Curbside pickup, except I’m on the side of the curb that’s inside the building.

Hey, does anyone have a recommended book discussion forum? I’m looking for actual substantive comments and no Nazis jumping into shit.

I spent a lot of today working on an import conflict resolution UI. While I was doing it, I really felt like it would pay off later, but after I stopped, I realized that it would rarely come up.

I should probably take longer breaks from typing.

35-minute run, 12 pull-ups. Stumbled in the beginning because I forgot to warm up, and my ankle was stiff.

I cleaned our freezer out for the first time. It’s always been so packed that it seemed impossible.

But because of the pandemic, we’ve limited our grocery trip frequency and have planned meals and grocery purchases in more detail. (Mostly Katt.) So, we actually get to see the back of the freezer and fridge.

It wasn’t heinous; there was vegetable dust and a possible popsicle spill stain. I discovered we have a lot of frozen tamales, which is great, and some monkfish, which we’ve never been able to cook successfully.

I somehow feel accomplished and hopeful about the future orderliness of the freezer.

So, a while back, I mentioned in a discussion that a Chapo Trap House host had mocked women on Twitter that were talking about having been raped, but at the time, I could produce the tweets. Deleted and banned accounts made it hard to find this thing I remember seeing back when I was on Twitter. This kind of memory hole thing drives me nuts, and I felt like I looked like I was making it up.

I was reminded of this issue today and realized I forgot about archive.org. For posterity and to prove I'm not insane, here it is. (Content warning: These tweets are about rape, so skip reading if you don't want to see that today.)

Context about one of the rapes being discussed that he was mocking.

Screenshot someone grabbed of part of the thread (@byyourlogic is the Chapo guy)

I think this was the actual thread.

And one of the women discussing her rape being mocked and how she was not actually apologized to as @byyourlogic claimed.

So, there it is. Hooray for archive.org and for me having a reliable memory! While I find it detestable when people support sociopaths that mock people who have suffered horrible traumas, I know that there is an appetite for this kind of cruel "strong avatar." It's partly why Trump has been president.

However, I think we can all agree that that Chapo Trap House host that actually mocked rape victims as they were talking about being rape.

Actually, now that I think about it, the last several years has proven that no one has to believe any fact, no matter what the circumstances.

So, I revise that to: I can agree that I actually saw that and did not misremember.