"Democrats Were Pro-slavery!" Yeah, The Key Word In The Sentence Is "were." Trae Crowder Here Has An

"Democrats were pro-slavery!" Yeah, the key word in the sentence is "were." Trae Crowder here has an excellent video on this.

The corollary with this is how their parents also spend years wondering why their kids break off all contact with them as soon as possible.

The funny part about the "I'm not going to coddle my kids, the real world isn't going to be nice to them" kind of people is that once their kids are grown and out of the house, they spend years being continuously astonished to learn that people as cold and mean as their parents are actually extremely rare.

Or just go to browse and hang out! I promise it will be inspiring :)

Yeah, ok, I am quite aware that I may be a little biased on this! Of course I was singing this song long before I started working at one.

I love the library

Although I'm already of grandparent age (while not being one), this is the future I want to exist even if I'll never see it myself.

In the future, children will think our ways are strange. "Why do old people always grow so much milkweed in their gardens?" they'll say. "Why do old people always write down when the first bees and butterflies show up? Why do old people hate lawn grass so much? Why do old people like to sit outside and watch bees?"

We will try to explain to them that when we were young, most people's yards were almost entirely short grass with barely any flowers at all, and it was so commonplace to spray poisons to kill insects and weeds that it was feared monarch butterflies and American bumblebees would soon go extinct. We will show them pictures of sidewalks, shops, and houses surrounded by empty grass without any flowers or vegetables and they will stare at them like we stared at pictures of grimy children working in coal mines

Letters, we get letters ...

Or at least messages.

Look, I'm find if people send me messages, but don't expect a reply. It's not that I'm being rude to you, specifically, but I only have so many spoons and I'm most likely saving those to talk with my own people.

Especially don't follow up with a message a few hours later exclaiming how much it hurts or whatever to be kept waiting for a message. You do understand that I'm a complete stranger to you, right? That I don't owe you a reply? You're a demand on my time to be met (or not) at my own whim?

That gets a block, not a reply.