@hitmyspot @dadsplain I think that is kind of what we’ve been doing. I didn’t know it was a named method. We don’t force her to finish her meals completely. She just needs some encouragement to improve the vegetable variety in her diet.

@threeduck @dadsplain That is still kind of my instinct, but my daughter’s pickiness got to the point that it affected her health. Fortunately, we’ve made enough progress over the past few years that that problem is behind us. Now we’re just working on variety. We’re not forcing her to clean her plate. She just needs some encouragement and light pressure to figure out how to enjoy more than one type of vegetable.

@rxin @dadsplain it’s VLC for Android.

@streetfestival @dadsplain I deserve to have a little bit of warm and quiet.

@Tolookah @dadsplain after dinner it turns into a kitchen dance off.

@Kolanaki @dadsplain oh no

@CrimeDad @dadsplain And apparently the images in Lemmy replies don’t show up in Mastodon either lol. #Mastodon #Lemmy

@dadsplain Now playing:

@ptz @nostupidquestions Oh no. I don’t think I default to the Tucker Carlson confused face, but I’m a little worried that I might. I just signed on to a Teams meeting and my CEO immediately asked me why I looked confused.

@CrimeDad #hydrogen #HydrogenEconomy

@Kory @asklemmy I’m 38. To me people older than that are objectively older people. I can’t think of anyone younger than 45 with whom I’ve had this problem.

@jlow @asklemmy https://jorts.horse/@fathermcgruder/112536047583834481

@enbyecho @asklemmy Well, geriatric pregnancies start at age 35, so it’s really a flexible adjective. If you took it incorrectly, that’s on you.

Based on the mixed responses I’m getting, it is not an established stereotype that older people write emails and text messages poorly. If I knew it was then I wouldn’t have asked if others had similar experiences to mine in the first place.

@enbyecho @asklemmy I’m well aware that I’m somebody else’s elder. I meant it matter-of-factly, like “geriatric pregnancy”.

@MissJinx @asklemmy I wasn’t sure of the right word to use. Geriatric seemed correct enough. To be clear, I don’t think there’s anything especially wrong or bad about my elders. I just think there might be some kind of technological and cultural collision happening that makes me feel like I’m crazy sometimes.

@NABDad @asklemmy okay maybe I’m being a little hyperbolic.

@bloopernova I don’t remember what people were annoyed with him about, but I do remember that it was a BOFA joke that was the last straw for him. Anyway, he’s the only high-profile Mastodon user that even comes to mind.

@crimedad @aww Also, in addition to meeting this little guy another fun thing about my flight was the announcement the captain made regarding vaping. He reminded us that it’s a federal offence to use a vape device on a US flight and that he would have to report it to US authorities “if we see it … one more time.”

@kommadieb @chat another test. This is @Kurt, btw.