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Rather than using link shorteners, or whatever share.google is, you could direct link to xkcd 3133.

Why do you think siblings would hate each other? Giving them the mental and emotional tools to interact kindly and calmly with others will also ensure their reltionship is positive.

There's a lot of work to go around. The leopards take care of those who vote against their own interests, the tigers can deal with those who shoud be getting nothing more than a lump of coal for Christmas. In the case that both of these hold true, whichever gets to the perpetrator first eats them.

Could Sasha do the adults too, particularly the bad ones?

He's fierce, look at him wrong and he'll have your arm off in a heartbeat. I reckon he can chew through the wood faster than the saw.

Seriously, thanks for posting your photos, it's a pleasure to see a little slice of your travels.

sobs How hard can it be to put on a pair of shoes??? Your frog/rabbit/sheep impression is great, but this is not the time!

Whilst I absolutely agree that they should read the whole email, I look at it from the opposite side; I want them to absorb the important information so they don't bother me with trivial or repititious questions, and I know they'll absorb information at the start of my mail with a higher probability than information at the end, so I put the critical stuff at the front and repeat it in more detail later. It's for my sake, rather than to make their job easier, that it also makes their job easier is a bonus.

One of the most effective rules I've ever heard is "make it easy for them to give you what you want". In this case, the poster wants them to stop bothering them with trivial questions, so make the answers easy to digest and they can more easily not bother you. It holds in pretty much any situation when you want something from someone, from asking for a raise to ordering at a resturant. It's proven invaluable advice over the years.

I was going to make some crack about it being a dirty job, but someone having to do it, but I've realized that it's not just a case of them browsing OnlyFans and going "yup, that's pornography, better watch a bit more", it's even more ridiculous. With the rule that tips on pornography don't get tax relief, if someone says they get OF income, and also claim relief, they will have to watch every single video the person has produced, and watch every live stream, to determine if any of it isn't porn, so the filer can get relief on that income.

People often only really absorb the information from the first paragraph of something like an email, so make sure the critical stuff is there.

I have found it helpful to put the TLDR at the top, rather than the bottom of the email. Title that section something like 'Executive Summary' so people subconciously feel more important reading it. Follow with intermediate levels of detail, then the full level of detail, if needed.

It takes a bit more effort to write in this multi stage way, at least until you're used to it, but it means the information you're trying to transmit is more likely to actually get absorbed, which leads to fewer time wasting phone calls or 'as per my last email' mails. If your recipient feels like they've already grasped the basics of the information from the TLDR they're also more likely to read on, whilst actually paying attention. If you need information from them, make sure you list the exact points you need, with once sentence describing each to reduce the cognative load on the recipient.

Of course, none of this works every time, but even saving yourself one call a day can be a massive benefit, both mentally and productively.

You can definitely run it on those sorts of machines. You'll want plenty of storage, but apart from thst it's not too demanding if you don't load it up with very high res videos.

You know…come to think of it, maybe this car isn’t more safe than my old one. It seems like it’s set out to kill me and my kin while leaving itself unscathed.

That slowly dawning realization that it's not just that you are paranoid, technology really is out to end your genetic line.

Its "peg leg" Jenny, but she seems to have a tiny person hidden under her skirt, you can see the legs dangling down.