my dad told me like 5 dos commands, gave me permission to do whatever or break whatever on the home computer his work provided, told me there was some games on there but he didn’t know where… and i figured out the rest pretty much… whenever i broke it he’d just take it to work and bring it back fixed.
this was back in the wild wild west, where the hospital IT had one master hard drive image, and people threw random games and programs on there…
i was always surprised how ok he was with me breaking it weekly, but looking back on it i think he was proud…
i was really lucky in that i had free reign on yearly updated computers, starting on dos when i had just learned how to read, and growing up with that through all the versions of windows…
i mean, i hate microsoft and all, but i just think it’s crazy all of these people have super computers in their pockets and are afraid of the terminal….
it’d be hard to start a kid on the terminal first now, when they can use a touch screen in the crib….
my first computer didn’t even have pictures, but the next one did…

my dad gave me permission to break the family computer as much as i wanted, and he would just take it to work and reinstall everything from an image….
now i can fix computer problems

another example of: one of the best ways to teach children is to trick them.
try to force them to use linux and the terminal? booooring, hell no….
give them linux computers without games?
they’re 1337 haxors in two weeks… with skills that will help them for life….
especially if they ever get locked in a building with velociraptors….

jesus… did you ever ask him about it when you were older?

my dad used to joke about running over pedestrians… stuff like, “oh there’s a guy on a bicycle, those are 10 points!”

i suppose i make jokes like that myself… i’ve personally had a lot of people do dangerous things to fuck with me on my bicycle in bike lanes… after a while i switched to only riding on the sidewalk

you ever wonder how often someone intentionally kills somebody with their car but just acts like it was an accident? or they just do a hit and run on some jogger?

isn’t it something more than phobic? you wouldn’t call the KKK “blackphobic”….

sure she has an irrational fear, but i think the irrational hatred and active oppression is more of the problem here

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