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1. Install Baby Gates
Baby gates are great for keeping babies out of places you don’t want them to go, like inside your home. String several gates together with zip ties to form a barrier around the perimeter of your property. Most babies aren’t smart enough to figure out how to open the gates, and neither are you, but you’re probably tall enough to step over.

2. Affix Safety Latches to Lower Cabinets
Babies love opening cabinets to rifle through your cookware, cleaning supplies, and the collection of half-used batteries you keep in your junk drawer. If word gets out that you’re the kind of household that keeps things securely locked away, they won’t bother swinging by.

In Trump’s strategy of feigning madness to get what he wants, there is no longer any border between pretense and actual irrationality.

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Where centralised societies excel at extraction, African fractal systems allow for circulation, reciprocity and return

- by Likam Kyanzaire

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I understand the university has entered into a partnership with Cyberdyne Systems. What does this mean exactly?
Thanks to the support of visionary venture capitalists working tirelessly to usher in an age of equality and prosperity, Cyberdyne is building Skynet, a neural network on the brink of achieving something tech billionaires could hitherto only dream of: self-awareness.

How will this contribute to student success?
With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, nuclear-armed superintelligence seeking to annihilate the human race—which will later be revealed to be Skynet itself.

Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me.  After mastering academia and enjoying some early success in journalism, advertising, and music composition and production, I poured myself into web design in early 1995, understood it in a way most designers didn’t, and enjoyed […]

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The BBC is a key employer and a major creator of arts and entertainment, but neither role appears to matter yet in the ongoing review of its charter. That charter — the constitutional basis for the corporation, setting out its public purpose and governance — is now under review, with the government’s Green Paper published […]

The time I said, “Hey buddy,” to my wife, and my daughter responded, “She is NOT a buddy.”

The time on vacation when she said, “We are going to dinner AGAIN? We are going to ANOTHER restaurant?”

The time she was whimpering and her mom asked her if she was okay and she said, “Yes, I okay. I just freaking out.”

The time she asked me what I was doing, and I said I was stretching my muscles, and she responded, “You don’t have any muscles. I have BIG muscles. YOU have elbows.”

The time she said, “Can I ask you a question? Do you want to be good or do you want to be what the heck?”

The time she named her new doll Baby Annie the Bear Hunter, and I realized I would never name anything that perfectly at my marketing job. (See also: the time she made me a pretend cocktail called “Crash Fart.”)

The time I told her, “I love you so much,” and she said, “Not me,” and I went, “Oh?” and she responded, “I love my mom.”

The time she handed me a rock and said, “No, eat it!”