Right? Ha. My dad won't exercise, he says you see old guys working out and then they die of a heart attack. He would rather just relax.
My grandfather had full denchers (age 94). Watching him brush his teeth in the sink and leaving them in a cup on the counter to soak/clean didn't seem half bad.
Not the parent, but what I've recently seen in Northern California is all underbrush and low branches gone. They were specifically prepping the area to manage fire. Quincy area.
It started with momentum in an area that had recently burned and moved very quickly because of extremely low humidity and high winds.
I live near by and have ridden dirt bikes all over the area it started. It's very inexesable. They could not get to it when it was small and it took off.
I was getting 1-5 three second voicemails a day. Robots being detected and sent to voicemail, then detecting and hanging up on my voicemail. I added 30 seconds of music to the end of my "please text or email me" message the voicemails have all stopped.
I don't think he was asking for advice. Ha.
To your points, being honest is important, being sensitive and not rubbing something hurtful in is also important. Some times you can share your excitement, sometimes you need to share your feelings without your excitement.
If you are talking about fast food, I would opt for self checkout so that I can place my order in 10 seconds instead of waiting 2 min for a cachier to fumble with the machine. (or miss understand me, or punch it in wrong, or whatever)
Grant it, not all cachiers are terrible but consistency in fast food sells, and machines are consistent.
That's what we did with our TI86 calculators in the 90s. Fake memory Clear was the name of one app. Teacher looks and sees what looks like a formatted calculator, clears the calculator if they want, then you exit the app and access your notes, games, and apps.
I liked it and it improved my writing. I stopped using it after I noticed that it was leaving css classes in wysiwyg editors that were showing up on websites that I had edited.
I am an advocate of having your own domain and having control. But most people don't care as much as the hacker news crowd does. "Phone broke, here is my new number..." really? For business it's critical to maintain any form of communication you have ever offered. But for personal, a lot of people don't care if they change their [email] and inconvenience their friends and family.
The internet is not crucial to everyones daily life. And honestly, it probably shouldn't be as crucial to ours.