Um… I gotta look up Garry’s Mod, XD. References are usually lost on me.
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Is this why we don’t see unicorns? Michigan shot them all… 
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Thank You for sharing this beautiful metaphor on life.
I shared it with my friends on Twitter because it touched me so much.
In return I’d like to offer this story read by Levar Burton, about a Mother and her son:
Tissues may be needed.
Other reads for adults can be found here:
Blessings.
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So according to this, which I have no quarrel with, MI was here prior to Noah and all those people who blame Noah for there being no Unicorns available for trophy hunters to hunt to extinction can now blame the state of MI?
Sounds right to me.
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You’re very welcome! I sometimes find something good in the cornucopia of (bad) internet content.
Personally, I moved a lot throughout my life. Apartments, dorms, houses, etc. This gave me a strange feeling on how it would feel if I somehow went back to those places and think of all the memories. Nostalgia got me again!
Anyway, I didn’t know about Levar Burton’s podcast. Thank you for sharing. I still have car rides where I can listen to these things. 
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There’s already a song for it. They just need to change the words…
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Thank you!
I love every single one of them!
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I wish I could view this with the humor you intended. Sadly with the state of government in certain states at this time I simply can’t.
Books being banned, books being burned, teachers and coaches being fired and threatened with jail for saying the truth is actually happening daily here in the good ol USA.
As Stephen King once advised readers - when they try to control what you read by banning books run, don’t walk to your local library or bookseller and get those books because they contain the information you need to fill your brain with, the information you need to be free.
Ila
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Yes, I know and it was happening in the 60’s and 70’s too. @Nateninja21 and I were having a DM about things and I told him what happened to me. I hope he doesn’t mind me resharing what I said…
As a child, I had an eclectic taste of books, music, TV etc. But mostly I read Sci fi especially anything about space. H.G Wells, Jules Verne and lots of adventure stuff. My elementary school library didn’t have much but I read what I could and then we would go to the public library. The librarian got to the point she would pick out a few for me before hand and would hand them to me when I came in. Then I
would pick a few. more. I usually took out about 7 or 8 a week.When I got to Jr High I was so excited, they had a big selection of books I couldn’t wait to read…Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Kurt Vonnegut, Aldous Huxley, Authur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis. I pick out a few and went to check them out.
Now, you need to know, I grew up in a very small, Southern, Religious town. The head librarian went to our Baptist church. She went through my books and told me they weren’t “suitable for a young lady to read”. And she tried to direct me to some Louisa May Alcott books and even suggested some Nancy Drew crap. I said I don’t want to read them; I ALREADY read them in the 3rd or 4th grade. I left in tears never to go back.
I went back to my public library, told her what happened and she let me check them out in the "Intermediate " section. In our library they had children’s, intermediate and adult section. I was lacking a year to be in the intermediate but the librarian said…just don’t say anything.
So I vowed then, to never keep a person from reading whatever they wanted to read. It’s their choice. If I could help them, I would.
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I’m so sorry that happened to you.
The one good thing my mom did for me was tell the school and public librarian to allow me to read anything I wanted.
I have such high regards for public librarians. They have introduced me to so many authors, places and times that I doubt I would ever have known about without their suggestions.
I admire you for helping people read what they want. I never censored my children’s reading either. And heaven help any teacher who tried to do that to my children. One tried once, and word got around that it wasn’t to be done.
Reading is too important to mess with. If a child is reading let them read.
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I shared this with my daughter who was very touched by it.
In return she shared this with me - How to Cope with Death:
It’s always good to have a plan, right?
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Not sure why youtube decided to recommend this to me out of nowhere, but it did give me some level of hope that windows 11 might be possible to bend into a usable form some day.
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If you make bloatwares for a living, I hope your toast falls on the floor on the butter side
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So much for an OS that would last forever…
A slightly bright spot (well, until extended support ends anyhow) is that my Windows 10 packaged PC is not said to be compatible with Windows 11, so I guess I still keep some of the older stuff in there.
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Keep in mind, the term “bloatware” refers to unwanted programs. That’s an opinion based term in that not all software is unwanted by everyone. There is a large chunk of the population that would be happy to see things like Facebook Messenger or Whatsapp pre-installed.
Technically all software installed that is not owned by Microsoft could be considered bloat…even some that is owned by MS could fall into that category. It’s definitely not the dev’s decisions to place their software pre-installed on Windows. MS should not be installing extra software by default. They should offer a list during the initial setup to allow the user to pick and choose what they want.
They clearly didn’t learn from Win10. Maybe by the time I install they’ll have some of that removed. Otherwise I’ll be spending some time in Powershell, cleaning my OS 
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