On an entirely different subject, let's discuss the public bathroom.

Specifically, a few diaper-related things I've seen in the past ten days or so....

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This stuff, it's just basic courtesy. And while loudly mentioning them to Ana and Evangeline when I discover them does provide a useful object lesson, it'd be better if people would just show a little sense and consideration, thanks very much.

Here's something I think about sometimes....

If there's life on Earth, it seems fair to say there may be life elsewhere.

So, if there's another planet with life, they might also have sentient people and societies and whatnot, right? (And, lemme tell you, all these news stories in these past years about seeing planets outside of our solar system - we're living in a sci-fi age. It's a bit frightening, isn't it?)

So, these other societies... are they making the same mistakes we are (and often seem to keep making over and over again), or entirely different and novel mistakes (at least to us - betcha they make their mistakes over and over again too)?

And if they're making entirely different mistakes, based presumably on their evolutionary history (well, I can't think of any other reason for people to mistakes at all, other than that at one point it made sense!) or possibly the whim of their creator(s)... what might those mistakes consist of?

How many ways are there for a society/species to fuck everything up entirely, anyway?

I don't know, but I'd sure like to.