I need fiction to stay sane in this fucking world.

Reminds me of the time we dared a brick oven pizza restaurant to make a pizza with so much garlic we couldn't finish it.

Boy did they deliver. The pizza had (no exaggeration) a solid inch of chopped garlic on top. It was fucking delicious. Multiple times we spotted restaurant workers peeking at us from the kitchen, with an obvious "my god they're actually eating it!" energy.

Of course we left a massive tip. Leaving the place we felt like triumphant Olympians gold-medaling the Pizza Event.

Only one problem.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

I was taking out the trash and suddenly the three kiddo foxes emerged and were playing in the yard. They were much more aggressive with their wrestling matches when their parents weren't supervising. One did a total Mortal Kombat finishing move and their sibling was motionless for over a minute. I started to worry until they popped up and resumed a high speed chase.

Latch key fox kids, what are you gonna do?

I was very far away, but they spotted me and got spooked.

But I learned 2 new things.

First, I know where their den is located.

All three of them just disappeared into that wooded area.

Second... they bark!

It's not like a dog, though. It's a very short, high-pitched bark.

If you can imagine what it would sound like if a cat barked, that is the noise they make.

I've pointed one of my security cameras at the opening to their den. So I should get an alert when they appear.

I haven't figured out how to get better pictures yet. I sold my telephoto lens to pay for one of my mom's medical bills.

I'm wondering if they will feel less spooked if I stay on my deck.

Even if I don't get better photos, they are fun to just watch from the window. I've been having such a miserable time recovering. Every day is just boring and long and lonely. This little fox family brought me some much needed joy.

They really do act like a human family.

The mom stays very far back near the entrance of the den. She is very still and just seems to be observing from afar. Like a human mom sitting on a bench at the playground.

The dad is following the kids around, almost instigating their pounces and wrestling.

Two of the kids wrestled and chased as their main activity. But the third kid is an explorer. Very curious. That's the one I got the close up of.

He likes to sneak through the fence and under the deck. I'm guessing he wanted some alone time.