Scott Alexander

Lyra reacts relatively normally to buses.

Her favourite song is Choo Choo Train, which she likes simply and earnestly, and which she listens to all the way through.

She reads books in sequence, first one page, then the next.

She goes to bed on time with little fuss.

The only true emergency for Lyra is when there are berries in front of her, in which case they must be consumed as quickly as possible.

What if they're really berry-shaped bombs about to destroy our entire family?

Otherwise, she's an island of calm in a crazy household.

Here's a picture of Lyra.

Scott captions it.

Here's an extra picture as reparations for not mentioning her as much in the text.

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The original post was Against Against Boomers.

It doesn't seem entirely correct either to blame them or to not blame them under these circumstances, but I should probably think more about whether I'm exonerating boomers harder than I would exonerate other groups with the same excuse.

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