this is like an even less credible version of the Pioneer Sq plot

yeah, i had no idea til i saw a herd of them in the late 90s for the first time and kinda short-circuited, not knowing what they were. my native word for moose didn't fit. and i could tell they weren't deer. and everyone around was like "oh, yeah, it's just elk, they just roam here sometimes"

🙋 didn't know what an elk was until i moved to the PNW. quickly discovered my childhood languages didn't have a word for them that's distinct from the word for moose.

i'm going to ignore this one for the same reasons i ignored the last two. it's clear this isn't for me.

yeah, that shit routinely takes years and is every bit as frustrating as the worst bureaucracies i've had to navigate. to argue that people are "abusing" the IEP process to gain some advantage is not much different from arguing that my neighbor has an unfair advantage because he gets $46/mo in SNAP.

fixed specs are so 20th century