I’ve been to the funeral of a 22 year old from a family of true believer born again Christians. It was bizarre. I was the saddest person there and we were only sort of friends. The rest of them honestly believed that he was chilling with Jesus and it would be silly to be sad.

Since then, I’ve noticed that people emphasize the religiosity of the dead when they are trying to reduce their feelings of guilt.

Yeah, I try to get on their level without crouching.

My mom was a Montessori teacher, maybe that’s why it happened so much 😂

It always felt like we were going to have a very serious conversation and it felt condescending somehow (I now recognize that, at the time I just felt annoyed). I had unmanaged ADHD and liked to wander off, so perhaps I was having those conversations way more often, but I never liked it.

2013 for me.

I hated it when adults would crouch to talk to me, but I don’t know how common that is.

I’m autistic and bad with kids, but this has worked with every one that age I’ve tried it with: ask them what they had for lunch, then what they’re going to have for dinner and then you can branch out to favorite foods and colors and movies and then it should go easily from there

“Borrowing trouble” is a great phrase :D

I’d add Agatha Christie to the Sherlock Holmes/James bond subcategory too

That’ll only produce cum for about half the population. As always, half of us are supposed to subsist on grool.

I’m sorry about this already

They only thing they’ve ever had to wash is each other

You’re right. I feel like that takes a fundamental part of my childhood away from other kids, but with the child labor laws in some states, that was no longer safe anyway.

That’s the reason against starting late. Parents want older siblings to be available to babysit after school and employers want a 16 year old’s shift to start at 14:30, not 16:30. Extracurricular activities (which should be supported, as long as the children themselves want to do them and as long as they’re not actively harmful to children) can often run 90-150 minutes with changing time and warmups, which makes a later start time logistically difficult for families with children of various ages who want to eat dinner together.

It’s a complicated issue and a solution which involves shorter school hours seems to me to be the best one, but that’s obviously even harder to implement without cutting things that are important, so I don’t know how to actually solve this problem.

I live in Germany now, which has tracking. This seems both hella classist and better for ensuring kids can get sufficient sleep. I would love to know if any country/school system has figured out how to do it in a way that doesn’t deprive some kids of future opportunities.

Teenagers need 8-10 hours of sleep and don’t get tired until later in the evening, so waking up in time for a 7-8 am start time can compromise their sleep

No base, no go

Snipping tool gets no love

You get rid of thatcher. Seems like a good idea

When he says her crowds are AI, it means he’s using AI on his crowds.

The campaign also cleaned up comments Walz made about using weapons “in war.”

That’s misleading. The actual statement doesn’t imply his own use, but this one does (just an implication, but still)(

His VP is also from California, so California electors can’t choose them.

We never learn