Schmoo

@Schmoo@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I think that’s the wrong approach. We’re very individualistic in the states and that leads to thinking that each child is the responsibility of their parent(s) and no one else, but if we had a more communal approach to raising children and acknowledged their wellbeing is a collective responsibility perhaps this could have been prevented. There’s a lot of personal dysfunction in this story, but that’s exactly the kind of thing that community can make up for.

  We should have well funded and robust childcare services so that people who aren’t responsible enough to take care of children have something to lean on. In a sane society one person dropping the ball shouldn’t result in a child’s death. Does having a communal place where children are well cared for without the need for payment really defy the imagination? In a nation where we can’t even provide basic healthcare perhaps it defies expectation, but we will never achieve what we can’t imagine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What grass starvation does to the perma-online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was raised in a deeply conservative fanatically religious culture and I put out a sarcastic and “too cool for school” energy a lot of the time. What do you think counterculture is? I remember in the movie she’s got a whole social circle of people who are on the same page as her.

  Personally I think Zendaya plays Chani pretty well, and her character doesn’t feel out of place to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What grass starvation does to the perma-online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t Chani a non-believer in the movie, at least at first?