LanternEverywhere

@LanternEverywhere@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole topic of drugs could easily be covered in 30 minutes. The only thing people under 18 need to know is this:

  1. There are a large variety of different recreational drugs, each of which make you feel a different way, and which come with their own set of different risks and benefits

  2. At some point when you're older it may be reasonable for you to try some particular drugs, but there are some drugs which are never safe for anyone at any age

  3. No drugs are safe for you to do yet. Your brain is still in a developing phase, and drugs that might be safe for you to do later will be very harmful to you at this age. Even though taking a drug might make you feel good in the very short term moment, it very likely could make your growing brain become depressed as soon as you come down from the drug, and this can become intense sadness that you feel for the rest of your life.

  So for now just know that drugs is a complex topic that you can learn more about later when you're older, but for now the details don't matter because all drugs will be harmful to you right now while your brain is still growing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We have those in the states too. They're yummy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Freeze dried fruit. It makes fruit taste and crunch more like candy. My nephew goes crazy for freeze dried fruit. Blueberries, figs, mango, there's so many to try

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are male social workers so different?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It's important to not stereotype based on a tiny number of samples. If i saw 15 white social workers who were mostly nice, and 2 black social workers who were rude, do you think it would be reasonable for me to say white social workers are nice and black social workers are rude? There are literally hundreds of thousands of social workers. You've seen 17 of them. Plus i bet they were mostly all from the same agency, so the person doing the hiring there will very much be filtering who you work with, and the individual doing the hiring at that particular place may choose to hire nice women and rude men.

  Bottom line - I totally believe what you say about your personal experiences, but the number of men you worked with isn't anywhere near big enough to say anything about men social workers as a group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a bird propel a skateboard by flapping its wings?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There's nothing in the laws of physics that precludes it. Skateboards can be extremely light and have ball bearings with extremely little friction. It's not all that unusual for a strong breeze to make a board start rolling all by itself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨suck it, math nerds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, a fraction is completely as valid of a way to express a number as using a decimal.

  1/2 = 0.5

  They're both fully valid ways to write the exact same quantity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No way, pickles alone are super salty, it'll definitely be dehydrating

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would do the opposite of providing water, it would almost immediately decrease the amount of water available to your body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that force you to make hard choices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds pretty much exactly like real life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on which country you're in. I would bet if you do it in Russia there will be zero consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people who are in late stage dementia still aware of the concept of death?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When a person is truly late stage dementia they're barely more than a vegetable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you even use twitter?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP isn't having a technical problem, they're just not seeing the point of why someone would want to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Shelves John Cena's 'Coyote vs. Acme', Despite Having Finished Filming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Extremely unlikely it'll ever be leaked. Lots and lots of nearly completed movies have been shelved before release, and I'm not aware of a single one that's ever leaked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram's monthly subscription⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No it's not. Social media is where you know who the other person is and/or they know who you are. This is an anonymous forum, not social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram's monthly subscription⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I've been off of all social media for about a decade, but just yesterday i got a dm from someone from my past so i went and checked it out and then I checked a bunch of other stuff there too and my mental state instantly spiraled into a terrible place. Man that shit is toxic like nuclear waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is going to happen when people realize climate change is rolling in?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, definitely not easily, but reversing climate change is doable. But there are lots of secondary effects caused by climate change that are impossible to reverse, like the extinction of species. And for that reason it's important to stop climate change as soon as possible, even if the heat and air pollution can be reversed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This one took me a moment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My friend doesn't get it. How would you explain it to him?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The truly stupid questions get censored by the moderators. Have you noticed?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? I must be missing something. How is that a response to the topic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does cigarette smoking do for people?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's very satisfying. A significant portion of that feeling is caused by the chemical dependence that the nicotine addiction itself caused in the first place, but that doesn't change the fact that the feeling is very satisfying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity boycott begins as devs switch off ads to force a Runtime Fee reversal - Mobilegamer.biz⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can't just cut ties in this scenario. These games are already built on the unity engine, and now unity is going to apply new fees to all these already existing games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I tame my frustration toward my aging parents?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that's the part that jumps out of this scenario. 57 and 63 is generally way too young to be seeing significant age related continue decline. Both of them having worsening cognition + worsening mood problems sure sounds like an environmental toxin. Lead poisoning is a likely culprit. I would get them to a doctor to test them for heavy metals and other common harmful environmental materials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm not an expert in this topic at all, but there's a few reasons i can see. One major reason is that you'd have to get a big portion of the country to admit that they were totally wrong and got badly scammed, which people (especially that particular portion of people) won't allow themselves to admit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely correct. There is no inherent meaning to life. You get to decide what the meaning of your life is. For me, this is the purpose of my life:

  Be happy, and make other people happy too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workers continue striking against IFF⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For those like me who didn't know:

  strikers have worked for International Fragrances & Flavor(IFF) which is formerly Dupont for nearly two decades and are highly disappointed and feel disrespected by what has been done to them after working relentlessly during the pandemic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNN Overhauls Lineup: Abby Phillip Takes 10 P.M., Laura Coates to Host 11 P.M., New Morning Show Hosts and Weekend Programs⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a ton of gen xers and not a single one regularly watches tv news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone *not* love using their bidet?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a bidet attachment and my partner loves it, but i don't like it at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why? There is enough space on the parking lot⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but depending on where you live, parking like this will get your car scratched up and headlights broken. which is the right thing to do