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- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Most of the people here left Reddit on purpose, so you may be asking the wrong crowd. What I think you should do is never give Reddit another thought and share content here
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 3 days ago:
I’m going to guess it has to do with how quickly the temperature change occurs, or other environmental factors. It seems to be a somewhat rare occurrence, even in places where it gets very cold
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 1 week ago:
No argument here. My response was to the idea that the US has never had any form of accountability for presidents, which is just not true.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 1 week ago:
Well, we did, it just requires functional legislative and judicial branches, which we no longer have
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Your phrasing here is all but certain to achieve the opposite of your desired outcome 😂
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
PBS Kids is a great option for littles! Free, no commercials, and supportive of social/emotional development (Reminder to set up a monthly donation to your local PBS station!). With the PBS Kids app, we’d often download a few episodes of something like Daniel Tiger or Wild Kratts for road trips
We rarely watch YouTube together, most of the time he’s watching a series of some kind through Netflix or Paramount. Trollhunters, Gravity Falls, Henry Danger, stuff like that. His only exposure to commercials is during football games, whereas I can still sing over 100 jingles from my childhood
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Definitely the case! I’m not always on top of this myself, but I do go in and remove anything that may poison my recommendations. At this point, I just get plants, history, and a splash of comedy. Thank you for bringing this to the fore!
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
My son is still young, almost 8, so I’m speaking for near that age level. He doesn’t get unrestricted access to YouTube. If he’s watching YouTube, it’s with one of us present and helping him navigate it. He always wants to watch the video that’s the lowest quality shit just based on the thumbnail, because they have thumbnails that stick out. I’ve taught him about “low quality” content and we’ve watched a couple so he could understand what I meant. Now when he wants to watch something I say “no, that’s going to be low quality,” he seems to understand and we move on to find something else.
Eventually, I’m going to let him navigate YouTube alone sometimes, and then go back and look at his watch history to see how things are going. He doesn’t know watch history is a thing, not will I ever tell him. If things go off the rails, we will guide them back to the rails slowly and nonjudgmentally
That said, we were at a restaurant the other day and a woman was there with her baby and a friend. She set that infant in a high chair with AI slop on her phone right in its face. The kid definitely didn’t disturb her conversation with her friend, because it looked like a zombie. Godspeed, child
- Comment on How do I feel comfortable/safe going outside by myself after being so used to have parent(s) be with me outside most of my life? 2 weeks ago:
The best cure for being too anxious to go to the library or ride the bus is to go to the library and ride the bus. Your rationales for not doing these things don’t hold up, because the entire point of this advice is to help you get used to leaving your house by yourself. Don’t make excuses and just go.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 2 weeks ago:
Rice is just fancy grass, too. So are oats, barley, and rye. All fancy grass
- Comment on idk how to title this one man 3 weeks ago:
I’ll bite. Tell me what “norwood” means to you
- Comment on idk how to title this one man 3 weeks ago:
I think the joke is that it’s gibberish
- Comment on I fucking ♥️ industrial society and its consequences 3 weeks ago:
You’re taking this way too seriously
- Comment on Evidence 3 weeks ago:
Climate change is real and we’re causing it
“I definitely did not do this and won’t change anything I do.”
Blue M&Ms cause cancer
“How could the M&M people do this to me?”
- Comment on Do I have extreme anxiety? 3 weeks ago:
Anxiety is usually very treatable. Look for an LCSW, LPC, or PhD psychologist who specializes in anxiety disorders. It can be good to speak with a therapist first before going straight to an MD psychiatrist, but it’s your call. Meds can be useful to get the worst symptoms under control while you engage in therapy, but meds alone aren’t a good long-term strategy to manage anxiety
- Comment on Ska ftw 4 weeks ago:
For the 90s ska revival, I think Reel Big Fish takes the cake for most ska-ish ska band
- Comment on Go on, git. 4 weeks ago:
Shin Godzilla is a whole different level of Godzilla, definitely made Godzilla more creepy than in any other film. While the OG Godzilla was a response to anxiety about nuclear bombs, Shin Godzilla is clearly a response to the Tohoku tsunami.
Also check out Shin Ultraman and Shin Kamen Rider.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 4 weeks ago:
Science classes
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 4 weeks ago:
It’s cute you think you’d still have access to dollars in this scenario
- Comment on 🎵 It means something something... 🎵 4 weeks ago:
This is also how I recall it. They didn’t find out until after Nala came back in the picture when Simba was all growed up
- Comment on boogs 4 weeks ago:
I still don’t understand what point you’re trying to make…
- Comment on boogs 4 weeks ago:
Sure, people are fish and insects are crstaceans, but that has nothing to do with edibility.
- Comment on boogs 4 weeks ago:
My point is that crabs and grasshoppers are separated by 400 million years of evolution, and are extremely different from one another, just like fish and people are extremely different from one another. I’m trying andfailing to understand your point
- Comment on boogs 4 weeks ago:
Dawg. Insects broke away from the arthropods in the ocean and came on land in the fucking Devonian period. That makes crabs and insects about as related as you and a lobe-finned fish.
- Comment on It's just not something I could ever get behind 5 weeks ago:
This is a valid counterpoint
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 5 weeks ago:
What constitutes a murder vs manslaughter charge varies quite a bit by state, as do sentencing guidelines.
- Comment on It's just not something I could ever get behind 5 weeks ago:
Shallots are superior to onions in 95% of allium applications
- Comment on Anon remembers 5 weeks ago:
For many people, the highs are the problem. Some people spend all their money, some people let complete strangers move in, and some people think God has told them they can fly and jump off a building. Mania, man.
- Comment on it hurts, chat 5 weeks ago:
TIL there are trees called Chinquapins that are closely related to chestnuts, and that the Chinquapin oak is named after Chinquapin trees because its leaves are similar in shape. I had only ever heard of Chinquapin oaks before.
- Comment on Education is important. 1 month ago:
Both Saharan dust and the overwhelming majority of tropical waves would pass well south of this island, imo