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- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 1 hour ago:
Don’t forget our favorite New World plant:
- Comment on [deleted] 9 hours ago:
He’s not on the ballot…
- Comment on The ultimate "flex" 9 hours ago:
I didn’t say at all that that’s what’s insane, but the Texas government’s relentless adherence to rules of procedure has made it where much of the worst legislation proposed by Republicans has been defeated or significantly delayed through points of order and delay tactics by Democrats
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 15 hours ago:
An element of what you say is true, but he’s also a cult of personality that they’re really going to struggle to replicate. Trump literally only cares about himself and has taken zero (0) steps to develop successors. Right now, JD Vance is poised to lead the movement, and he has the personality of a potato
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 15 hours ago:
Here in Texas, our leading candidates for Senate (James Talarico) and governor (Gina Hinojosa) are taking refreshingly reality-based positions on Gaza and seem to be developing campaigns aimed directly against billionaires. I like what I’ve been hearing
- Comment on Tune a fish 1 day ago:
Tuna means prickly pear cactus fruit in Spanish, I’ve heard it called that pretty often in Texas
- Comment on The ultimate "flex" 2 days ago:
Florida has BBQ? I’ve been there a bunch and have never heard of it
- Comment on The ultimate "flex" 2 days ago:
Nah, fuck that shit. Texas politics suck hard, but not like Florida suck. The Texas Legislature is out of their minds, but they still follow rules of procedure. Florida’s government is fucking gone
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 4 days ago:
On your birthday, you get to pick
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Every time I glance at her picture, I think she’s wearing a hospital gown and hospital band. Freda Jackson just looks like she should be in the hospital
- Comment on weather app 1 week ago:
Fuck, now the Parry Gripp song is stuck in my head. My son moved on from this a couple years ago, but the horrors persist
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 1 week ago:
Read: Dessert marketed as breakfast
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 2 weeks ago:
Is it because our solar system is hudling through space at over 1.5 million miles per hour, so anyone who time travels will find themselves alone in an empty void?
- Comment on The sheeet of power 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re taking this too seriously
- Comment on The sheeet of power 2 weeks ago:
Dude, the sound is clearly audible, and the people behind him clearly react to it, and they clearly end the event prematurely right after it happens.
Attention on this doesn’t diminish any of the horrible atrocities committed by the Trump Admin, but it cuts at the very foundation of the “strongman” persona Trump tries so desperately to portray
- Comment on Anon recommends some movies 2 weeks ago:
There isn’t really a plot, it’s more of an art piece with scenes from the real world set to an amazing soundtrack by Phillip Glass. I like the scenes from New York City in the late 70s, and the traffic scenes during “The Grid” are hypnotic.
- Comment on Anon recommends some movies 3 weeks ago:
Koyaanisqatsi blew my mind the first time I saw it. I love that movie
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks 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 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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? 5 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
I’ll bite. Tell me what “norwood” means to you
- Comment on idk how to title this one man 1 month ago:
I think the joke is that it’s gibberish
- Comment on I fucking ♥️ industrial society and its consequences 1 month ago:
You’re taking this way too seriously
