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  • Do you have links to back this up? The only thing I’ve seen that’s been proven to be bad is how homeschooling is usually done, especially in America.

    This is a subtle but important distinction. Homeschooling is not the problem. The lack of oversight and regulation is the problem. The lack of proper structure is the problem.

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending it and do think It’s the wrong choice 99 times out of 100. But saying homeschooling in and of itself is the problem isn’t right.


  • Former homeschooled kid here. Everything I’m about to say is personal experience but I’ve known many other homeschooled people throughout my life.

    With homeschooling you get out what you put in. If the parents take the time to really dial in to the child’s learning needs and set up adequate socialization through after school activities or meetups with other homeschoolers I truly believe it is one of if not the best option for raising a child.

    That being said, most of the people choosing to homeschool are not doing it to give their kids the best. Many are narcissistic conservatives who deny modern science and homeschool not to teach the child but to indoctrinate. They don’t consider mental health important. They don’t consider friends important. They consider the kid learning the Bible and toughening up important. The parents are often social outcasts themselves because of their more strict beliefs.

    Homeschooling is not a problem and doesn’t result in anything directly, it’s the people choosing to homeschool not being equipped to do it properly. In my experience the kind of parent who would choose homeschooling is likely to produce a social awkward kid even if they don’t homeschool.

    TL:DR - Homeschooling good. Most everyone who chooses homeschooling bad. Hug your kids.


  • It’s a real three-way tie for me.

    Growing up my parents sucked. Like hard core. Nothing I did was ever good enough not even performing tour on violin, robotics competitions, or being part of honors society. I lived my childhood doing everything they expected and nothing I wanted. On top of dad being physically abusive and my mom making us children compete for the privilege of her saying we were the favorite child for the week, you can imagine I was pretty screwed in the head.

    So at age 20 I’d had enough.

    cw

    I burned out and attempted suicide.

    My college roommates thankfully stepped up big time and got me the help I needed. Sitting in the psych ward after,being held by someone who genuinely cared about me as I heard someone say they’re proud of me for the first time in my life. I’m many, years older and still almost turn into a blob of tears thinking back on it.

    This led to the other big moving experience. As part of my recovery and road to figuring out who I was and who I wanted to be I decided to listen to a friend, go out on a limb, and go to a Mumford and Sons concert for myself instead of letting them pass by while I kept doing only what others wanted of me. I don’t remember much of the concert, but I remember standing there, realizing I was just a body in the crowd and seeing all the smiling faces around me, their voices washing over me, the music carrying me along. I just remember realizing that I don’t matter at all in the grand scheme of things and I’m free to do what I want.

    So yeah, those or the time my doc accidentally mixed up my meds and gave me effectively an acid trip are my most moving experiences.


  • “Tell Ea-nasir: Trump sends the following message:

    When you came, you said to me as follows: ‘I will give Hegseth (when he comes) fine quality uranium ingots.’ You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Pam-Bondi) and said: ‘If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!’

    What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of dollars which I owe you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of uranium, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of uranium, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas.

    How have you treated me for that Uranium? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full.

    Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any Uranium from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.”


  • With ipv4 there are only 4 billion addresses or so. That might sound like a lot but we really chewed through them a while ago. We came up with a way to kind of fake more with NAT where one address can map to many machines but it was a bandaid.

    Ipv6 can handle some 340 undecillion addresses if I’m not mistaken. Not gonna run out any time soon.

    There’s a lot of extra features baked into how ipv6 works that make things more efficient, potentially faster, and easy to maintain but those are all secondary benefits. They’re great, but not the main reason for the switch.