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I have two kids, 12 and 10. I like to think my wife and I have done a decent job of raising them to be fairly thoughtful, independent, resourceful, etc Granted, they have lapses in judgement like all kids will but we can leave them alone for a few hours and they do just fine. They take the bus to school on their own, they pack their own lunches, they need to be harped on about tidying up their shit but thats kids for you. I wouldn't call them tablet kids, but they def waste enough time on screens with youtube or whatever. But they also always have homework and they read a lot too. I have a buddy who's oldest is one year older than mine and that kid is completely helpless, babe in the woods, just lost. No ability to fend. Constantly on the switch or youtube. In like 50/60 years there's going to be social psychologists asking our generation wtf we were thinking.

Amazon make the majority of their revenue with AWS and those sweet sweet govt contracts.

I think its a net positive though in the sense that it might get people thinking and changing their behaviours, like @misteraven alluded to. I know when farmers market season is on thats where I prefer to buy my weekly fruit & veg vs shopping at a corporate grocer.

My wife has worked in a high school for the last several years in a classroom adjacent type role and one thing she has noticed is that a lot of teens these days have massive anxiety about doing things wrong, making decisions, getting things wrong/not getting things right, etc Probably a direct result of helicopter parenting and parents being overbearing in general.

That is a wild statement, cannot lie.

I've had this on my radar for a while and finally got around to reading it (because the adaptation is hitting apple + soon) and yeah, this was a lot of fun highly recommend for the sci fi fans.

Rug pulls everywhere, including the two meme coins.

I don't think the Epstein list stuff is up for debate, I'm more curious about the ties to laundering oligarch money during the fall of the iron curtain when he was $800M in debt. I don't understand how objectively anybody can look at the events of the last few weeks and not conclude he's doing the Putin regime massive favours.

Zelenskyy refused to be shook down for his nation's resources (bizarre rare earth "deal") and had the audacity to correct Vance on some mistruths and then got screamed at for not saying thank you? Yeah, massive Trump win.

The crumb

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She baked today

Good question @misteraven , I'm not 100% sure on that but I think its more on the decades side than centuries. My father in law's wife has a cousin or something who works in a German bakery is how it made its way into our hands.

Wife and I were gifted an old German starter probably 18 months ago and still going strong. Started making pizza crust with it recently. We also make crackers with the discard. Good shit.

The best thing I can say about this movie is that it was in fact a movie. It felt like 4 screenwriters just couldn't get along but were each allowed to be responsible for 25%. So bad it was kind of not bad?

This new only the Pres and the AG are allowed to interpret the law EO seems maybe not great for you guys down there.

Yeah that's how I understood it, the OG one from the 60s was the unacknowledged adaptation and Eggers just did an homage to it with this new one. I never saw the original one either just knew about some of the cinematography stuff (like the creeping shadow etc) and thought to myself while watching the new one with my wife 'this is a lot like Bram Stoker's'

Apparently the original was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's work @KILZ FILLZ

NSFL

Pepperoncini, yellow bell, mushroom, and is that ground sausage? I'd eat that.

Read these a few years ago. I have the 4th book sitting in my kindle as well but haven't swung back around to it.

Trick question!

Yeah, she corrects herself a little further down the thread. He won in 2020.

This seems not great