I was spanked as a kid. I don’t think it did any good. I don’t want to spank my kids.

As a parent of two very different and spectrum-y kids, it is incredible just how effective gentle parenting is. You have to be mindful of your kids’ needs, make sure they aren’t tired or hangry or just in an environment/situation that lends itself to poor decisions (and if they are, guide them towards resolving that) and dole out timeouts and losing privileges as appropriate for the individual child and situation. The other thing to remember is kids will test limits all the time, so you need to be ready to make those limits clear and make it clear when they try something new which is not okay. Mostly it comes down to consistent expectations and being clear and consistent with your and communication and punishments

This is always the part that blows my mind, they can’t just crack open an image editor to move the project over the finishline? Seriously if you’re already 90% of the way there with an AI generated image, just pop open GIMP or paint.net or whatever and make those couple of tweaks. Or, y’know hire an artist and say “here I like this logo I generated with AI, can you do something like this but better?”

I’m pretty sure the person you responded to was shitposting about the snow being a spoiler, including implying they’d be going by at 120 while other vehicles struggle on the ice

The snow can blow off and affect visibility or even throw projectiles for multiple truck lengths. Plus it won’t just stay in one lane. If an uncleared vehicle passes you in another lane you’re still on danger.

So drop the “everybody is a terrible driver except for me” arguments

Wow getting back into the whole “everyone is a terrible driver except for me” again

As someone who once was that 9 year old, and has my own child I’ll probably go through the same thing with, hugs and there is a light at the end of the tunnel

Tell me you haven’t seriously ridden a bike since you were a kid without telling me you haven’t seriously ridden a bike in a long time…

Need to get a better shower curtain then! Or swap the rod for a curved one, or both

Just wait till you learn how cold shrinkage affects the peeing experience for un-cut folks! Let’s just say it doesn’t all shrink uniformly…

Its directly backed by American oil companies, so no surprise there

The rinse also gets rid of any bugs that might have hitched a ride. There’s some nasty parasites you can completely avoid just by rinsing your produce

Listeria can’t survive cooking so just fully cook any food you get that’s RTE (Ready To Eat). Examples of high risk food included frozen pizza and corn dogs since there’s both meat and bread coming together, each having its own food bourne illness risks. So yeah, fully cook your food.

The good news however is that the FDA takes Listeria very seriously and will stop production at a plant until a battery of thousands of swabs all come back negative. Plants don’t want to be shut down by the FDA so they do their own swabbing very frequently and often have private contractors who also swab very frequently so that they can identify contaminations before they get to the FDA

More good news is Listeria really struggles to compete with other food bourne illnesses, so in a facility that’s really poorly cleaned and maintained, it’ll most likely be a far less deadly pathogen because they beat out Listeria in the competition for resources to grow and spread

The thing is, the military is America’s largest wellfare program. Reducing or cutting the military could directly lead to a localized demand-side recession in areas with large numbers of military recruits and/or contractors

True it is generally regarded as ineffective from a public health perspective. I have known people who relied on it though with some success (in both cases it was a committed relationship and they just relied on it as a temporary stopgap while between birth controls) I’d hazard to say, pulling out is an option if your risk tolerance is high enough, but it’s risky as hell since precum often contains sperm as well

One only needs to watch John McAfee’s uninstalling McAfee Antivirus video (NSFW) to realize how much of a legend he was.

LGR did a wonderful retrospective when he announced his candidacy for US president. Dude seriously lived life to its fullest and made tons of questionable decisions

People don’t remember how he flat out campaigned on some policies that were to the left of Hilary. They don’t remember his charisma in the Republican debates, the way he expertly worked crowds back in 2015-16. They ask have forgotten about how he said he’ll “drain the swamp” and that he was “self funding his campaign” so he “wouldn’t be beholden to any other interests”

Turns out he was just a sad wannabe dictator who can’t even manage to control a Latin American nation with the full force of the US Military, let alone establish himself as emperor over the 'states

For me it was shoving a bunch of Teslas in a hole in Las Vegas and calling it a “hyperloop” that was when I fully realized he was entirely full of shit

I really appreciated him around that same era, as he seemed to be the only rich person actually showing any real care or action to try to do something about climate change. Up until him every rich person and every politician seemed to be actively dismissing climate change as a concern. It feels like around 10 years ago was when political discourse finally stopped trying to argue whether or not climate change is real and instead shifted to trying to argue that any actions to prevent climate change were unrealistic or futile

Remember, Musk was building up an electric car company, a home battery company and a solar roofing company through the 2010s. Plus he was pushing for cool space stuff. We were going to have a colony on mars by 2020! Incredible!

It was the whole hyperloop thing that killed it for me. It quickly became apparent as his Las Vegas “hyperloop” was just Teslas in a tunnel that he was full of shit and it put his other lies and half-truths into perspective. Honestly his antics over the last couple of years have killed my interest in space flight. I fucking loved watching rocket launch live streams. I stayed up until 2am to watch the Artemis launch. And now I just can’t bring myself to get excited.

I appreciate that he brought Tesla to profitability and Tesla proved to other automakers and consumers that electric cars are viable and cool. I appreciate that SpaceX has completely changed the rocket industry for the better and now every rocket program worth it’s salt in the world is trying to replicate the Falcon 9 rocket boosters. But that’s all I’ll give him. He didn’t do the work, he just funded it, and I appreciate that he did fund it when nobody else would but that’s it.

I read it more as they’re open to having kids but not open to having an STD, which honestly is a pretty sane headspace to be in

Not all men, but always men

“Not all X but it’s always X” is a common neonazi saying. Using it in a different context can even be a dogwhistle in some cases