Nope, I’ve been occupied with other things for a while, so I literally hadn’t opened the app for a month or so…

CPS (or as they call it here, department of child safety) doesn’t care about spanking.

It’s not.

The legal distinction hinges on “reasonable force”. In the U.S., parental corporal punishment (like spanking) is legal in all 50 states if it is intended for correction, is appropriate for the child’s age, and leaves no lasting injury. Abuse occurs when force becomes excessive, unreasonable, or causes physical or emotional harm.

If the alternative is them getting shot by cops because they don’t think they have to get out of the car when told, I’m ok with that.

Thank you. If I tried to say all that it wouldn’t come out nearly as coherently.

Yes, and we can argue all day long about the morality of that specific way of raising animals for meat, but that doesn’t touch the question of whether or not it’s moral to eat meat in general.

This is why when people talk about AI not really being intelligent, but just glorified word association, I say, is that really any different from the average person?

Very little. (Unless you mean anti abortion and pro death penalty, that Venn diagram is a circle)

As a parent of two very strong willed kids, I will say that spanking (distinct from beating) has to be at least on the table. It’s not the go-to, but the fallback if all else fails, and it does represent my failure to reach them, but sometimes it’s the only thing that gets them to understand how serious something is.

In contrast, their (ultra Christian) grandma would call me soft, she used to go straight to spanking without warning, she felt that you shouldn’t threaten, just do, and they’d learn soon enough. I would much rather threaten a spanking than actually do it… And it works, at this point I haven’t spanked either kid in a couple years, though I have threatened it maybe twice in the last year.

My unicorn is invisible and pink.

This is what happens when you accept something without question… You might happen to be right, but you don’t know why…

Can it still involve their genitals?

unquestionable

Can we not call it that? The beauty of science is that it can be questioned.

Since there is a limited window in which brain plasticity is at its peak, catching up at university isn’t an option.

I call bullshit. It may be true that there is a peak, but it’s not like after that peak it’s hopeless… I’m 50 years old and I work a job where I literally have to learn an ever changing product in order to support it, and I’m doing fine, I just got promoted to senior so I’m teaching the new hires. I haven’t even been there 5 years yet.

Have you blocked me yet? If not, it might save time to do it now…

I always noticed that too…

I’ll do you one better - why is Aleppo?

There are electric cars that are not Teslas…

This is America, you might as well ask men to cut their balls off …

The timing is unfortunate… I’d like to buy a used EV, and I’ve seen a few I like on carvana with very low miles for cheap… but I’ve been living in an apartment and would have no place to change it… Now I’m buying a house with (among many other things) a 240v outlet in the garage specifically for changing an EV… But it’s going to be a couple weeks, and those used EVs are dwindling…