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4 hours ago, Mrs Tiggywinkle said:
Apparently the neighbor kid was outside playing cornhole and asked the kids over. It’s basically a trailer park and the yards don’t have boundaries. The kids went over in the yard and played. They went in the house for a drink and the neighbor kid and my son’s friend say they never left the kitchen.
For the record I am not really neurotypical myself; plus I was homeschooled and rarely went over to anyone’s house without my parents. Play dates and complications are way outside of my comfort level.
My understanding is that a parent can refuse to let the cops question a child.
I found this.
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4 hours ago, Terabith said:
John Pavlovitz, who is a writer I follow but not someone I know, has been vaccinated, as have his wife and his teenaged son. His 11 year old daughter, obviously, has not been. All four of them have contracted covid, and all but the teenaged son are definitely sick. Not hospitalized or anything, but sick. They were still masking and being careful, according to him, although I know people's definitions vary a lot.
Seeing his post, plus the Israeli news, has me considering masking again once we get home from our trip to see family.
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38 minutes ago, Scarlett said:
Lol…I was thinking about this. Some things are t really secret but I don’t talk about…..I wonder if my son would be shocked about some things.
There are things like that in my family. Some things are well known, but just not pleasant to discuss so the younger ones end up Not being aware. It’s not really a secret, but by the time the youngest ones are old enough to be a part of those conversations everyone with knowledge has moved on to other topics.
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1 minute ago, Tap said:
They are offering free install (haul away/move furniture etc) and the sales person offered free measure right now. I just haven't heard much about what products they sell. One warning I have heard is to be careful about their samples. The samples are sometimes hire-end product than you are ordering. (for instance if one product comes in different fiber counts, the sample will be the highest count).
I priced carpet/hard surface flooring (laminate or LVT) at a local flooring store and was shocked at how expensive it was. I am sure it was premium quality, but the rough estimate for 2200sqft of mixed hard surface/carpet....was $30,000. Home Depot was $15,000. I don't live in a fancy house. Very much middle of the road and just need to refresh 20year old flooring.
Not Home Depot, but Lowe’s put carpet in our last house, with a similar sale. It was a good experience and we were happy with it. There was a separate sample for each thread count option so I felt like we got exactly what we picked out.
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On 6/30/2021 at 9:12 AM, EKS said:
Does Sequential Spelling have something like this now?
When I tried it several years ago it had errors in the first few levels so I gave up. It’s possible it’s been updated since then though.
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3 hours ago, Melissa Louise said:
For podcasts with very calming voices, try This Jungian Life.
I actually love it as a podcast, but if I need soothing to sleep, I play an old ep and crash out 5 min later
I’ll check that out. I love a new podcast.
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I have a couple of podcasts that I play to fall asleep to. I have found that my brain goes to crazy places if left to wander in the quiet, so I listen to a quiet podcast, something with a soothing host and not dramatic stories . 99% invisible, History Hit and The People’s Pharmacy are my go tos. I feel like it distracts my thoughts enough to let me sleep, otherwise I start ruminating and stress myself out.
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25 minutes ago, pinball said:
It’s not about lesbians and enjoying female bodies.
it’s about power
26 minutes ago, pinball said:It’s not about lesbians and enjoying female bodies.
it’s about power
Maybe? I can totally see that perspective, honestly. But I also have a lived experience where most men who would derive power from invading a women’s locker room are also the same men who would rather die than be mistaken as gay or trans, so I have a hard time envisioning the scenario where that kind of guy throws on a dres and says he’s trans.
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22 minutes ago, Dmmetler said:
I want privacy, too. But it's not due to a trans woman potentially being there. It's that I have enough something (modesty, dysphoria, or whatever you want to call it) that I seriously prefer NOT to be nude around people I don't know, nor to see the nudity of others.
I seriously find this a weird part of our culture. I never change in an open locker room. I go into a stall or wait for the family bathroom if I have my kids.. Every time. I find anyone being naked in the locker room to be strange, even if they are other women. Why do we have this weird cultural carve out? I hope it goes away completely.
My high school didn’t allow the open showers that my mom remembered from high school. Non-athletes weren’t even allowed to shower, while my mother remembers it being required in her high school. I hope open locker rooms are a thing my kids find as weird as corded telephone and Netflix in the mail. Then this issue solves itself, snd a host of others.
There’s also no way to tell if someone in the locker room area is a lesbian who enjoys naked females, or even if they are a trans person if they change in the stall like I do. No way to tell. Unless we check the pants of every modest or not conventionally attractive female trying to enter a locker room.
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51 minutes ago, Corraleno said:
to a plea deal in the federal case against him. As part of a possible plea deal Chauvin would have to publicly explain what he did to Floyd and why. That was, of course, the question that Floyd’s brother poignantly asked of Chauvin at the sentencing.
Part of me would really like to hear his explanation for this completely inexplicable act, a larger part of me doesn’t care to listen to his post hoc rationalizations, excuses and lies. I’m not family of course, if it would help them feel some peace then of course that takes precedence. I just can’t see him saying anything truthful or worthwhile.
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I’d do professional cleaning and store in closets or under the bed if you want to keep them for future grandchildren. That will increase the chance that they make it through 20 years and has the added benefit of making you only keep favorites.
I would give away or sell the ones that aren’t favored enough to professionally clean and store.-
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5 hours ago, prairiewindmomma said:
For the life of me I do not understand why the west just does not ban them and allow commercial shows only. We’re in extreme drought, 15% humidity and all of the yahoos are out blowing off fireworks. 🤦
I just got in from watering. It’s 82F…35 degrees cooler than a few hours ago.In the south we have burn bans when things are too dry. During a ban there is no burning of yard stuff or fireworks allowed. Do you guys have that kind of system? Of course people ignore it from time to time but it’s a pretty decent ticket if you’re caught.
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40 minutes ago, KSera said:
I'd be curious if most Republicans think that's a good thing to get behind. It sounds very un-Republican to me (like legislating what virus control measures businesses are allowed to enact). Seems like there's a new political party that has co-opted the name "Republican" 🤷♀️.
I was listening to a podcast with a Republican someone and he was asked about this (the virus measure stuff) and his explanation was that Republicans had lost on the "small government/businesses should do what they feel is best" argument so they were moving on to to different arguments. I'm still not sure what I think about that.
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2 hours ago, TravelingChris said:
I always felt fully included when people said Hey guys.
The solution is universal adoption of ya'll. 🙂
2 hours ago, SKL said:I know, when I was young I always thought "guys" meant "people." I used it in groups of males, females, and both.
Same. Guys pretty much just means people for me. I've noticed that family/friend group also use Dude as a gender neutral word.
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42 minutes ago, SlowRiver said:
I really don't understand why people keep saying that without the lens of teaching being CRT it means not teaching about racism, historical slant, bias, and so on. Those ideas are not confined to CT approaches.
Because of the wording of the laws being passed. They are *saying* they are banning CRT, but the language they are using in the laws being passed actually ban any discussion of anything that could make a child uncomfortable.
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8 minutes ago, pinball said:
I think this will end like Epstein and McAfee
Maybe, but at least Chauvin got through the trial and sentencing. I think certain people wanted to prevent the public airing of a trial with Epstein, and I assume with McAfee. The McAfee thing is really weird.
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2 minutes ago, Carol in Cal. said:
I have not seen that, and I think you might be mistaken.
What I have seen, and think is reasonable, is people saying that it should not be taught in such a way that young students are personally identified as victims or villains of it.I am indeed seeing it differently.
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32 minutes ago, Carol in Cal. said:
I don’t think anyone is arguing here that ‘systemic racism exists’ shouldn’t be taught in the classroom.
It seems like some people here are arguing that it does NOT exist and therefore of course shouldn’t be taught in classrooms.
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2 hours ago, Pam in CT said:
ere is Pennsylvania's new bill, rolled out in response to "CRT" and covering any secondary or post-secondary institution that receives *ANY* amount of public funding (see definition of terms, lines 3-5 on page 1).
That hamstrings the sociology departments among others.
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6 minutes ago, Sneezyone said:
So, out of curiosity, why do you think conservative, academia-inclined people AREN’T vociferously advocating alternative paths or criteria for tenure? The media platforms are there. The desire to amplify their voices is there. Why aren’t they doing that?
Or they can get Ph.D.s from a Christian College and write to please that crowd. They don’t have to please tenured liberal professors at those places.
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6 minutes ago, Frances said:
Of course there are both Republicans with PhDs and Democrats with PhDs. And lots of people of all political persuasions with advanced degrees choose not to go into academia or leave academia which includes both myself and my husband.
In general though, there is an educational divide among the parties that has changed over time. Whites without college degrees are more likely to be Republican or leaning and those with college degrees are more likely to be Democrat or leaning. The divide is even stronger when you look at the those with more than a bachelor’s degree (around 60% D vs 30% R).
I don’t think we can discount the sorting that happens in academia either. There is a whole system of Christian or church aligned colleges that draw the conservative people who are interested in teaching at that level. There is not a whole separate system for liberals or left wing people, leaving a situation where public college professors are more likely to lean left because the right leaning professors opted for the other system.
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5 hours ago, KSera said:
I actually totally don’t know what you’re referring to. In your experience, do most white people say racist things when they think no one is listening?
I live in the south. Yes, yes they do.
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Especially the ones who swear they aren’t racist because they are friends with one black person. But they don’t want too many black kids in their schools, their neighborhoods, their churches. They start talking about moving when the grocery store starts having too many.
It’s not a”change your social circle” issue either because it’s prevalent in all of the social circles. I don’t hear it as much now that I’ve”come out” as a *gasp* liberal. They save it for when they think everyone around agrees with them.
What someone said up thread about the subtly is dead on. It’s usually subtle, able to deny that they meant “that”. They didn’t mean that they want to move because 2 black families have moved in on the street, only that the character of the neighborhood had changed and they’re worried about property values.
Im honestly surprised white people are saying they don’t hear this.
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37 minutes ago, Arcadia said:
BBC has a good photo description
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57592827.amp
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A man who lives in a neighbouring building described what happened for CBS: "The building shook and then I looked out the window and you couldn't see, I thought it was like a storm or something coming in."When the dust cleared, the back two-thirds of the building was gone, it was down to the ground”
Boy, that’s just gone.
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2 hours ago, Carolina Wren said:
My state DHHS has estimated that continuing masking indoors with other households will save 1000 lives by the end of the calendar year.
That is probably true, for the unvaccinated, who are 99% or so of the deaths right now. The vaccine may not be 100% protective from an asymptomatic case, or very light symptoms, but its nearly 100% for preventing deaths and hospitalizations.
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