:baby_symbol: Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
The King Air series of aircraft is one of the few smaller turboprops that has a toilet.
That makes me wonder if any of the King Air crashes I hear about in aviation circles have been due to, um, explosive decompression.
Amusing thought. An amusing thing about them is that the toilet does not have any sort of door or anything. There is something similar to a shower curtain that you pull around yourself. Imagine trying to take a while your friends are literally inches away on the other side of a piece of thin opaque cloth. I would need to pretty fucking badly before I would do that.
Almost all of the crashes you see of King Airs are the earlier, smaller varieties. The King Air 350's have an impressively safe service history in spite of their "dentist killer" t-tail. They sold the first one in 1984 and it took until 2019 for the first recorded fatal crash and there have only been three recorded fatal crashes total.
Overall though, the King Airs have an impressive safety record. 7,000+ aircraft, estimates 70+ million flying hours only ~18 recorded fatal crashes across the entire product line. They are pretty impressive planes. They are thirsty bastards though. 400-650lbs/hr fuel burn. The plane we took to Florida is single engine with a ~250lbs/hr burn rate and has a ~20kn higher cruise speed.
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A small sample of what it is like living with me:
-while trying to get the kids to adequately brush their teeth-
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Drinking a gallon of anything in one sitting is a bad idea. Drinking a gallon of alcohol in one sitting just landed 46 kids in the hospital. You might want to talk to your kids about this.
Dozens of students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst were hospitalized over the weekend after participating in the dangerous "borg" drinking challenge that has gained popularity on TikTok, officials said.
Borgs, or "blackout rage gallons," are one-gallon containers of water that are emptied a bit, and then filled with alcohol and some kind of flavoring, such as water-enhancing drops or powdered drink mixes.
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Borgs, or "blackout rage gallons," are one-gallon containers of water that are emptied a bit, and then filled with alcohol and some kind of flavoring, such as water-enhancing drops or powdered drink mixes.
From what I've heard, it's supposed to be a semi-temperance movement: load up your gallon with only the alcohol you can safely drink, and now you've pre-limited your drinking and made sure you're properly hydrated!
Of course, this only works if a) you know what your tolerance is, and b) you don't cave to peer pressure and add more alcohol than your tolerance, and c) you don't drink extra stuff. And d) nobody spikes your borg when you're not looking, because nobody is going to actually carry a gallon of liquid all night; you just know that thing is being set down on any and every convenient surface, and occasionally left unattended.
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@PotatoEngineer You missed one:
e) You can calculate the mixing ratios correctly.
Because there's several districts in the U.S. where not a single kid in their school can do math properly, as sad as that is.
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What's the overlap between kids who can do math properly and kids who drink at parties, I wonder?
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PotatoEngineer You missed one:
e) You can calculate the mixing ratios correctly.
Because there's several districts in the U.S. where not a single kid in their school can do math properly, as sad as that is.
You don't need to calculate the mix correctly, you just need to add the right total number of drinks, and make the gallon last for the entire evening. Though if you're adding 20 drinks, you probably need some more water. But if you're having 20 drinks, you're not here for the semi-temperance, you're just doing the equivalent of hiding your bottle of alcohol in a paper bag.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
the right total number of drinks [for] the entire evening
Something an experienced drinker would know, but college students doing their first party would not. ...I'm not sure if most of us would, even. I have no idea how many shots would get me sloshed over the course of an evening, being a teetotaler.
But I would not even know how much water I might drink over same. Like, I used to drink about 3x 1,5l pepsis per day. But now that I quit that, I definitely haven't been drinking 4,5l of water per day. Caffeine is a diuretic, I guess, but most people don't know that...
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@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I used to drink about 3x 1,5l pepsis per day. But now that I quit that, I definitely haven't been drinking 4,5l of water per day.
Having had the unpleasant experience of a kidney stone, I'm supposed to drink at least 3l of water per day to avoid a repeat episode. I'd guess that most days I probably drink between 2.5l and 3l. The idea of drinking a full gallon (just under 4l), with or without alcohol, in one evening is almost inconceivable to me. So bloated...
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@acrow said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I used to drink about 3x 1,5l pepsis per day. But now that I quit that, I definitely haven't been drinking 4,5l of water per day.
Having had the unpleasant experience of a kidney stone, I'm supposed to drink at least 3l of water per day to avoid a repeat episode. I'd guess that most days I probably drink between 2.5l and 3l. The idea of drinking a full gallon (just under 4l), with or without alcohol, in one evening is almost inconceivable to me. So bloated...
Dunno, I can go through a gallon of half-n-half in less than a whole evening. But not of heavy cream.
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@Mason_Wheeler huh, doublespeak for the kids even. Is someone trying for worse humans than even WASPs?
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@HardwareGeek don't you know when to take salt?
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I have lubricated my baby's crib, and I am pleased with the result.
(I got a folding crib for a visiting baby at one point, and my kid needs to be trained to sleep somewhere new since I'm traveling soon. But my folding crib squeaks, which makes it real hard for the baby to fall asleep. I use silicone spray lubricant on all the folding hinges, and now it doesn't squeak.)
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Warning: even if the baby makes unpleasant noises as well, you shouldn't use the same method to fix the problem.
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@Zerosquare You're not my dad!
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We've had to use a folding crib a few times as well. It didn't squeak. But after being assembled and folded dozens of times over the years, the locks started to get unreliable. Like, the sides didn't stay up reliably.
In other news, the vacuum-packed diapers still work. We used up the last one from our car's trunk, and had to vacuum-pack a few more. So it's pretty safe to say that diapers will stay good in a car's trunk over winter if vacuum-packed. So now you can all add those to the emergency car stash of baby wipes, tissues, towels and duct tape.
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Once again, "modern" social science has rediscovered what our grandparents knew.
TL;DR: Life is tough. You're not always going to get what you want. Deal with it.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Once again, "modern" social science has rediscovered what our grandparents knew.
TL;DR: Life is tough. You're not always going to get what you want. Deal with it.
You do realize that "common sense" often isn't very common or sensible (or both)?
That's why we have science. To see if those anecdotes are actually a rule to follow. Otherwise we'd still be convinced that the Sun revolves around the Earth.
I can give you several examples of what our grandparents "knew" which turned out to be very misguided or actively harmful.
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@Rhywden said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
That's why we have science.
Yes, but we're discussing social "science" here.
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@Rhywden said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I can give you several examples of what our grandparents "knew" which turned out to be very misguided or actively harmful.
More rod for the child! It spoke to me and I was not overjoyed at what it said!
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Our oldest mentioned to me that Mother's Day is coming up and his ideas for gifts were:
- A Roomba (which is something that he wants, because robot)
- To foster goats
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
goats
A worthy addition to your menagerie. I'd love to see how Gunner would react to that.
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@HardwareGeek said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I'd love to see how Gunner would react to that.
Lots of howling. That's how he reacts to everything.
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@Polygeekery said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
Lots of howling. That's how he reacts to everything.
The thread is
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@Rhywden said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I can give you several examples of what our grandparents "knew" which turned out to be very misguided or actively harmful.
"Stretch the foreskin" is the first example that comes to mind. It was taught to every nurse way back when. And causes damage to this day.
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Unexpected good parenting: having your teenager confess they where wrong and your music taste is better then that of their mother
Welcome to the Tool Army babe
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There's a post in my HOA's Facebook about some middle-aged dude letting his toddler get too close to the road. That would be me. The post vexed both me and my wife. My toddler currently loves watching cars go by, and the busy corner at the main street gives her lots to watch. There are a couple of intersections further away from that busy corner that have decent traffic for a housing area, but my toddler is, of course, not entertained by the idea that an entire minute might go by without a car.
But in the end, I decided to simply ignore the post, because I just couldn't imagine a discussion with such a busybody turning out to be productive in any way, shape, or form. Two of the replies to the post were reasonably positive, three others were negative, and I'm happy having not fed a
trollbusybody.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
and I'm happy having not fed a troll
After all, you need to use all your troll food here
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And one of those negative replies was "someone should tell that man about nearby parks his child can play at safely." As if someone with a small child doesn't know about any nearby playgrounds. Such silliness!
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
And one of those negative replies was "someone should tell that man about nearby parks his child can play at safely." As if someone with a small child doesn't know about any nearby playgrounds. Such silliness!
It's a good way to tell who never had children.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
There's a post in my HOA's Facebook
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busybody.Seriously, how
fugassed up in the head do you have to be to bitch about the father instead of thinking, our neighborhood seems to be unsafe for kids, maybe we should do something there?
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@PotatoEngineer this also reminded me we have some geniuses in our community. Like the person who bought a flat right next to the communal playrooms the started bitching that the children are too loud.
Or the people who bought a flat at ground level and complained that bigger kids are playing football on the grass on the other side of their fence. Best part: "we plan to have a child, how will it sleep next to such noise?"
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@homoBalkanus said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
"we plan to have a child, how will it also next to such noise?"
I'm sure the child will just fine.
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@Zecc said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@homoBalkanus said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
"we plan to have a child, how will it also next to such noise?"
I'm sure the child will just fine.
Otoh, the child will have retards for gene donors.
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@homoBalkanus There are all kinds of geniuses.
I'm not sure which one was worse.
a) The dumbasses who built summer cottages right next to a shooting range, and then started complaining about the noise.
b) The municipality that zoned the area for residential construction, after the range had been there for decades (and is owned by the city, and regularly used for biathlon).But the absolute best so far was another municipality that...
- Built their groundwater pumping station for the municipal network right next to a shooting range.
- Then had the range closed down for fears of lead contamination of the soil and thus the water.
- After the range had been there for decades. So the ground was already about as full of lead as it could get.
- When nobody could afford a soil cleanup operation of that scale, and it would disturb the water-taking operation too much anyway.
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@acrow that sort of thing in particular seems to happen on purpose. The gun club I belong to is under constant threat from people trying to shut it down for all sorts of reasons. And insurance is getting harder to get. Despite a basically flawless record and being incredibly careful and safety (way more than indoor ranges).
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@LaoC said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
There's a post in my HOA's Facebook
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busybody.Seriously, how
fugassed up in the head do you have to be to bitch about the father instead of thinking, our neighborhood seems to be unsafe for kids, maybe we should do something there?It's not that the neighborhood might me unsafe, is that they thought I was letting my daughter too close to a road.
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@homoBalkanus said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PotatoEngineer this also reminded me we have some geniuses in our community. Like the person who bought a flat right next to the communal playrooms the started bitching that the children are too loud.
Or the people who bought a flat at ground level and complained that bigger kids are playing football on the grass on the other side of their fence. Best part: "we plan to have a child, how will it sleep next to such noise?"
That's been going on for years... People move into a house near an airport (that was there long before any houses were around) and then complain about airplane noise. Which with our laws, would have been included in the disclosures about the house.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@LaoC said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@PotatoEngineer said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
There's a post in my HOA's Facebook
[...]
busybody.Seriously, how
fugassed up in the head do you have to be to bitch about the father instead of thinking, our neighborhood seems to be unsafe for kids, maybe we should do something there?It's not that the neighborhood might me unsafe, is that they thought I was letting my daughter too close to a road.
But why would that even be a problem if not for safety? Did they fear having to clean blood off their radiators?
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@dcon said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
People move into a house near an airport (that was there long before any houses were around) and then complain about airplane noise.
And here it is the railway. 100 noisy goods trains per night from 10 PM to 6 AM.
But new houses are built close to the railway line, existing houses get extra levels on top etc. And obviously, they find people renting / buying them. And complain afterwards.
I in contrast moved to a place far away enough from the rails.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I in contrast moved to a place far away enough from the rails.
So did I. My first apartment was within ~50m of a busy freight track, with nothing blocking line of sight/sound. Louder than I'd have liked.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
@BernieTheBernie said in Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit:
I in contrast moved to a place far away enough from the rails.
So did I. My first apartment was within ~50m of a busy freight track, with nothing blocking line of sight/sound. Louder than I'd have liked.
My college roommate's first house was like that. There's more trees there now than back in the late 1980s/early 90s.
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@dcon When our house went through foreclosure and my wife filed for divorce, I spent a couple of weeks living in a condo belonging to some friends. That was over a decade ago, so I've forgotten exactly where it was. It's probably not this specific building, but it was something similarly close to CalTrain.
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@HardwareGeek Not sure which is better - a short train that is past rapidly, or a train that is miles long where it quickly fades into the background... (his house was in Iowa, so that was one of those long haul rails)
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@HardwareGeek Hmpf.
This house just recently got a new top level:
And if you'd like to stay in a hotel in Rüdesheim, what about here (note that there is the national highway B42 inbetween):
100 goods trains (not "quiet" passenger trains) per night.