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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm all for pillaring Facebook and their like for their many fuck ups but this role belongs to parents. Better parenting is the answer here.
Too many parents feel it's the state's role to do their parenting for them, and the state is all too willing to do so.
They need to be disabused of this notion.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
slowly dying reproductive organs of angiosperms
So I should distribute gymnosperm strobili instead?
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
That Health Secretary looks awfully young.
She'd probably make better decisions than the career politician currently in office.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
That onebox doesn't look promising in the preview..
Oh, I don't know. “Love Sausage” is definitely highly and
Because, of course, nothing says undying romance better than a 460g sausage.
Indeed!
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@kazitor
"Ribbed forherxeir pleasure"
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm all for pillaring Facebook and their like for their many fuck ups but this role belongs to parents. Better parenting is the answer here.
Great idea.
Now, how exactly do you propose to get parents to do just that?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm all for pillaring Facebook and their like for their many fuck ups but this role belongs to parents. Better parenting is the answer here.
Great idea.
Now, how exactly do you propose to get parents to do just that?
No idea honestly. Getting more involved with their children's lives and reducing their screen time would be a good start. I always find it funny to see families on the tube and they're all staring at a screen. For fucks sake talk to each other.
Thinking about it I see a market opportunity for dumb phones. No internet! Just SMS and phone calls. Battery lasts two months!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
For fucks sake talk to each other.
Maybe they are. Did you look at their screens?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@Cursorkeys
I tend to believe (which implies that I haven't really thought it through and that it isn't necessarily true) that overpopulation is the root cause of a very broad set of today's problems. It can't be practically solved, however, so the post-post-hipster stumblefuck can impale himself on his own beard for all I care.Convince them to be the best environmentalist that they can be by sterilising themselves.
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I'm all for pillaring Facebook and their like for their many fuck ups but this role belongs to parents. Better parenting is the answer here.
Paywall.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm all for pillaring Facebook and their like for their many fuck ups but this role belongs to parents. Better parenting is the answer here.
Great idea.
Now, how exactly do you propose to get parents to do just that?
(not that)
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Sounds good, do it.
Not sure what you want me to do, but
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https://wtop.com/news/2019/02/self-driving-cars-coming-to-reston-this-summer/
During the initial phase, three self-driving vehicles will transport tenants in office buildings to parking lots at the site. An onsite operations team will monitor the fleet service as well as provide maintenance, cleaning, charging and updating of the vehicles.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Interesting thread.
That guy found what is probably an illegal database (GDPR) but won't tell anyone who has it.
That's failure to report a crime and it's illegal in some places. He should be careful.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm all for pillaring Facebook and their like for their many fuck ups but this role belongs to parents. Better parenting is the answer here.
Great idea.
Now, how exactly do you propose to get parents to do just that?
No idea honestly. Getting more involved with their children's lives and reducing their screen time would be a good start. I always find it funny to see families on the tube and they're all staring at a screen. For fucks sake talk to each other.
That's still what you want them to do and not a proposal on how to get there.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I'm all for pillaring Facebook and their like for their many fuck ups but this role belongs to parents. Better parenting is the answer here.
Great idea.
Now, how exactly do you propose to get parents to do just that?
No idea honestly. Getting more involved with their children's lives and reducing their screen time would be a good start. I always find it funny to see families on the tube and they're all staring at a screen. For fucks sake talk to each other.
That's still what you want them to do and not a proposal on how to get there.
You would think the incentive of more well adjusted children would be an incentive to get us in that general direction but I suspect we're going to have to handing out children licenses. Need to start studying to pass that exam!
There really isn't an end to this that doesn't involve some kind of tyranny. Do you have a suggestion?
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@DogsB No, I don't. That's why I find those "We need better parents!" suggestions to be rather on the unhelpful side.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@DogsB No, I don't. That's why I find those "We need better parents!" suggestions to be rather on the unhelpful side.
Identifying or acknowledging a problem is helpful in its own way even though it probably won't solve it on its own.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@DogsB No, I don't. That's why I find those "We need better parents!" suggestions to be rather on the unhelpful side.
So you have no suggestions and you are discounting one because the how to execute part isn't fully formed yet? It's on unhelpful at the moment and since you're offering nothing why not polish it.
I'm all for shooting bad ideas in the ass but why not hear them first and then dismantle them plank by plank? Bear in mind that is an on going process because they always resurface. :(
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
The Prava-On-The-Potomac article is paywalled.
Incognito / private windows are my friend. They could be yours, too.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@DogsB No, I don't. That's why I find those "We need better parents!" suggestions to be rather on the unhelpful side.
So you have no suggestions and you are discounting one because the how to execute part isn't fully formed yet?
It's not even partially formed. Basically, it's similar to the way certain people here scoff when you mention socialism because that clearly doesn't work - because you clearly got the wrong people.
Good solutions work with the people you have instead of trying to mold them into something else to fit your solution.
“And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.”
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That's pretty bad ass...
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@DogsB No, I don't. That's why I find those "We need better parents!" suggestions to be rather on the unhelpful side.
So you have no suggestions and you are discounting one because the how to execute part isn't fully formed yet?
It's not even partially formed. Basically, it's similar to the way certain people here scoff when you mention socialism because that clearly doesn't work - because you clearly got the wrong people.
Good solutions work with the people you have instead of trying to mold them into something else to fit your solution.
“And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.”But we're not talking about government here WRT "bad parenting." In any case, the most important thing you can do to solve this problem is to be a good parent and teach your kids to be good parents, too.
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@boomzilla That's an individual solution, though. He was speaking generally.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla That's an individual solution, though. He was speaking generally.
And generally it's still the most important thing you can do.
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@Rhywden Not all problems have solutions. And recognizing that (and the source of this issue) lets you mitigate the problem without spinning your wheels trying to fix the unfixable.
Same goes for medicine. There are lots of terminal diseases. Should we not diagnose them unless we have a cure on hand?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Same goes for medicine. There are lots of terminal diseases. Should we not diagnose them unless we have a cure on hand?
Do we like the diagnostician?
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@Benjamin-Hall That's a rather misleading analogy. Unless you want to say that not-optimal parents (whatever those are) are literally ebola.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla That's an individual solution, though. He was speaking generally.
And generally it's still the most important thing you can do.
Oh, just put two dollars into the platitudinarian-jar, will you?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla That's an individual solution, though. He was speaking generally.
And generally it's still the most important thing you can do.
Oh, just put two dollars into the platitudinarian-jar, will you?
Look, all you're doing is complaining and not proposing any solutions. That's not helpful.
I'm the only one to propose something that will make the situation better. So I think now we can firmly conclude that you don't give a shit about helping and just want to take pot shots at other people. Probably your parents' fault, so we forgive you.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla That's an individual solution, though. He was speaking generally.
And generally it's still the most important thing you can do.
Oh, just put two dollars into the platitudinarian-jar, will you?
Look, all you're doing is complaining and not proposing any solutions. That's not helpful.
I'm the only one to propose something that will make the situation better. So I think now we can firmly conclude that you don't give a shit about helping and just want to take pot shots at other people. Probably your parents' fault, so we forgive you.
I don't see what your "solution" is supposed to accomplish in a general way beyond being so basic an advice that it's bordering on useless?
"Be a good parent!"
Well, thank you, wouldn't have thought of that! No one in the history of mankind came up with that one before you did.
Wait, I have more of that!
"Be nice to each other!" or "Finish what you started!" or "Save something for a rainy day!"
I mean, hell, the first advice was made by Jesus himself and look where that landed him!
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla That's an individual solution, though. He was speaking generally.
And generally it's still the most important thing you can do.
Oh, just put two dollars into the platitudinarian-jar, will you?
Look, all you're doing is complaining and not proposing any solutions. That's not helpful.
I'm the only one to propose something that will make the situation better. So I think now we can firmly conclude that you don't give a shit about helping and just want to take pot shots at other people. Probably your parents' fault, so we forgive you.
I don't see what your "solution" is supposed to accomplish in a general way beyond being so basic an advice that it's bordering on useless?
Yes, I think you've already established that you don't really care here.
"Be a good parent!"
Well, thank you, wouldn't have thought of that! No one in the history of mankind came up with that one before you did.
I know. You fret about big solutions and ignore the practical and possible things that people can do to make the world better. Worse yet, you castigate people for suggesting that!
Wait, I have more of that!
"Be nice to each other!" or "Finish what you started!" or "Save something for a rainy day!"
I mean, hell, the first advice was made by Jesus himself and look where that landed him!
Heaven? Is this another one of those, "Don't call my bluff," sort of statements?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I know. You fret about big solutions and ignore the practical and possible things that people can do to make the world better. Worse yet, you castigate people for suggesting that!
Last time I looked that sort of advice has been passed around for millenia now. Don't see very many indications of world peace any time soon.
As I said: Nice on the individual basis. Useless for a whole population or n > 1.
Heaven? Is this another one of those, "Don't call my bluff," sort of statements?
Nailed to a cross more like. And it's not as if Joe Blow can expect an Act of God in his case.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I know. You fret about big solutions and ignore the practical and possible things that people can do to make the world better. Worse yet, you castigate people for suggesting that!
Last time I looked that sort of advice has been passed around for millenia now. Don't see very many indications of world peace any time soon.
The first rule of holes: quit digging. Most likely no one is going to listen to some grand idea you have about solving this problem. But at least you'll still be angry!
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31st Jan:
8th Feb:
Oops...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Same goes for medicine. There are lots of terminal diseases. Should we not diagnose them unless we have a cure on hand?
Do we like the diagnostician?
What would that have to do with it?
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Same goes for medicine. There are lots of terminal diseases. Should we not diagnose them unless we have a cure on hand?
Do we like the diagnostician?
What would that have to do with it?
You have to consider the poster to whom @Benjamin-Hall was replying.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Don't see very many indications of world peace any time soon.
This has nothing to do with world peace. Conflict arises because two people want the same thing, being better people doesn't solve that. It might alter how the conflict is resolved, but it can never itself resolve the conflict.
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Bonus fail:
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
#NewZealand
You're right; making that a hashtag is a WTF.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@DogsB No, I don't. That's why I find those "We need better parents!" suggestions to be rather on the unhelpful side.
So you have no suggestions and you are discounting one because the how to execute part isn't fully formed yet?
It's not even partially formed. Basically, it's similar to the way certain people here scoff when you mention socialism because that clearly doesn't work - because you clearly got the wrong people.
Actually it is partially formed. We've identified what is at fault and a potential solution. We now need execution but logistics is usually 80% of the battle so I'll concede the point.
Socialism is a different matter. Something I quite actually like but can't see a way to kick start the logistics. Everywhere it's tried the money runs out eventually. Every government program that runs on its principal hemorrhages money and requires more taxation to keep it afloat. Solve the money problem and people will stop scoffing at you.
Good solutions work with the people you have instead of trying to mold them into something else to fit your solution.
In this case they're not even working with the people. They're trying to fob it off onto social media.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Too many parents feel it's the state's role to do their parenting for them, and the state is all too willing to do so.
And as if by serendipity, this morning, the government presumes to interfere even earlier...
A Government-backed campaign aims to help parents with weaning and tackle widespread myths about the signs a baby is ready to try their first solid foods.
Don't let the word 'recommendations' fool you. The current weekly alcohol guidelines are 'recommendations' and are at the level of what used to pass for a Friday lunchtime. Yet they are taken as a limit when it comes to bashing drinkers for 'dangerous levels of drinking,' these days, and where 2 pints is now 'binge drinking.'
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Tautological headline contains tautological tautologism.
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https://thevoicebw.com/waar-was-jy-rope-in-bouga-luv/
What do you mean you want the title translated to English? That is in English!
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TFA wrote:
rope in Bouga luv
Bouga luv, huh hmm? </shaggy>
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
One in four mothers unsure about how to wean their baby
Cheerios!
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Lorena Bobbitt meets Jeffrey Dahmer:
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@boomzilla Washington reportedly baffled that you could do things like refuse.