There’s a lot of space between “just let them carry on with whatever” and “beat them like I expected to be”. Not to mention, “getting my ass beat by my parents” might not mean literally getting beat, but can be a metaphor for any kind of discipline (though I can see how it can fall into the uncanny valley since there were and are parents that would literally beat asses).

Yeah, part of it is to teach that they won’t get their way by annoying you into giving in. Helps in my case that I can be a stubborn fuck, too. It means I have to choose my battles because I don’t want to back myself into a situation where I make a choice, realize it’s not the best one, but feel like I have to stand my ground to combat whining. Luckily we’re past the point of tantrums and she’s old enough that I can explain my reasoning in cases where I say one thing at first but then later change my mind.

But there’s two other parts imo. One is teaching them the right way to express what they want (as well as when stating what they want might be rude or out of line, like if it’s in response to getting a gift that isn’t their top choice). And the other is being open and honest about the why. I only use “because I said so” or some equivalent to deal with the endless chain of "why?"s (though I’ve found deflecting it back at her is also effective, like “why do you think it is?”).

I can’t understand how such an obviously stupid approach to rasing kids even got off the ground to the point of general awareness. Any intelligent adult should be able to see how learning to take a “no” is an essential part of growing up. Same with dealing with negative emotions in general, which I understand the whole “never say no” thing is trying to avoid.

My daughter was taught how to take a no at a young age. It was a bit rough the first few times, but she quickly learned to take them in stride.

Reminds me of the Amazon product pages where the images are clearly ones where the product was photoshopped onto some other image. Can’t even be bothered to use the product for real and take some photos? I hate everyone involved in that shit.

The water tasted like damp basement! Oddly enough, it was a kinda pleasant flavour.

While having a family brawl with a bunch of clowns might be a hilarious way to start a wedding, how does it help with the 5 dads thing?

There are seizures, but I think those are more akin to BSOD than updates. Though I bet epilepsy would be more fun if you woke up with new skills and capabilities after each seizure.

Hell, forget motorbikes, even bicycles would make it hard to justify horse costs. And I bet they are superior for range and speed (average, at least, not so sure about max, and obviously it requires a rider in good enough shape, but I think you’ll get there if you ride regularly, assuming no disabilities).

From what I recall horses require: * Training on how to ride a horse

Picturing you riding a horse that is riding another horse. Extended range upgrade?

Though on a serious note, there’s also the horse itself and its training (to be ridden and not freak out about things, training it to ride another horse or series of horses optional).

Around Columbine, rumours started going around at my school that one of my friends was going to shoot up the coming assembly. He wore a trench coat but was just another dnd nerd and bullying wasn’t even bad at my school (this itself was probably about as bad as bullying would get). He was monitored during the assembly and a lot of people avoided it, but it was one of the few I went to. Obviously nothing happened during it.

Though my favourite assembly story from that school was about the time they absolutely wanted everyone to attend one. Many people would usually just leave the school during them, so on this day, they posted teachers at each door to keep people from leaving while others moved through the school and herded everyone to the gym.

I remember getting to the gym, thinking they had beat us, only to enter and see that the line of people going in didn’t disperse to the seats in the bleachers. Instead it continued on to the one door they forgot to guard: an exit from the gym itself.

I wish I could have seen the look on their faces when they got in to the gym only to find it probably less full than usual, since everyone exiting from right there probably made some who wouldn’t have normally left grow bold enough to do it. But I didn’t see their faces because I also left.

Then they just kinda gave up. Even though it would gave been relatively easy to fix the flaw in their plan, they never did try to block us in like that again.

The pool of vehicles that still have MT is getting smaller and smaller each year, at least in north America.

Would you want to carry an entire dining room set while walking or taking the subway home?

It would be difficult to carry even just two non-folding chairs without inadvertently being an asshole to people around you, unless the sidewalks were dead.

Implying they are selling products they know you are likely to be unsatisfied with.

I wash my car every time it rains!

It’s nothing compared to what they call us, anyways.

Rock and roll are two things, so that’s four hobbies!

I got a metal ice cube tray and while it is a bit of a pain to use (it has two seperate pieces, the tray bottom and a grid attached to an arm and hinge to break the ice out, but good luck getting it all back together without removing all the ice), my ice just tastes like ice. It’s better than the silicone molds but also the older plastic molds. I used to notice ice would get an off taste if left in the tray for long but now that never happens.

I’m convinced at this point that plastic has no business being in contact with things we consume. I’m curious if my attempts to reduce/avoid it have had any impact on how much microplastics have ended up in my brain lol.

Edit: the metal tray in the meme looks like it would be very frustrating to use.

Edit2: nm that’s not even metal, just another plastic one

Yeah, I had it mixed up with plutonium, which isn’t just more radioactive but also chemically reactive. Thought that 2nd part applied to both of them.

I’m surprised uranium is only yellow, thought it chemically wrecked havoc on our fragile organic compounds and was difficult/impossible for the body to get rid of.

A high school chemistry teacher once mentioned a story about someone who tried to commit suicide by drinking a beaker of mercury. He mostly just got the shits from it. But they stopped letting the kids play with it because of that mercury vapour.