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American society has lost any ability to assess risk to kids. Almost two into years into a pandemic that mercifully spares kids, with almost 60% of the total population (and 75% of the eligible population) vaccinated, the CDC is still advising caution when trick-or-treating.
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@proetrie
That is rather an oversimplification. A KFC does not make Shanghai in any way similar to Chicago. Neither does it make Bucharest similar to Miami. I am grateful for familiar/easy trade and consumption because they remove barriers to people actually experiencing the differences
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@kittypurrzog
"I also can’t give my neighbors absolution; it’s not mine to give ...But I can extend invitation to make amends."
Who the fuck does this person think s/he is?!?
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@realchrisrufo
Wait, what am I missing? Where is the implication that men can have periods?
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@RolloHrotBart
Actually there is nothing interesting about the Logan Paul thing. There, I fixed it
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That’s it. I’m out
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The groomer debate, just like CRT-in-schools, No Child Left Behind, bussing, desegregation, and the Scopes monkey trial before it, is not about what's best for kids. It's about adults fighting over power.
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@datepsych
I don’t get the desire to, in the first place. Does a partnered person automatically give up any space of their own?
Would you check your partner’s mail? Go through their bag? Open their packages? Why? To what end?
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Happy Monday, Commies!
How about a thread honoring that beating heart of Socialist life, apartamentul la bloc (the block building apartment)?
Tagging ALL the
#RomanianLadies
and non-lady adjacents.
@kmanguward
@KennedyNation
@MattWelch
@NancyRomm
#fifdom
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@emilykmay
The absolutely hardest thing about being a SAHM is that the work never ends. If the understanding is that husband “works” and wife cares for children, guess what, husband’s work day has a beginning and an end, but wife is either working or on call every single day.
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So long,
@LPNational
. It could’ve been great.
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@kittypurrzog
I used to listen to NPR on early morning commutes in order to get my blood pressure up so I'd fully wake up.
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@jackieisalive
I’m more concerned about the possibility that his baby mama is an indentured sex slave, but that’s just me…
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It's almost as if kids have become fidget toys, objects that adults can do things to in order to make themselves feel better. Please stop. Enough.
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@karol
I've been feeling fortunate, dare I say even privileged for the past year because I work with the SAFEST POPULATION when it comes to Covid: little kids!
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Neither the new school wars nor the Virginia gubernatorial race are about Critical Race Theory, racism or Trump, and only tangentially about masks and vaccines. They are about a public school establishment that has become completely disconnected from the population it serves.
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Looking even further into the future, Rachelle Walensky opined that schools should maintain mask mandates even once younger children are vaccinated.
Why? What are we doing here?
Covid is endemic. It will always be around.
CDC Dr. Rochelle Walensky says that even if kids get vaccinated (per FDA approval) schools should still have mask mandates
"As we head into these winter months, we cannot be complacent."
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@datepsych
It’s funny when I think about it. 20 years ago I cared a lot more about provider-related traits like intelligence, drive, energy, education etc. Now I value protector-linked traits like kindness, affection, availability, contentedness, and loyalty.
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@Aella_Girl
If you’re looking for emotional fulfillment in a relationship, it’s going to be very hard to find someone when you start with a list of criteria. You’ve got to start with the person and make space/build around them. Love takes a great deal of imagination and flexibility
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@senatorshoshana
No joke, my husband talked about eminent domain on our first date. I took him straight home.
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Happy Summer, commies! It's time for a thread about the archetypal summer vacation destination of Communist Romania, the Black Sea coast.
#commiethread
#fifdom
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@Aella_Girl
I mean put me in a world where I don’t have a lot of stuff, my labor is mostly physical, and the pace of life is slow and mostly synchronous with the day/night and seasonal cycles, and my executive function and attention are STELLAR.
Alas
So I augment.
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But guess what? We will *all* die. Every single one of us. Death is a rock-solid certainty. That is why we want our lives to be fulfilling, meaningful and happy -- because we know they will end.
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Learning cannot happen online for elementary age kids.
Human brains "think" in 3-D until early adolescence. Little kids cannot abstract, not because they haven't been taught to, but because their brains do not support it.
Little kids need to see, and feel, and smell
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Adults have been recklessly projecting their own anxieties and fears onto the group least affected by the pandemic. In turn, this has made children *twice* as depressed and anxious as they were just a couple years ago. Why? Who is gaining anything here?
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Tulsi Gabbard stays on message, concerned about nuclear holocaust. “It’s time to fire these war-mongering politicians and their masters in the military-industrial complex.”
#RageAgainstWarMachine
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@RawBeautyKristi
Yes, I have. No adverse effects on milk or baby. As a general rule, the body filters out most things. People tend to be much more cautious about meds in milk than they need to be.
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@oopseedaisy123
@wbalradio
I may be wrong, but a lake is a naturally replenishing ecosystem, no? A lake is connected to other bodies of water, and the fauna/flora maintains an equilibrium. A concrete container/pool is like a fishbowl that you never attend to
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@DrDebraSoh
I do. I enjoy my female body and thinking of it sexually is erotic. Inhabiting my shape is inherently erotic
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Poise.
Personality.
Potato knowledge.
Miss Idaho Potato, 1935
The Miss Idaho Potato pageant has become a unique and beloved tradition since its inception in 1935. Held in the charming city of Burley, Idaho, this pageant celebrates the beauty and versatility of the state's most famous crop. Contestants participate in…
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No, that’s the history of the world. The history of the *modern* world is one of people recognizing the dignity inherent in every human person and slowly changing practices and institutions accordingly.
The history of the modern world is, to a large extent, the history of colonizing settlers violently dominating natives, stealing their land, and then self-righteously killing them when they fight back. People will try to tell you that it’s more complicated than this, but it isn’t
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Yet we continue to cover their faces, keep them away from each other, and periodically remove them altogether from their peer group. For an illness that, when symptomatic, acts like a cold. In a world where all adults can get vaxxed.
Who is this for?
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@Aella_Girl
But, like, how would you file charges? "The complainant states that he believed he was forcibly raping the accused at the time..."
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@not_a_heather
Pro tip: you’re also allowed to decide you don’t like your life and want a new one even of you are whatever age you are
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Thinking about kids dying is horrendously painful, and adults will rightly want to do anything in their power to prevent this. But kids also need to live happy, fulfilling, meaningful lives.
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@Aella_Girl
Here’s the thing: beautiful/good looking in a romantic context are subjective. Your modeling agent should be honest about your beauty/good looks. Your partner should make you feel desired. A relationship is not a place for objectivity; it’s a place for mortals to feel like gods
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@robbysoave
@reason
I mean, if my babysitter took my money for a year's worth of care and never showed up, I don't think it's wrong to want them back!
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We don't have the right to put kids in literal boxes, no matter how comfortable those are, in order to protect them. Our kids are living in a world where Covid is endemic, and fortunately, they are the least likely to be affected.
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This website was made for things like
@AnnieLennox
discovering amazing Eurhythmics covers. Let’s not spoil it
I keep encountering these wonderful versions of “Sweet Dreams”. Here’s the latest discovery! You’re gonna LOVE these gorgeous and massively talented young peeps!
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I’m an elementary school teacher, and my students are generally about 2 years behind in terms of social and emotional development.
8 year-olds are just starting to learn how to take turns and negotiate sharing supplies, skills that usually develop in kindergarten.
We need to talk about why children were more impacted by the pandemic and its response than adults have been. It’s been getting more noticeable as we are shifting back to 2019 norms.
This is a bit of a repost for me, with updates. I posted something similar about 3 months ago 🧵
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@Aella_Girl
Kids are a painful crash course into a more complete human experience. It’s incredibly interesting, often joyful, seldom fun, and mostly uncomfortable.
Much harder if you need alone time to recharge, don’t have family around and if your interests are not compatible with children.
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@nhannahjones
A) Charter schools are public schools.
B) Philantropy is, by definition, deciding which cause gets funded.
C) Public school funding has been going up exponentially since the 70s with no measurable effect on outcomes.
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ANYWAY
The moral of my tale:
Schools are for learning, not for achieving social policy. Whenever schools attempt to get in the way of learning, by making assessment impossible, say, or by substituting indoctrination for instruction, illicit markets spring up.
@JohnHMcWhorter
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@caro
@webdevMason
I want to start an explicitly apolitical dating movement. Not for me since very satisfactorily mated, but for the kids. Someone needs to tell the kids that you’re not supposed to let politics get in the way of shtupping!
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@_BarringtonII
No adult should be triggered by microaggressions. Children may understandably become upset by perceived slights, though our job is to teach them to move past this.
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As
#fifdom
's token Romanian lady, I have some thoughts about Putin's claim that his invasion of Ukraine a noble de-Nazification attempt.
He's not wrong.
You see, "Nazi" has a very different meaning and emotional valence in Eastern Europe than it does in the US.
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Everyone will be exposed at some point, and most people will acquire some form of immunity, either from vax or fighting off the illness.
@politicalmath
has a great writeup on this.
People will die, possibly at twice the rate that people die of influenza.
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@lizzywol
For additional context, the Flu kills 4x as many kids under 5 as Covid, while mortality for the 5-18 bracket is the same for the two viruses. We have never had school closures or vaccine mandates for influenza.
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A year ago today, I turned on my computer and was shocked and appalled at the degeneracy on display.
It was my first
@wethefifth
Patreon Zoom call.
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How would giving money to families that they can spend on education drain money from public schools? If the schools are good, families will spend their money there
To be clear: Vouchers are just another way that state legislatures drain money away from resource-strapped public education. We should be investing in public schools, where 90% of our students learn.
@AFTIndiana
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@MattWelch
@IChotiner
Yes. Romanians living through Communism called it "the wooden tongue. The point is to exhaust the audience through pulchritudinous effluvia of unrelentingly evocative verbiage.
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Pandemic-related school discourse illuminates the fact that public schooling is conceived for the adults' benefit, not the kids'.
Thread, tagging fellow parents of young kids and folks with an interest in the topic.
@MattWelch
@karol
@DeAngelisCorey
@glukianoff
@politicalmath
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Thanks for making it to the end.
TL;DR
Stop pretending that online learning is a viable educational alternative for most elementary-aged kids.
Also don't try to pretend that keeping kids 6 ft apart serves any discernible purpose.
@lesleynka_LA
@Timberati
@ZacBissonnette
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@shoe0nhead
(Not that I disagree but) Fellas if you were a pro surfer and your GF asked you not to post bathing suit pics, surf with females and hang out with male friends from your recent wild past, how would that feel?
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Over the past year +, I have heard them say things like, "I don't want to play with these kids, cause they're not in my pod," and "Ugh, taking my mask off freaks me out!", and "I can't go to this birthday party, because it's inside."
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@LauraLoomer
IDK about this, my daughters spent the past 10 days at their small, suburban, middle-class school, surrounded by clean and healthy human children and classroom supplies getting out of Amazon packages, and everyone still got sick
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@wil_da_beast630
It seems to me that a lot of gender discourse assumes mind-body dualism, ie there is a felt “essence/soul” of the person separate from the body. That’s neither my belief nor my experience. Then again, I cannot understand religious belief…
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@Aella_Girl
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be distressed, at all. Taxes are a capricious and arbitrary use of power, the rational response should be fear and anger. There is no mechanism to consent to an income tax.
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And the grownups are still unwilling to even think about turning this minivan around.
The US has no plan for doing away with restrictions, *even after* kids are vaccinated.
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@Aella_Girl
Personally, I couldn’t disagree more. It’s a big turn-on to be seen as a great catch right away, and have that feeling confirmed by building familiarity
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We kept the bathtub full so we could flush the toilet. We had an old washing machine that no longer spun but still heated water, which was huge! We would fill it and heat up water once a week so we could bathe, and the grandparents often came over to wash up, also.
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@AliceDreger
Thank you, Alice! Also tagging
@Counter_Weight_
here since they help with this exact situation
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#CommieThread
alert! Being oppressed through labor looks like this: you could live in a country, like the Romanian Communist Republic, where unemployment is illegal, as in against the law and punishable with imprisonment.
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@kittypurrzog
It’s not more money per pupil, it’s fewer pupils per class that makes the difference. Plus, lack of a union means you can actually fire bad teachers. Also, lack of federal standards for curriculum means you can tailor instruction to your population’s needs
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This holy Sabbath,
#fifdom
is celebrating
@mcmoynihan
’s appearance on
@billmaher
, following in the recent footsteps of
@kmele
and
@MattWelch
, thus completing a very gentile trinity.
@wethefifth
Shalom everyone!
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While kids are spared the worst of Covid, they are not immune to the effects of mitigation. My eldest daughter is 9. I've known her two closest friends since they were 2. They were both active, happy, gregarious kids.
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@FlorioGina
There’s nothing to support this assertion. Men are just as intrasexually competitive as women. We just compete for different things: women for resources, and men for access.
WRT to women fighting with each other over a mate more than men do… Have you been around men in any sort…
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Wait, opening schools is contingent on solving racial justice and CLIMATE issues??
@MattWelch
how's your blood pressure?
@karol
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There were no trash bags in Commie land. The stench of unpackaged refuse evenly permeated the entire building during warm, breezy summer days. Our kitchen window was directly across from the trash chute opening. Fun times.
There were also no vacuums that actually worked.
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@_cingraham
Put a bunch of stuff in a muffin tin. put that on the coffee table. (Not my pic.)
Tell them not to bother you unless there's blood, just like Mama used to do. 😁
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The difference between a crappy job and exploitation is coercion. An Amazon warehouse or delivery worker in the US has chosen this job freely and rationally. The fact that such a job is the only/best choice for some people can indeed be seen as sad, or even unfair.
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We played jump rope or amused ourselves by shooting thin paper cones out of pvc pipes at each other. Some kids got super into their pipe weapons. Other kids got really into their cones, fitting them with nails at the tip. Some kids got really injured.
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Ron Paul brings up ending the Fed within the first 2 minutes, to enthusiastic applause.
#RageAgainstWarMachine
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Balconies were very important. We hung laundry to dry on the balcony. In the winter, it was cold enough to keep perishable food out there. My parents, like most bloc dwellers, pickled vegetables ("muraturi") in huge jars that they kept on the balcony every winter, like this.
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My 4 year old has a servant. You’re looking at her. How do we neutralize the toxic effects of being 4?
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Lemme fix it for you: it could all have been easily avoided had Europe continued to develop nuclear energy
But as European families freeze and starve to death, the government elites who created this catastrophe will keep living lavishly and immune from the consequences of their actions.
And it all could have easily been avoided, had Europe not expanded NATO or sanctioned Russia...
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His desire to de-Nazify Ukraine is simply a wish to remove pro-Western sentiment from the country. The EU, NATO, and Western culture in general are all Nazis because they don't like the idea of a Great, authoritarian Russia.
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@OKWildlifeDept
Behold the fiercest hunter of hair ties, socks, paper clips, plastic caps, contact cases, earbuds, etc etc
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Kids also need to live happy, fulfilling, meaningful lives, not just in the future, but now. We don't have the right to put kids in literal boxes, or lock them in their rooms (no matter how comfortable), in order to protect them.
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Apartment dwellers would periodically roll up their ornate Persian rugs, cart them outside, drape them over the ubiquitous rug-beating bar in front of the block, and beat them with a rug beater. This was often an opportunity for chatting and gossip.
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