At any rate, I think three men having discussions about positive parenting strategies is a good indication that we all would, will, or are engaging in careful and thoughtful masculine parenting of our children which all the literature shows is overwhelmingly important to outcomes. The likelihood that you end up with some hypothetical nightmare menace of a child who only understands a strap is really negligible, but the likelihood that playing a positive and active role in your child's life will have extraordinary positive impacts on their lives is near 100%, and the statistics don't lie, being that kind of father will prevent your kids from getting a bad end more than almost anything else you can do.
Definitely the dangerous thing about that. Using "discipline" as an excuse for their own lack of discipline.
Not a lot of people implementing consistent rules and routines with positive feedback for success out of frustration.
"Listen here boy! I'm gonna come back there and give you the same fair and reasonable bedtime every night with a standard bedtime routine you come to recognise and follow. That'll learn you, you little bastard!"
Not a lot of people implementing consistent rules and routines with positive feedback for success out of frustration.
"Listen here boy! I'm gonna come back there and give you the same fair and reasonable bedtime every night with a standard bedtime routine you come to recognise and follow. That'll learn you, you little bastard!"
Thankfully, the superposition collapsed for me with a son who responds to positive and negative reinforcement that doesn't require anything physical.
I think if I ended up in that hypothetical scenario where he did need that.... I dunno, might just let the little guy grow up to be a serial killer and just act dumb...
I think if I ended up in that hypothetical scenario where he did need that.... I dunno, might just let the little guy grow up to be a serial killer and just act dumb...
One thing many people say to me is that all kids are different, and as one of 6 kids I tend to agree. It's amazing how different the outcomes can be from very similar beginnings.
There might be alternatives to spanking, and they might work really well for some kids. But there might be kids who need some physical reinforcement. Until the vague concept of "a child" with all its superpositions of what a child could be collapses into "the child in front of you right now" you can't know exactly what will or won't work.
That said, it's something you have to be careful of because the purpose of any discipline is not to make the parent feel better, but to try to help the child in the long run. One of the dangers of using pain as a disciplinary tool is there's always a risk of misusing it or using it instead of better tools for the job because it feel better in a moment of negative emotion from the parent.
There might be alternatives to spanking, and they might work really well for some kids. But there might be kids who need some physical reinforcement. Until the vague concept of "a child" with all its superpositions of what a child could be collapses into "the child in front of you right now" you can't know exactly what will or won't work.
That said, it's something you have to be careful of because the purpose of any discipline is not to make the parent feel better, but to try to help the child in the long run. One of the dangers of using pain as a disciplinary tool is there's always a risk of misusing it or using it instead of better tools for the job because it feel better in a moment of negative emotion from the parent.
Maybe the scarier idea is that there just isn't as much gas in the atmosphere as there has been in the past in general. Most people don't know this, but during the hadean period there were 22 atmospheres of CO2 in the early atmosphere by pressure. A good chunk of that ended up getting locked up in rocks. A lot of the sedimentary rock that we see is carbonates, which came about from life-forming shells out of the CO2 and calcium in the water.
It's crazy to think that there's entire mountains of the stuff now, and those processes do continue today, but on the other hand look at Mars. Now a lot more of its atmosphere went away due to lack of a magnetic field, but the future of Earth could look a lot like the present of Mars.
It's crazy to think that there's entire mountains of the stuff now, and those processes do continue today, but on the other hand look at Mars. Now a lot more of its atmosphere went away due to lack of a magnetic field, but the future of Earth could look a lot like the present of Mars.
"can't afford a house or kids or marriage, but it's because you spend a couple hundred dollars a couple times per year"
There's lots of things you can criticize people for in terms of their personal finances, but celebrating the holidays a couple times a year really is missing the forest for the trees...
There's lots of things you can criticize people for in terms of their personal finances, but celebrating the holidays a couple times a year really is missing the forest for the trees...
A lot of people who end up with touch screen computers end up never touching their touch screen, and so the only time that they remember that they have a touch screen is when someone goes to point at their screen and the mouse moves.
Really, it's a bit morbid but since no one seems to be stepping up to stop it, it's probably worth at least having a contingency plan for if it does happen.
I think Funko pops are made out of vinyl, which isn't an appropriate material for 3d printing. It is, however, recyclable.
Life has been so empty without watching...um....er... You know maybe they should just stay on strike.
Whenever I hear stories like this (and remember the similar story from the lawsuit against twitter) I feel like we should have a corporate death sentence.
Like... Sorry, this is too important and if you're not following the law, you aren't allowed to be a business anymore and your executives aren't allowed to run a business for X years.
Like... Sorry, this is too important and if you're not following the law, you aren't allowed to be a business anymore and your executives aren't allowed to run a business for X years.
Happy Halloween everyone.
Just got back from trick or treating. My God, nobody's doing it this year! We got like half everyone's candy because nobody wanted to have to hang onto it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVjk5nrb_lI
Just got back from trick or treating. My God, nobody's doing it this year! We got like half everyone's candy because nobody wanted to have to hang onto it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVjk5nrb_lI
Hard drives should be big and bulky enough to be used as a weapon of war, but so small they can't carry a scanned PDF of the Geneva convention.
Holy crap!
4008 dollars a month? And that's not Canuckistani Kopecs, that's actual Military Industrial Complex backed dollaridoos?
4008 dollars a month? And that's not Canuckistani Kopecs, that's actual Military Industrial Complex backed dollaridoos?
I guess the Colorado insurrection trial is on to take trump off the ballot. Considering he said "they're not gonna stop, and they're not gonna stop past election day and they should not stop" I hope they throw the book at hi -- wait what? That's the sitting vice president who said that about violent riots that lasted half a year? Trump said "go home peacefully"?
What the fuck?
What the fuck?
It is true tho.
Imagine if you went to your job dutifully for 6 months and your employer decided long ago they were going to just stop paying you, but you were considered the bad guy for wanting to either get paid or quit.
Imagine if your employer keyed your car, then sues you because you're supposed to keep your car in good condition and again -- you can't quit.
That's some of the tough parts of being a land lord. And then people have marches saying you should never get paid.
It's a tough job sometimes, especially if you're not a slum lord.
Imagine if you went to your job dutifully for 6 months and your employer decided long ago they were going to just stop paying you, but you were considered the bad guy for wanting to either get paid or quit.
Imagine if your employer keyed your car, then sues you because you're supposed to keep your car in good condition and again -- you can't quit.
That's some of the tough parts of being a land lord. And then people have marches saying you should never get paid.
It's a tough job sometimes, especially if you're not a slum lord.
It makes sense. I'm aware of a particular product that runs the world that was based on older x86 processors, and when the manufacturer ran out of processors they ended the product line and started another based on ARM. It's still jarring seeing that though...
