Love this one:

LITERATURE PRIZE  [USA] The late Dr. William B. Bean, for persistently recording and analyzing the rate of growth of one of his fingernails over a period of 35 years.

From his most rebent paper (1980 PDF):

More than 37 years ago, rather casually, I began to study the rate of growth of my nails, fingernails and toenails. The stimulus that set me on this course I have related in several articles, the first of which appeared in 1953. The kind of pleasure and understanding that I get from studying natural history has long vanished from most contemporary teaching institutions that have become part of intensive care units, which are supposed to save the residual intellectual machinery of medical students. The teeming mass of hope and pain, technical virtuosity, and depersonalization called a “health center” delivers packets of what is termed “medical care.” The capacity to look remains, but the capacity to see has all but vanished. Teachers and students forget that the ability to palpate is not the same as the ability to feel. As a gentle countercurrent, I set forth here this most recent five-year installment of the observations of the growth of my left thumbnail. It is a very long record of the growth of human deciduous tissue. Its duration has little precedent in clinical medicine or human natural history. Still, the nail provides a slowly moving keratin kymograph that measures age on the inexorable abscissa of time

Every German who went to school after 1945, for one.

More like 1980.

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, there was a widespread reluctance among Germans to acknowledge the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime. However, this began to change in the 1960s and 1970s, as a new generation of Germans began to grapple with the legacy of their country’s past. The first efforts to teach about the Holocaust in German schools began in the 1980s, and since then, the curriculum has continued to evolve to better reflect the complexities of this history.

https://knowgermany.com/do-they-teach-about-the-holocaust-in-germany/

There is not a single ounce of anything scientific provable in what you are saying. You are making shit up to justify hitting your children. That’s really it.

I mostly agree except for the initial phase of teaching a kid to listen and control themselves.

When would that be? It is a learning process for children to control themselves. Some grown ups haven’t mastered it.

The part of the brain that forces them to sit still and focus doesn’t really develop imo without some fear.

This is the core piece of your little theory, right? I challenge you to give me any reputable source, be it from a psychological or pedagogical paper. Just one. To the best of my knowledge, not a single developmental theory backs this up.

I wouldn’t at all advocate for beating your child, but when they are young a little spank sometimes that isn’t that bad seems scary as hell to them.

In other words, you are advocating for beating children. You have no idea how “a little spank” feels for your child. If they are scared about it afterwards it’s a little bit hypocritical to assume that it was not “that bad”.

It’s very effective to get them to learn to listen, to stop running around, that sort of thing. After you get past that point you can talk to them, it’s much easier.

“My child was running around and wouldn’t listen, so i spanked it.” Are you sure there are no other avenues available to get your child to listen?

Also you have to talk to them afterwards so they know you aren’t being mean

You just beat a person that has no way of protectong themselves against somebody much stronger and that they rely on for savty and security. That is mean. Even if you managed to convonce yourself that it’s not. It realy is.

but need them to learn to control themselves and not let their emotions take over all the time.

THEY ARE CHILDREN! Children have to learn to controll emotions. It’s part of growing up. The way to support them is to help them undersuand their emotions and giving them tools to deal with them. Don’t expect it to work imedeatly, it’s a process. Spanking them will teach them to suppress and bottle their emotion, because the single person they rely on for safety is hitting them if they don’t. You are not teaching your children to deal with emotions in a healty manor.

The kind of attitude you are talking about here is btw called adultism, which is a selective bias against children.

I am happy to read at least one sane voice amongst the sea of people who don’t understand that we are doing exactly what they are accusing us of doing by celebrating his death. I honestly am taken aback by the amount of people who think this is good.

I’m not eulogizing Kirk at all. The guy got famous by spreading hate and lies. I’m not denying that he had a negative influence, nor am i saying that we have to tolerate this.

But being a hateful lying asshole doesn’t mean that a person needs to be just that (they can be a loving father at the same time, for example), nor that they don’t have the potential for change.

In addition i am convinced that violence will lead to more violence. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t speak up and fight against fascism. But by escalating the situation through violence we are justifying their view of the left as bad people.

For both of these reasons i am not celebrating this murder, but i condemn it.

There is a difference between not tolerating intolerance and actively calling for the killing of / celebrating the death of an intolerant person.

I’d much prefer that they hated the left for made up shit (like trans or gac people being pedophiles) than for things where i have to reluctantly admit that they have a point (like the left celebrating a fellow humans death).

I can say that hate breeds hate and that his killing was a direct consequence of the environment he helped create. But i don’t support that violence. I don’t support the murder of a human being, even of someone i perceive as a bad person.

Which is wild, because the fact that you are celebrating instead of a normal reaction (like, i don’t know, feel bad for his family or something) will lead to them feeling confirmed in their hate towards the left.

Thank you! I am shocked how few here understand that violence as an answer to hate will only further deepen the spiral of hate and violence. Y’all feel justified because the guy was a transhating fascist, but the right will see you guys celebrate and only take it as confirmation that the left are literal demons that have no empathy for two children robbed of their father.

Same here, we have twins and it has taken every ounce of energy to keep everything going.

A lot of friendships have suffered over the last 2 years. I am slowly trying to get back to people and catch up. It’s fine with most, but i fear some may have just moved on.

This article from Nasas website has some additional details.

I agree to a point. I love the work i do. It makes money and helps keep the family afloat, but since it is a leading role in early education with challenging kids it gives me the opportunity to do something that can help a lot of children that would otherwise be grinded down by the system.

But.

I still miss spending time with my kids. I still hate that i can’t support my wife the same way i could during our stay at home year together.

If i would be financially independent i would for sure do something beneficial to others with my time, but it would’t take up quite as much of my time and energy.

So yes, nobody has to work a white collar job. If you are privileged enough to have a choice, by all means do something that you love. But it still is something most of us have to do.

Yeah, i feel same-ish.

I used a save game modifier to unlock the cool stuff hidden behind the grind. Since then I spent some time building a base in a nice looking planet and flying around looking for a cool world.

Thing is, you are right: it gets old fast. Planets are boring. There are some cool combinations here and there, but 90% of them are just the same old same old. Seen them once, seen them all.

From time to time i still hop in, but it doesn’t grab me more than a couple of hours every six months or so.

Ai, loverslab comes to mind. Used that to kink the hell out of Sims back in the day.

And I’m always picking what he’s least likely to want.

So parents can be assholes too.

It happens to the best oh us

Correct.

In addition, illegal immigrants that spend their dollars on the local economy, pay taxes without taking from the social security pots and do low wage jobs locals don’t want to do also make a country great.

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Best series i have read, ever. Read it.