Notices by Jay Stephens (jaystephens@mastodon.social), page 2

"It takes a village to raise a child"
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"screens/devices ruin everything"

The thing I'm struggling hardest with at the moment is kid's peers' parents not putting any guardrails around screen-time, allowing open slather.

It's a wicked problem for #parenting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem

@goatsarah yeah I cut Elon slack for a while because of the Iain Banks awareness... Boy did it become painfully clear he read them at an eighth grade level.

I hate the Putin regime and love pussycats as much as the next sane human, but this anti-Russia propaganda is getting ridiculous. This is the TOP article in the Europe section of the Guardian today.

@evan surprisingly even. I've got a problem...
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@evan Six? You're topping out at 6? What is this, the 00s?

@tokyo_0 what's your secret?
Cold showers? Rigid wooden sleeping cots?

Caffeine status on my bio flipped from recaf to decaf.
Been a while since that happened.
Let's see how long I keep it up for this time.

@tokyo_0 counterpoint: when inflations running hot, anything you don't buy today is more expensive tomorrow

Thesis: one of the mechanisms that tricks smart people into the conspiracy bullshit vortex is the offer of unlimited contrarianism.

Smart geeks were bullied at school, and in most other situations thought and acted differently from those around them. It's bound up in their identity and a source of pride.

Agreement with the consensus can be twisted into feeling like a betrayal of their own essence.

Once again for the last 3 days of the holidays I have come down with a horrible man-cold.
I'm functional, but everything aches and my siuses are blocked and my eyes hurt

@Gargron @victorvicpal @agaguk also extremely common :(
I'm at a place where I can choose my browser for the first time in many years.

@feditips I'm ambivalent about the fact that the emoji set for mastodon.social makes it look like some tiny unmaintained instance where the one admin just dragged and dropped whatever was in their recents
:michaelwazowski: :kerbal: :microblog: :omgdotlol: :roundboi: :sabakan:

@susankayequinn@wandering.sh is it your professional opinion that in almost all circumstances we are likely to be better off avoiding any attempts at geoengineering, including those designed to buy a bit of time to cut emissions and plant more trees etc?

Stop it, #australia

@oliphant 100% this.
There is precious little difference between a block, and the act of walking away because you no longer want to hear what a person is saying. If they follow you and start shouting and ranting, well...

@aral possibly irrelevant but when I was a new immigrant without much credit history I was able to get a mortgage with one of the smaller non-bank lenders paying an extra 2.5% interest, then switch loans 9 months later to a normal bank once I had some payment history. Good luck man.