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  1. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Extremely enlightening.

    Yes, like watching Matt Miller at the podium showing us all how the US-led rules-based order works.

  2. 1 hour ago, statsman said:

    I don’t know who that is. 
     
    I was talking about the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese, both believing they had some kind of genetic superiority. 

     

    Fun little game of guess who said it, a Nazi, an Imperial Japanese, or an Israeli.

    "We must create a situation whereby killing a [ethnicity] is like killing a rat, where [ethnicity] are dirt, and thereby showing that we and not they are the power to be reckoned with in [country]"

    "They aren’t human beings and not human animals, they’re subhuman and that’s how they should be treated."

    "Exterminating the roaches... exterminating the rats...Share this beauty."

    "We have no solution, you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads."

    "Erase the memory of them. Erase them, their families, mothers and children. These animals can no longer live"

     

     

  3. On 3/27/2024 at 12:14 PM, statsman said:

    I would argue that whoever a society or people gets it into their heads that they are innately superior to another, really shitty things happen. 

    You mean, kinda like the Children of the Light?

  4. Not a comment on the credibility of the methods or findings, but just traditional disclosures FYI for the readers: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy is an academic think tank that was founded by AIPAC. 

  5. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Are we sure that it’s the breaking bones or getting seriously injured part that’s good for kids and not the playing sports and running around outside part? 

    I don't think that anyone is arguing the former, unless I missed it. But certainly the latter, particularly team sports, can play a strong role is developing social experience, risk feedback, leadership traits and experiential insights into social dynamics. 

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  6. 43 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    That's not (only) my contention, but Haidt's. Which is what we were talking about. And of course people still go outside, but generally speaking and as a vast swath/trend we are talking about.

    I don't think that younger children free range now near as much as they did when I was growing up. I think that some are doing argument to absurdity here when they are discussing his work. Some of Haidt's formulations are certainly to blame for that. He appears to have a habit of glossing over and begging the question. But I do think that there is some merit in what he is saying and the themes. I don't think any reasonable person, and certainly no reasonable parent, denies that we have a critical mental health issue on our hands. It's good to be debating and looking for some answers and potential solutions.

    Anyways, wrt to independent play....from the Atlantic article linked. 

    One crucial aspect of play is physical risk taking. Children and adolescents must take risks and fail—often—in environments in which failure is not very costly. This is how they extend their abilities, overcome their fears, learn to estimate risk, and learn to cooperate in order to take on larger challenges later. The ever-present possibility of getting hurt while running around, exploring, play-fighting, or getting into a real conflict with another group adds an element of thrill, and thrilling play appears to be the most effective kind for overcoming childhood anxieties and building social, emotional, and physical competence. The desire for risk and thrill increases in the teen years, when failure might carry more serious consequences. Children of all ages need to choose the risk they are ready for at a given moment. Young people who are deprived of opportunities for risk taking and independent exploration will, on average, develop into more anxious and risk-averse adults.

    Human childhood and adolescence evolved outdoors, in a physical world full of dangers and opportunities. Its central activities––play, exploration, and intense socializing––were largely unsupervised by adults, allowing children to make their own choices, resolve their own conflicts, and take care of one another. Shared adventures and shared adversity bound young people together into strong friendship clusters within which they mastered the social dynamics of small groups, which prepared them to master bigger challenges and larger groups later on.

    And then we changed childhood.

    The changes started slowly in the late 1970s and ’80s, before the arrival of the internet, as many parents in the U.S. grew fearful that their children would be harmed or abducted if left unsupervised. Such crimes have always been extremely rare, but they loomed larger in parents’ minds thanks in part to rising levels of street crime combined with the arrival of cable TV, which enabled round-the-clock coverage of missing-children cases. A general decline in social capital––the degree to which people knew and trusted their neighbors and institutions––exacerbated parental fears. Meanwhile, rising competition for college admissions encouraged more intensive forms of parenting. In the 1990s, American parents began pulling their children indoors or insisting that afternoons be spent in adult-run enrichment activities. Free play, independent exploration, and teen-hangout time declined.

    In recent decades, seeing unchaperoned children outdoors has become so novel that when one is spotted in the wild, some adults feel it is their duty to call the police. In 2015, the Pew Research Center found that parents, on average, believed that children should be at least 10 years old to play unsupervised in front of their house, and that kids should be 14 before being allowed to go unsupervised to a public park. Most of these same parents had enjoyed joyous and unsupervised outdoor play by the age of 7 or 8.

    But overprotection is only part of the story. The transition away from a more independent childhood was facilitated by steady improvements in digital technology, which made it easier and more inviting for young people to spend a lot more time at home, indoors, and alone in their rooms. Eventually, tech companies got access to children 24/7. They developed exciting virtual activities, engineered for “engagement,” that are nothing like the real-world experiences young brains evolved to expect.

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  7. On 3/23/2024 at 5:07 PM, Underdog said:

    We saw a ham & scalloped potato dish from Ree Drummond last week, decided to give it a shot tonight… I think it’s a keeper. IMG_7646.thumb.jpeg.12d5b5d3098f67c5caf3a9de0b8ebc5d.jpeg

     

     

     

    11 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Grrrrr.

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    10 hours ago, Underdog said:

    Just for you, twat. 
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    7 hours ago, Armybrat said:

    Getting ready for Easter  dinner…. Mrs. Brat baked these delicious little pecan pie tarts this afternoon for Sunday. Into the freezer they’ll go, and will be thawed to room temperature Sunday morning. 
    Of course, two of them passed my taste test while they were still warm….

     

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    4 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

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    1 hour ago, HeHateMe said:

    Dude, just take the L and move on.  No need to go all in on a bad post and make it worse.  This is a good thread, a really good one, please don’t continue to fuck up a good thing.

    This series of posts cracked me up. The armybrat positioning in particular. 

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  8. 1 minute ago, luke duke said:

    serving chopped beef sandwiches and tacos for Easter.

    Tacos surely fit for our lord and saviour Jesus Christ. Just don't cheap on the tortillas and send someone down to San Antonio to bring back supplies. 

    How much carryover would you expect, or is there something different going on by coollering straight off the pit

     

  9. 57 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    It's like he hasn't been paying attention

    The particularly sad thing is that I find that unlikely. 

  10. 1 hour ago, Thetexashammer said:

    Haidt says in this video: the world tells you "you are a balloon full of feelings and the world is full of pins". His ideas overlap 99% with Shrier, however, Shrier is much much hotter. Both are extremely evidence based.

    Haidt also says in the video, about a dangerous playground: "This is good, because kids can get hurt. And that's crucial. Because if you can get hurt, then you learn how not to get hurt."

    Those are your two most important take aways from the hour plus long lecture?

  11. 1 hour ago, DDD Dad said:

    Are we Yanks calling soccer fields pitches now?

    No doubt your kids were wearing nice kits whilst at their football matches.

    Of course you call them kits you uncultured buffoon. Maybe nascar is more your speed. 

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