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Anastasis

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  1. You've seen the record before after we traded the heart and soul of the team right?
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. This series of posts cracked me up. The armybrat positioning in particular.
  5. If there is a criticism to make here, I think that his distinctions based on sex are somewhat superficial. Boys are very vulnerable to social comparison, in different ways of course than girls, but in some ways very similar. He moves past this too quickly.
  6. LOL. I am sorry that foreigner sounding words make you uncomfortable. Have you seen this rabona from driussi to fagundez. Does that make you feel icky to read?
  7. Things you never hear anyone say about dentistry.
  8. 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. Because it sounds unamerican to DDD.
  10. Technically, association footbal. But the abbreviation of soccer is perfectly acceptable.
  11. The particularly sad thing is that I find that unlikely.
  12. Is this how the rules-based international order is suppose to work? Also related.
  13. Those are your two most important take aways from the hour plus long lecture?
  14. Of course you call them kits you uncultured buffoon. Maybe nascar is more your speed.
  15. Multiple briskets is even better, will take up the headspace in the cooler. Fill it with warm water to get some heat in the cooler and then empty right before you put the briskets in there. Towels on bottom, briskets, than towels on top to take up any remaining headspace. 195 does feel a bit early though, but I haven't done many cooler holds. If you have a probe stick it in one of the briskets while it sits overnight. Would be interested to see how much carryover you get with this method. You can also keep an eye to make sure that you don't for some reason drop temp too much during hold. If things got down to like 150 and you were still hours away I'd think about putting in oven at lowest possible temp to avoid hitting any unsafe temps.
  16. Haidt's thesis is much broader than just focussing on one particular type of website. It's the broader impact and balance between multiple factors during childhood psychological development. Social media is just one aspect. Independence, free play, and social interactions in the real world is another. An excerpt: Here is a non-paywalled link to the Atlantic piece: https://archive.is/ZBCJl Baba alluded to Haidt's proposed four point solution: * No smartphones before high school * No social media before 16 * Phone-free schools * More independence, free play, and responsibility in the real world
  17. Oof. I've had an indirect glimpse into those universes. No thank you. Makes the alphabet soup of youth soccer leagues and jockeying club affiliations sound tolerable.
  18. Not unless he was on the sidelines of various central and eastern texas soccer pitches.
  19. Not sure. I think that it was directed towards democrats that break the rules, and in particular progressives. Sorry Dutch, I was just parroting some of the absurd criticisms lobbed toward Porter in another thread. Imagine being pleased with Adam Schiff over Katie Porter as a CA Senate candidate. Real big brained stuff. Like suggesting that Porter is acting to advance Russian interests.
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