I mostly use an Alexa in the kitchen; to listen to/handlessly control music or audiobooks while I cook or wash dishes, to add things to the grocery list, set reminders etc. I also will occasionally ask questions that pop into my head, which I could easily google later but usually forget by the time I'm done in the kitchen. It has greatly decreased my forgetting of things, and made my time in the kitchen more enjoyable (I *hate* cooking and cleaning). It's helpful for converting measurements (vs previously where I would have had to stop cooking, washed my hands, dried my hands, and googled a conversion). I have it connected to my coffee pot so I can tell it to turn that on without getting out of bed, while my hands are busy with other things or while I'm taking my morning whiz. I can ask what the weather is if I'm about to go out the door and forgot to look it up. I can get entertainment if I forget to take my phone to the bathroom while I take a dump. It's not so much "lazy" as it is getting things done faster/not having to stop doing one thing to do another
Obviously I don't *need* any of this but as an entertainment and convenience device it is definitely worth it.
The problem is that they hate baby killers so much that if you imply that a person might be a baby killer, they hate that person. You can't clearly look at evidence if you hate the defendant.
The only thing that makes me angry about that, is that there's no way to just play the game unless you buy your own machine.
I would gladly pay $12 and take only 1 prize (if I won any) if it meant I got to do $12 worth of tries that were unrigged.
I don't know where you live, but in the USA, sodas are mostly High Fructose Corn Syrup. They do contain citric acid, but the citric acid used is made from aspergillus niger. Even the lemon and lime flavored sodas rarely contain lemon or lime.
Personally, I draw the line at when the thing would feel pain from the "killing."
If there were hospitals/doctors where people could take unwanted infants and have them painlessly euthanized, I'd be fine with that. Maybe there could be a waiting period where the infant has the potential to be adopted into a good home, like we do with animal shelters.
3 month old fetuses don't feel pain, so I'm fine with aborting them.
So that they can learn something which is actually relevant to today's job market (computer usage)? Because 1 ipad per student is much cheaper than 5 textbooks per student?
Maybe someday we'll have an UNDERpopulation problem, and all the (then) modern-day people have issues with reproducing; so they bring back people from the past, to mix genes or study why they could reproduce while modern people can't...
I have 2 kids and I have some sympathy for the family and I can say that before having had my kids I wouldn't have.
4 kids here and I have to agree with that... it's kind of appalling that so many people believe a 2 year old is not really a person and has no memories that hold any value, but I suppose I can understand how someone that has had only brief interactions with 2 year olds can think that. A 2 year old is definitely a person with thoughts, feelings, memories, and a personality, and if I lost one of mine at 2 and thought there was even a slim chance at preserving them, I'd do it. I still think it's rather silly to get all attached to fetuses and embryos though.
How much do you remember from before the age of 3 or 4?
Not very much NOW ~26 years later, but ask a 3 or 4 year old how much they remember about their life and they can tell you quite a bit.
I'm guessing the parents' hope is that advancements would happen within their lifetime so that they get to continue raising their daughter from where they left off; not so much that their 2 year old has some kind of knowledge or memories that will make her important to the future.
Miscarriages CAN be caused by controllable circumstances. Are we going to investigate every single one to figure out if it was neglect or uncontrollable?
I use to have a friend who's brain (and skull) was half gone. His mother had smashed it when he was a toddler. But he was a fully functioning adult. I had another friend who's toddler nephew got shot in the head, damaging a good portion of his brain. I didn't know him past his childhood, but last I saw him he needed glasses but was otherwise fine. A toddler's brain is quite resilient...
Yes, how appalling that a child is happy and doing what he wants to do with his life.
Forcing a child that doesn't like sports and art into a "balanced" amount of sports and art does nothing positive for anyone. It just wastes years of the child's life.
The same goes for forcing a child that doesn't like STEM into STEM.
Honestly, I would say yes; let the child choose what school to attend and then use your knowledge, wisdom and maturity to see if the school is a good fit for that particular child. Or figure out what it is the child likes about this particular school and help them find some options that have the same positives, but less negatives. Forcing a child into a school they hate is only going to make them hate learning... and it's kindergarten, not college, so there's little issue with switching to a different school the following year if the chosen school doesn't work out.
I'm a real girl with real experiences.
I was made fun of for being a nerd as a kid, and therefore "discouraged" from it... but the male nerds were made fun of just the same.
As a child, I got special treatment and encouragement from teachers for being a female that was into STEM type stuff. I remember getting into all sorts of special events and programs for girls while the males that were just the same were excluded. I remember getting all sorts of support because my mom resented my "ungirlyness" - but there was no support for the male nerds with fathers bullying them for not being "manly" enough and into sports and such.
As a teenager, I also got encouragement in the form of male attention (from the males into the same things) for being into it. I did not get attention from the males not into the same things... but the males did not get attention from females not into the same things.
As an adult, my gender is irrelevant until/unless I make it an issue. I know a lot of smart women that are not attractive... but it has nothing to do with them being smart; it has everything to do with them prioritizing intelligence based interests over keeping themselves looking attractive. People find them unattractive BEFORE realizing they are smart. (But would you really want to be with those people? Looks will fade for everyone eventually, so keep holding out for that rare person who's going to love you for your mind.)
EVERYONE is made fun of, EVERYONE is found attractive by certain people but not by others (especially if they don't try at the most common ideals of attractiveness)... male or female, it doesn't matter. To suggest that females deserve a "get out of everything free" card just for being female is sexist.
Well, I did put "developed" in quotation marks. Personally, I prefer a society where negotiation is possible. I make my own toothpaste, and buy as much as I can from locally owned businesses, indie companies, and individuals.
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I mostly use an Alexa in the kitchen; to listen to/handlessly control music or audiobooks while I cook or wash dishes, to add things to the grocery list, set reminders etc. I also will occasionally ask questions that pop into my head, which I could easily google later but usually forget by the time I'm done in the kitchen. It has greatly decreased my forgetting of things, and made my time in the kitchen more enjoyable (I *hate* cooking and cleaning). It's helpful for converting measurements (vs previously where I would have had to stop cooking, washed my hands, dried my hands, and googled a conversion). I have it connected to my coffee pot so I can tell it to turn that on without getting out of bed, while my hands are busy with other things or while I'm taking my morning whiz. I can ask what the weather is if I'm about to go out the door and forgot to look it up. I can get entertainment if I forget to take my phone to the bathroom while I take a dump. It's not so much "lazy" as it is getting things done faster/not having to stop doing one thing to do another Obviously I don't *need* any of this but as an entertainment and convenience device it is definitely worth it.
The problem is that they hate baby killers so much that if you imply that a person might be a baby killer, they hate that person. You can't clearly look at evidence if you hate the defendant.
I always thought the frantic tapping was an attempt to re-connect the call. I never understood how talking to the operator worked in that situation.
The only thing that makes me angry about that, is that there's no way to just play the game unless you buy your own machine.
I would gladly pay $12 and take only 1 prize (if I won any) if it meant I got to do $12 worth of tries that were unrigged.
All I want is Kaboom! and a USB paddle controller :(
I don't know where you live, but in the USA, sodas are mostly High Fructose Corn Syrup. They do contain citric acid, but the citric acid used is made from aspergillus niger. Even the lemon and lime flavored sodas rarely contain lemon or lime.
I have 4 kids and they did not change my opinion on this.
I had pet rats, and though, and after that I'd much rather testing be done on unconscious, created brains than on rats.
Personally, I draw the line at when the thing would feel pain from the "killing."
If there were hospitals/doctors where people could take unwanted infants and have them painlessly euthanized, I'd be fine with that. Maybe there could be a waiting period where the infant has the potential to be adopted into a good home, like we do with animal shelters.
3 month old fetuses don't feel pain, so I'm fine with aborting them.
There are many legal drugs that harm fetuses.
Many miscarriages can be said to have been preventable with conscious decision.
So that they can learn something which is actually relevant to today's job market (computer usage)? Because 1 ipad per student is much cheaper than 5 textbooks per student?
Maybe someday we'll have an UNDERpopulation problem, and all the (then) modern-day people have issues with reproducing; so they bring back people from the past, to mix genes or study why they could reproduce while modern people can't...
I have 2 kids and I have some sympathy for the family and I can say that before having had my kids I wouldn't have.
4 kids here and I have to agree with that... it's kind of appalling that so many people believe a 2 year old is not really a person and has no memories that hold any value, but I suppose I can understand how someone that has had only brief interactions with 2 year olds can think that. A 2 year old is definitely a person with thoughts, feelings, memories, and a personality, and if I lost one of mine at 2 and thought there was even a slim chance at preserving them, I'd do it. I still think it's rather silly to get all attached to fetuses and embryos though.
How much do you remember from before the age of 3 or 4?
Not very much NOW ~26 years later, but ask a 3 or 4 year old how much they remember about their life and they can tell you quite a bit.
I'm guessing the parents' hope is that advancements would happen within their lifetime so that they get to continue raising their daughter from where they left off; not so much that their 2 year old has some kind of knowledge or memories that will make her important to the future.
Most people don't remember events from when they were 2 years old.
When they are still 2 years old, they do.
Miscarriages CAN be caused by controllable circumstances. Are we going to investigate every single one to figure out if it was neglect or uncontrollable?
I suppose it depends on if his memories were damaged.
I use to have a friend who's brain (and skull) was half gone. His mother had smashed it when he was a toddler. But he was a fully functioning adult.
I had another friend who's toddler nephew got shot in the head, damaging a good portion of his brain. I didn't know him past his childhood, but last I saw him he needed glasses but was otherwise fine.
A toddler's brain is quite resilient...
Like the Robocop remake but with a robo skull too.
That doesn't mean you should accept money from desperate people when you know they will never be brought back to life.
Why not? If it makes the desperate people fell better to give away their money, why should it not be accepted?
Yes, how appalling that a child is happy and doing what he wants to do with his life.
Forcing a child that doesn't like sports and art into a "balanced" amount of sports and art does nothing positive for anyone. It just wastes years of the child's life.
The same goes for forcing a child that doesn't like STEM into STEM.
Honestly, I would say yes; let the child choose what school to attend and then use your knowledge, wisdom and maturity to see if the school is a good fit for that particular child. Or figure out what it is the child likes about this particular school and help them find some options that have the same positives, but less negatives. Forcing a child into a school they hate is only going to make them hate learning... and it's kindergarten, not college, so there's little issue with switching to a different school the following year if the chosen school doesn't work out.
I'm a real girl with real experiences.
I was made fun of for being a nerd as a kid, and therefore "discouraged" from it... but the male nerds were made fun of just the same.
As a child, I got special treatment and encouragement from teachers for being a female that was into STEM type stuff. I remember getting into all sorts of special events and programs for girls while the males that were just the same were excluded. I remember getting all sorts of support because my mom resented my "ungirlyness" - but there was no support for the male nerds with fathers bullying them for not being "manly" enough and into sports and such.
As a teenager, I also got encouragement in the form of male attention (from the males into the same things) for being into it. I did not get attention from the males not into the same things... but the males did not get attention from females not into the same things.
As an adult, my gender is irrelevant until/unless I make it an issue. I know a lot of smart women that are not attractive... but it has nothing to do with them being smart; it has everything to do with them prioritizing intelligence based interests over keeping themselves looking attractive. People find them unattractive BEFORE realizing they are smart. (But would you really want to be with those people? Looks will fade for everyone eventually, so keep holding out for that rare person who's going to love you for your mind.)
EVERYONE is made fun of, EVERYONE is found attractive by certain people but not by others (especially if they don't try at the most common ideals of attractiveness)... male or female, it doesn't matter. To suggest that females deserve a "get out of everything free" card just for being female is sexist.
The people doing the hiring and promoting aren't the ones sitting around calling coworkers bitches.
Except it was "to their minor annoyance" rather than "peril".
Well, I did put "developed" in quotation marks. Personally, I prefer a society where negotiation is possible. I make my own toothpaste, and buy as much as I can from locally owned businesses, indie companies, and individuals.