That’s great. We weren’t near civilization so on a bike somewhere in the neighborhood or somewhere back in the woods.

My parents put a huge bell on the side of the house and basically said be home for dinner, make sure you hear the bell.

My kids not only had sidewalks but after enough complaints we got the city to clear the snow when needed!

I think it’s all on the parent saying they didn’t know where the kid was, the kid saying his parents didn’t know where he was.

I wonder how my parents would have responded when I was little, “in the woods”? “Up the street at one of the neighbors”? Or “I don’t know”?

I moved to a bluer state and …

ive been waiting 30 years for them to end the ‘war on drugs’. or enact ‘universal health care’.

We’re we’re one of the first to decriminalize pot, and created sort of universal healthcare that served as a model for aca.

college costs an arm and a leg

Free community college, means tested free public universities

This is why we’re supposed to have separation of powers. Any competent senate, even if the same party would insist in this before confirming. A senate full of sycophants on the other hand ….

The entire world of personal electronics and the cloud.

I got in early and my entire life is digital. I used the first mass market personal computers and was on several precursors to the internet before most lemmings were born. I’m a software engineer: I play video games and do home automation for fun. I don’t have much of a lab but only for lack of time. Seriously, my entire life.

When I was 10, I was still a couple years away from joining my first computer club (IBM mainframe), learning my first computer language (APL - I’m a math nerd too). There were no mass market personal computer yet, and even the first kits probably weren’t out yet.

When I was 10, my life was skating through school, playing out in the yard with my brothers, or in the woods. I loved building and fixing, whether with my father’s tools, or model kits, or Lego. i loved camping, sports, visiting my grandparents farm. My interest in technology was mostly reading history. I would not even recognize most of my adult life

And what was the capital gains tax rate at that time? Why do wealthy people get to call their income something else and get taxed less on it?

You have to go even further back, for a time when both sources of income were taxed the same

• https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/whole-ball-of-tax-historical-capital-gains-rates

Right, that’s the real problem. We’re over hear bickering about income tax rates, while the wealthy are sitting there playing a shell game with : income? Find the income. Which cup is it under? If you tax the right one, you win a prize. Just like any shell game, the only way to win is to not play.

Do you know what else eventually happened with cable? People cutting it by the millions when there was finally another choice.

It’s interesting that my family went from wasting time siting in front of a big screen tv paying massively for cable channels we never used, to cutting the cable and only paying for 2-3 streaming services at a time

But it’s even more interesting we continued down this path so our down time is dominated by small screens and somewhat interactive media instead of passively watching. If I stop paying for streaming media, my teens wouldn’t notice. It would just be the people here who would notice, as I complain more about doom scrolling and reaching the end

As a grandmom, my Mom has decided on boxes for really lame gifts that might make you wonder if she has dementia, for gift cards.

If you don’t give her sufficient ideas for her to buy you something you enjoy, you’re a Scrooge and deserve this box of instant jello …… containing a gift card so you can get it yourself

There’s also the very important concept of a capital gains tax. Why does their income from stock sales get to be taxed at a special low rate, as if it weren’t income? That’s ridiculous

We’d go a long way toward evening it out just by deciding

• income is income. No special categories of income for the wealthy
• when your company or trust spends money on your personal life, that’s also income
• tax brackets keep going. They don’t even have to be specially high, but why does it top out so early? Why is my doctor’s income taxed at the same rate as the richest man in the world’s income?

We have global standards defining what is “international waters” vs what a country can claim ownership of.

If this terrorist group is attacking anything in “international waters”, they are in the wrong

Too old to understand why you’re asking about American Sign Language

Adapters have their place, and I do have a few, but they’re no cheaper than cables and a bit annoying.

They seem more common now if anything

I’m not sure what extra cleaning you’re talking about but if you use them once in a while they don’t stink

Convenience appliances? You can do a lot with a microwave oven, air fryer and coffee maker, without any flame, or really any exposed hot surfaces

It’s great to explore if it didn’t cost anything. Since someone needs to spend money, they do need to use some judgement.

Technically there’s no reason this can’t function, but practically this is highly sus. The only benefit would be to save a little land, but it’s hard to see any likelihood if it being worthwhile

At the cost of making any maintenance harder, creating a very long layout so no likelihood of redundant connections, and putting breakable objects in a high impact zone

Doesn’t matter. The teacher had to get the administration to handle it, and continue taking care of the rest of the class.

The administration not only should have read a file about a new special needs student, but had time to review it while talking with him, time to discuss it and figure things out.

Looks like teacher did the right thing by getting someone from the office to handle it. Everyone after that is to blame