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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • Babies will mimick whatever sounds you say.

    Modern parenting practice is not to teach them gibberish first, when you might as well speak normally to them. They’re small humans and should be treated as humans. Would you say goo goo ga ga to your friends or co-workers?

    Grown ups who speak baby language to children are frowned upon. Why are they doing that boomer shit? They look like idiots and it isn’t helping anyone.

    If you want to change your communication to facilitate a faster learning curve for a child to learn spoken language, you’re better off combining regular speech with sign language. They pick that up faster.

  • Sgt. Peppers.

    I’ve got it on vinyl and this is definitely the way to hear it. Not because of quality but because it has to be heard in one go, not as separate songs.

    I’ve heard it many times throughout the years and I still find new meanings to the songs depending on where I am in my own life.

  • In the 80s when there was a famine in Africa and children were shown with bloated intestines on TV, there were people claiming that they were just fat.

    When I look at obese American children, they’re obviously not starving, but I think the issue is the same: Poverty.

  • Keep in mind that the algorithms will push the most engaging content to you, so you’ll see stuff that pisses people off the most. It’s literally upvoting troll accounts automatically.

    Anyway, whenever you encounter an actual account who is posting stupid false narratives, the best way isn’t to start arguing or throw links to true explanations and such.

    Instead, simply ask them “why do you believe that stupid shit?” and leave them to either investigate the matter themselves, thereby hopefully teaching them something, or let them back out with the typical non-answer like “do your own research” which itself undermines whatever they just said.

  • I cut out a lot of the social stuff, like going to a cafe or watching a movie with friends just for passing time. With a family I don’t have time for that as much.

    However a small group of us still get together when one arranges something more interesting, like hikes etc. to sort of give it a purpose other than just hanging out.

    One of them is really good at it. Every time we show up at his place he always has some project going where he needs an extra hand to build something. More often than not we end up fixing his shit all day long without ever getting to the bowling alley or whatever the plan was. We enjoy doing these things together that actually matter more than just socializing for the fuck of it.

    Try it maybe. You’ll soon learn who you can rely on and work with.

    We stopped inviting one guy. He constantly moaned about being put to work (and wasn’t very good at it either). He was more interested in going out and using the group to cover for his own shenanigans.

    The remaining group knows what’s up. If shit ever hits the fan, these are the guys I’d invite into my doomsday fortress.

  • It’s a picture of the rapper Eminem writing the lyrics for the song “lose yourself”.

    The lyrics has the words “mom’s spaghetti”. His real name is Marshall.