PebblesRox

Thank you for the reminder! I didn't do the Wordle this morning and would have missed it today if not for your comment :)

Got it, sounds like it's a tattoo in the sense of temporary tattoo/skin decal.

I think it stands for Professional Managerial Class.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%E2%80%93manager...

Yes, in college I carried a cheap pay-per-minute flip-phone plus an iPod touch. Most of the time I had wifi and could text for free from the iPod using Google Voice. In the rare cases when I was not in a place with wifi, I could just use the phone. It was a nice setup :)

When I'm tired, I find myself eating in an attempt to feel better, even though hunger is not the problem. It doesn't work very well and stops helping at all as soon as I stop eating.

Growing up we had cats that loved to chase olives around the kitchen floor. They would also gnaw on decorations made of olive wood, so those had to be put away.

I think OP meant "should" as in "ought to" not "should" as in "probably does."

In our area you basically have to go through the same licensing process as regular foster parents. Glad to hear it's an easier process in other places :)

Another option for families that are not in a position to make a long-term commitment is respite care. Basically being available to take kids for a night, a weekend or a few weeks. It can allow foster parents to have a break (or sometimes an emergency comes up and they need a few weeks to deal with it) and it can also provide kids with a place to stay when they are between foster homes and there's a gap in availability for whatever reason. Or when they have to be removed from their birth family suddenly and there isn't time to find a long-term placement option right away.

It was stories like this that made me realize that I don't have to be a super-parent to be a good foster parent. I can be a regular good parent and still be way better than the alternatives that would otherwise exist for a child that's placed in my care.

Realizing that there are kids out there that need someone to take care of them and that I don't have to be perfect to provide that care is what really got me thinking seriously about foster care, instead of thinking about it as "something other people do."

In our experience meeting other foster parents at trainings and such, around half were fostering with the goal of adoption.

Fostering can definitely lead to adoption (and in particular there is a need for parents willing to adopt teenagers) but it can be a long process with no guarantees. On the other hand, it's much cheaper than other paths to adoption, either domestic or international.

In our case we are open to adopting (and the more kids we foster, the more likely it is that we end up in a situation where adoption is on the table) but we are mainly fostering because we know there are kids out there right now that need parents, even if just for a few weeks, months or years.

We lived right on the border with the neighboring school district, so I was one of the first kids on the bus. The school was only fifteen minutes away but my bus ride was 45-50 minutes one way, and the bus got to the school with 10 minutes to spare before the first period.

So maybe not typical but definitely believable for me. There are probably some kids in almost every district that have to get on the bus an hour before school starts.

Yes, when my oldest was 1 1/2, I took him on a lot of short walks where I had no particular destination in mind. It was great for teaching him sidewalk safety and for giving him freedom to practice whatever gross motor skills he was working on, like climbing up and down steps without holding on to stuff.

Unfortunately I didn't do nearly as much of this kind of walk with his little brother, because it's not safe if your attention is divided between multiple kids.

https://bancosparenting.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/freedom-wit...

I'm curious to hear more about what kinds of intentional action you take to develop your passion. What does that look like practically?

Reminds me of this image of the city center of Florence shown to-scale next to a single highway interchange.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/11/19/visualizing-p...

'If equity is the concern, we should also name the inequitable reality that parents with means will always find a way to ensure their children receive whatever out-of-school enrichment resources their children need. My greatest concern? The admirable but demonstrably false notion that school systems can fully implement an “all kids are gifted” framework that attempts to address the issue of eliminating the need for specialized gifted programming.'

This sums up my concerns with detracking.

From the article, some are subscription, some play ads at the beginning, and the last creator featured has chosen not to include ads even though he knows he's leaving money on the table in doing so.

"Moore and his white noise team... offer a subscription plan. But most people listen to the free, ad-supported version. Because Moore doesn’t want to interrupt the calming aura of his show, he opts to include only pre-roll ads."

"Reed, who is something of a white noise purist, knows he could make good money with advertisements. But he doesn’t include them because he worries the sound of commerce would disturb his audience’s restful slumber.

'It’s embarrassing to say how much money I would be making,' he said."

That's a good general tip but in this case pulse7's profile does not list any contact info.

The discussion here is about the tweet linked to in the top-level comment:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1531867103854317568

Yes, specifically a prompt about Thomas Bayes generated the caption "Bay of Tayees" and the theory was that "Bayes" got corrupted to "Bay of" because of maps.

I agree that this shows a focus on the appearance of the words rather than their meaning.

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-guide-to-asking-robo...

It would be interesting to have a view showing all comments from the above submissions on the same comment page.

I guess the ranking would have to be proportional rather than absolute, since I'm assuming more recent comments would have gotten more votes due to a growing audience.

For a long time I felt like keeping on top of the laundry was a constant struggle because we would generate a new porch-load of wets almost as fast as it took the load on the porch lines to dry. If we had one or two days of rain, or were too busy to swap the loads, we'd get behind and it would take a few days to catch back up.

Finally I bought more clothesline and doubled the amount of hanging space on the porch. Now we have plenty of margin - but why didn't I try this years ago? The extra hooks were out there the whole time.

At least it only took me a few months with our tiny washing machine to realize that I could collect several wet loads in one laundry basket and hang them all up on the porch in one big batch, instead of waiting for the first load to be hung up before starting the next one in the washer.

I recall a comment here recently about someone whose insurance would only pay for the CPAP if the usage statistics showed enough usage. The problem was that the person kept unknowingly taking off the mask while sleeping. Talk about a stressful situation!

> The top-level article is unbelievably crass.

I think it's written as an ad for junk removal services. The goal is for the reader to see the task as an overwhelming burden to be outsourced.

The first time I walked into BJs as an adult, I was hit with a huge wave of dysphoria. The size of the place, the quantity of stuff and just the commercialism was overwhelming in a very visceral way.

I was really surprised to have such strong negative feelings since I have plenty of good memories of shopping there as a kid. It was always a fun place to go since there were usually lots of free food samples.

An acquaintance of mine worked in a casino that banned mask wearing by employees early on during the pandemic out of concern for worrying customers. Unfortunately several of his coworkers died of COVID before the lockdowns shut everything down.

I have never been able to understand how Soylent has taken off given the name. And I haven't even watched the movie!

What are your top recommendations for weight loss resources?

Reminds me of a family story about my aunt recounting a Feynman lecture to her kids. She was drawing some diagrams he'd used and they said, "Wait a minute, how do you know what these looked like? Weren't you just listening to the audio?"

She realized that Feynman's verbal explanations were so clear that she had not had any trouble visualizing the diagrams as he drew and discussed them.