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my 4yo today scrolled past a video saying "not that one, that one is a slop video and we don't watch slop videos"
mainly i'm very proud of her but it is also like "that one is the toxic sludge puddle, we don't play with that one" (extra relevant analogy living in gowanus)
Being a parent of a teenager in the modern digital environment means begging your kid to play Minecraft or do *something* even slightly less brain-rotting than watching short video content from Spotify, which is what they're started doing because you've blocked all YouTube content from the XBox devices at the router level and turned off the WiFi and limited the carrier data throughput after 9PM for their smart phones, which they legitimately need because that is how their coaches communicate with them about cheer routines or band practice
And if you dare to complain about how annoying it is to have this second job as an IT admin just to keep your kids from guzzling down the worlds shittiest content, half the internet calls you a bad parent for not locking them down more and the other half calls you a bad parent for being a content Nazi
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it's already very funny sometimes to see a kid with one of their parents and be able to infer exactly how the other one must look. but with wasians you can do this without seeing either parent at all
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i was quite proud of my ordinarily shy daughter for saying 'trick or treat' and 'happy halloween' to every single person who offered candy. power of incentives i suppose, and maybe the festival environment
ok but can you all teach your kids to say "trick or treat" again before next year because the amount of thousand yard stares we received while handing out candy was kind of freaky
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I'm really fascinated by social fig-leafs or other common falsehoods. I think it's such an interesting dance around how you learn to transmit and receive them.
Here are some of my favorites:
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unfavorable recycling impact nitter.gq/i/status/2027132676658…
Translation: "We kicked the sh*t out of our customers, and they ran out of money to bet."
They call that "unfavorable recycling impact." I gotta remember that one, that's a great term 🙃
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ben hsieh retweeted
I dragged my wife to SF from a post doc at a Nobel laureate's lab at Columbia with the promise of cool Bay Area biotech. Cool Bay Area biotech, this is your chance to snap her up.
my burning man camp was "ultimate celebration" and on our final year when all the leads were retiring or retired to have kids, and the mud and rain was stranding us and destroying our gear and we were running out of food (and heart meds??), there were a lot of jokes in this vein
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i mean. i have a few on hand for guests, ok? maybe i have one or two a night to unwind, i can stop whenever i want. mom they're *craft* sparkli
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ben hsieh retweeted
ppl always talk about people who could, hypothetically, "get you out of a 3rd world prison."
I've never harbored any illusions of being such a person, but im surrounded by ppl i'd consider for the job
and it occurs to me now: WAIT I ACTUALLY HAVE A FRIEND IN A 3RD WORLD PRISON (ICE detention center). yes it's now been over 10 months. yes he is still there. he petitioned for release and was denied. now just waiting?
i don't know what to do, or what can be done; his wife and friends and I have kind of just given up on anything happening, but I thought I'd ask - all y'all dangerously competent people on the TL, do you have ideas?? or, do you know anyone dangerously competent who might have ideas? fun little challenge, tag your friends!
here are updates on his case, if you're interested. I don't think he needs more money though, what he needs is "the type of person who you'd call from a 3rd world prison"
gofundme.com/f/detained-by-i…
my friend @ostaninth has been in an ICE detention center for 3 months
Boris, a legal asylee, was in the middle of @fractaltechnyc bootcamp when he was arrested. now he's struggling to pay his lawyer to fight his case
if you want to donate+help out a community member, link is 👇
thinking back maybe my conservative turn started when i got married and it was just obvious to me that despite spending quite a lot of time thinking about words, i in no way wanted to write my own vows
chatgpt vows are just the natural tho absurd extension of individualized vows
the main FIRE pattern i see working well is the entrepreneur husband retires and manages family admin, oversees childcare for young children, and manages investments while the wife continues to work for fun
weirdly specific but i know 4+ happy examples of this configuration
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i'm kinda a meta hater as a user for privacy reasons, so it's very strange that i'm now strongly considering giving its agent read/write access to my life. but i have no trouble believing that they can nail that experience
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