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they say money can't buy happiness

and then wonder how a rich person can name an album something other than bliss

i don't remember pink floyd claiming to be crazy diamonds or animals or mothers but you didn't complain about their album names now did you

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i mean what's the worst that will happen

Did you guys know that the most recent version of sharks have fins that are kinda leg like and they like to walk up onto land?

#i for one welcome our future smooth overlords

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i'm a wimp so i've only ever picked and eaten chanterelles because they're an easy positive id

i try to id others but leave them alone

have you ever foraged for mushrooms?

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if i heard that a woman aborted a fetus because prenatal screening had revealed a disability that i shared, i would simply not shame her

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I was going to reply to a @unabombastic reply of my comment (in the comments lol) but figured it was too big for that I think that there are some significant advantages to home schooling for the first few years in our current society, and have first-hand anecdotal evidence to back that up (in the teacher role), entirely because of the social aspects. But, this is seriously tempered by the who and how of the teaching and definitely I think that the majority of home schooling is harmful, with first-hand anecdotal evidence to back that up (in the student role)... also because of the social aspects.

I think there's an impression that home-schooled kids are entirely sequestered from society - but it doesn't have to be the case, and you can provide the schooling and also have your kids participate in structured extracurricular activites - art classes, soccer, swim team, etc - where they'll interact with other kids while doing things but generally not in the completely free-form mostly unsupervised way that kids at recess do; and there are often home study charter schools that you can belong to who hold some classes that kids can take to have a decent mixture of "school" and "home school" - these are the best IMO.

There's still opportunity for bullying in the locker room on swim team, and an inattentive art teacher may overlook class misbehavior, but overall these activities have a lot more oversight from coach/chaperones, and parents usually have a lot more control over what their kids participate in this way than when they're just sent to school - and I've found that kids who do both - some good home schooling and some team sports - end up with a really good social grounding and skills.

Home-school can also work really well if your kid is struggling in school at some point, either socially (whether they're being bullied, just very shy and don't like being around others - forcing them is unlikely to help, or if they're having trouble focusing in chaotic school). Home schooling for a year can help perform a reset and re-focus, or

However it's definitely true, not everyone is a good teacher, and home schooling brings forth a lot of challenges. But if you're reasonably well educated, have a good relationship with the kid, and are either a stay-at-home parent with no regular job or if you WFH and have flexible hours, it can work - but you have to have the kid's best interests entirely in mind (... which is also the case just being a parent, so it should go without saying).

#i have to say swim team is really good for kids #it's really an individual sport that you have a lot of contact with other kids #and no accidental injuries from the other kids like in soccer or ultimate #some coaches really suck though so you have to make sure they're not being overworked to injury #i was supposedly home schooled mostly because we were vagabonds and so school just wasn't a thing #my sister and i had pretty minimal education during those years despite mom being graduate educated but there wasn't much effort from her #and as vagabonds we mostly didn't have a lot of contact with other kids so it was a recipe for poor socialization #when we finally did settle there was some major adjustment to make to integrate particularly in a small redneck town #overall i can say it worked out i did well enough in school and am a successful adult #but there are definitely things i would change and did that myself

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my question is how would y'all describe your political beliefs?

- far left

- left leaning/moderately leftist

- centrist

- moderately conservative/right leaning

- very conservative/far right (then how are you a radfem lol)

- don't care about politics

Thanks for the poll anon!

#wannabe far left #unwilling to sacrifice comfort like the rest of my ilk #therefore #left leaning/moderately leftist

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you've got a point there

maybe i'll go with the perfect temperature bed, maybe i can sleep better then

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I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️

#they're such good friends

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seriously how can you choose anything other than a veggie drawer that keeps things from going bad?

i'm going to make that drawer fucking huge i don't need to can or freeze garden stuff any more

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Old Misogyny: “She was asking for it”

New Misogyny: “We need to critically examine the notion that all women are victims under a monolithic patriarchy and stop assuming that women need to be protected from sex and that they can’t make their own choices and be empowered by [prostitution/porn/surrogacy/statutory rape/bdsm], women who consider themselves victims need to take accountability for the choices they had.”

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Crochet Patterns // The Bumbling Busy Bee

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fuck it UP rosie

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©Lillilu68

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Who's ready for spring cleaning?

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Red Winged Black Bird