Women Talking

Lmao because it’s horse shit that’s why

Source: me, a 37-yo exmormon who was all-in, true believer, until his mid 20s.

Doesn’t directly answer your question but relevant:

https://www.waituntil8th.org/

"The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least the end of 8th grade. Let’s protect the elementary and middle school years from the distractions and the dangers of a smartphone. Banding together helps decrease the pressure to have a phone at an early age. Ten years old is the average age children get their first smartphone. You can change this!

Smartphones are distracting and potentially dangerous for children yet are widespread in elementary and middle school because of unrealistic social pressure and expectations to have one.

These devices are quickly changing childhood for children. Playing outdoors, spending time with friends, reading books and hanging out with family is happening a lot less to make room for hours of snap chatting, instagramming, and catching up on YouTube.

Parents feel powerless in this uphill battle and need community support to help delay the ever-evolving presence of the smartphone in the classroom, social arena and family dinner table. Link arms with other parents to wait until at least the end of eighth grade for a smartphone!"

*Affect

8yo and 5yo, they don’t know he exists

Interesting. Link to video?

Wilderness beacon. Rarely any signal out there. Yes you can an arm and a leg for special service though

Try the podcast It Could Happen Here

Recency bias, but John Grady Cole

Cat Sail

How does it completely fuck up the opening of star wars?

Optimistic of you to assume pricing is cost-plus not willingness-to-pay. US utilities (and their foreign counterparts) will only too gladly keep charging you

Where is all this happening?

Where did your dad’s new fortune come from, specifically? Do you know?

Ex- orthodox brighamite Mormonism

Now atheist. 37yo, ~8years atheist

Teleportation

It was proven on a micro scale by Jeff Kimble’s team at CalTech (?) in the late 90s I think

11.429 bananas

Oh there will be explosions alright

Not so easy for someone who was born and raised in a time and place where key services all rely on smartphones (especially the WhatsApp for family communications)

Not any kind of expert but I imagine his speeches have to be seen in context of the time, by the people hearing them live. What was it like for an average German dealing with high prices, high inflation, on the heels of being fucked for years by WW1 reparations in Versailles? Then along comes a leader who yes is a good speaker charismatic etc but also that leader’s message fits super nicely into the public sentiment of the time.

Reading the text of his speeches almost 100 years later cannot possibly provide the same experience.