Aaron

'One cannot think well, sleep well, live well if one has not dined well.' - V Woolf

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@ChemTeachCGO @Chem2006 @adamboxer1 @MrARobbins I’d third this. Never made any distinction myself.

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@GeneralJeevicus @UnofficialOA You’ve tried teaching have you?

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@NattySo2 @UnofficialOA There are, however, many many jobs (in fact I’d suggest most) where it really is quite inconvenient to go « whenever you like » and so you will need to have bladder control. Any kind of driving. Plenty of customer service roles. Basically anyone who works outside.

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@megha_lilly Nurses in the U.K. probably used to recommend holding your baby too, at some point. But also, more babies used to die. If you’d rather prioritise « feeling comfortable » over « more likely to stay alive » that’s ok. But don’t try to paint medical process as silly.

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@flabbytofit99 Teaching your kids to be bored is vastly underrated. And their teachers will thank you for it. As will they, eventually.

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@robprogressive Or, more likely, if she gets cash in hand, she can avoid tax. So all the rest of us have to pay more. Very patriotic. I doubt card fees are 5%. And besides, it also costs money to process cash, which many of these « cash is king » businesses forget to point out.

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@ZoeParamour Yes I’m not sure how they imagine the AI is going to get the kids to sit down and focus on what they’re supposed to be learning. Or how the AI is going to manage lunchtime queues or monitor the safety in a classroom full of kids with Bunsen burners. One day, maybe.

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@KeruboSk First of all, this is talking about boys, not men. Sure, boys may be reluctant to speak up because they’re immature and afraid of the social consequences. That doesn’t mean they believe that treating women like that is acceptable. Or that they would do so themselves.

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@yinzer_g Why do you think that all heterosexual men should be like you and your friends? SOME men find crude funny. Others don’t. Also it isn’t always harmless. If you work with teenage boys, you realise that this type of culture can often lead to plenty of actual real harm and misogyny.

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@RusGarbageHuman Gosh, God forbid that schools teach little girls that they can be strong and resilient or little boys that they can have empathy and be caring. It isn’t a zero-sum game. Showing empathy doesn’t preclude a boy from being resilient when he needs to be.

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@UltPatriot @RusGarbageHuman I guess because his parents aren’t as insecure about their gender identity as people like you seem to be. 😂 Do you not realise that every time you say stuff to « prove » how masculine you are it really just makes you seem narrow-minded and insecure about your own gender?

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@eleanorzjames @RusGarbageHuman On the contrary, I think children are more resilient than you seem to think, if you give them the chance to be. (I would do the same, by the way, if it was a girl or boy.) I don’t think it’s disturbing to want your children to learn how to pick themselves up after a fall at all.

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@nicksortor You’re telling me. If I got invited to dinner at a presidents house and it turned out to be some McDonald’s, I’d be monumentally disappointed.

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@SarahisCensored I’m not impressed when journalists ask silly questions “gotcha” questions to politicians that they know are impossible to answer without upsetting someone. I’m less impressed when a president’s speech writers do it. That applause was just awkward and painful to watch.

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@englisacher @luxarbo The « z » spellings are (or at least were) recommended by the OED, so I don’t think you’ve been « correcting » anybody. 😂

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@adamboxer1 👊 Oh and your OneNote stuff has made me think a lot about how I use (the dreaded!) PowerPoint too. I haven’t quite managed to free myself from the shackles yet, but I’m braver about stripping them right back to just an almost-blank prompt for me building an explanation.

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@CaptainNotSacks @Nithya_Shrii Yes that’s an important point here. No one is going to want to work, much less enjoy a job where they feel constantly monitored in that way. Also, I’m not sure society can actually function if trust is so low. Like at some point we have to trust one another.

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@Richmuskheart1 Hope

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@Mrcryptoxwhale Me.