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Content I live, this is my stay--
I seek no more than may suffice--
I press to bear no haughty sway--
Look-- what I lack my mind supplies!

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SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH...

[CREATIONIST_FRONT @CreationistF]

It’s interesting that America doesn’t promote a vision for itself or the world anymore, just 22% interest credit cards

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@miltonappl3 I doubt it

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Deucalion, Son of Prometheus, "sailor of wine"-- his consort, Pyrrha, mother of the Helenes...

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@sisiphussy It’s not. I assure you. That’s residual butter from the carrots

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Carbonara 🤤

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@miltonappl3 Mostly because Carthage lost

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@mahou_mage

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@mahou_mage I just blanche & then have em sit in butter & spices on low for a while

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@MechaOrvo Emos are the most oppressed people

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@blackburn3011 ?

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https://t.co/oZtGjyLjg5

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@Apocryphal_Book No he’s right Don Delillo is mediocre

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@SensitiveStalin Never gonna pass

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“Silence is the only Voice of our God.” -Melville

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@angelhoneycomb I am perpetually surrounded by women,

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My youngest is advancing too fast. She went from barely crawling to pulling herself up into a stand in a span of two weeks. Used to be able to put her down for a bit, now she’s “off to the races!” as the eldest describes it. There she goes OFF TO THE RACES.

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I had it down to the degree that I could hold a space & watch her roll in circles on the rug chewing on stuff. Now she’s chasing the cats around, off to the races, speeding straight toward corners head first kamikaze style. She’s gonna be the tree climber I can tell.

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The second kid advances faster just by observing another kid all day. She saw her one year old cousins & just decided she was gonna do all that at half a year old. Can already tell she’s gonna be a menace compared to her rule-loving sister.

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My daughter thinks sneezes are called “bless yous” & that “bless you” is an onomatopoeia like “acthoo”— I almost don’t have the heart to correct her because it’s so funny. “That baby’s BLESS YOU-in all over the place!”

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.