What people need to understand about screen-free private schools is parents are paying for a shared screen-free culture, not just books instead of iPads during class time. A screen-free childhood doesn’t work when peers are online or when parents don’t enforce this culture at home. Our screen-free friends also don’t own TVs and iPads aren’t a part of daily life. The higher test scores are nice but these families are paying for a completely different orientation towards the world
Everyone 👨🏻👩🏽👨🏼🔧👨🏽⚕️👨🏾🔬🧕🏻 at the grocery store 🛒🥕🍞🧃 this morning 🌞🌅 was yawning 🥱😴 I think 🤔🧠 it was because they 👥 made the clocks ⏰🕰️⏱️⌚️🕓 spring 🌸🌷🌱🐇 forward ⏩💨
We don’t discuss the demise of the farmers market enough.
What was once a place for serious connoisseurs of produce, a place where home cooks could brush shoulders with local chefs and talk to the vendors about new varieties of pluots has become a hollowed out shell of itself.
Today it’s nothing more than a performative ritual; a theme park filled with a sea of strollers being lifelessly piloted by dads wearing performance fleece, clutching on to their iced oat milk lattes.
“Is this organic?”, they ask, before paying $4 for a single bunch of celery — the quality of which is no greater than that sold by your local Smart & Final.
Sad.
I've been talking about this for awhile now but personalized or dynamic pricing needs to be made illegal.
Instacart does this as well to maximize sales. They will charge different customers different prices based on what they can afford and use that to average out what it would have cost at normal price.
adult springtime is so specific. you wake up one random morning with a completely unexplained urge to clean everything, throw out every sad sock you own, and put on the playlist that defined your teenage years. four hours later you are standing in a clean house feeling like a new person and you cannot explain what came over you.