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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • Any of these solutions are similar to someone coming into my home and telling me how to raise my own kids.

    I’m not aware of any country in the world that doesn’t do that ?

    Australia has cumpolsory education for children, doesn’t allow smoking, doesn’t allow alcohol consumption, doesn’t allow children to drive, doesnt allow them to participate in porn, doesn’t allow them to have sex, enforces vaccination and a litany of other directives that over ride parental choice.

    Many of the above are considerd harmful for children, like a swathe of experts say about chikdrens exposure to social media.

    Some places in the US you are arrested for child endangerment for allowing your child to walk to school and the US continues to condone regularly shooting their children in the 1000s…

    What I, some random on Lemmy thinks should be irrelevant, this should not be a “do your own research and go with your gut” sort of nonsense, thats what gives us RFK Jr.

    What a majority of clinical experts do think is important. I was just pointing out the blantant flaw in your argument.








  • I am 60, i have read alot, I mean a lot, severalbooks a week for decades. I also don’t watch TV and quit work when i was 35, so i am always busy.

    I am starting to think this is juat like social media brain rot, what was the book 10 books ago I read, no fusking idea.

    I am thinking of changing it up and selecting say 20 books and just re reading them a 1/2.dozen times to really know them.

    The probelm with that is what ? Of all the books I’ve read in my life maybe 3 stand out. I tired going highbrow and read stuff like Joseph Conrad but “Heart of Darkness” is dull as batshit :) Watership Down (at least I finsihed it).similarly, Tolkein I gave up on 20 pages into The Hobbit etc