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[Spartanmack]

Been a while since we've mentioned this. Is it possible it contributes to our extreme partisanship? A lack of self-actualization in our careers fuels a need some satisfy with tribalistic partisanship?


If I argue 'yes' for 10 pages, can I get a peer reviewed publication out of it?

you can probably get it after 5 pages, maybe less...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/36784/shapiro-newsweek-genius-academy-hoax-exposed-ben-shapiro

 

[Spartanmack]

I think these days, kids with bike and parents not knowing where they are 24/7 is probably viewed as bad parenting. Or maybe people are afraid it would be viewed as bad parenting.

parents of a middle school kid in my town got reported for letting their kid walk to school alone. Nothing happened - cooler minds prevailed but the fact that someone called the police because they saw a kid walking to/from school alone a couple times is telling.

 

[tinselwolverine]

It shouldn't be the only option anywhere, but I think it would be a nice option to have available.

Apparently it?s an option that?s available now.

 

[Gulo Blue]

you can probably get it after 5 pages, maybe less...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/36784/shapiro-newsweek-genius-academy-hoax-exposed-ben-shapiro

I saw this story. I understand why so many people are launching low or no-fee journals (because the old guard of the journal world is a racket), but this shows how far out of hand it's getting.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Apparently it?s an option that?s available now.

Nice. Problem solved. I was worried about nothing.

 

[tinselwolverine]

parents of a middle school kid in my town got reported for letting their kid walk to school alone. Nothing happened - cooler minds prevailed but the fact that someone called the police because they saw a kid walking to/from school alone a couple times is telling.

Yeah I heard about it too.

EDIT: Or at least a story like it, on the news.

 

[Gulo Blue]

parents of a middle school kid in my town got reported for letting their kid walk to school alone. Nothing happened - cooler minds prevailed but the fact that someone called the police because they saw a kid walking to/from school alone a couple times is telling.

It's crazy that we have more information about where kids are and more ways to get in touch in an emergency and our response is to get more paranoid about it.

 

[turok]

There was a family funeral home at the end of the city block that I grew up in. The owner had a daughter who was semi-mongoloid and a son who was ~10 years older than me. He eventually inherited the business after his father passed, but not before they had moved to one of the ring burbs in the early 80s, when Detroit had lost most of its middle class and small businesses.


He began offering prepaid arrangements where they would give discounts for when the living payers eventually became deceased, but him as his wife used the funds instead spending them on themselves, taking lavish vacations and on furnishings for their home. They eventually were caught when they weren't getting enough new customers to cover for the money they needed to pay the costs of funerals for those who prepaid. They lost the business and spent time in jail with long probations afterward, which to me was getting off light, considering.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Nice. Problem solved. I was worried about nothing.

Noe assuming the deceased and the family practiced a religion, the family probably would not do a do it yourself funeral arrangements.

The family would probably coordinate it through the house of worship.

 

[tinselwolverine]

There was a family funeral home at the end of the city block that I grew up in. The owner had a daughter who was semi-mongoloid and a son who was ~10 years older than me. He eventually inherited the business after his father passed, but not before they had moved to one of the ring burbs in theearly 80s, when Detroit had lost most of its middle class and small businesses.


He began offering prepaid arrangements where they would give discounts for when the living payers eventually became deceased, but him as his wife used the funds instead spending them on themselves, taking lavish vacations and on furnishings for their home. They eventually were caught when they weren't getting enough new customers to cover for the money they needed to pay the costs of funerals for those who prepaid. They lost the business and spent time in jail with long probations afterward, which to me was getting off light, considering.

That is warped as shit on so many levels.

Good premise for a movie though.

 

[Spartanmack]

There was a family funeral home at the end of the city block that I grew up in. The owner had a daughter who was semi-mongoloid and a son who was ~10 years older than me. He eventually inherited the business after his father passed, but not before they had moved to one of the ring burbs in the early 80s, when Detroit had lost most of its middle class and small businesses.


He began offering prepaid arrangements where they would give discounts for when the living payers eventually became deceased, but him as his wife used the funds instead spending them on themselves, taking lavish vacations and on furnishings for their home. They eventually were caught when they weren't getting enough new customers to cover for the money they needed to pay the costs of funerals for those who prepaid. They lost the business and spent time in jail with long probations afterward, which to me was getting off light, considering.

The Madoffs of the funeral biz...

 

[tinselwolverine]

The Madoffs of the funeral biz...

At least, in this case, by the time the victims learned they?d been conned, they were already dead.