Nowadays? It's so bad and cringeworthy that my young sons picked up on the STEM girlie nonsense and are actively rebelling against it and running with whatever they have. Leaving the coddled scrubs behind.
You think encouraging more people to become more interested in jobs that are essentially the future of civilization is “nonsense”? Don’t you think that’s odd?
Showing my age a bit here, but when I think of her this film is always what I'm reminded of. That phrase "I am Miss Jean Brodie... and I am in my prime" in her frightfully posh Scottish accent rattles around my head quite a bit for some reason.
I think her character Prof. McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies drew heavily on her much earlier role as that other Scottish school teacher, Jean Brodie.
How we treat family members is the most accurate indication of our decency. We chose our friends, so their company is easy. It's when we're forced to reckon with people we don't choose. That is the actual test of our grace.
The parent wasn't talking about strangers, they were talking about people you have to have a measure of intimacy with. Friends in this comparison are relatively easy because whatever happens later at the start you at least get to pick them.
No one gives you a choice about your parents or siblings. That's the great thing about them in some ways. Except by chance of birth I would never have been friends with my parents and probably not my siblings.
That said these are all people I love who I would never be friends with so they can't be treated like friends. Family has to be treated like family.
You may think that, but I couldn't possibly comment.
I was trying to convey that laws should be carefully written, not to motivate people to do things that keep them inside the law yet are still damaging.
Not just a China problem. Twitter and Facebook seem drastically more polarising nowadays.
We're allowed to talk about things that were taboo until just recently: the 3rd world colonizing Western countries, Jewish and Arab struggles, and child grooming, for example.
However, many people can then can overgeneralize and it becomes another problem.
I love the duck idea conceptually, but worry a bit about them ending up as litter[1]. I recently purchased a couple thousand compressed (just add water) washcloths that are about that price and the size of a large candy. I think I'll start including a couple of those.
Thanks!
[1] Speaking of litter, there are a couple of small streams in my part of town, and when I started giving these out, I also started finding mylar blankets in the streams. Fishing them out is no fun. Mylar blankets are particularly bad for the wildlife.
I mentioned this in my letter in further packages, and that if I keep finding mylar blankets improperly disposed of, I'll have to stop including them. Within a week, I stopped seeing them. I think word spread and the community became self-policing about it. That was pretty wonderful to see.
New school homeless on fentanyl sometimes leave drug paraphernalia. Hence, businesses won't let randos in their toilets. And, therefore, more shitting on the sidewalk.
I used to try and make my team look like a Star Trek crew. Not anymore. Competence over anything.
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