The brain’s single most important goal is efficiency. It accomplishes this by hardwiring a lot of things into rote routines in our heads, and we are pretty oblivious to it. Have you ever gotten to work and not remember the drive? It’s because our brains can essentially build an autopilot routine that complex. Most of…
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Zero tolerance: “Thinking is hard, and sometimes it gives us headaches, so we’ve decided to eliminate the need for it."
Zero Tolerance policies are never a good thing because there is something called context that requires critical thinking...which is a thing many people lack.
Even something as clear cut as murder has grey areas. Like in cases of self defense.
Yeah, nobody is running into a store for an 8-hour errand. They’re different circumstances, but people are dumb and don’t get that. But then, people also want to arrest parents who let their 9-year-old kids walk to the neighborhood park.
I very nearly did once. It was in the early days of being a parent, and I would drop the kid off at daycare on the way to work. One day, he wasn’t making any noise — probably asleep — and I went to my office on autopilot. Luckily I noticed as I was turning into the parking garage. Scared the shit out of me, but now I…
If you get into a routine, it’s really easy to forget things that don’t fall into that routine; or when the routine is disrupted, it’s easy to assume parts of the routine happened when they didn’t actually happen.
I sometimes run in to the daycare center to pick up one kid while leaving my 6 year old happily in the car. Once I came out and another parent scolded me and gave me a despising glare. Whatever. When I was the same age I used to walk home from school and cross a huge boulevard to get home. Kids these days are going to…
I’ve got zero tolerance for zero tolerance laws. I hope common sense reemerges one of these days in our society.
Yep, the kid probably want’s to be in the store just as much as the parent wants them to be - that is, not at all. I would beg my parents to leave me in the damn car.
I stayed in the car many times as a kid, and let me tell you it was far preferable sitting in the car playing with legos, drawing or reading a book than being drug into and out of every stupid store with mom. Of course there are limits, the child’s age and length of the stop should play some part.
Your dog could help protect your child.
When growing up I LOVED staying in the car while mom went shopping (there’s nothing for a kid to do in a needlecraft shop. But I knew how to use the key to turn on the A/C and crack the windows when it got hot. I knew to keep the doors locked until she came back, etc. These days I would probably be in CPS custody.
Great topic. I think it’s ridiculous that I can’t so much as run into a post-office for stamps without shlepping two children along with me, but I have this perception that there are so many busy-bodies out there that would call 911 as soon as I locked the door that I feel like it’s better to just err on the side of…
I regularly will run into 7/11 to grab something and leave the kids in the car as unbuckling all 3 and then getting them back in would take much longer than sprinting in, grabbing what I need and come back to the car, while they are safely parked right infront of the store, which I can see the entire time. I still…
Got left in the car for plenty of these little errands when I was a kid. I don’t see why its a huge issue.
Loki is dating Scarlet Witch?
I liked the simplified tree, as all the old trees did was seperate those who looked at Elitist Jerks vs those who didn’t. There was a tiny fraction of players who actually enjoyed playing around with skills that added 1% to this talent or increased healing by 1% on another talent.
It’s simply to be expected at this point and is less a marker of WoW’s quality (or lack thereof, whichever you want to argue) and simply its age and legacy. Big developments see a bump, then people tend to roll out.
Meanwhile, Calvin Harris is trying to win over Taylor Swift with vegan barbecue