Possibly interesting. Though the one reason it became easy to cut the cord was because channels I really liked (History, Discovery, Food) all eventually played nothing but reality TV. While it would be nice to see a couple shows again, it kinda looks like most of what’s on it is the same garbage...

We are getting so close to a day when all the channels decide to band together and offer a single package with all the channels. And they’ll hard wire your house with a cable from the street to deliver it to you. The future!

Yeah, the ISPs were quick to jack up internet-only plans to deter this. You’re really better off just switching between companies every year or two to get the new customer deals, if you’re lucky enough to have options.

If you guys haven’t already done it, I’d like to see a round up of the best documentary-infotainment services. I feel lost at sea when I try to find content and don’t know where to turn. Right now I’ve got the PBS paid tier, and it’s good but I wonder if it’s the best. Thanks!

Those six hours wasted could have been a good time spent your kid

Maybe it was, but so what? I don’t see any reason not to take his braggy storytelling at anything other than face value. Cupboards do go bare.  Cereal and bread does run out.  Anyway, he’s the one who directed her to the beans when she said she was hungry, and at one point when she said she no longer wanted the beans,…

I would say that shaming her on the internet for not knowing something that he admittedly failed to teach her might be abuse.

Does it harm you permanently? No. But she was already hungry when she went to them, and being hungry is an uncomfortable experience, probably even more so for a growing child, and he inflicted that on her for six hours. Not everything has to be permanent to be considered “harm.” That seems like a form of harm to me.

I get the sense that the people saying “she wasn’t going hungry” would be immediately heading to HR with a list of state and federal labor requirements if their boss told them not to take a lunch break.

Let’s also note that this started because he was in the middle of a jigsaw puzzle. The subtext of his tweets is pretty goddamn clear that he was fucking with her because she bothered him when he was doing his puzzle.

This is the kind of shit my mom would pull. Luckily my dad was there to put a swift end to situations like this. I can’t believe dude thought this was a heartwarming tale of him and not him teaching his daughter that she can’t count on him to help her. 

He’s literally worse than I thought. What an ass.

Right, the pride he is displaying at his conduct is unreal. Like, what he effectively did was punish his daughter over the course of six hours because she doesn’t know how to use a tool he himself thinks is at least a little counterintuitive, and it is clear from the tone of that thread he was expecting nothing but…

This is gross and reads like he wants people to basically respond with “yea your 9-year-old daughter is such a fucking dumb dumb, you sure showed her!!!”

I hope so.

This was so uncomfortable to read! so smarmy and yet so obviously written for public consumption and approval. it reminded me of tactics my parent would use. gross.

A big factor in this kind of performative parenting is the degree of exposure the kid gets nowadays thanks to internet and social media, even if the parent doesn’t name them or blurs their face etc. The exposure, embarrassment and shaming factor isn’t comparable to even just ten years ago, or what most parents would…

Just FYI, a quote from the thread: “She brought me the can opener and we both stared it.  I realized I’d never taught her how to use it.  Most cans now have pull-tops.”

I ain’t no watcha call pro-fessional parent, but seems ta me....if yer youngin can’t cypher out how ta use a can opener in like...I dunno...five er ten minutes, perhaps a lil bit of instruction might be a more helpful way of teachin’ a skill. But hell....maybe that kinda child-rearin’ would put us on the path ta…

When my 10 year old does not know how to do something he never done before, I teach him. How novel is that? Those six hours wasted could have been a good time spent your kid, not seen them frustrated trying to open a can of beans.