I too had red dots when I was young. Acne is a real drag. I feel you, young black holes.

Have a conversation with my now-talking dog.

Don’t have so many kids you barely know their names, let alone needs and interests.

Don’t parentify the girls, making them into mini-mothers that care for the others.

Don’t instruct the boys that keeping a clean home, cooking, and hygiene is women’s work and beneath them.

Don’t use physical negative reinforcement (no hitting, no limiting calories).

Don’t teach that reaching out for help is a moral failing.

Don’t indoctrinate them into a religion.

Don’t instill pride and moral superiority in being “better” and “different” than other families.

Do sit and introspect on how you’re treating your kids. Challenge your preconceptions. My parents could read the above and insist they never did any of them, that they were great parents.

Not tech related.

Catholic school with uniform including khaki pants. I started my period and bled thru. I swapped to sweatpants. Most teachers just figured I must have some reason and didn’t bother me. A couple asked after it, one accepted my reason and offered to to let me out of class to have a little more time to cleanup or call home or whatever I needed to feel comfortable. The last one gave me detention for being out of uniform.

School administration reversed it when they heard why I was being sent to detention. I was advised to just go to the main office if it ever happened again so they could help me instead of having to deal with each teacher myself.

Inflammation is measurable. Where are the studies correlating inflammation measured via whatever medical scans to depression diagnoses?

An incomplete article if the studies exist and weren’t mentioned. A useless hypothesis if the guy is already authoring books but hasn’t done any studies yet.

Waiting to board a plane and then I’m going to nap so hard. I should get some jet engine wash tracks for sleeping normally at home. I am usually asleep before the plane takes off.

My highest rating on Letterboxd for a film from the 50s is The Night of the Hunter. I really haven’t watched much from that decade. It is a pretty good movie, great at building suspense.

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If someone gave me an AI-generated song, I would be baffled at how little they know me. Any friend of family member of any depth would know I would place zero value on an AI-generated song as a gift. Even “it’s the thought that counts” doesn’t work because there’s no thinking, it’s been outsourced to a bot.

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Just watch the movie, there’s only one at the moment. Sequels are planned but not out yet. Or if you really don’t want to invest an hour and a half to watch the movie, there are probably recap videos on YouTube.

MAGA freaks should love me. I didn’t get banned from reddit, I self-deported.

I actually had a Fediverse account several years before the Great Reddit Migration, but it didn’t keep my interest at the time. Tried again and stuck with it after the API change killed third-party reddit apps and they started inserting reddit-approved mods into all major subs.

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Ditto.

It historically the charging port for me that fails first to the point I can’t reasonably return it. So this time I got a phone with wireless charging … which stopped working after a few months and I’m back on USB C charging for years now.

At least C is a little more physically robust than older versions.

I haven’t had a phone reach end of life for security updates yet, but that drive me to get a newer one too.

Yes, please. I was just thinking about looking for a new citizen science thing to do over the winter and this falls in my lap. Please DM the discord link to me as well.

Aye. Bookmarking this thread to remind people when I see complaints Lemmy isn’t taking off enough except for super technical topics.