wHoS gOnNa PaY fOr It?!?

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dropped in to find this exact comment, and upvote it

yep. i cried like a baby

The Plague Dogs

nope but now it’s on my list

the 80s had its own flavor of pretty dark ‘kids’ movies-this one, dark crystal, secret of nimh, neverending story, etc. even the transformers movie had millions of kids’ favorite characters get slaughtered in the first few minutes, and then optimus prime too–all so they could sell us a batch of brand new toys of the replacement characters. i loved every minute

yea, there’s dual enrollment where the local high school kids take some classes, but there’s also early college whose campus is on our campus. they are separate; not the same thing.

thanks though

yes, public education should be a thing, is important, etc.

but despite all this public education, if parents are negating it at every turn, then what that means is that dumb kids come from dumb parents. yes, dumb kids come from smart parents too, thanks to society telling them they need to be on instagram 20 hours a day.

you can call me maga if that makes you feel like you’ve hurt my feelings, but i assure you, i don’t care what you think. parents have a bigger role in raising kids than society ever has, and ever will. i’m not claiming whether that’s good or bad either way, just that it’s how it is. we do absolutely need high quality public education rooted in facts and science.

but who is sabotaging this? dumb parents

again, i give up. use facebook, because life can’t be lived without it

yea. “society.” which i guess is distinct from the parents that make up society?

yea, everyone wants to be able to tell everyone else how to raise their kids, but unfortunately that’s not how the world works. if some kid comes home and says the history teacher told them the civil war was about ending slavery, and the parents say that’s all lies, it was about the north victimizing the south, then do you honestly think that kid is going to listen to the teacher (society) over their parents?

good job putting me in my place though

what’s the $150 to get rid of a couch for? just drive it to the landfill

or call salvation army/goodwill/habitat for humanity-- they’ll come get whatever

They can be helped, but what’s more important is making sure all those little kids right now start getting real educations again.

yea, that’s the problem. dumb parents, not only raising their own kids to be dumb, but also voting to raise everyone’s kids to be dumb

i work at a community college which includes the county’s “early college” which is pretty much 9th-12th grade high school age kids who qualified to take AA/AS courses for higher ed credit at the same time as their high school curriculum. what i see is pretty much it’s not the kids that are the problem. for the most part, dumb kids are the result of dumb parents, which there are a lot of in my redneck mountain town. and, surprise, dumb parents have a lot more kids than smart parents.

yea, gen z may be dumb, but it’s not gen z that made them that way

edit: i want to add, there’s nothing inherently wrong with a lack of intelligence. some of the best people i’ve ever known are not intellectuals. it’s character that makes people worthwhile. empathy. how you treat people who can’t do anything for you. if you’re accepting of people regardless of whether they hold the same beliefs, values, religion, have the same skin color, and everything else, then i would choose to be around you instead of the dickhead who’s the smartest person in the room. fuck that guy

it’s telling that these fucking dickheads are trying, desperately, to paint empathy as some kind of flaw or weakness. empathy is how the human species survived past the stone age

It’s the same way everyone talks about how dating apps suck and it’s ruined dating, etc. But what is the real alternative?

dating apps are different in that you’re specifically using it to get a date, instead of trying to make your life look more fun/happy/glamorous than that of your “friends”. once you meet someone and start a relationship, the app served its purpose and (in theory) you stop using it. i’ve never used a dating app, but i can see the value in them for people who are looking for specific less-than-common traits in a partner-- if you’re asexual (for example) and looking for someone who’s the same, then an app might be the only way you can find that someone. the alternative is go out looking on your own every day until you happen across whatever specific thing you’re looking for by chance, which may never happen.

related:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gen-z-is-the-first-generation-dumber-than-their-parents-neuroscientist-claims/

after years of saying this, i gave up. people have integrated facebook into their lives to the degree that saying “delete facebook” is pretty much the same as saying “cut your own balls off.” they won’t do it, no matter if they even acknowledge facebook sucks and is a waste of time. that’s rare, though. usually it’s “i can’t leave facebook, i would lose contact with everyone!” same shit with twitter, instagram, ticktock, snapchat–all that bullshit

loooooove that yucateco black label reserve. it’s so unique, there’s nothing like it, and it’s good on everything. my favorite is el monterey chimichangas w/ added cheese on top and doused in that sauce. yes i’m single lol

finding it satisfactory? that’s the one i was considering

if both people are genuinely trying and it’s still not working, then maybe it’s time to consider the possibility that you aren’t as compatible as you thought

it was so that everyone would be talking about the circus clown show instead of the epstein files