Tbh it’s a bit of a clickbait headline. Vance is saying being a VP is difficult on his family. Separately he addresses the issue of Usha not having a ring on. The Enquirer (lol) is tying those two together calling it “family difficulties” and then mentioning Usha, which gives a very different picture from the article.
Fuck them both ofc, I just don’t like clickbait.
I’ve decided I want to fully get off Reddit be a lemmyverse guy. But to do that I need to create a lemmy.ml account or an account with an instance that’s federated with a lot of other instances?
We live where it’s warm and never snows, but for Thanksgiving break we went back to my midwestern hometown. We got a couple unexpected snowfalls. The joy my kids had in sledding… it was so good to see. My wife and I had to get our kids back inside eventually because they were on such a high they might not have even felt themselves getting frostbitten.
Looking at his Wikipedia… actually no, he is not. A Zionist and into “effective altruism”.
I don’t doubt the difference between the CPC and UK govt responses will be night and day. With Grenfell, IIRC there weren’t any consequences beyond some slaps on the wrist. With the CPC there will be death penalties.
Apologies for the Reddit link but not sure where else to find it… Joseph Gordon-Levitt gave a nice quick summary of why AI toys are a bad idea:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1p7defc/joseph_gordonlevitt_warns_parents_about_buying/
Even M. Night Shyamalan had a few very good movies (The Village and Signs, and at least everyone else loved The Sixth Sense) before turning into dogshit.
Chappie might be the worst movie I’ve ever paid to see.
Underrated comment. I could talk to a boomer from my very provincial hometown and even if they know I’m a communist I could probably get them to like me. People love connecting on those sorts of things.
I think that is overly pessimistic. Trump is not ideological, and that’s an understatement. Mamdani’s policies are objectively good for NYC - even for the rich, if they weren’t such absolute greedy pigs they could see it too. I think Mamdani just went in there and spoke like he did on the campaign and Trump was probably wowwed at what could be done for an incredibly small tax increase.
And Mamdani has off the charts charisma. He knows how to get people to like him, I don’t think it’s that complicated.
I was initially very skeptical of my kindergartner having a school-issued iPad. While I still have my concerns about screen time and all the bright colors and actions burning out her little sensors… now that I’ve done some homework with her on the iPad, I do see the merit in it. The lessons she does do see to fit well with the iPad i.e. showing a word and then sounding it out.
Last year the critters ate like all but one of the fruit. This year my tree finally exploded with fruit, I won’t be able to get it all off the tree. I’m gonna freeze a few pounds of arils and throw them into my smoothies all year.
My kindergartener has been asking really good questions about the world around us in recent weeks. I’ve really enjoyed discussing it with her. However… she has started asking similar questions of her mom / my wife, and she’s getting different answers from us. Since this is c/parenting and not c/relationships, no need to go into all THAT here. But I bring that up because it’s spurred me into creating a big document I’m maintaining. In this document, I first wrote down every possible topic that could come up (what is climate change, why do we need money, why are some people poor and some people rich, etc). Doing this so I’m never caught unprepared for a “big” question.
For example, with climate change I’ve written down how I want to respond to specific questions, but also plan out how I want to explain it as they get older. At this young age, I’m ok talking about simple stuff like how cars with gasoline create smoke that warms the planet but electric cars don’t. Or how trains are better at not making climate change worse than cars (obviously this isn’t the whole story, but my kids are really small). But then as they get older, I’ve sort of mapped out how I want to incorporate how individual action pales to systemic change, how we won’t solve climate change with capitalism, etc.
This has been a great exercise, and I highly recommend it to you all. I really do believe that writing things down and having preloaded answers ready has really prepared me to help my kids understand things better than I would have if I was totally unprepared. Obviously you can’t be prepared for everything but I do think I’ve got all the most important things covered. But on top of that, it’s helped me personally in fleshing out my own thoughts on things.