MasterBlaster

Yeah I don't know who any of these people are but she spoke to my experience as a manchild learning to cook in his twenties. There were lots of recipes where if I didn't have the staple already I'd be scared of it. The longer the list, the less likely I was to try it.

I'm a great cook now but I related to this exchange, and I really don't know who these people are so I can't defend any other of their takes.

I enjoy a bit of anarchist dunking but at the end of the day I see us as allies against a very imposing enemy so, personally, am not very interested in contesting anarchist theory. I will say though that your characterization of a largely ML community as accepting media narratives is probably the least charitable way you could have approached this disagreement. Then again, you were coming into an uncharitable take so I'm not holding it against you.

Ms Rachel is pretty much a gold standard imo. I'm a parent who is very anal about screen time, don't forbid it but it's extremely curated and controlled, and because I enjoy researching I've consumed a lot of toddler content.

She comes to play, dawg. She beats out all the other toddler slop (even sesame street) because the vast majority of her catalogue is shit you should be doing, just recorded on a screen. She's educated and employing methods that, if you pay attention and pick up, will genuinely help your kid along. There's a dozen 'Ms X' channels out there and if they're worth anything at all it's because they're almost a 1:1 copy of Ms Rachel's content. The rest are slop. Cocomelon is slop. Paw Patrol is slop. Seriously, none of them compare to the actual value of an hour of Ms Rachel.

I say all this because my read of her has been that she's an extremely professional and ethical person. I was watching her with my kid before she came out about Gaza and while I was chuffed in a very parasocial way, I wasn't surprised at all. Dedicated children's educators always carry a huge amount of empathy as they must teach it.

She's filling a niche in the new media toddler landscape that almost everyone else has decided to exploit with pure brainrotting slop. Got me typing up paragraphs with no point just because I want to express her sheer basedness. If Ms Rachel has no fans then I'm dead.

Yes this is a strong point I don't disagree with either. I look at it like this: Yes, parents should have an inherent, natural right to access to their children. No, parents should not have medical, total financial, or personal control over their kids until an arbitrary age. The secret sauce imo is properly socialized childcare; parents could be granted the benefit of the doubt that they'll do right because there's so many resources available to them to make it manageable, this also ensures a social standard of education & healthcare applied at the youngest possible age.

At that stage you could severely increase the legal penalties for neglecting your child and introduce more safety nets in way of developmental check-ins and home visits. I would support an outright 'parenting license' in a hypothetical society where childcare was completely socialized.

You can see car door handles in china - but at what cost?

as long as no one is telling them what to do, that is the most morally important aspect i've come to find

Indeed, the angry parades shall not be infringed upon

Just like how social production is distinct to regular production I think the hierarchy between parent and child is also unique and incomparable to more material connections like 'slave/master.' Parents have some inherent justification to the life experience they lord over their literal immobile infant; how this changes over time and between individuals, and with intent, is a conversation to have, but in general a well-intentioned parent deserves to inhabit the position in the hierarchy.

The richest guy around wastes his time by getting into pointless online arguments like the rest of us peasants. Except he also does it the most, his sleep is fucked up because he argues with people online so much. That heatmap of his twitter activity is crazy.

aspects of reality stop us from losing ourselves too deep in the rage algo. you can't really stay up all night rage tweeting if you have to go to work. so the urge gets the better of all of us but most of us are saved from the worst of it.

musk has no such material obligation to maintain his body so he can stay up all night rage tweeting, and there's a delicious, palpable irony that he himself is partially responsible for the incessant urge to engage that he feels

Seeing wider internet groups implode over the revelation the internet has had massive perverse pedophilic influence since the earliest days of their favourite internet forums (basically 4chan.)

Essessentially, mad that the Marxists were right again.

Two moot-relevant links to help the effort:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01992938.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02024168.pdf

It's also worth noting Epstein hotlinked the /gif/ board and shared FNAF SFM pornography.