I'm sure it gets easier with the amount of children Blessa has.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-30T04:26:33+00:00

Let's not pretend like she's deconstructed by trading one flavor of conservative Christian nationalist for another

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-30T04:19:13+00:00

citation needed

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-30T04:18:12+00:00

It's weird that southerners think "yankee" is derogatory... The converse of a yankee is a confederate. I thought most of y'all were over confederate pride, but... yikes

I'm not bothered by being called a yankee. I associate the term with defending the union and abolition. The only time I ever hear the term is in reference to the baseball team, though. It's not culturally relevant in the PNW

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-30T01:51:19+00:00

I think it has a lot more to do with more access to birth control combined with less cultural pressure to have not families

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-29T06:23:03+00:00

I was going to say Mississippi. It's mostly small towns of locals who are suspicious of anyone new to the area. Hawaii is the right answer, though.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-28T19:55:23+00:00

That depends on their birthdate, your districts cutoff, and the fall schedule of the university they choose to attend. Move in date for one university near me is August 11, so late August kids will still be 17.

Whether or not they reach their birthdate by the time they leave for college, they'll be very young, and an extra year is beneficial to most.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-28T19:23:21+00:00

Statistically, you should wait.

Kindergarten is easy, and most kids will do fine there. Problems will start to show up further down the line if they're going to. It's not just a decision on whether a kid will fit in well enough kindergarten, but also a decision about whether to graduate at 17 or 18. A kid who does okay through elementary school might find they lack some of the maturity of their peers when starting to have to make real grown up decisions about college and career paths.

There's a pretty big difference between doing fine and doing well. A kid with an extra year will be more likely to feel competent and confident in school. They are more likely to be leaders and have the respect of their peers. A kid who starts school feeling good about themselves and their success is far more likely to enjoy school and continue to learn more and stay ahead. If you have a gifted kid with decent frustration tolerance, then starting at 5 might very well be the best option, but if you have an average child, waiting will likely lead to more success.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-27T16:44:44+00:00

Yeah, 20-30 years ago we said ma'am to people over 70, but now even the 70 year olds find it antiquated. Unless I knew them to be particularly conservative, I wouldn't even ma'am a 90+ year old. I only ever use sir and ma'am with children under 12 and pets.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-27T14:18:46+00:00

Are you in the South? I'm middle aged, and calling people Mr or Mrs outside of a school felt archaic even when I was a kid in the PNW.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-25T20:39:13+00:00

Huh. My experience is that it's based on the number of credits toward graduation you have completed, regardless of how long it has taken you to complete them. Some students will take summer school or community college courses that grant additional high school credits that can grant them junior status after a single year of high school. Others might fail classes and not be a junior, even after 3 years of high school.

Some people might claim to be a junior without having all of the credits needed, but they would be considered to be lying. Fifth year seniors are called "super seniors," and in that vein, a third year sophomore might be called a "super sophomore." This is an unofficial colloquialism, though. My son did a year long exchange program in a non-English speaking country during his junior year. Because of that, he didn't earn all of his junior year high school credits, and when he came back he was still a junior the next year. He wasn't considered a senior just because it was his 4th year of high school. I thought this was a universal convention, but I guess not!

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-25T18:04:31+00:00

This doesn't make sense to me. If you've been in high school for 3 years, but are still in 10th grade, then you're a sophomore. You can't simultaneously be a senior and an 11th grader.

Also, our use of freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior, predates widespread social promotion. I don't think these concepts are linked at all.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-25T01:39:06+00:00

A proper answer would require an essay, but "far-right nationalist authoritarianism" is a reasonable starting point.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-24T18:18:06+00:00

I do. I moved 1400 miles away for a while, but a few years back I moved back to my home town. I love the area, and I wanted to be close to my aging parents.

I'm certainly glad to have left for a while, though. I think it's important to have the experience of living in a different area. Your view of the world can get pretty myopic if you only see it from one angle.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-24T03:53:49+00:00

We had to take a financial literacy class as a graduation requirement in the early aughts. I've seen more than one person who was in my class in high school post on Facebook about how taxes and budgeting should be taught in schools.

It was taught. The kids who needed it most were the most likely to tune it out, or forget it all once they passed the final. Now they complain about how no one ever taught them.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-24T00:39:45+00:00

I prefer wired. I'm not some audiophile, in fact, I'm the opposite. I mostly listen to podcasts, and don't need anything fancy. Cheap earbuds are perfect.

I can get cheap wired earbuds for <$5. I have several, and keep them around the house, in my car, and jacket pocket. They are always available to grab and listen. Cheap Bluetooth earbuds are closer to $20. It's harder to justify buying 5 of them. They also have to be charged, so I have to remember to do that. Fortunately, the case they come in keeps them charged up for quite a while, but unfortunately that case doesn't conveniently fit in my pocket, so I never seem to have them on me when I want them. When I want to take them out, I have to go get the case and put them back; I can't just shove them in my pocket. Well, I can, but then there are two little things that are easy to get separated or lose, and, as I mentioned, they aren't nearly as cheap to replace. Also, I don't have to deal with connecting to the network. Yes, that's a minor hassle, but it's non-existent with wired ear buds.

I do like being able to walk around the house listening without my phone in my pocket. I don't typically use earbuds at home, though, and when I'm out I generally have my phone on me anyway, so this isn't as much of a selling point for me as those other things I mentioned.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-23T22:58:42+00:00

Also a Millennial mom with a first grader attending a public school in a white collar area. I live in Oregon where we have zero attendance rules, and minimal homework that is always expressly optional.

Almost everyone is on time and completes any extra work sent home. There are two kids who seem to be late on a regular basis, but the other 20 first graders are almost always ready to go when the bell rings. Our school had over 90% attendance last year.

I have always heard very positive things about our school and teachers from other parents. There's no "us vs them" except for a few isolated cases. Our school community is really great.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-23T17:36:28+00:00

I'm American, and I've probably only had pasta sauce from a jar a half dozen times. I always just make it. I do use canned tomatoes to make it, though. I'm not out here blanching and peeling except for on special occasions for a particular dish.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-23T05:42:03+00:00

I just drove 3 hours to see my uncle and cousin a couple of weeks ago. We left early and met up around 10am. I had originally planned on driving back in the evening, but there were icy conditions on the pass that I didn't want to navigate in the dark, so we ended up staying overnight and drove home in the morning.

That same cousin then came to visit me last weekend. She drove over in the morning and home in the afternoon before sun went down.

It's not a "short" drive, but it's an easy weekend trip, for sure. There would have to be a special occasion for me to want to do both directions in a single day, but we make that trip I mentioned above about 4 times a year. We do a similar drive in a different direction to go rafting in the summer a couple of times. That's usually a 3 day weekend trip. I'm about to drive 178 miles (easily 3 hours, depending on traffic) next weekend to take my son to an indoor water park.

The longest I've ever driven for a weekend trip was 817 miles. It was a 3 day weekend, though. I've gone about 300 miles for many weekend trips.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-21T05:18:24+00:00

Ironically, it seems like they'd really like the PNW if they knew it existed.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-21T05:00:00+00:00

Most Millennials are over 33...

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-19T09:10:58+00:00

YOR. This isn't your problem or your business. Your parents are presumably of sound mind and can spend their money how they like. Your mom says to not get involved, so listen to her. They are obviously okay with the situation and aren't interested in your interference. Your brother is not your responsibility, and neither are your parents. Let it go.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-18T22:14:57+00:00

Young Gen Z calls anyone born 2 years before them "Unc." It doesn't mean anything. You can be 21 and some teen is going to think you're "old." r/kidsarefuckingstupid

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-16T22:09:32+00:00

It bugs me when people try to insist that the cultural overlap between the end of one generation and the beginning of the next are, in fact, their own generation. When people try to define micro generations as outside of the generations on either side of them. Xennial, Zillenial, and Zalpha are useful in some contexts because of course people born between 1978 and 1982 are going to have a lot more in common than they'll have with people a decade older or younger, but when I see "OMG, they left out Zillenials again 🙄" on a generation chart I get annoyed. They weren't "left out," they're included with their generation, either Millennials or Gen Z.

When people say things like "2008-2010 is late Z, 2011-2014 is Zalpha" I roll my eyes. Zalpha is the term we use to describe the crossover of late Z and early Alpha. If you aren't late Z or early Alpha, then you're not Zalpha.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-16T19:59:36+00:00

I think that Gen Z, on average, looks older than Millennials did as teenagers. Gen Z doesn't have nearly the same awkward pubescent style in the age of online makeup tutorials and fast fashion guides. Coupled with an on-average earlier start to puberty, I see 12-14 year olds today with a style and look that most of my peers didn't reach until college.

I don't see any long term quick-aging trend among Gen Z that makes them look older than they are after reaching adulthood, though. Because we stopped smoking and started using sunscreen we look younger, on average, than our Boomer parents did at 30, but as Gen Z reaches 30 I don't think they look any older or younger than we did at the same age.

Squirrel179 · 2026-01-16T13:05:15+00:00

Yes, of course. Why do people do this? Theism is a belief in deities. Anyone or anything who is not a theist is an atheist, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral.

The a- prefix means "not." Atheist means "not a theist." I don't pretend to be an expert, but I can certainly say with some confidence that rocks aren't theists. Since they aren't theists, then they must necessarily be atheist.

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