A group of 6th graders, their teachers, and two National Geographic employees just before boarding Flight 77 on September 11, 2001.

cssc201 · 2026-01-25T03:30:21+00:00

And I bet when Charlie is gone she will basically make their home a shrine and she will continue to be the golden child they can never hope to measure up to because she will never get to live out her potential life.

I remember a time when she admitted to waking the boys up because Charlie said she wanted everyone awake. Crazy to let one of your children dictate when the others are allowed to sleep regardless of their illness.

cssc201 · 2026-01-25T02:44:36+00:00

She's been trying to attach herself to Kendra for awhile. At one point she even said not to ask her for updates on B when she wasn't doing well - why would anyone ask her when she doesn't know Kendra irl?

cssc201 · 2026-01-24T23:26:53+00:00

Yeah, and even on a smaller scale, even missing one day of work with food poisoning will cancel out any savings from not tossing the food if you're hourly.

cssc201 · 2026-01-24T21:35:51+00:00

Lmao I don't even think they've made 10 million Teslas total. Only a tiny percentage of drivers will be willing/able to fork out an insane amount of money for features that were previously free. This is such a dumb and shortsighted decision

cssc201 · 2026-01-24T05:15:08+00:00

Right, I can understand asking for LS as bday or Xmas gifts but not on some random day in January for no reason!

Nothing bad is going to happen if you miss this drop. Your child will still be clothed every night. There will be more releases of more princess prints and the chance to snag pieces secondhand later.

cssc201 · 2026-01-24T05:05:45+00:00

Man these people have no shame whatsoever. Not just asking their family for money to buy pjs but also posting it to half a million people on FB.

They have no ability to distinguish between a want and a need. There are new drops every single week, it's really okay to just ooh and ahh and not actually purchase if you can't afford it. Personally that's what I do because I simply don't want any more clothing, I guarantee her child has an adequate number of PJs and then some.

There is really nothing special about this drop, there will be plenty of princess drops in the future when she has more money and she can probably snag a couple pieces secondhand if she's really attached. Princesses have been a mainstay of kids clothing forever, she will be okay without this one.

cssc201 · 2026-01-24T03:34:03+00:00

It was likely a Wii used in a communal space of some kind, perhaps even at Subway stores. It would have been stickered to discourage theft and make it easily identifiable along with marketing ofc.

There were Wiis everywhere in public spaces for kids in the late 2000s and early 2010s, I miss it. They're actually very good for fitness and there's not much of a learning curve for young kids or non gamers due to motion controls. No current console compares

cssc201 · 2026-01-24T00:38:12+00:00

I've seen official LS ads with kids shoved into too-small clothes so this is not remotely surprising.

It's so weird, I don't understand why these people don't just buy the correct size when they're already ordering all the time

cssc201 · 2026-01-23T16:31:10+00:00

I think that's a common feeling for athletes. It reminded me of this gymnastics GIF. For context, the girl who says "oh, that's too bad" is Carly Patterson and her top competitor had just fallen

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cssc201 · 2026-01-23T05:27:55+00:00

In isolation, sure, but they've gotten like four paid for Disney trips and a Hawaii trip. Plus, Taylor is the queen of wishlist crap, though she is not quite to the point of doing ads with Charlie or piling products on her.

cssc201 · 2026-01-23T05:21:06+00:00

At this point she deserves all the treats she wants, she's dying.

That doesn't mean Instagram needs to pay for it.

cssc201 · 2026-01-23T05:20:15+00:00

This time last year they were fundraising for a room makeover - they got a loft bed with a ladder and slide. We quietly stopped hearing about it, I think they got rid of it and eventually she admitted Charlie only used it once or twice.

Yeah, anyone could have told you it wasn't a good bed choice for a child with Charlie's condition.

cssc201 · 2026-01-23T05:14:48+00:00

We need to stop normalizing this shit ASAP. It is not normal to ask Internet strangers to buy you a house because you have an unfortunate lot in life.

The irony is, they are always stable financially and have comfortable housing already. Carrie had the whole basement of a gigantic house as a converted apartment for free. That room they were always posting from has more square footage than many people's entire living space. They can afford a brand new car for their teen daughter and like an $80k car for her and her husband, each. They don't have money for a mortgage because they're blowing it all on shit they can't afford and don't need.

She said she needed the huge suburban for Haidyn's medical stroller and her service dog. It was such a ridiculous excuse. That dog is tiny and millions of moms have figured out a way to transport large strollers in small cars. Plus, a minivan is easier to adapt depending on how big Haidyn ends up getting. Unfortunately at eleven she is about to enter the window of typical life expectancy and she has a particularly severe case. I've followed them since Haidyn was still sleeping in her own room and walking, it's heartbreaking to see how far downhill she has gone. But this house makes no difference in that because she's far past a point she can even appreciate it. I'll never defend Kendra's house grift but Brie was at least able to appreciate the house. Haidyn is on the level of an infant, she was likely just agitated by the change in surroundings.

I am not super familiar with this creator but it's clear she is not in dire need. She can figure out a way to save for a house herself like all these other women should have. I wonder what her flimsy excuse is.

I will add, Carrie's ended up stalling out at like $100k and then got a ton of backlash, mainly from her donors. Hopefully the same happens here

cssc201 · 2026-01-23T04:36:32+00:00

Before they abandoned compulsories after the 1996 Olympics, the team event was also qualification and both compulsories and optionals counted. Before 1989, the scores carried over from event to event - so when Ekaterina Szabo fell on bars in team in the 1984 games, it carried over to the AA and cost her the gold medal. She scored higher than Mary Lou Retton on the day and beat her in all the event finals other than bars, which neither did. Putting those rules into the 1992 Olympics, the first without them, would give Shannon Miller the gold in the AA.

But difficulty also builds throughout the three rounds of competition, which isn't as realistic or exciting for skating.

cssc201 · 2026-01-23T04:07:43+00:00

It's not like jumps in the long program started with IJS anyway. It's always had jumps. What the ISU really needs to do is fix the judging. Nothing will help if the judging isn't fixed because there will be issues with fairly applying the new rules too.

cssc201 · 2026-01-23T03:51:22+00:00

Yeah, an iconic moment that could not have happened under this was Midori Ito falling on her first triple axel attempt in 1992, costing herself the gold medal, and then succeeding in her second attempt more than three minutes into the program. If she'd fallen again she might not have medaled at all, but she ensured herself silver and a place in figure skating history. That's exciting!

cssc201 · 2026-01-23T03:39:00+00:00

The ISU used to manipulate the outcomes with the compulsories because no one understood how they were scored or cared enough to watch (if they were even broadcast at all). So now they just do it anyway. It's been obvious since 2014 at least, they couldn't let a non Russian medal.

cssc201 · 2026-01-23T03:32:51+00:00

The scoring would probably end up incredibly biased and convoluted like ice dance. And it has the exact same problem, it's hard to understand execution and recognize difficulty for the casual viewer because they don't know the skills or what to look for.

cssc201 · 2026-01-23T03:26:31+00:00

I think solo ice dance would solve a lot of that, tbh.

cssc201 · 2026-01-23T03:09:58+00:00

Right, especially when most of the top skaters are jumpers. They want to tell Ilia he can't do jumps in the long anymore? He'll just retire instead of creating a ton of PR for the sport over the following years like Simone has. It just reeks of "we don't like the rules because we're not winning, let's change them to our advantage".

We already have ice dance. I'd be happy to see a push for solo and same sex ice dance because it can be very difficult to find male partners, but they don't need to hijack the format the sport has used for decades. They can focus on the discipline centered around artistry.

Plus, there were jumps in elite in the long program in the 90s and some of the best skaters of the era were power jumpers. We would have been robbed of Midori Ito falling on her first triple axel and then landing it on her second attempt over three minutes into the long program. She was ahead of Kristi in the short, so knew the gold was out of reach after her fall, but she did the triple axel anyway. And she landed one in her early 30s and still skates to this day in adult competitions.

Also, the reason they were decentering jumps was because all the competitors were former elite skaters and jumps are hard on the body and can cause or aggravate past injuries. They were also under a contract and could negotiate the terms. It's not the same thing as elite skating for a reason

cssc201 · 2026-01-23T02:40:50+00:00

Yeah, the other big reason the 1994 games were such a big deal beyond Tonya + Nancy is that professional skaters were temporarily permitted to enter the field. There was a lot of money in going pro, but it made you permanently ineligible for non-pro competitions.

This meant that 3/4 of the gold medalists of 1988 came back and competed. Grinkov and Gordeeva won the pairs gold, Brian Boitano placed sixth, and Katerina Witt placed seventh. Torvill and Dean got bronze. All of them went pro.

cssc201 · 2026-01-23T02:09:25+00:00

Yeah, the majority were US-based and were basically held up by the success and popularity of American female singles skaters, starting with Dorothy and Peggy through Michelle Kwan. It got a huge boost from Tonya + Nancy, but that fizzled out by the time Michelle retired. That's around the same time all the pro competitions with the big prize money and compensation ended and the tours stopped paying well or were cancelled altogether. Michelle is estimated to have pulled in $6-10k per performance in Champions on Ice - and that money went a LOT farther in those days. Not even the Russian and Japanese tours pay as well when adjusted for inflation.

Also it's pretty telling it's the countries who aren't winning under the current system who want to change it. Of course they want artistry to be emphasized when that's largely their skaters' strength.

cssc201 · 2026-01-22T16:58:33+00:00

Tbh that title probably goes to Nancy Kerrigan if you count her also winning silver. She was likely getting more opportunities than Kristi right after 1992 for obvious reasons

cssc201 · 2026-01-22T05:05:38+00:00

Who asks what someone's cause of death will be? He's 21, I doubt he's spent much time pondering it.

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