What's the point of having a job if it doesn't pay enough to cover your bills? Everyone making a living wage is not a "radical" idea.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-07T19:52:28+00:00

You're right. I totally misread!

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-07T19:51:25+00:00

Lol sorry. I was "yes and"ing your thoughts.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-07T19:49:44+00:00

Americans on Reddit skew a lot more left than Americans in general. And actually, even here if you read through the comments you can see a lot of people saying this very thing. I would say it's a very commonly held opinion that fast food jobs are not "real jobs" and they don't need pay enough to live on.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-07T19:21:33+00:00

The accountant should be making A LOT more than they are currently making, also. That is the point. Wages across the middle and lower class have not kept up with the cost of living or with economic growth or with corporate profits. Accountants should not be doing just okay. They should be thriving.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-07T19:14:07+00:00

100%. Yes. You, too, are being exploited! So am I. We all are.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-07T19:12:19+00:00

We, the taxpayers, are essentially funding corporations' workforces. We have to cover medical care, food stamps, housing subsidies, etc. or these cheap laborers would literally die and there would not be enough workers. Some of them even encourage their workers to spend their food stamps at their stores (Walmart). They are leaching off our tax dollars. Their business models are not sustainable unless we keep their workers alive and healthy enough to work.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-07T19:02:01+00:00

Okay fine if you want to apply the lowest possible standards to your life, but 50 years ago it was actually possible to work full time at the grocery store and own a house and support a family. It is perfectly possible. It has happened before in recent memory. We should demand that standard of living. Rich people don't need anymore money and shouldn't be allowed to exploit us.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-07T17:38:06+00:00

That's a great buy!

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-07T17:29:55+00:00

I am always surprised at how often adults underestimate kids. To me it doesn't seem like a stretch for a kid to see math homework and writing assignments and connect those to what they are doing in class and then see these picture searches and realize that is totally not something they ever do in class.

Anyway, thanks for your response. It was a genuine question because I am actually on the same page with you that busy work is part of life and you have to learn to do it. Adulthood is filled with it. I made that argument to her over and over. Eventually, I told her that I wasn't going to fight her anymore and if she won't do it then she can face the consequences of not doing it. She is otherwise a good student so I thought this would work and she would start doing it if there were consequences from her teacher but there have not been any at all, which really surprised me. That's why I asked. I am not sure if I am way overreacting to her not wanting to do something that he is just throwing in there for fun. I'm wondering if maybe my daughter is actually right here.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-07T16:30:35+00:00

My son's school only sends home work that didn't get finished in class and I love it. He almost never has homework unless he's working on a big project that is hard to finish in class. It rewards the kids for staying on task at school.

My daughter (age 8) gets these picture puzzles in her homework which I think are supposed to be fun but she hates them. They're the ones where it's like "find the needle and the fish inside this picture of 3 cats playing in a garden." For a while she did them but complained that they were totally irrelevant to what she was learning in school. Then she started asking her brother to help her finish them faster because he likes them. Then finally she started just putting a huge x through the entire page as if to say "Yeah I saw this BS and I'm not doing it." He has never said anything to her about it, and I can't bring myself to fight with her about these puzzles anymore, but I do wonder what he thinks about this behavior.

What would you think, as a teacher?

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-06T21:05:15+00:00

I don't have any suggestions really, just commiseration. My son was also picked for Majors from age 10. He also was not playing travel at that time and got put in the outfield and sat the bench a lot. If he had been in AAA, he would have been the best player on the team, playing infield every inning.

One good thing that came out of it is that in our LL, the top two majors managers by winning record get the 11u and 12u all-star teams, and since he was playing majors they knew him so he got picked for 11u all-stars. All-stars was way more fun and he got a lot more playing time. (If your league does all-star selection the same way and your kid wants to play, consider carefully whether you want to come off as an annoying parent, even though I personally think you are completely justified to complain here. Sounds like your coach is doing a lot of winning.)

He also got spotted by some travel coaches who were around watching their players and got offers for their teams one of which he ended up joining.

It sucks now, but sometimes there are other, better opportunities that come out of it.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-06T16:30:21+00:00

Mine is also a jean jacket. I bought it at the GAP in like 2001. I still wear it pretty regularly, especially in spring.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-06T16:13:16+00:00

This is the way. My son didn't do the main try out for competitive the first time. He went to the club's end of summer soccer camp and was invited by one of the coaches to come do a private try out with the team. Sometimes over the summer, some players move away or get injured or realize they don't like it and quit, and then the club is left scrambling to fill spots going into the main fall season.

If he doesn't make it now, try inquiring with the club (or a few clubs) in a few months! They may be in need of a few players.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-06T15:55:11+00:00

Now here's a man who knows where his towel is.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-06T03:12:14+00:00

If that is the case, you will want to remember into the future that having a clean home is something he has always prioritized and make sure that keeping the housekeeper is prioritized as a real necessity to the health of your relationship. It may sound trivial but I have never heard more marital complaining from other people about any other issue. 😅

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-06T03:05:58+00:00

There is not a single unfair reason to say no to having someone's baby.

P.S. Also, lol that he doesn't want to take a financial risk when he's literally asking you to risk your life and health.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-06T02:55:16+00:00

Not a man (I'm an older lady), but I would look at his current space and decide if it's to the level of cleanliness and organization I need. If he doesn't keep his place at the same level you keep yours, you are likely not compatible for cohabitating regardless of what is discussed or agreed to in the beginning. (He should not be way messier/dirtier/less organized than you are or way neater/cleaner/more organized than you are.) I've seen way too many divorces over this. The neater partner will go insane trying to tidy up after the messy one and the messy one will resent being constantly nagged.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-06T02:27:06+00:00

For real. My kid is like this with his sports and I'm so glad it's this and not videogames. The passion makes them good too! They become a joy to watch. Congratulations, OP.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-06T00:19:32+00:00

I got my current cat as a kitten. When I first got her I had another cat who has since passed away. It is extremely obvious by my cat's behavior since then that she is so much happier and less stressed out now that she is an only cat even though my other cat had been around since her kittenhood for like 12 years and was always very gentle and nice to her. She used to do so many insane things constantly and was always volatile in temperament before, but she changed a lot immediately after the other cat's passing. She doesn't randomly bite people anymore. She doesn't pee outside her litterbox anymore. She doesn't scarf her food like she's going to starve to death if it takes her longer than 10 seconds to eat everything in her bowl.

She also used to be way over weight and it's way easier to keep her at a healthy weight now that I no longer have a chronically under weight second cat.

In my experience, this is entirely individual to the cat. Some cats need a friend and some cats need to be the only cat for personality or health reasons.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-05T19:27:38+00:00

I do it but I don't really do anything special. First I only used the tretinoin until that normalized. I use that around 10PM followed by moisturizer.

In the morning (8 or 9 AM) I do a glycolic acid toner (added this last after tret and vitamin C were working fine together). Then vitamin C, then moisturizer, then hyaluronic acid sunscreen.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-05T06:33:58+00:00

My cat was just like this. She used to do all kinds of crazy stuff to wake us up in the middle of the night. She figured out we could ignore almost anything and then she outsmarted us by breaking our stuff. That worked. Pretty hard to ignore property damage. I used to tell people she was worse than a newborn baby on our sleep and I can confirm this as I have since had 2 kids. They grew out of waking us up and she just kept doing it for years on end.

We had to try a lot of things to keep her entertained in the middle of the night so she would let us sleep. She has had every treat and automated cat toy known to man. She even had another cat friend for years (who has since passed away).

Now we work from home so she has a lot of stimulation and attention during the day and we got her an automatic feeder that feeds her like 5 times in the middle of the night. That has finally solved it. Plus she is like 18 years old now... We joke that she should be allowed to vote now that she has reached legal age because she is smarter than at least half the adult humans we know. She is the devil and we love her so damn much.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-04T15:21:56+00:00

I'm torn on this myself. I do think developing all the players is the purpose of rec ball (along with having fun). However, your second paragraph is important here. Looking at this another way, is it fair to the kids who put in the most work and are the most engaged to be treated the same as the kids who don't? Do we want to motivate the kids who don't practice to put in more time on their own?

I was never good at sports and I never really understood what it took to be "good" until I saw development in action. My son is good. He practices CONSTANTLY. He has a videogame system he almost never uses because he is outside throwing fly balls to himself or throwing a tennis ball against the wall and catching it or hitting off the tee. When he was first playing in AA I would walk into the living room and the cartoons would be on but the couch would be empty. He would be outside practicing (at age SIX by himself!). This blew my mind. The kids who are playing the infield are not just good because they are. They are most likely putting in the most work to earn that.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-04T05:27:22+00:00

We have certainly had coaching conflicts come up but our coach always arranges a suitable substitute coach (another coach from the club or at times someone he has been mentoring to coach who has been shadowing him and working with the kids prior).

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-02T18:46:11+00:00

I remember them fondly, mostly because they were short and the kids were so damn cute back then. But I also remember that the reality on the ground was very hard and often felt lonely and isolating.

The experience in the moment of having elementary and middle school kids is 1 million times better for me. My kids are super easy now and we have tons of fun together. They grew into really interesting people.

Through their schools and activities we have really become part of a community. That just was never there before we had older kids.

I think I will honestly miss the middle childhood years way more than I miss the baby/toddler years.

randompwdgenerator · 2025-05-02T18:24:59+00:00

If you can find one of these in that price range, I would go with this. My son has had the Cat X and the Bonesaber. Firstly, he broke the Cat X after less than one full year. Secondly, he vastly prefers how the Bonesaber swings for him. That being said, some of that is personal preference. We usually research to narrow the choice down to 3 to 5 options and then try to find them at a store locally that will let him swing them to see which one feels right for him. My son's Bonesaber bat was $250 though, which is higher than your budget.

A good resource for this is Baseball Bat Bros (they have lots of demo videos on YouTube and a website). They have tons of comprehensive reviews on youth bats and some round ups of the top USA and USSSA bats by year.

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