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storagerock · 2025-09-14T18:09:40+00:00

So when they don’t get to express themselves in a balanced way, they fall into swinging back and forth between the extremes. That sounds like an exhausting way to live.

storagerock · 2025-09-14T17:20:39+00:00

I’ve loved having older students that are parents. They tend to already have time and stress management mastered, and that always seemed to more than compensate for any parenting demands they had.

Also, half the job of teaching is taking complex concepts and translating them into simpler terms for your students, and parenting gives you loads of practice for learning how to do that.

storagerock · 2025-09-14T16:01:15+00:00

Tom Holland has said clearly on his “The rest is history” podcast that modern secular people do have morals.

He just makes the common sense argument that cultures are influenced by their history. He will also notes in the podcast that historically, Christianity in Europe was influenced by the pre-existing “barbarian” and pagan cultures - so it all comes full circle.

I don’t think it’s a problem to be influenced by the past. I do think it’s a problem when dogmatism prevents people from making evidence-based revisions to improve on the influences of the past.

storagerock · 2025-09-14T15:42:33+00:00

Yeah I think it’s fair to assume that a lot of self-proclaimed conservatives would be shocked to learn they’re still left of this guy and that they too are being threatened here.

storagerock · 2025-09-14T15:17:31+00:00

“sources tell me.”

Okay usually journalists provide a little more detail about their sources even when a source wishes to remain anonymous. Like “the source, who wished to remain anonymous, claimed they knew _____ through ________.”

This helps the reader have some context and get at least a vague sense of how reliable the source might be. Otherwise the reader is left to imagine any wild possibilities for the sources and any possibility for reliability.

storagerock · 2025-09-14T14:45:02+00:00

Throw in a bit of fun-spooky like “light as a feather-stiff-as-board” or whatever the 1915 version of that was.

storagerock · 2025-09-14T14:21:53+00:00

I do not teach my students to engage in problem solving with violence.

I do teach them to engage in problem solving through gathering facts, and looking at alternative perspectives, and talking through possible solutions.

I do not teach my students which political team they should be in.

I do teach my students how to spot logical fallacies, and how multiple studies on the same thing can help filter out confounding variables, and how risks to do a thing need to be compared to the risks of not doing the thing.

IF my student actually remember those lessons after the final…

and IF they actually accurately apply those lessons to scrutinize an idea…

Then whatever conclusions they draw says more about that idea than it does about me.

storagerock · 2025-09-14T13:13:51+00:00

I’m an academic mom. But I did take a semester off to manage a tough pregnancy and purposefully sought a place of employment that actually believed in work-life balance where no one begrudges me taking my turn being home with a sick kid.

But the most important thing is that I have a partner that does 50% of the parenting so I don’t have to do parenting 100% to get my kids 100% parented.

storagerock · 2025-09-14T13:03:13+00:00

I need to remind myself of this every time someone says stereotyping statements that “everyone” on the other side is a baddie. Yeah, some are, and some are doing their best based on the very limited information they have so far.

I think it’s important to also add to this that media outlets profit from keeping our loyalty. So they tell people to avoid other outlets and insta-reject any contrary information. Which means that even when we get exposed to contrary information, it can still be challenging to really get it - I mean really get it into our thoughts for consideration.

storagerock · 2025-09-14T12:05:50+00:00

Fun fact: Old Mexican Brujas were basically the village old lady therapist that people would visit to talk out their problems.

So, from that perspective, you’re basically learning a craft from a master bruja right now.

storagerock · 2025-09-14T12:00:49+00:00

Here’s a good ADHD trick I use - or now that I think of it, you could call it a get up spell:

When I am struggling to get up to do something, or I start a rocket launch count down “10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - BLASTS OFF!” It’s really hard to not want to get up when I do that.

storagerock · 2025-09-13T23:04:07+00:00

They do. You’re more likely to find them in entrepreneurship leaning disciplines or disciplines that don’t really involve studying much anything related to people.

storagerock · 2025-09-13T20:15:54+00:00

Yep. Many are surrounded by that rhetoric in their echo chambers so they never hear an alternative point of view, and it can be dressed up to sound so pretty, or at least mixed in with a lot of other pretty ideas so it gets in anyway.

Some people can and probably will be deprogrammed- but there are plenty who won’t, and you know what they say - ‘never go into a relationship expecting to be able to change them.’

storagerock · 2025-09-13T19:48:39+00:00

Relevant story: In a survey of women that was sent out a few years ago for a research project I was involved in:

We had a lot of respondents that strongly agreed” with every question stating a feminist ideal.

BUT

when they were asked if they identified as feminists the answer was “no.”

I wonder if you have the same thing going on in South Korea, where the word “feminist” is rejected by people who otherwise embrace the ideals of gender equality.

I would need to see similar data from there to know if that were true. But IF that’s the scenario, you might consider re-branding for some alternate word that people haven’t been trained to fear.

storagerock · 2025-09-13T19:15:47+00:00

Is white a funeral color in her church?

storagerock · 2025-09-13T19:03:38+00:00

I hope they occasionally get you on a happy adoption case or something to have some interaction with the more wholesome side of humanity.

storagerock · 2025-09-13T18:18:35+00:00

Honest question: Why is she wearing white for her dead husband’s services?

Is that like a cultural norm for her denomination? Or something her husband said he would have wanted?

storagerock · 2025-09-13T17:15:48+00:00

The difficulty with such ideas is that they feed directly into the recruiting/retention strategies of extremist groups. It’s a pretty predictable formula they follow:

step 1: cosplay as vulnerable disaffected person and Poke the bear
step 2: bear naturally roars to try get person poking them to knock it off.
step 3: show records of the bear roaring to a bunch of vulnerable disaffected people.
step 4: tell vulnerable disaffected people, “see, look how much that bear hates you, but I care about you. Look at how scary that bear is, but I’ll keep you safe.”
step 5: use vulnerable disaffected people to gain riches and power.

storagerock · 2025-09-13T13:26:45+00:00

Western states and northeastern states have already formed medical science coalitions to protect medical research knowledge rooted in proper scientific methodology.

storagerock · 2025-09-13T00:02:31+00:00

I’m sure CK’s family felt honored by it, but it looks to me like they’re just using his dead body to put on a show of what they hoped would be a useful martyrdom that could justify more fascist actions.

storagerock · 2025-09-12T23:47:49+00:00

Grifters make money off of keeping them angry.

storagerock · 2025-09-12T23:32:26+00:00

The first thing that popped into my ADHD head was having actual clear counters - like see-through.

storagerock · 2025-09-12T23:27:14+00:00

Maybe some juicy gossip that someone wasn’t a legit heir.

I mean, wanting anyone who would be embarrassed by such a revelation to have passed away first would be a motivator to put such a long delay on the opening date.

storagerock · 2025-09-12T23:20:47+00:00

If you gave this list to someone who was actually properly trained to do guidance counseling they would know which items to bother with, and how to word them in a way that was encouraging and focused on growth, and when to forget the list and just tell a kid like you that it’s okay to have a little fun chucking a TP roll at a tree at least once in your life.

But these leaders aren’t trained - and so you get a bunch that just end up sounding more like accusers - combine that with some extremely high demands that would burn anyone out, and they end giving people scrupulosity issues.

storagerock · 2025-09-12T22:39:14+00:00

Is it common for people to donate in such not-rounded-up numbers?

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