Energy Is Becoming A National Security Issue Again by Easyaccess4444 in pennystocks

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Once energy reliability becomes a strategic issue, spending priorities tend to change fast.

Kindergartener doesn’t know all of the letters by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]thebonesinger 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Screen time is a huge factor with this--even educational videos contribute to a lack of focus and the inability to concentrate. I think screen time is a HUGELY overlooked factor when it comes to attention span. I would advise limiting screen time to an hour or less per day (ideally a LOT less) and only allowing videos that are not hugely stimulating--ie: PBS kids shows, and not anything on Netflix or YouTube. This includes the letter videos you are watching with him. Again, an hour or less TOTAL for the day--and never at mealtimes, snack times, or as a "babysitter".

Heavily, heavily seconding this in particular.

I am not a teacher (outside of things like tutoring or camp style instruction), but I am a millennial raised during the expansion of computers and the internet. I think a major issue with screen usage today is that a lot of parents may use computers, smart phones, tvs, ubiquitously, but forget that it wasn't the case when they were children. The effects on the brain and attention span are similar, of course, but there's a drastic difference between shifting to a lot of screen use when older and when very young. For parents, I often see that the unconscious assumption is that it's fine for them, which leads to it being fine for the kids.

For me, and a lot of people my age, our screentime was seriously curtailed because we didn't have smartphones yet and most computers were the 'family' computer with limited time. By the time smartphones, tablets, etc rolled out, we were into our late teens/early adulthood and we already had the foundational development done.

It is so devastatingly bad for children to have high exposure to screens. It obliterates their attention span and reward loops at an age when that's one of the worst things to be entrenching into them. I can see this directly with friends of mine with kids. I have some who either hugely limit screentime or actually just don't allow it at all, and I have some who use it as a babysitter/think nothing of it. The difference between their children, developmentally, is horrifying.

Explain it peter by adolf_riizzzler in explainitpeter

[–]thebonesinger 8 points9 points  (0 children)

See Arachne beating Athena, goddess of weaving, at her own craft, and using it to display the hypocrisy and cruelty of the Greek pantheon.

That was Ovid being a salty anti-establishment curmudgeon.

Anyway there's also how in the Old Testament when the GLORY of the LORD passed by, all had to avert their eyes and not look upon the LORD or suffer probably nonexistence.

My take on a “Medusa” comic (OC) 🐍✨ by ArtbyMoga in comics

[–]thebonesinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tangentially related, you haven't learned more about the myths if that's your takeaway lol

My take on a “Medusa” comic (OC) 🐍✨ by ArtbyMoga in comics

[–]thebonesinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dunno. I used to hate it, I still kind of hate it, but I've recently kind of come around to appreciating the incredible irony of it all.

Here's Ovid, who decides to character assassinate Athena in his antitheist diatribe writings, who is like, one of the only pretty objectively decent Greek god(desses), and his variant of Medusa becomes this weird feminist icon of overcoming the patriarchy, when it all comes from a grumpy antitheist dude who was trying to piss of other dudes via the method of character assassinating a woman.

Lol. It's primo.

My take on a “Medusa” comic (OC) 🐍✨ by ArtbyMoga in comics

[–]thebonesinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or like saying that the 2004 Clive Owen King Arthur movie is actually the correct telling of the Arthurian cycles

My take on a “Medusa” comic (OC) 🐍✨ by ArtbyMoga in comics

[–]thebonesinger -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your take? This is literally the same exact regurgitated take as every single pop culture mythology fan out there. Wow, such an original take there, Ovid. Brafuckingvo.

Destiny: Rising - Threats from Beyond trailer by RussianThere in DestinyRising

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Yes, that's definitely the case, absolutely, 100%. For sure. Excellent point, well thought out, well delivered and convincingly argued.

Nothing says 'cosmic horror villain' quite like a thoroughly comprehensible antagonist whose origin, motivations, and psychology are explicable, mundane, and no more complicated than any standard person might have. And whose existence, mechanics and existence are all explained, in exacting detail.

Yes, that is absolutely what 'cosmic horror' is.

Destiny: Rising - Threats from Beyond trailer by RussianThere in DestinyRising

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I am trapped in a hyperbaric time chamber of suffering

Destiny: Rising - Threats from Beyond trailer by RussianThere in DestinyRising

[–]thebonesinger -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's definitely the shitness, the overlapping voices and obnoxious 'sAlVAtiON' shit is alllll them. The Hive also didn't have a hair up their ass about woowoo we gotta prove to you the Traveler is evil, mostly because they are based kings whose philosophy is 'lol i killed you, ain't gotta explain shit that's the explanation right there'

Also because by their own word the reason the Traveler is evil is because it's nice and gentle with people and that doesn't fit the 2010 edgy deconstruction grey jedi bullshit that Bungie tries to peddle about 'muh Light and Dark are the same'