Correct, and an actual study can isolate variables and when you do that, tech is usually a boon. It’s especially easy to do with tech, but long term studies are still difficult because of history effects and imperfect control groups.

I can believe Gen Z is doing worse, but almost every study I’ve been around in education has found Socioeconomic Status to be the strongest factor (by far) and given Gen Z and Alpha are raised by the first generations to have economic decline, it stands to reason that’s probably the main factor here.

School interventions do help to some degree to mitigate SES, it’s just hard when it’s this bad for this long. We’re talking decades of decline.

Yeah but that’s most of DC right now. Undead walk the halls of Congress.

For once the news today broke yesterday when my dad texted to celebrate the death of Lindsey Graham; but it’s typically it’s here first. Lol

Oh no. I even read the “Those are my ladybugs” in his soft, accented voice. But in not really disgusted by the image, more just how much of a hypocrite LadyG was.

Technically only a HIPAA violation of the doctor uploads stuff. Uploading your is stuff is just violating your own privacy, which at this point might just be a boomer national pass time.

Wife and I agreed that we needed to save during this summer, only to immediately have to buy a new bed for kids, get expensive dental work done, and repair the bathtub fixtures.

I’m grateful we’ll manage but it’s like it literally waited for us to want to save.

There’s an evolutionary reason we and other animals prefer to sleep facing the opening(s) of our rooms (for humans that actually means the top of the head is not same side as door).

That said, somehow bets are off as to which side we face once laying down; I prefer to face the wall I think because enclosed spaces make me feel safer, like a cat. Or maybe it reduces stimuli, or something.

Though lately I think my body likes sleeping on my right side since that side has more muscle, even though I’d rather sleep on my left for acid reflux reasons. Both are better reasons than the wall.

I bet it could be patched by I hadn’t checked in forever. It’s actually more than nudity, though- it’s like a sex minigame attached to the dating mechanics. You can see why it was dummies out, lol

I mean, he was married to a Taiwanese woman who immigrated at 8; he might have spoken some Mandarin while he was still alive even if you don’t count his benefactors.

Oh I agree, and the funny thing is I heard second hand is that the city’s water treatment people still would prefer you just throw away your scraps (or better, compost). It does end up being a little useful on occasion, though, and it also creates a whirlpool that drains the sink faster.

That said, if I need the voltage from that breaker to power something else, I’d forsake it in a heartbeat. We already rerouted the garbage compactor to help power the heat pump we put in.

20 or 22, I’m easily fooled, had a Sega Genesis and TMNT bedsheets.

That said, we were too poor to get anything most of the time. We were at a park because it’s free, I mean c’mon. (And before you ask, no, the Genesis was a gift from a guy who wanted to fuck my mom. Lol)

Oh baby, that’s just the garbage disposal. His name is Hugo and we feed him scraps.

Amateur. I learned how to unlock the GTA SA hot coffee mode, which they somehow never fully removed.

Actually there is some valid advice on dressing up a little because it helps with the work/life separation. I never did it because I like work and life blending (I enjoy teaching and doing research and I have zero decorum anyway) but psychologically, cues like your clothes can help set the mindset.

The same is true for location, too. Don’t work from bed unless you want that shit keeping you up at night.

It probably aids in what the kids call “mewing” which is supposed to shape your chin/neck line. It probably doesn’t work but people into “looksmaxxing” are into it.

My 4yo says she keeps candy in her candy pockets. I hope that remains the case long into adulthood.

That was my exact thinking too; I update because it’s red and not green. That, and pacman goes waka waka waka.

“so I just leave it on your kitchen counter ok”

Thank you for posting it, I wasn’t going to go to Truth social to find out. That said. Meh. What an uncreative slop image befitting of the current administration.

Honestly, an airplane decked out in real graffiti art would look sick as fuck.

I have that same mental disorder but I kind of reframed it and stopped burning out as much as I used to. It’s not that I enjoy the grind, but multitasking, hanging with friends, and keeping short term goals make it more fun. I’m getting a lot more 100%s and chronicle the min/max I use to help others, too.