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@ipnotjcaa Very true, which is probably why more Europeans die from heat than Americans die from guns by 7-8x.

besides a fan is useless it just blows hot air at you

these tweets scream classism and privilege because do you have any fucking idea how much an air conditioner costs and the fact that you also have to pay to have it installed? it makes sense that many people can't have one

@ipnotjcaa I can pick up AC unit for $140 on Amazon. Self installed. Perfect for cooling a bedroom or small areas. Virtually every home in America has AC, which includes the poorest. So it's not classism. Not unless Europeans are a much lower class than the poorest Americans.

@SenateGOP You guys mostly suck. Pass Doge cuts. Cut spending. Balance the budget. Pass the SAVE act. What are you even doing? Nothing. That's what.

Senate Republicans passed the largest middle-class tax cut in history.    We eliminated taxes on tips and overtime for millions of American workers.    Every Senate Democrat voted against this.

@spencerpratt What an absolutely legendary response.

Hey Lisa, if you're against me because I was on a TV show in my 20's, wait til you learn what Karen Bass was doing in her 20's...

@cherpers @FoundationDads @grok No, because if that were true, every strategy would be ineffective. Since spanking is demonstrably equal to your strategy, surely yours is not rendered ineffective. The takeaway is that it's a peer, not that every disciplinary strategy is suddenly voided.

@alwayshasbeen3 @FoundationDads @grok So in other words spanking is ineffective at best.

Parents who refuse to spank are trading 5 seconds of controlled discipline for years of chaos down the road.

@lsanger SpaceX should dimple their rockets.

Why aren't there more dimpled cars? Just to be clear: yes, yes I *am* the kind of person who would buy a dimpled car. (Whether my wife would LET me is another question.)

@Manhattva They do die already. EU has Something like 7-8x more heat related deaths than the US has gun deaths.

lol. 90 degrees Fahrenheit. 50% of Euros would die if they were in Florida in the summer.

When the goal is to understand a subject, best to read it yourself, Not rely on a chat bot to think for you. Then you might recognize when it's right or wrong about a subject. The broad literature is awful. The studies looked for a poor outcome and found it. When these confounding factors are addressed, there's no difference in outcomes. Certain demographics commit more crime than others, but being a certain demographic does not make you a criminal. This statement's first clause is all the research on spanking. The second clause is obviously logical. Therefore, as no spanking research has shown a casual relationship with spanking, believing one exists when that isn't true would be silly. Especially when research suggests the correlations suffer confounding factors. This is a good study on the matter, published in 2024. #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@alwayshasbeen3 @FoundationDads @grok does spanking as a discipline strategy predict better long term outcomes for kids over other forms of discipline like logical consequences?

@cherpers @FoundationDads Anecdotes do not make for a strong position. You can find 10/10 parents with bad children. You can find bad children who were spanked. Great children who were raised in the foster system. So you haven't really made a point, have you?

@alwayshasbeen3 @FoundationDads It does not model the correction of real life. I have been spanked zero times as an adult. Touch a hot stove and get burned is real life. Refuse to work and miss out on fun or extras is real life. Be rude and have broken relationships is real life. Spanking is not.

@JPBillingsgate @Corbienest Correct.

Vocabulary as a measure of intelligence works across a broad population in that there is a strong correlation between the two. As an accurate measure of any one individual's intelligence, it does not. So long as it is possible for an individual to have an excellent vocabulary while being otherwise of unremarkable intellect or for someone to be of remarkable intellect but not have an especially strong vocabulary, and both of these things are extremely possible, it is not an accurate measure for any given individual. That's why proper IQ tests don't just measure vocabulary.

I am begging people to stop confusing knowledge with intellect.

@ICXCNIKA42 @theclassicwife Yeah I've been exploring more options like that. I don't do much tv with them. Mostly the family movie night, so ~1.5hrs of screen a week. As they get older, or on rainy days, I might work some of these in. Thanks for the ideas!

@alwayshasbeen3 @theclassicwife Same for our kids. Try some of the old school mythology movies, too. Jason and the Argonaughts, Sinbad, Treasure Island, The Odyssey, etc. Moses isn't mythology but the Ten Commandments is great. 50s-80s classical fiction adaptations are absolutely kino. And free online.

Absolutely loathe the parenting style in bluey. Bluey’s dad is a welcome mat who is a friend parent not a parent parent and it sets a bad example for kids who watch it

@latterdaylaura @iWomansplainer Picked up a $2500+ table for $450 on fb. Its great. Lots of spam and bots tho.

@iWomansplainer But every once in a while, it’s incredible. Like my 8 Ethan Allen chairs and matching hutch for $400 last week. That’s what it’s supposed to be!

@RandomSprint I use salted butter and add salt. And my confectionaries are the best.

Welcome to my baking tutorial! Step one, use unsalted butter. If you use salted butter, you're an amateur. An animal. Less than human. I'm furious at you for even owning salted butter. Step two, add salt.

We just had this huge ordeal with my 4yo tonight. Refused to even try the pulled pork and Mac n cheese. Full body sobs. Gnashing of teeth. Much wailing. Coughing. Near vomiting from sorrow. An hour later, she did finally eat it. She loved it. She bloody loved it. Can you believe it? An hour of misery for nothing!

forced to eat it or go hungry…

In some Native American tribes, when a child was old enough to go off alone, the parents would take them to the tribe's borders and spank them hard for several minutes. The worst spanking of that kids life. they would tell them never to venture further. Because if they did, they would be killed. Spanking saved their life. No other strategy worked better. Because frankly, spanking is modeled after the natural world. Consequences are painful, sometimes lethal.

If you spend less time correcting behavior, you can play more. Spanking is a tool. Many use it wrong. Many use it as a crutch. But spanking itself is neither wrong nor lazy. It models correction on real life (touch a hot stove, get burned). And unlike every other correcting action, I can remind them their actions are leading towards a correction, and they'll self correct without discipline required. No other correcting action has this result. Keep in mind, every single correcting action requires discussion. The actual lazy parents are those who don't discuss why they're in trouble. I still use every other tool btw. Kids are 4,2,0. When every other child is crying, they're having fun. Except my 2yo. He's a troll. I swear he calculates if the punishment is worth it beforehand. He's one where timeout works better, usually.

@FoundationDads Spanking is lazy parenting. It takes more effort but it’s more effective and loving to use logical consequences. Plus it’s better modeling for adult relationships.

@Manhattva Next you're gonna tell me Dr. pepper is fake too.

For the record, I’m a fake Dr. 😂😂😂

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guys. I kinda like that my new washing machine sends me a notification when it's done.