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@flabbytofit99 We've done the same since day 1 with our 3 year old and she's a fantastic eater with a very wide palette. Snacks are the biggest killer

My kids used to be picky eaters. Wouldn't touch vegetables. Complained about everything. I tried reasoning with them. Bribing them. Making separate meals. Nothing worked. Dinner was a battlefield. Then I stopped fighting and started leading. Here's what changed: I STOPPED NEGOTIATING AT MEALS Dinner isn't a restaurant. You don't get to order off-menu. I serve what I serve. You eat it or you don't. But I'm not forcing you. I'm not arguing about it. You're hungry? Food's on your plate. You're not? That's fine too. No drama. No lectures. No power struggle. I CUT THE CONSTANT SNACKING Kids weren't hungry at meals because they were grazing all day. Goldfish at 10am. Fruit snacks at 2pm. Graham crackers at 4pm. They showed up to dinner with zero appetite. So I stopped it. Three meals. Maybe one planned snack if there's a long gap. That's it. When they're actually hungry? They eat what's in front of them. I DIDN't MAKE IT PERSONAL This is where most dads screw up. They take it as disrespect when their kid won't eat. So they get mad. Lecture. Turn it into a fight. Your kid not liking broccoli isn't an attack on you. They're learning what they like. That's normal. Your job isn't to force them. It's to provide good food and let natural hunger do the rest. WHAT THIS ISN'T This isn't starving your kids. This isn't refusing to acknowledge real food sensitivities. This isn't serving the same meal they rejected at dinner for breakfast the next day. It's removing the power struggle so hunger can do its job. WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED First few days? They tested me. Skipped meals. Complained they were hungry later. I stayed calm: "Breakfast is at 7. You'll eat then." Within a week? They started eating what I served. Not because I won some battle. Because they were actually hungry and I wasn't making it weird. Now my kids eat vegetables. Try new foods. Don't complain. Not because they're perfect. Because I stopped treating meals like negotiations. Your kids don't need a short-order cook. They need a dad who leads without turning dinner into a war zone.

@johnkonrad Good, move on you gimp 👍🏻

I have a confession. I loved the UK. I’ve read every James Bond novel. Watched every film twice. I love their naval history, their deadpan humor, their novelists. Maybe it’s because I grew up poor, but my parents saved for years to take me to London when I was five. My mom’s family traces back to colonial Britain. I’ve been to Buckingham Palace. Met the royals. I even love their mediocre food. Bangers and mash, yum! And my grandfather, who navigated B-24s, kissed the ground when he landed back on British soil. I visited the spot. I kissed the ground too. And my dad, a fireman in the Bronx, hosted exchange fireman from Sheffield who filled our house with laughter and camaraderie that overshadowed the complaints from Irish Catholics at our church. 49 years of genuine love and respect. Not performance. Not anglophilia. Real. So it genuinely pains me to say this: I am struggling, right now, today, to give a single shit about them. I spent a week there this summer with my daughter trying to rekindle that appreciation in me. Mostly failed. UK friends, I’m not being rhetorical. I’m asking sincerely. Give me one reason. Not 1944. Not the Special Relationship as a concept. A reason for today. Give me one half a sh!t reason. Because I’m looking and I’m coming up with nothing.

@Romy_Holland With our 2 we never really let them sleep on us, and neither of them really liked it anyway. All sleeps in a moses basket or crib and never had any problems putting them down. Contact naps create awful awful habits which make everyone's life way harder

my baby now naps in his crib and my life is so much better. it turns out spending hours per day doing intensive calisthenics while holding a thrashing crying baby was actually ruining my life. infinite thanks to all of the kind parents who spent months telling me it would get better, and what the actual fuck to all of the parents who were like "you're just not submitting to the demands of motherhood and once you do that you'll stop suffering." I stopped suffering bc my baby started doing normal easy baby stuff, you gaslighting motherfuckers.

@CoreyLewis86 Not until people who were teens and young adults when these were new die out, so quite a while. There just aren't that many either.

When does this market crash

@herreraevel American Airlines famously respect their customers, yes

For the sake of comparison: 🇬🇧British Airways has only 4 iOS developers with 31K employees 🇺🇸 United Airlines has 64 iOS developers with 73K employees 2.3x the employees 16x the developers This is prioritizing customer experience, AKA having respect for your customers

@_oyoma @SpeedSportLife Yes I agree, but the speculation with these is driven by the extreme scarcity of the NA manual in a 2026 MY car, with a hint of "it's green" thrown in. But they do sell at and above MSRP still, somehow, so the market still rewards the speculation on v special specs.

@esw0rp @SpeedSportLife Disagree. Prices this high over already inflated MSRP are driven by extreme financial speculation. There's thousands of old NA manual cars. People buying these this high wont drive them and certainly wont track them. Theyll go to C&C 1x/week and be parked to keep miles down.

State of the GT3T market here.

@_oyoma @SpeedSportLife Maybe you don't care but it's clear the market at large does. Fwiw I agree I think a GT3 for 370k is mad money

@esw0rp @SpeedSportLife When 370K gets you into a well specc'd F8 Tributo, I wouldn't even think about a P car personally. I'm also tired of the "NA manual" trope so I don't really care about those things

@_oyoma @SpeedSportLife Any manual, naturally aspirated modern Ferraris you can buy for 370k?

@SpeedSportLife Porsche hypebeast market has become a parody. There's a (good) 993 on BaT that's going to hit 1M soon. $370K puts you firmly in Ferrari territory. This bubble has to pop soon, right?

@SteveKoch1 @ShaunDEllis1981 @jurgen_nauditt The EU wants to become more militarily independent. And Russia does not have the capacity to grab more than 3 regions of Ukraine far less entire other countries. So that's not going to happen either.

@esw0rp @ShaunDEllis1981 @jurgen_nauditt Why should USA support EU militarily or any other way? Russia will just start grabbing Eastern Europe and no telling when they stop or if they will stop. If you don't support freedom of speech, you're not worthy of our support.

Marco Rubio's announcement of visa restrictions against European citizens on December 23, 2025, and Donald Trump's threats to ban Network Newscasts mark a new low in US politics. These actions by Rubio and Trump are a double blow to freedom—internationally through isolationism, and nationally through censorship. Trump prioritizes revenge over justice and sacrifices alliances to feed his ego. This isn't "America First," it's "Authoritarianism First." The US has lost all moral compass, and Trump's banana republic is increasingly becoming a dictatorship.

@ShaunDEllis1981 @jurgen_nauditt Yeah but that's not going to happen is it. Google aren't going to pull out of their 2nd biggest market because of this website. That's exactly what the EU is encouraging now. Digital sovereignty and EU innovation. So that's good 👍🏻

Well of thats how they want to play EVERY American Tech Company should leave the EU. No Google No X No Facebook NO IG No AI apps No apps, No Socials, No 🇺🇲 Tech Let Europe figure out how to innovate not just regulate products so they can fine them to found their little EU projects.

@ShaunDEllis1981 @jurgen_nauditt The EU can regulate what happens on EU soil. If a company does not want to comply with a regulation then they are free to not operate there. It's extremely simple

Well if the EU didn't try to control American companies with huge fines and on top of that the EU thinks they have the right to silence Americans speech online then they wouldn't be sanctioned nor banned. Frankly I find it offensive that un-elected bureaucrats in the EU think they can censor Americans! So again FAFO. remember one fool tried to ban X & Elon from doing a live interview with Trump during the election, well who in the fuck do you all think you are? Its an American company and in that case being used to interview the front runner in the American election! So again the EU can go kick rocks.

@the_wise_party @Chambo_ncfc @albieamankona Very very few pensioners alive today fought in wars. They are in fact the most coddled generation in human history with every opportunity to do well via the largest uplift of asset appreciation we'll ever see

I like British old people. Most of them fought wars and built the very society we all love. Our country currently pays many non UK citizens out of the tax fund. Many of them non UK citizens get pension :) Good for pointing it out. We really do need to clamp down on them first, if there is any truth to your post! Thank you.

I’m on a Plan 2 student loan and the repayment threshold has been frozen into oblivion, just like income tax. Every year, without a vote or a headline, more of my income is quietly taken through fiscal drag and student loan repayments. At the same time, the government finds endless money to raise pensions above inflation and to uprate benefits, but nothing for the people actually working and paying for all of this. It is a joke. I am sick of being treated as a walking cash machine for an ever-growing population of the economically inactive.

@Noahpinion Lashing out at an entire country and culture because you can't read simple signs

Starting to realize that the reason things don't work in the UK is cultural. British people respond to reports of dysfunction by spinning fantasies, making excuses, and - most of all - by screeching insults and leveling accusations. No one actually *tries* to make anything work.

@adam_trun @GregHands @MUC_Airport Plenty of countries on that list not in the EU. It's pure butthurt because the UK left the EU

@GregHands @MUC_Airport Damn, that sucks. If only there was a union of European countries which could prevent such a discriminatory behaviour. If it existed, it would’ve been a shame if your party advocated for leaving it.

I think you, @MUC_Airport, are missing the point here. The point is the airport’s policy to treat British visitors worse than any other Western country, in what I understand is a borders pilot. This is your own sign, with your logo in your own airport.

@emmakennytv Thought you would be all for freedom of speech and expression?

The words FUCK OFF do not emphasise my feelings enough. When I was a head waitress I didn’t know or care about the background of my clientele…nor did I care…my job was to do MY JOB….smile, serve food, and keep politics off the table. Grow up! mol.im/a/15003643

@AkkadSecretary It also turns out that being a massive net beneficiary of EU funds and your population going abroad to the UK and Germany to build wealth helps quite a bit

Turns out importing millions of dependents who claim disability benefit, child benefit, government housing stock, hotels, private security, and need 24/7 reeducation on how not to rape the first woman they see did not create wealth. Truly no one could have predicted this.

@robprogressive You're a big dog entrepreneur and your dad isn't on private health? Interesting 🤔

My 81-year-old Dad had been struggling with chest pain for weeks. He kept trying to get a GP appointment - no luck. So eventually, my Mum took him to A&E. After waiting 11 hours, he was finally seen… and told he has serious kidney problems. No treatment. No prescription. No proper guidance. Just a referral to a specialist - & even that’s not guaranteed for the foreseeable future. He’s paid taxes for nearly 65 years.  And now, when he needs help the most, this is the reality? The NHS is crumbling. And we’re spending almost £200 billion a year on it. So what does count as an emergency these days?

@FootyAccums Must be why Bowen starts every game for England then! Clearly the better player from these numbers

Bowen ALL TIME Premier League record: Starts: 178 Non Penalty Goals: 52 Penalty Goals: 2 Saka ALL TIME Premier League record: Starts: 176 Non Penalty Goals: 42 Penalty Goals: 11 Havertz ALL TIME Premier League record: Starts: 121 Non Penalty Goals: 39 Penalty Goals: 2

@BehizyTweets European countries pay lower costs because the central healthcare department can negotiate lower costs buying in huge bulk, funded by taxes. The US chooses not to do that and has weaker regulation around pricing, that isn't the US subsidising Europe

President Trump is fully exposing Europe's free healthcare scam. It's never been free cause AMERICANS were paying for it one way or another. "This means American patients were effectively subsidizing socialist healthcare systems in Germany, in all parts of the EU."

@TGE_LDNM @UKLabour you've no idea what my personal circumstances are, but because I have an opposing viewpoint the first thing you try is to look down your nose at me. Charming

@esw0rp @UKLabour Yes of course it is says the bloke with absolutely no skin in the game, first hand experience or clue.

Will be one of the last in my social circle remaining in this country too, as of this summer. Even ones that said they didn’t want to go are now house hunting in Dubai. @UKLabour get a grip on this immediately - you are deliberately driving the bus into a wall.