Well, we’re glad to have you with us!

And everyone is right!

Yeah, anyone not wear 1 million sun block is gonna have a real bad day, got it‽

We decorate for Christmas and Halloween, but I enjoy the Halloween ones a bit more. People in my area are more likely to decorate for Christmas, sadly.

One you can consume yourself, too. I buy hundreds of pieces and give away half. We eat the other half. Yum!

As for I, but it applies to both of us. So, we were both amused.

Well, you just start like most anything, I guess. I talk to them. A commercial comes on and I say why I don’t think it’s good to listen to. I talk about them targeting children, why that’s a problem, normalizing unhealthy things, predatory practices for poor/uneducated/whatever, and so on. I point out specific wording or presentation that makes it problematic and explain it. They probably don’t understand most of it yet, but the way I look at it, I’m planting seeds that’ll make more sense when they’re ready for it.

How depressing.

Not by me! I work my 40 and the rest goes my family. I’m lucky I can get by with 40.

I agree that some connections may be made, but also that sometimes we expect there to be something later, and there isn’t. So, that goes both ways.

I think those connections get made with multiple readings. No one is memorizing 400 pages and match small details to later events on a first read.

I usually let them go for me out of laziness, but I mute them for my family to spare them the exposure. I also regularly discuss the problems with the way things are advertised with my kids so that they won’t get sucked in by them. Crazy world. Hard to avoid adverts in the U.S.

I’m replying regardless of what I do or don’t believe just to engage with the premise.

If Jesus is the son of God and Heaven exists, he might do it to help us. He went through it once to help us. This time at least he’d know what he was getting himself into. If we are using the Buddy Christ universe from Dogma, the first time he only learned of what was to happen shortly before it did and those years were a struggle for him and went undocumented. Now he would have 2000 years to prepare for it. Regardless, if your torture and murder could makes lives better and save the souls of millions or billions, you might consider it. We’re told he did once. The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Yep. One of mine uses mini. I have a second one, same brand, that uses something completely different. Annoying.

I did this when I moved to my house. I’m still going to go through it and chuck/donate/give away some.

They said personal cloud. So, maybe they mean their personal server that is internet accessible?

I need to move there. We have never spanked our kids and they behave no worse than any other kids, and better than many.

Louis C.K. may be a bit of a creep, but one thing he said really resonates with me. Children are the only people we’re legally allowed to hit (in the U.S.). They are some of our most vulnerable people and we hit them. They rely on us to protect them, and we hit them. Fuck us for hitting our tiny, vulnerable babies. My wife wasn’t totally opposed to spanking before we had kids, but then we had kids and she can’t imagine hitting them. She’s a wonderful human.

The Socialist

All hail the Great Potato!

No, he has the Spudas Touch.