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Loved that book

Laminate swells really badly if water gets between the cracks though. Had to replace mine. Vinyl planks, while being entirely plastic, at least aren't made of compressed cardboard.

This is the same logic given for school aged children to not fight back against bullies for decades, and bullying is now a huge problem.

I'm talking about a situation where your own child is exhibiting bullying characteristics at a very young age. You can't sit them down and explain why pulling their sibling's hair shouldn't give them gratification...they still want to do it. Just when you're not around. The consequences have to be emotionally driven, and something they can understand and feel even when an adult is not present. What's your alternative? Timeout? Take a toy away?

I had a brother who tormented me for many years. My parents tried various things, and nothing worked. The thing that did work was me hitting him in the face with a metal belt when I was like ten when he physically attacked me for the millionth time. He just name-called after that, never touched me.

Obviously an adult is not going to do something like that. But how do you correct a very young child who is exhibiting signs that they are growing into a bully?

Biblical false prophet = competitor cult preacher that would compete with Jesus

The crazies are the ones who show up to launch a coup attempt at the Capitol.

Wow, TIL. That's hilariously inept. I should not have expected any better from TicketMaster I guess.

She was upset he didn't offer to suck the toes too

This is more on the right track for how to de-cult people like Trump. Need more anti-Trump conspiracy theories and weirdo prophecies to get through to the crazies.

I really wish we could focus on the actual causes of high government spending instead of this or that tax rate.

I tend to think it's due to use it or lose it budgets. Same thing happens outside government too. You get a chunk of money to use, and if you don't spend it all, you'll probably get less next year. If you spend it all, you might be able to argue for more next year since you ran out.

There's little incentive for the groups doing the spending to save a lot of money, especially if they know they only take a tiny piece of the enormous pie. But it collectively causes that pie to have to be enormous.

Is there any real world solution to this endemic behavioral incentives problem with some history of large scale long-term success? Naive solutions can easily backfire or lead to corruption. You don't want to incentivize cutting so much that necessary spending is impacted either.

Yeah but I would rather Iran not get access to more nuclear secrets