My friends have all decided to preemptively kill me in the event of some society-ending nuclear attack because they know I will sell them out to the first group of roving cannibals that inevitably appears. Read more
I can’t say I would want to live in a post-nuclear world. Sure, you might end up being Immortan Joe and having a pretty good time (for a while, at least) but you could end up being the guy in The Road (I know the cause was ambiguous but come on). Do I really want to take that risk? Probably not. Also I just read Voices… Read more
Looks like everyone’s having a good time at the Soulcycle. Read more
Wait. Is this story heartwarming or heartbreaking? On the one hand, it seems very sweet of the police to cook for these two and offer them a bit of company. On the other, I cannot get my own Italian grandparents (Nonno and Nonna) out of my head. They are alone in their house and I have never cooked THEM pasta! Nonna… Read more
I hear you. I haven’t gone completely crazy (yet) but I’ve been lucky to have many built-in behaviors that have helped keep me looking young: 10 years of nocturnal life as a bartender, not really caring to go out into the sun until recently, a love of water, etc. I’ve been hitting the gym religiously for the last year… Read more
Just wait until these augmented reality games are on VR headsets. We’ll all be wandering into traffic but the traffic will have wrecked five miles back because they’re playing Need for Speed: Go on their VR headsets. Read more
I don’t get in my car without the app open. Read more
Two days where Dems peaked interest in voter registration. Key. Read more
A bunch of large media conglomerates made a bunch of money on advertisements, other than that, no.
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Yes to this entire article. I woke up one morning a month or so ago and got hit with about 5 straight bigoted, sexist, racist memes in a row and I was majorly bummed out for an entire day. Not just the fact that I knew people like that, but the fact that going on Facebook itself made me so goddamn depressed. Read more
Easier version: Hope you fiance to be has a sister or mother that will tell you what to pick within your price range. Read more
Especially considering that none of my friends who are public high school teachers have any specialized training in the classes they teach, it’s just the subjects they were assigned. If they’re lucky, it’s something they majored or minored in in high school, if not, they just read the books and study up before they… Read more
I’ve done a year of homeschool with my daughter. She completed two grades. She went from barely reading to a very advanced level (turned 7 last month and she’s read five Harry Potter books). She writes at an advanced level. She knows her times tables and has full understand of math concepts a year ahead of where she’d… Read more
I don’t think she said her kids only do math once or twice a week, she said her father helps by giving structured lessons twice a week in math and language skills.
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I think the assumption that homeschooled kids don’t learn these things from people who know them is at best pretty questionable! Of course some homeschooled kids don’t but plenty of kids who went to traditional schools (including very fancy ones) don’t either. Read more
Good read. I was homeschooled k-12 and enjoyed it (though I was realllly ready to move out when college came around). One thing most people don’t know about is the prevalence of homeschool associations or groups. I was able to play basketball, baseball, and soccer from 6th grade on and compete against the local public… Read more