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For me, how the main character constantly is sexist towards the engineer who rebuilt the plane because she's a girl is a problem. As an adult, you can see the social commentary, but when you are a kid watching the movie, it appears that women can't be engineers.
Obviously the movie for all its strengths and beautiful flying is still sexist. When showing it to my kids I simply disclosed it’s how things used to be and it wasn’t right and things are better now. And we need to keep them better.
One of the great things about the movie is how children are portrayed. When the sea plane pirates take a bunch of kids hostage at the beginning of the movie, you don’t see any parents panicking. The kids are relaxed. The pirates clearly understand the social contract where they can’t split up the kids from their friends.

It’s such a different take from modern parenting and today’s anxiety filled culture.

Re:You're a Slow Thinker. Now What? on Sunday September 14, 2025 @03:28PM (#45242540)
Everyone is on their own journey and there are so many reasons a person might think a particular way.

The comment you are responding to is just trying to explain their own situation and say the person who wrote the article might want to investigate a similar experience compared to their own. I read the article as one where someone is exploring and ADHD is would be exploration. I would specify that ADHD inattentive type is the one that it reads most like to me.

I don't see why you'd want to knock someone's choice of treatment for a particular condition. You might not see a need for a particular treatment option, but many folks get relief from anxiety or other things such as RSD while being medicated for ADHD. They can make their own decisions.

The context is that administration bypassed the typically vetting processes for almost everyone and is flaunting various rules openly (see signal controversy). Those processes for vetting are important to ensure that folks won't betray the U.S.A. and can be trusted.

This individual might be highly talented and completely trustworthy, but because of how the administration is operating opens everything up for scrutiny including things that should have a bit of scrutiny.

The U.S. makes mistakes in terms of doing the wrong thing. But because it’s a democracy, it is capable of recognizing those mistakes and attempting to make amends. For example the internment of people of Japanese descent during world war 2, it was terrible for the folks rounded up and put into camps. It took 40 years, but we acknowledged it was wrong.

“In 1988, Congress passed, and President Reagan signed, Public Law 100-383 – the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 – that acknowledged the injustice of "internment," apologized for it, and provided a $20,000 cash payment to each person who was incarcerated.”

If you are in a dictatorship, that acknowledgement of a past wrong is absolutely impossible. That’s why democracy is so important. George Takei makes this point much more eloquently that I ever could, and it’s why he believes so strongly in democracy.

Thankfully the various parents are all pretty good about restricting screen time.
For my own kids when they are bored there is a flow of requests. First they ask if they can watch TV. Then they ask if they play video games. Then they ask if they can goto a friends house that they like. Then they ask if they can see a neighbor kid who they are kinda meh about. If I keep saying no to all the distractions they typically will enter a complainy phase about how they are bored, but after a bit of boredom they enter a very imaginative state where we can end up with some top tier kid games, the kind you might see on Bluey.
China has tremendous leverage over him via whether he can access their markets.
996 is an example. It means workers work from 9am to 9pm 6 days a week.

Another example is the massive subsidies the government gives manufacturers.

Can you explain what you mean?

I fail to see the downside for EU manufacturers.

Re:Japan: The Land That Doesn't Need Ozempic on Saturday May 18, 2024 @01:35PM (#40400537)
I'd argue the way American culture is constructed (drive everywhere, less opportunities to walk, folks are socially isolated) in a way that actually puts people in a situation where they are much more likely to be overweight.

So the costs are ones we as a society are putting on individuals are coming back to bite everyone in the ass.

Re:Why School Absences Have 'Exploded' Almost Everywhere on Friday March 29, 2024 @09:23AM (#39863812)
My kids are still playing catchup in terms of illnesses since the pandemic. Our district masked for the first two years. Neither of my kids were sick for those two years.

Since then they’ve been playing catchup immunity wise as they’ve been exposed to all the colds and other viruses. Which means they are absent more.

I’m hopeful that they are almost caught up in terms of what they have been exposed to and the amount of times they are sick in a year will be declining.

Seriously it blows my mind that folks say masks don’t work because if you’ve had school age children you know how often they are sick and for those two years the district was masking we had nothing. It was glorious while it lasted.

Re:Cancer under age 50 increased 80% from 1990 to 2019 on Saturday March 23, 2024 @08:47PM (#39804192)
I’m surprised if tobacco utilization has increased during the time period in question.
Re:BreakTime: Running Breakout Inside Google Calendar on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @08:53PM (#39699442)
This is so great
Re:Killing VMware on Sunday February 25, 2024 @06:10PM (#39505907)
Probably spun off
Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @02:25AM (#38937240)
For folks who don’t know, this is a great read and explores how we are connected and communicate is more important than what is communicated. Highly highly recommend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage

The slightly alternative title is a play on words that was originally an error.

It could have been a surge of temps at USPS to handle holiday mail volume.
I’m sure they are. What’s the screentime per day for the cohort? 2 hours? 4 hours? 8 hours?
Re:VMware is now part of Broadcom on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:44PM (#38384124)
VMware is notorious for continuously changing SKUs and licensing models to make things more expensive. I would suspect that Broadcom will continue putting the squeeze on customers. If hyper-V (or whatever it's named now) was a viable alternative, I suspect you'd see tons of folks fleeing VMware.
Re:VMware is now part of Broadcom on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:40PM (#38384063)
vCenter is a huge target. VMware docs differ from the the Crowdstrike recommendations, with security vendors saying basically to lock it down to the 9th degree or suffer the consequences.
Re:In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:27PM (#38373372)
For you gluten might be fine, but for others it’s not fun, just like cream sauces for you. Everyone’s different.
Good question. I’m guessing so.
Re:U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts on Thursday January 05, 2023 @10:32AM (#34261063)
I’m surprised it’s taken so long. Companies have abused this practice to an absurd degree. Got a job at a sandwich shop? I guess you are prohibited from getting a different job down the street based on the agreement you signed at the beginning of your employment.
Re:The Tank That Could Fly into Battle on Saturday October 22, 2022 @05:09PM (#33302250)
I honestly thought this was going to be about the A-10 warthog.
Re:Nobody wants to teach anymore on Sunday August 21, 2022 @09:26AM (#32539965)
Undervaluing education is another sign that society is shifting to rent seeking. Extracting short term wealth by burning the future.
Re:Nobody wants to teach anymore on Sunday August 21, 2022 @09:22AM (#32539926)
Starting salaries for many districts for jobs that require a masters is pathetic.

Many suburban schools pay decent, but often urban centers pay poorly.

I know one person who was offered under $30k for teaching young special Ed folks. This is someone who has a masters and extra certs on tops of that.

Your argument about physics teachers being more sought after is interesting but misses the point. As a society we want our children to have the best outcomes, providing them with the best education at early ages provides that.

To have the best education you want to pay well and attract the best candidates. Not have those teachers splitting their time with Uber so they can afford rent.

There was a study that showed the value of great kindergarten teachers and it’s over $300k a year.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/07/28/128819707/the-...

Re:Ban Bottled Water: Microplastics Reside in Them Globally on Saturday August 13, 2022 @06:14PM (#32454303)
Glass is a terrible idea because of litter. The beaches around here used to be unusable because of the amount of glass in the sand. Nothing like a kiddo screaming because of a chunk of glass in their foot to make you change your mind.

Higher deposit for plastic sounds good to me.

Same setup here. Sony TV that’s never been connected plus an Apple TV.

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