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Sure, that parent is failing that child. I'm not disputing that. It doesn't matter whether the parent has an intent or capability to do right by their child, only whether they are. In the end, the child is being failed, and I don't think for a second that the right call is to sit back and do nothing.

But jailing the parent is simply not going to make it any fucking better. It's like trying to fight a house fire with a flamethrower.

It is simply and solely because of this incredibly poor lack of reasoning and judgement that I don't have a positive opinion of her. If I had to say anything nice, I would say "she was able to identify a problem", but her solution was so astoundingly and obviously counter-productive I'm not inclined to have even a neutral opinion of her, much less a positive one.

(Edit: And where I say "her solution", I mean the one she championed; I have no insight as to whether it was her brain-child or just something she threw her political muscle behind)

Nothing screams "my kid is going to turn away from truancy" like having a parent in prison.

When your cure only hastens and reinforces the bad behavior, your cure is bad and you should feel bad.

I would have no issue at all with child protective services being engaged, but sending an overworked single mother to jail isn't helping anything, it's just slaking bloodlust for punishment when people don't do as you'd wish.

If the goal is ensuring every child is equipped with an equal opportunity for education, then there are always better choices than hauling mom or dad off to jail. Can you seriously not see how patently absurd that is? It's a boneheaded move from top to bottom and she should feel shame for the rest of her life for putting her political muscle behind it. Educating every last child is important, but this proposed solution only makes things worse.

And that's what the issue is. It's not that there was intervention, it was this specific intervention is stunningly short sighted and entirely punitive.

For me, it's strictly because of this. I'm not suggesting truancy isn't an issue worth combating, but going at it this way showed a shocking lack of sense - to the degree where I'm not sure I could trust any grown-ass adult who would go along with such an idea for more than 2 minutes.

Dude, exact same as when I found out I was ASD. I didn't really know how important a label was until it explained so much and gave me a starting frame of reference to talk about with others.

I think I knew this with my head and heart, but it was at this point when I knew it with my gut. It has, frankly, been exhilarating, and I hope it's an accurate enough analogue for what my LGTBTQ+ family feel that I can better empathize with them.

edit: sometimes words are hard. like at least 85% of the time.

QUICK GET THE MUTAGEN

such an appropriate name, then!

The whole situation reminds me of a water balloon battle I had as a kid. I kept getting some really good tosses in and one kid really didn't like that. I didn't have the wherewithal at the time to realize I was distressing him, assuming he was having the same fun I was having. Anyway he spent like 10 minutes trying to get the world's biggest water balloon created while he got soaked constantly and balloons broke like mad as he overfilled them.

Eventually, he managed to fill a particularly massive balloon. This thing was absurd sized, to a 9 year old. Properly absurd. I don't even know how he lifted it. But once he finally achieved his goal, he finally staggered to his feet with the balloon, roared a mighty 9 year old battlecry, and charged at me, only to trip on his own feet and tumble to the ground with his face impacting the balloon just as it exploded, soaking him. The meltdown was legendary; we all stopped playing, most of us just watching with bemusement at his misfortune. It was a huge own-goal, a massive self-own, and while I was certainly the motive, I had nothing to do with how it all played out.

I bet Greta feels a similar way, though she probably has way fewer conflicted feelings about the justice behind it, though.

i literally respect the uwu speaker more than the people crying cancel culture/woke

Trump and this post are deeply distressing, but this comment has made me laugh out loud sporadically now for like 18 hours. I just want you to know I treasure you :D

whoever named that lesser yellow lady's slipper had a grossly inflated idea of how fancy slippers commonly get

ohai, a fellow bacon maker!

i make 3 sides at a time and freeze the lot in vacuum sealed bags, about a pound or pound and a half in each. i leave them unsliced and cut what i need as i need it, resealing the vacuum bag each time.

my recipe is:

per pork belly:

• 186g brown sugar
• 9g black pepper
• 78g kosher salt
• 16g apple spice rub
• 32g curing salt

getting even slices is a pain so i actually cut the belly in half length wise prior to curing for a week. i find it much easier to get uniform, super thick cut slices that way. 3 sides is enough to get my and my extended family's households through most of a year!

this is the last batch i made, before settling on cutting it in half down the middle. applewood smoked

but it would be nice to throw money at the thing instead of having the stress of yet another subscription service to remember to cancel if I stop using it.

strong agree with that sentiment.