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8 votes
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Do you wear a non-smartwatch? If so, what do you have?
I recently went back from Pebbles to a green Casio F91W with a green NATO strap. I did a quick mod tonight to disable the beeping... which lead to everybody in multiple channels chatting about...
I recently went back from Pebbles to a green Casio F91W with a green NATO strap. I did a quick mod tonight to disable the beeping... which lead to everybody in multiple channels chatting about 'dumb' watches and even old calculator / data watches.
I love watches -- from reps to cheap Casios to fancier ones. Indulge me with a little show and tell :)
22 votes -
What are you naturally gifted at? Conversely, what is particularly difficult for you?
Starting with childhood, there are always some things that come naturally to us, and others that don't. Some are great at physical activities but have a hard time with numbers. Some are great at...
Starting with childhood, there are always some things that come naturally to us, and others that don't.
Some are great at physical activities but have a hard time with numbers. Some are great at telling jokes, but terrible at writing. Some have a wonderful memory for paths and locations but cannot remember faces. Some can easily navigate social situations, but have terrible grades.
What about you? What has always been easier for you? Conversely, what has always been your Achilles' heel?
14 votes -
Millions of coronavirus vaccine doses around the world face expiration
4 votes -
International seafood company Grieg Seafood leaked nearly 4,000 gallons of chlorine into a northern Norway fjord, killing approximately 96,000 fish
9 votes -
💖 The tale of Tiffany 💖
15 votes -
Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined
12 votes -
Dub FX - Fake Paradise | Live in Pripyat for 'Sounds of Chernobyl' project
4 votes -
Linus Sebastian tries the Steam Deck
27 votes -
What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
5 votes -
Why is the Earth round but the Milky Way flat?
6 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
9 votes -
Diablo IV game director out at Blizzard
7 votes -
Leah Neset and Artem Markelov - Jr Couples ice dancing on My Immortal / In The End
4 votes -
Take-Two goes on another Grand Theft Auto mod-killing spree
5 votes -
Dame Vera Lynn, Ross Parker and Hughie Charles - We'll meet again (1939)
3 votes -
What's a good book to (re)learn chess fundamentals?
Most people online seem to favor a practical approach to learning chess, but I tend to prefer something more structured, with a bit of theory, concepts, and explanations. I'd also rather use my...
Most people online seem to favor a practical approach to learning chess, but I tend to prefer something more structured, with a bit of theory, concepts, and explanations. I'd also rather use my physical board instead of an app. I already know how to play chess, but I'd like to give it another good and see if I can achieve a higher level than before, starting from the beginning. Any suggestions?
12 votes -
A different sense of privilege
9 votes -
Sony’s Funimation Global Group completes acquisition of Crunchyroll from AT&T
15 votes -
Transatlantic conquest the aim for new budget airline Norse – insists that demand for travel is bouncing back as coronavirus restrictions eased
6 votes -
Scottish champions Rangers FC dumped out of UEFA Champions League qualifiers by Malmö FF
6 votes -
Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
36 votes -
A thorough look at Resident Evil
6 votes -
LeMessurier Stands Tall - A Case Study in Professional Ethics
4 votes -
Has UML died without anyone noticing?
9 votes -
NASA is recruiting for yearlong simulated Mars mission
11 votes -
Could you avoid being hit by a laser if you were in a room of mirrors?
2 votes -
JPL's plan for the next Mars helicopter: After Ingenuity's success, they want to go much, much bigger
6 votes -
Lionel Messi not staying at FC Barcelona
12 votes -
How Tesla vehicles are tested
5 votes -
How tech loses out over at companies, countries and continents
8 votes -
Sony’s deal for anime platform Crunchyroll faces uncertainty from US DOJ
8 votes -
Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity - and labor lawyers say it's illegal
24 votes -
The Malê Rebellion in Bahia: Brazil’s African Muslim uprising
3 votes -
Batman main writer steps away from DC to start indie comic line at Substack
5 votes -
Physicists face stagnation if they continue to treat the philosophy of science as a joke
10 votes -
The promise of open-source intelligence
4 votes -
Anti-vaccine protesters storm BBC HQ – years after it moved out
14 votes -
Xbox and Xbox Game Pass are coming to more screens
7 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
5 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
8 votes -
What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
7 votes -
Substack just made a major new hire as it goes after comic-book writers and expands its fiction efforts
4 votes -
Xsolla fires 150 employees based on big data analysis of their activity
14 votes -
Adoption isn't happily ever after
This will probably make some people uncomfortable and even angry, but it needs to be said. Adoption isn't happily ever after. The media loves to portray it that way, especially for foster kids....
This will probably make some people uncomfortable and even angry, but it needs to be said.
Adoption isn't happily ever after.
The media loves to portray it that way, especially for foster kids. Everyone loves the fairly tale story about the poor abused kids that get rescued by the selfless hero foster parents who then adopt them and everything is all good after that. I mean, the kids now have loving parents and a stable home. That's all they need right?
People love a happy ending. But fairy tales aren’t real and life isn’t that simple. Adoption is messy, and I don't mean the legal process, I mean the actual adoption itself. Adoptive parents aren't selfless heroes, they are regular flawed people just like everyone else, they just happened to choose to adopt.
These kids have been through bad things that are beyond the imagination of most people who don't have experience with the kids themselves. I hear it all the time. People say "They just need a good loving home". Loving and stable homes are great, but they don't make those bad things go away. Even if the adoptive parents were perfect (which they definitely aren't) these kids will be dealing with their trauma for the rest of their lives.
And for these kids trauma isn't simple like so many people assume it is. It isn't just bad dreams and sadness. It's rage. It’s frequent meltdowns over the smallest things. Sometimes it’s hurting pets, or even other kids. Sometimes it's trying to burn the house down. Other times it’s stealing from kids at school. Sometimes it’s grade schoolers finding ways to look at porn. Sometimes it’s trying to molest other kids. This doesn’t describe all kids from foster care. It’s not meant to scare you. It’s meant to show you that there’s more than what you see on the outside.
For these kids meltdowns have a completely different meaning than for most other kids. A meltdown isn't crying and getting angry for 10 or 15 minutes. It can be hours. Hours of true screaming. Hours of punching doors and walls. Or punching us. Or hurting themselves. Total non-compliance. It's a total inability for them to calm down at all. Sometimes we have to physically restrain them for safety reasons. Usually, they have to physically exhaust themselves before they finally begin to come down.
And it's not their fault.
And we parents aren't perfect either. Sometimes we scream back at them. Sometimes we escalate the meltdown even more. Sometimes we restrain when it's not necessary. Sometimes we just layer on consequence after consequence, not because it's helping, but because we are mad and caught in a power struggle.
We take them to doctor appointments. We adjust meds. We get to counseling every week. We literally pull them out of public school because they can't function there. We are usually exhausted. We are often hopeless. We fear they will never have a normal childhood. We fear that they won't have a good life as adults.
We can never replace their birth parents. They will always miss them, no matter how bad the abuse was. They will mourn what could have been. They will mourn what should have been.
They point that hurt and anger at their adoptive parents. They say they hate us. They say they will kill us.
We aren't a fairy tale family. We aren't some success story about the power of love.
We were the safest option in a bad situation.
We will always love them as our kids. We will always strive to be there for them, to support them, to give them what they need to have whatever healing is possible.
For them though this will never be as good as having birth parents that were safe and loving in the first place. This will never compare with what should have been.
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
5 votes -
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean has a new trailer and will arrive in December on Netflix
7 votes -
Marcus Ericsson pulls stunner to win a wild IndyCar Music City GP debut in Nashville – with airborne cars, massive traffic jams and controversial penalties
6 votes -
2020 IPCC Assessment Report on Climate Change
20 votes -
NASA has developed an interactive map so you can see exactly where the NASA Perseverance rover has been
8 votes