u/bts

The player is right. 

It’s just power, not overpower.  No damage on a save.  

You use “not judgmental” and then “should” in the same sentence. I think you might rewatch the show. 

It can either be his choice or your choice. You want it to be his choice but only if he chooses the way you like. That doesn’t work. 

If it’s not an option—just tell him to get up, he’s going. If it’s a choice, it’s a choice and manage your feelings about his choice on your own. 

The die hard faithful were fine with the adaptation and psyched about the trailer. The concerns come from those more worried about policing details than about loving great art. 

Thanks!

They last months frozen and days thawed—days from FIRST thaw. 

Seriously they come with instructions. 

Your chance to learn something is in the first step. This is something we give to people who already have pancreatic cancer.  It teaches their immune system how to better fight the cancer. We still treat them in other ways, but this means that single bad cells trying to start a new cancer colony get murdered fast.

I invite them to dig in to what it means to buy or believe something and what they think we’re doing here. To me the answer is something like teaching them to communicate with other people who do math. So inventing your own notation or standards can be fun—but also we want to learn how others use these terms. 

Who says it should stay frozen?  It can thaw out in its little oxygen free environment and sit that way for a couple days no problem. 

Seems like a prudent step while we get the nonsense online counselor problem fixed. 

It sounds like you want a way to get an infinite number of values to work with in a finite, maybe even fixed, number of steps?  You object to adding one number per step, and that at any finite number of steps of induction we have only shown a finite number of values?

Hmmmm.  

The usual ways to do that are proof by contradiction or injectivity. For example: let’s say there’s only a finite number of numbers between 0 and 1. All finite sets of numbers are fully ordered. Therefore there is a least such number n. We can calculate n/2 < n. This means n is not the least such number, and we’ve proved the count of numbers been 0 and 1 is not finite. 

No infinite steps, only one arithmetic step—but it doesn’t show me those infinite numbers, it just shows they must be out there. 

I had that experience at my job previous to Amazon. I definitely do not have it on this job at Amazon—but I’ve consciously chosen to work with specific humans in whom I see kindness and caring. 

Scouts. The other parents are engineers, Eagle Scouts, writers, gamers—great people.

R1S, benches, three kids. It’s great. They can spread out or, if we’re packing luggage, take the bench together. We use that cargo space for long camping trips, skiing, etc.

Yes. I don’t trust “science.”  I do trust my pediatrician. She did four years of college in biology, three years of medical school, a three year residency in pediatrics, and a two year fellowship on infectious disease in children.  During those twelve years of study, she learned from experts with decades of experience—and so has accumulated understanding of centuries of study of how and why kids get sick and how to make them better. 

I trust her when she says something is a viral cold, wait a few days and it’ll resolve. I trust her when she says to take a flu test and then maybe tamiflu. I trust her when she says it’s bacterial and penicillin will help my kid feel better faster. I trust her advice on when to use Tylenol to bring down a fever and when to let the kid’s body burn out germs—and it’s not how I would have expected it to work, but she’s the expert. 

I trust her when she says we need a specialist. I trust her when she advises how to wean the kid and when to introduce solid foods. She’s seen thousands of kids, so I trust her when she says something is normal and when she says “that’s new” and calls in colleagues for their advice. 

And I trust her on vaccines: that these are the best way to keep my kid healthy and strong. There is nothing I’m going to pick up in minutes on YouTube that should argue with her expertise. If her computer has a virus, my expertise matters. If the kid has a virus, or the community has a virus but we can treat my kid to keep them safe, I should listen to the doctor. 

One more thing: wouldn’t it be great if instead of scary vaccines we could just give the kid a little bit of like microwaved, weakened virus or other germ so their body could learn to fight it?  Great news: that’s what vaccines are. They’re made at scale with careful supervision the same way peanut butter is made at scale with careful supervision—the difference for a lot of people is needles. 

Okay one last final thing: the Mayo Clinic site has solid reliable information on pediatric care. That’s a great place to look for real expert views on when to use medicine on a fever, first foods to introduce, and yes vaccines. 

It’s very useful: it reminds me that I’m not in charge. Someone else’s rights aren’t up to me. It is up to me to define, construct, support, and defend systems that protect those rights. But I can’t add to or diminish them. 

I find that very practically useful!

Weird; I don’t see that response anywhere on this post or in your comment history.

I’m imagining sitting on the floor to ask my kid what they did that day or see their art and having other kids crawl into my lap—nearly unavoidable if you’re interested and involved with your kid and so going down to their level to see their space and their work. 

Why on earth not?  Children, like all persons and all animals, need touch to grow and develop properly. I used to volunteer in my kids’ preschool classrooms and kids would grab my thumbs and climb me or ask to be held upside down and swung or whatever. It’s play. Kids need play. Humans need play. 

Post preschool age I do a lot less of that, but I don’t hesitate to take a washcloth to a jam-covered face after lunch or to put a band-aid on a cut. 

You can do better than that. You can register the copyright and then ask them for statutory damages of $150k for every shirt sold afterwards. 

Removing her signature makes it a slam dunk for willful infringement, as does notification.

Plenty of lawyers will be happy to help for 30%. 

You’re overreacting. They’re interacting in age-appropriate ways in a supervised public space. It’s not like they’re taking the kids to the toilet. 

When another kid comes up to you, what happens if you go to one knee and interact with them?  Talk with them. Model for your kid how we interact with others. Build in your kid the idea that Dad cares about his social world and wants to know his friends. 

I hear you’re hurting, but yeah—dudes doing the best he can. So somewhere in there you ask about how you can help. You ask about what’s hard about the job, anyway—and you mention your needs. Or you wait a day and email mentioning thanks for the conversation and by the way <issue>. 

Roundtable will always be a tough sell for cub leaders. But I value it for building relationships—when someone needs something, we have people to call and sometimes we are the people to call. 

Bingo. And this conservative voted no on 5, because I want a balanced budget—and by and large think my taxes are too low. 

Yes and—the school correctly puts a lot of resources behind helping those kids. If you’re a middle class professional who taught your kid to read, or your kid needs accommodations different from those needed by the majority, you might have a less great time.