In celebration of Friday, I have a good WWYD situation that comes from a friend:
Your daughter just turned 15 and is interested in her learner's permit. You have a very demanding job and travel often. Before you go on a business trip this week, you find out that your MIL - who you like - texted your DD (but not you or your H) to volunteer to teach her to drive. You talk to your H, a stay-at-home dad, and tell him that you think that's overstepping and that you'd really prefer to teach her yourself or have him teach her. Before you leave, you take her out for her first drive, but when you come back, you find out that MIL has taken her out, too. Your H says he didn't say anything to his mother because he didn't want to have a "conflict," - even though MIL is not the type to make a deal out of things, and he doesn't really want to teach her himself. Would you be mad at MIL? DH? Not care?
MIL and DH, this is like the MIL taking the kid to get the first haircut. There's only so many firsts that parents get, and driving is one of them.
I didn't read the thread - but take the picture. Don't worry about how you look. You're not guaranteed the future and someday that might be all you have.
Truly random - Live Nation had their $25 ticket deal and I will be taking my 14 year old son to a Rob Zombie concert. Of all the things I dreamed of doing with my baby one day, this was not one I thought of. LOL
It is really crazy how different his life is than mine was. I went to my first rock concert at 14 as well. Iron Maiden with my friends in NYC, high as a kite. I wouldn't have gone anywhere with my mother. Drugs and alcohol are not even on his radar at this point (thank God) and he actually WANTS to go with me.
Rob Zombie is fun! In case you're not aware, there's usually a plethora of naked boobs on stage through the performance.
Just be aware sometimes we get storms/rain in the afternoon, especially in the mountains. You might be better off planning things in the morning so you don’t have to worry about rescheduling due to weather/lightning. Have fun!
To emphasize - CO mountain activities, in general, should be completed by early afternoon. This includes hikes. It's not so much the rain you have to worry about, it's the lightning.
I don't ever want to move an entire office again. Too many people with too many opinions that aren't actually in the office all the time. I also ended up hurting my foot again last week doing who knows what when moving things.
The CDC is locked in a power struggle with key states and agriculture players as it tries to better track the virus and prevent another potential pandemic.
So... this is very much normal for middle of nowhere rural America. Chicken killing dogs don't get very many chances, if any, as the rural lore is that once they start killing chickens they won't stop. It's common to try to train the dog to not kill chickens by tying a dead chicken around the dog's neck, and if that doesn't work you put the dog down. Nuisance animals get the same treatment, aka kill it and move on. I'm not at all surprised she included this in her book as she probably didn't think it was wrong.
Obviously the dog stuff is crap. Dogs are trainable, and failings for the dog fall squarely on the owners shoulders.
Every company that is contributing to the occupation and the genocide of Palestinians should be boycotted. And doing so should not be illegal. It’s madness that it’s illegal in the US to refuse To do business with Israeli companies. I’m talking about the ones that fit the criteria of my last sentence.
I also know many companies contribute to shittiness happening. It’s one of those when you know better, you do better things for me. Find out a company is operating in the West Bank illegally? Don’t support them. Find out a company uses child labor for Pennies in India? Don’t support them. Shouldn’t be illegal.
Are you talking about the new bill that passed the House?
The genocide in Palestine is also an American problem. Our tax money funds it. We have Palestinian-American citizens. They are re-writing laws in America to say that criticizing Israel is antisemitic. I don’t see how you could possibly think this has nothing to do with us?
i literally got smacked down for saying the protests should be directed at those who are in a relevant position of power - our possible next president, Congress, state legislators making those laws you mention. That's what started this. Me suggesting those same students could hop a subway to downtown if they wanted to impact those with greater power over American foreign policy.
They ARE protesting the right people. Most of the universities in the US are in some way shape or form tied to weapons manufacturing, defense, etc. So college students protesting where their tuition money goes, or what type of money is being accepted into the university system, is entirely appropriate. That's why the core message of these protests is divestment.
Shit like this drives me crazy. You are criticizing something without knowing their why, and you would actually probably support them if it wasn't being tied to this particular cause.
You're marrying into the family and whatever participation the FI has with their family. If your FI is close, then that's your family. If your FI is distant, then you have less of a relationship with them.
I think the "you're marrying your FI and putting them above everything" is a fine and lofty goal, but that rarely happens.
Is Kent state so distant that we don't know about it? Or, more probably, did Florida ban teaching about kent?
Firing on students hasn't historically worked well for the feds
Wait…did I miss someone calling in feds/national guard this week?
I don’t know if they’re still teaching about Kent State. I remember writing a research paper about it in APUSH (in 1997!). I’ll have to ask my students. We have deliberately not been wearing our military uniforms on campus this week because we don’t want anyone to mistakenly think that someone called in the national guard.
Several universities have been criticized by Congress people for not calling the national guard.
also, you don’t seem very informed on what has or has not been happening in NYC
True. Stepping out.
Locally, I'm seeing actions that only affect people who don't have relevant power. Asking for divestment from organizations that are barred by state law from divesting feels like that.
Did you feel this way with the BLM protests happening in other parts of the country than the events that sparked them? Because I'm guessing that's a resounding, "No."
His team set up a campaign stop last week with about 100 supporters at a construction site after Trump complained that there weren't sufficient crowds outside the courthouse to support him
I want to see some of the Gaza protestors showing up at the courthouse. This jack ass could be making US foreign policy for four years. Let him know how you feel rather than shutting down finals study groups of equally inconsequential classmates.