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Having adult guidance is very important. Just telling teens to "get a job" isn't.
Making $3000 over a few months at an after school job as a teen isn't a good use of a young person's time in most cases and if they can afford to do other things such as study, learning a language, learning a skill it's a better use of time.
I don't think the kids I've taught who worked needed all those hours to get how budgets and taxes work.
I say this as someone who worked at a mall tutoring center all through HS to save money for tuition.
I would have gotten better grades if I could have only worked summers but that was not an option.
As a teacher I find most teens are excited to get a job, and overestimate how much they can do and how little sleep is OK.
When students in HS have to hold down a job during the school year it hurts their education. Summer jobs are another matter.
Students may choose courses that are less academically challenging to keep their grades up, or their grades may fall.
It also makes things like being on a sports team or in a club difficult.
Ultimately it's the sense that they think they can "triangulate" me (say one thing to me and another to less left leaning democrats) that has me very sour on most of the party moderates.
It's just dishonest.
And it's condescending.
But I find that moderate Democrats who found success doing this kind of trick with Bubba and Obama still think it will work and it just doesn't.
It's good for politicians to target mailers and advertising, but this should always be done with the assumption that voters talk to each other.
For example if I find out that a politician sent a teacher a message about unions and improving education that seems sensible and like they are interested in who the voters are.
But if you try to talk behind people's backs? Try to be a progressive to some voters but regressive to others?
hooo boy. That makes you seem creepy and untrustworthy.
They didn't send the one where they made his beard darker to me... but they sent that one to my husband who's white.
CHARMING MR.CUOMO just what I want in a NYC mayor.
OMG go jump in a lake.
(on second thought do not jump in the lake it would be bad for the water and environment)
Some of my friends who are married don't get two fliers and I wonder if it might be because my husband and I aren't the same race, which is the other data they seem to have?
They also struggle to get that right for same sex couples.
hm.
They seem to know I'm a teacher based on some of the fliers, but that's about it.
To their credit they do send us fliers in English, while my next door neighbor who mostly speaks Spanish gets them in Spanish... however she says the translations were very clunky and hard to read.
It's addressed to me, and to my husband, and they are not smart enough to realize that if we have the same address and last name we're married and don't need TWO copies of everything.
Alternately it could be a D&D game, but I think the constraints of a literal game like minecraft would make it more material... playing an RP game would be too vulnerable to BS.
Did you get the diamonds or nah?
Is your automatic farm working?
Why not?
etc.
There should also be some regular people involved.
A few kids who know a lot about the game, a cranky old person, an actual engineer who'd be aghast at the nonsense physics of the game...
It's not fair. You get this and all I get is political junk mail!
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/114763164556713325
And this mixed response relates to your first point. Stories aren't just "good" or "bad" ... they are also "good for you right now" or... maybe not.
A book can be basically perfectly written and still unreadable for some people in some moments.
Does that make any sense?
I loved what R.F. Kuang's Babel was doing, and many aspects of the world but it was also very heavy and I didn't read the whole thing because in some ways it was "too realistic" ... which almost makes no sense, but I'm always looking for sparks of hope and wonder in fiction and it felt a bit more like a parable than experiencing something out of context and new.
I think it's a good book, but maybe not for me in this moment.
I will come back to it.
tactical ants!
They smell bad and are slightly sticky in the most offputting way. I assume if burned the fumes would kill.
Is it odd that I would be more likely to read a simple letter in an envelope?
My eyes glaze over when I see these things. It is work to look at them at all and I mostly don't.
Couldn't they send just one clear letter instead of 20 of these huge fliers?
Also the texture of the printing is gross. They are unpleasant to touch.
Cute straps that match the necklace. I like it.
Why is there a mink coat?