I was just wondering when this was coming out!
Are you doing anything around the launch around Oakland or SF? The cover looks great, btw.
First, I just want to highlight that when considering what is best for a kid, it's better to consider tradeoffs rather than whether something is "healthy or unhealthy". It's possible that it's unhealthy for your 12 year old to co-sleep with you, but it's also possible that it's unhealthy for them to suffer from a feeling of isolation. If so, it may be an appropriate trade-off.
Second, I agree with @Fletcher@lemmy.today. The important thing is to try and address underlying causes, and also make this kind of comfort a short-term practice if possible.
Does your kid have any regular contact with a school counselor that they trust? I think the key question is why they're doing this now. Is there anything recently that has caused additional stress that is hindering sleep? Could it be natural developmental processes impacting their sleep cycle? Would more physical activity in the afternoon help tire them out so they have an easier time falling asleep? Would a change in eating times or diet help? Would melatonin gummies help?
Also, I think this should be self-evident, but I find it worth saying: I think it's healthy to have these conversations with the kid. Tell them you're concerned that co-sleeping is not healthy, but want to make sure they're comfortable. Ask them if they know why they've been having more trouble sleeping lately. Involve them in the process of trying to figure out how to approach this so they learn approaches to mindfully examine and manage their own health.
I think you're over-parsing their language. A lot of people just naturally use gender neutral language on social media by habit.
Also, advice is often given generally. Although we're talking about a specific kid, the advice is directed towards any other parent reading the advice as well.
This article assumes a lot of contextual familiarity on the part of the reader.
I pay attention to Israeli-Palestinian news pretty closely, and even I don't know what is going on between the Druze and the Bedoins. Really, the extent of my understanding is that these are both minority ethnic groups in Israel. Neither is treated well by the government or society, but they're also not generally targeted as harshly as Palestinians.
I don't know what beef there is between these groups, although I'm displeased to hear that people are abducting people.
OP, if you could provide greater context I'd be appreciative.
Does uploading slow down downloading? I thought the two processes were totally decoupled. How does this work?
I feel like the important distinction between this and all those Spider-Man examples is that all those Spider-Man examples take place in the context of Spider-Man being a superhero. He's a guy who shows up to save people.
I'm fine with a story of a hero failing it succumbing to temptation. But a better analogy would be if in Raimi's Spider-Man, Uncle Ben never died and Peter just direct the rest of the movie using his new powers trying to buy a car to impress MJ.
That seems far fetched, but who knows. I think that would be very misguided.
This is only a proven if you park your bike drained.
If you use this for topping off, it's a great system.
Gaza has collapsed. It is beset by famine and starvation. Widespread unavailability of fuel is exacerbating the collapse of infrastructure and systems essential to preserve life. Gaza is in large parts no longer habitable.
I'm so sick of articles saying it's on "the edge of collapse" or "teetering on famine" or "soon to be uninhabitable".
It happened. It's a killing field. All life in Gaza is now persisting in spite of efforts to extinguish it. Nursing mothers cannot produce milk. The elderly die for lack of basic 20th century medicines. No food can grow and what water there is is tainted and unsafe to drink. Hospitals are barely more thanpiles of rubble at which the doctors who've not yet been assassinated tearfully go to provide insufficient care to the dying on sites that were once known as houses of modern medicine.
We are watching a ruthless genocide and no humanitarian need can be fulfilled without ending the brutal blockade intended to kill all living on this land. And this is not a "looming" or "imminent" risk, it's reality.
I don't believe you could really meaningfully deter their operations through casual poor performance. I think either you'd have to directly sabotage them or you'd have to be complicit.
I do think everyone should flood their applications systems with time-wasting fake applications, but actually interviewing and getting hired is unlikely to be productive.
I want to set aside my skepticism that this philosophy can be separated from misogyny.
Even if it could, it hurts the practitioner. This is a philosophy of nihilistic abandon and self-harm. If someone has adopted a radical belief in their own hopelessness and worthlessness, and the associated beliefs that life for them can hold nothing but suffering, that person is in crisis and needs help. There isn't a healthy version of that, and we should consider those people at great risk and in need of assistance.
It does hurt someone. It hurts the person who is adopting these views.
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I stopped reading the NYTimes after I cancelled my subscription around 2019, but occasionally check it to see how close they're willing to walk to saying difficult truths. This article is a reminder why I left. It's pathetic watching them sheepishly murmur ugly facts and whisper when they should shout.
Within Israel, aid restriction is a loudly debated topic: on one hand are organizations, politicians, and pundits who argue that Israel should cut off all aid in order to exterminate every person in Gaza. And on the other are the "moderates" who argue that it is important to allow in a miniscule-but-non-zero amount of aid intended to achieve the same purpose while maintaining the farcical pretense that they aren't doing what they frequently admit they're doing. This is the range of mainstream discourse, and it is all out in the open.
They say the quiet part out loud on the floor of the kenesset every day. Does the NYTimes have some rule against reporting Netanyahu's own words if they're not spoken to an American audience? He and Smotrich and Ben-Gvir admit to committing starvation in Hebrew the same day Bibi will deny it in a speech in English.
Fuck the NYTimes.