Tarkoitin tasoryhmillä jonkinlaista vaikkapa luokan sisäistä etenemistahtia pienryhmittäin, jossa ne hitaammin oppivat saavat enemmän/parempaa tukea vaikka kouluavustajan kautta ja ne nopeammin etenevät saavat kuitenkin riittävästi haasteita eteensä etteivät tylsisty.

Tuosta samaa mieltä, tukea ja haasteita pienryhmittäin.

Itse ajattelen tasoryhmillä jaettuja luokkia. Omina yläasteaikoinani 90-luvulla oli ainakin matematiikassa joko puhetta tai toimia siihen suuntaan että luokat jaettiin eri tunneille, osa “lahjakkaiden” ja osa “normaalien” matematiikkaan. Jo silloin ajatus tuntui itsestäni jotenkin painostavalta (ehdottomasti otin peruskoulusta mukaan “fiksun” identiteetin, paineet ja putoamisen pelon) ja jotenkin pahalta “B-ryhmän” suhteen. Tällaista en haluaisi yhtään nuoremmille, tai oikeastaan lainkaan ennen lukiota.

Tarkkiksia valitettavasti varmaan tarvitaan, mutta en sellaiselle ihan ensimmäisenä tai kolmantena keinona lasta lähettäisi. Tasoryhmien suhteen olen vielä kriittisempi. Siinä helposti tulee lapselle “fiksun” tai “tyhmän” leima osaksi identiteettiä, mikä sitten helposti kostautuu tulevaisuudessa. Ennemmin lisäisin yksilöllistä tukea ja/tai haasteita tarpeen mukaan. Ja me ollaan jo ihan tarpeeksi kuplaantuneita, olisi ihan kiva että edes koulussa joutuisi kohtaamaan erilaisia ihmisiä.

Muuten olen sitä mieltä että lisää (iänmukaista) pervoilua kouluihin, vaivaton suhtautuminen seksuaalisuuteen olisi hyvä asia.

Oh, they trust the government too, or would say so if asked. Kinda “work with the system and the system works with you” trust, firm belief in not making waves or drawing undue attention to yourself. And, well, it works for upper middle class native white people in EU, if you can look away or give your silent consent to whatever is happening.

Big companies and the government are familiar 🙄, known 😐 and thus safe 😑.

My messenger needs to be one my 70+ parents, who trust big companies and mistrust anything too small, or different, or “extreme”, are willing to use. Getting them to install Signal so we could still have our family group chat after I deleted WhatsApp was a major win. Scanning each others’ QR codes, having to go through some process when they change phones…? Yeah, they would’ve been scared of being “put on a list” and wouldn’t have gone through the technical stuff even for me.

Lupaan että kämpän tavaramäärä vähenee. Kirjojen eteen ei tarvitse laittaa tavaraa, keittiön kaapistoissa on väljää, vaatekaapissa ja hyllyillä tilaa ym.

Pitää tyhjentää syksyllä remonttia varten joka tapauksessa, hyvä vuosi tälle.

Well, if you’re for real, you pretty much answered your own question there. Many guys online are creeps, and you’d prefer to talk with women rather than try to find the golden fun normal person in a haystack of men.

As a relative newcomer to the privacy community, I don’t remember constantly hearing about things being overreacting. What I do remember hearing is to think about your threat model and behaving accordingly, to not over-sacrifice convenience for things that aren’t a priority to you.

Non-US

Completed

• living will
• life insurance; no reason for choosing that particular one
• am aware of how my inheritance goes without a will and am fine with it (lower inheritance tax this way)

Should still do

• power-of-attorney paperwork to trigger if I’m deemed incapable, apparently makes it easier
• funeral “instructions”, something to follow if they don’t want to think about it too much, but they know I really don’t care
• make sure they do the same

Amen to that. Everyone has their own balance point, Calyx seems to hit that for many.

Calyx also comes with MicroG, right? So mitigates many problems with a bit more Google.

And Fairphone 4 here, partly for Divest (had it on Oneplus 6 before this and just used to it), partly because of a good deal for a barely used one.

There’s also the Lineage-based DivestOS that attempts to keep up with more security updates, and relocking the bootloader in phones that support it.

https://divestos.org/

This, so much. You majored in philosophy, you know more about absurdism than I do. You also know there’s no such thing as “being ahead” or “being behind” in life, just being closer or further to your own values.

You’ve got an approximate 30-40 years of good cognition and physical ability left, and soon after you’ll die and nothing will have mattered anyway. “Existed safely until s/he died” is one possible path to take, but it sounds like you want permission to stop being scared. Go for it, the world doesn’t care.

Try to buy over 50% of ExxonMobil or Shell (Saudi Aramco and Sinopec probably aren’t up for grabs) and shut down everything I can while holding on to the owned/leased land so nobody else can start there either. Fossil fuels get more expensive, hopefully pushing for a green change, and at least some of them remain in the ground.

So you think 16 is a child?

I’m 40+ and would still have major reservations about dating someone 13 years younger. “Compatible personalities” makes for friends across age groups, and yes, even that you are more likely to find with a 3- rather than 13-year age gap. Being a long-term couple takes more.

The first thing is the younger party being protected and allowed to develop, which it sounds like she is.

For me the rough time comes from realizing that either your son is dating her for her age (legal I guess, but ick), or he has so much in common with a 16-year-old it’s enough to carry a relationship, which… Dude, what did you do in those 13 years to not grow as a person, ick. I can definitely understand why it would change your perception.

Then again, there isn’t really anything you can do about it, except express your disapproval every now and then, but make is easy for either party to end the relationship without an “I told you so”. Of all the actions for you to not condone, this is pretty mild. He could have joined a cult, committed crime, or “date” a 12-year-old.

Anything to excuse our unhealthy diets, huh.

You’re aware of low-volume HIIT? Max 15 minutes per day, evidence-based for cardiovascular health same as “normal” exercise. Not for building muscle afaik, and finding your own among the many more-or-less tested ones can be a chore. The popular “Scientific 7-minute workout” and it new versions would probably be a good place to start, and are targeted more for building strength afaik.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37939367/ https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/

Edit: Oh, and to answer your question, I don’t. I do move about by bike and play BeatSaber because it’s fun, otherwise decomposing.

This is mild, but I once read a paper with an author called Warwick Blood. Apparently he was a leading researcher into the role of media in public understanding of social issues who died in 2022, and not the big bad of a D&D campaign.

Her name is Gerd which in Germany is a male name.

Gerd as a woman’s name sounds nordically normal. But I still snicker when I hear about someone with “Maria” as a male middle name. Like Rainer Maria Rilke, or Carl Maria von Weber.