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Parenting is a great rubber meets the road of life. You have all these ideas and plans and then your child is crying because you took away some scissors that they were trying to run off with and you look to your spouse and mouth "I should have pulled out".
The hardest part is not laughing when you're trying to stop the kid from doing something bad and they're flipping out.
Yeah we had that happen when we ran out of cookies. He was making a huge production. Like grabbing his stuffed animal slamming into the ground and wailing and its like "dude its just some cookies and we've offered other solutions, you're like going the full picard here over cookies."
Picard was right tho.
There were five lights.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
As far as I can recall from that long ago our PNW history class actually did a pretty decent job talking about cultures that were around in the NW pre-Europeans.
What it did a pretty bad job on was the Chinese and Japanese presence, Chinese were barely mentioned except for railroads and the Japanese only show up for the internment.
But Asian influence on the West Coast still tends to get half-assed treatment even in a lot of academic history of the west, so I suppose that's not bad considering.
Great pains were taken to raise kids to believe the US is for White Europeans only.
Mmmmm, see this is something that I also have to push back on.
Like, my big passion in history is minority viewpoints, especially in social history. Like my senior thesis was basically an argument that we can and should approach the Chinese expulsion of '85-'86 through primarily Chinese viewpoints, that the Chinese had far more agency than is typically depicted, were active in responding to violent threats, and were just generally far more engaged in Washington Territory's social fabric than is usually acknowledged. I have big beef with a large portion of the historiography and how anti-Chinese violence has been handled by generations of writers.
And yet to say "great pains were taken" to depict only a white European viewpoint is not really accurate either. If anything it's typically the reverse - white European viewpoints were simply the easiest documents to access and read for white European historians, and thus the most likely to be represented. Winners might not always write the histories, but they do tend to leave a lot more documents behind. Historians often write to explain the world that they see in front of them, and what 20th century historians in the NW saw was a primarily white society, so they wrote to explain that society, without really examining if the society had always been that white or that dominant.
History shapes cultural assumptions, but cultural assumptions also shape historiography. The idea that "great pains were taken..." implies that historians knew The Truth, and then purposefully reshaped it into a singular political message with a purpose. And certainly there are times when that's true to a degree. But far more commonly the historians simply never saw The Truth at all, it simply never occurred to them to ask the sorts of questions that would challenge their prevailing worldview.
That's not to say that these kinds of pressures aren't insidious, and aren't often based in very real racism, sexism, etc... But they're rarely that organized or thoughtful, either. It's bad history - or at least incomplete, flawed history - but it's typically not propaganda.
Just to briefly follow up on this point, it's really best to understand history writing as a series of people asking questions about the past. A lot of older history is actually still really good at answering the question it's trying to answer... Instead it becomes outdated because the questions it was asking are revealed as incomplete or myopic.
So like in the case of the Chinese expulsion, the first big history of the expulsion was probably Wilcox in 1929, who viewed the riots less in racial terms, although he acknowledged racial animus against the Chinese, but more as a matter of worker unrest against company bosses. He uses civil leaders opposition to mob violence not to demonstrate support for racial justice, but as a demonstration of the power of law over terroristic violence. His argument comes up not just because he suddenly wanted to talk about some Chinese getting kicked out 40-odd years ago, but because he's trying to teach a lesson against civil unrest in the Washington state of his time, which was facing similar tensions regarding Japanese immigration at the time. His history is actually quite good as far as it goes, he's quite correct on the basic facts of the incidents and who did them and why they said they did them, but he only considers viewpoints that relate back to his core message of fixing immigration through federal law and not local extra-legal means, and gives credence to viewpoints that a more modern writer would not consider trustworthy.
By 1948 Karlin writes a history of the expulsion which treats racism as a much more important part of the expulsion. He's not really using any sources that Wilcox wasn't, but now Washington didn't have immigrant pressures, and the US was still kindly disposed towards their wartime allies the Chinese, so he instead treats ethnic cleansing against the Chinese as something deplorable, reflecting his own post-WW2 moral viewpoint.... But also still not actually seeking out any Chinese viewpoints to include, even though he strongly critiques violence against them.
Skip past the Civil Rights movement and by 1982 there's historians questioning the very nature of the "white" vs. Chinese divide that had been typically assumed, and scholars theorized about how anti-Chinese rhetoric by local leaders was used to forge a shared racial "white" identity in the NW by identifying a racial other that working whites could oppose. Other historians instead looked at it from a Marxist perspective, or a labor perspective, questioning what role the Chinese had in the negotiations of power between labor and management. Then you get into the '90s and a growing Chinese population in the NW fuels growing interest in ethnic histories that approach the expulsions from the perspective of its effect on the Chinese/asian community in the NW, while other historians build on earlier questions about the NW's racial identities to argue that it wasn't "white vs. chinese" at all, but rather recent European immigrants fighting against entrenched American interests, which included the Chinese.
All these histories are presenting exactly the same basic facts and narrative, and yet they arrive at dramatically different impressions of the events purely because of how they question and examine that basic narrative. But there's never really some sort of effort to mislead by any of those writers, just different assumptions about what parts are important and interesting and which aren't.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
Parenting is a great rubber meets the road of life. You have all these ideas and plans and then your child is crying because you took away some scissors that they were trying to run off with and you look to your spouse and mouth "I should have pulled out".
The hardest part is not laughing when you're trying to stop the kid from doing something bad and they're flipping out.
Yeah we had that happen when we ran out of cookies. He was making a huge production. Like grabbing his stuffed animal slamming into the ground and wailing and its like "dude its just some cookies and we've offered other solutions, you're like going the full picard here over cookies."
Picard was right tho.
There were five lights.
you coward
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Parenting is a great rubber meets the road of life. You have all these ideas and plans and then your child is crying because you took away some scissors that they were trying to run off with and you look to your spouse and mouth "I should have pulled out".
The hardest part is not laughing when you're trying to stop the kid from doing something bad and they're flipping out.
This is what my brother and I struggle with
We'll be hanging with his son / my nephew and then he'll do something totally unacceptable but also absolutely hilarious, and both of us keeping a straight face while disciplining him is so hard
Henry didn't want to get ready for school. We got his shirt on him, and told him to put on his underwear. He yells "NO!", bends over with his naked ass in the air, yells "LOOK AT MY BOOTY!" then all-fours monkey walks out of the room as fast as he could. There's no counter to that. You just sit there and hope he doesn't come back before you've composed yourself.
Parenting is a great rubber meets the road of life. You have all these ideas and plans and then your child is crying because you took away some scissors that they were trying to run off with and you look to your spouse and mouth "I should have pulled out".
The hardest part is not laughing when you're trying to stop the kid from doing something bad and they're flipping out.
Yeah we had that happen when we ran out of cookies. He was making a huge production. Like grabbing his stuffed animal slamming into the ground and wailing and its like "dude its just some cookies and we've offered other solutions, you're like going the full picard here over cookies."
Picard was right tho.
There were five lights.
you coward
The truest defiance is agreeing with someone you know is wrong.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I just had a really good workout. I didn't get any cramping at all during cardio. Went further than usual and kept up a pace that was better than i've had in a few weeks.
The only thing i've changed is that I haven't been drinking coffee because I unintentionally had a good workout after a few days of not needing any coffee. I am happy that my body feels better but wow if I have to cut out coffee to become a beautiful boy i'm going to be sad.
I was working early in the mornings for a while and noticed how much better in general I felt when I didn't have time to drink a bunch of coffee in the morning. Too much caffeine really affected my anxiety levels.
...Now of course today I had a 30 oz diet pepsi from burger king because I'm terrible at learning my lesson.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
Parenting is a great rubber meets the road of life. You have all these ideas and plans and then your child is crying because you took away some scissors that they were trying to run off with and you look to your spouse and mouth "I should have pulled out".
The hardest part is not laughing when you're trying to stop the kid from doing something bad and they're flipping out.
Yeah we had that happen when we ran out of cookies. He was making a huge production. Like grabbing his stuffed animal slamming into the ground and wailing and its like "dude its just some cookies and we've offered other solutions, you're like going the full picard here over cookies."
Picard was right tho.
There were five lights.
you coward
The truest defiance is agreeing with someone you know is wrong.
Really why didn't he just agree right away. Disagree, he gets pain. Agree... ??? "There are five lights!" "Ok sure, five, whatever you say." "A HA now... wait... son of a..."
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I probably drink 10 coffees a week on average
Some days zero, some days 1, 2, one day I might have 3
I think those zero days are real important, though
Parenting is a great rubber meets the road of life. You have all these ideas and plans and then your child is crying because you took away some scissors that they were trying to run off with and you look to your spouse and mouth "I should have pulled out".
The hardest part is not laughing when you're trying to stop the kid from doing something bad and they're flipping out.
Yeah we had that happen when we ran out of cookies. He was making a huge production. Like grabbing his stuffed animal slamming into the ground and wailing and its like "dude its just some cookies and we've offered other solutions, you're like going the full picard here over cookies."
Picard was right tho.
There were five lights.
you coward
The truest defiance is agreeing with someone you know is wrong.
Really why didn't he just agree right away. Disagree, he gets pain. Agree... ??? "There are five lights!" "Ok sure, five, whatever you say." "A HA now... wait... son of a..."
He would have gotten pain for agreeing. Picard brings it up with Troi later, but towards the end Picard was finding he could see the fifth light. He was being broken down to accept the reality his torturer was giving him.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Parenting is a great rubber meets the road of life. You have all these ideas and plans and then your child is crying because you took away some scissors that they were trying to run off with and you look to your spouse and mouth "I should have pulled out".
The hardest part is not laughing when you're trying to stop the kid from doing something bad and they're flipping out.
Yeah we had that happen when we ran out of cookies. He was making a huge production. Like grabbing his stuffed animal slamming into the ground and wailing and its like "dude its just some cookies and we've offered other solutions, you're like going the full picard here over cookies."
Picard was right tho.
There were five lights.
you coward
The truest defiance is agreeing with someone you know is wrong.
Really why didn't he just agree right away. Disagree, he gets pain. Agree... ??? "There are five lights!" "Ok sure, five, whatever you say." "A HA now... wait... son of a..."
He agrees he most likely gets pain anyway. It was a conditioning tactic. Defying the initial process was the only solution in place. Or turn over Starfleet secrets I guess.
Parenting is a great rubber meets the road of life. You have all these ideas and plans and then your child is crying because you took away some scissors that they were trying to run off with and you look to your spouse and mouth "I should have pulled out".
The hardest part is not laughing when you're trying to stop the kid from doing something bad and they're flipping out.
Yeah we had that happen when we ran out of cookies. He was making a huge production. Like grabbing his stuffed animal slamming into the ground and wailing and its like "dude its just some cookies and we've offered other solutions, you're like going the full picard here over cookies."
Picard was right tho.
There were five lights.
you coward
The truest defiance is agreeing with someone you know is wrong.
Really why didn't he just agree right away. Disagree, he gets pain. Agree... ??? "There are five lights!" "Ok sure, five, whatever you say." "A HA now... wait... son of a..."
He would have gotten pain for agreeing. Picard brings it up with Troi later, but towards the end Picard was finding he could see the fifth light. He was being broken down to accept the reality his torturer was giving him.
The torture doesn't work if he just agrees though. If Madred shocked him no matter what, there's no reason for the lights. They could just zap him, go "Ready to tell us everything?" "No", and zap him again until he cracks. Fuckin, Madred just got a deal at Cardassian Home Depot or something and had extra bulbs laying around.
Parenting is a great rubber meets the road of life. You have all these ideas and plans and then your child is crying because you took away some scissors that they were trying to run off with and you look to your spouse and mouth "I should have pulled out".
The hardest part is not laughing when you're trying to stop the kid from doing something bad and they're flipping out.
Yeah we had that happen when we ran out of cookies. He was making a huge production. Like grabbing his stuffed animal slamming into the ground and wailing and its like "dude its just some cookies and we've offered other solutions, you're like going the full picard here over cookies."
Picard was right tho.
There were five lights.
you coward
The truest defiance is agreeing with someone you know is wrong.
Really why didn't he just agree right away. Disagree, he gets pain. Agree... ??? "There are five lights!" "Ok sure, five, whatever you say." "A HA now... wait... son of a..."
He would have gotten pain for agreeing. Picard brings it up with Troi later, but towards the end Picard was finding he could see the fifth light. He was being broken down to accept the reality his torturer was giving him.
The torture doesn't work if he just agrees though. If Madred shocked him no matter what, there's no reason for the lights. They could just zap him, go "Ready to tell us everything?" "No", and zap him again until he cracks. Fuckin, Madred just got a deal at Cardassian Home Depot or something and had extra bulbs laying around.
Parenting is a great rubber meets the road of life. You have all these ideas and plans and then your child is crying because you took away some scissors that they were trying to run off with and you look to your spouse and mouth "I should have pulled out".
The hardest part is not laughing when you're trying to stop the kid from doing something bad and they're flipping out.
Yeah we had that happen when we ran out of cookies. He was making a huge production. Like grabbing his stuffed animal slamming into the ground and wailing and its like "dude its just some cookies and we've offered other solutions, you're like going the full picard here over cookies."
something a doctor (one that worked for us at one point) said to me once when we were discussing kids and why I wasn't interested in them is that for kids, all these experiences are new to them and their brain is wiring itself up to deal with the complexity of life and decision trees and all that
and that yeah you don't have anymore cookies, but, to the kid that is a situation where their brain is super interested in getting more cookies and doesn't know how to rationalize there's a finite number of cookies to eat and they are now gone... so it responds in the only way it knows how, whine
not sure how accurate she was about that, but it makes sense
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Parenting is a great rubber meets the road of life. You have all these ideas and plans and then your child is crying because you took away some scissors that they were trying to run off with and you look to your spouse and mouth "I should have pulled out".
The hardest part is not laughing when you're trying to stop the kid from doing something bad and they're flipping out.
Yeah we had that happen when we ran out of cookies. He was making a huge production. Like grabbing his stuffed animal slamming into the ground and wailing and its like "dude its just some cookies and we've offered other solutions, you're like going the full picard here over cookies."
something a doctor (one that worked for us at one point) said to me once when we were discussing kids and why I wasn't interested in them is that for kids, all these experiences are new to them and their brain is wiring itself up to deal with the complexity of life and decision trees and all that
and that yeah you don't have anymore cookies, but, to the kid that is a situation where their brain is super interested in getting more cookies and doesn't know how to rationalize there's a finite number of cookies to eat and they are now gone... so it responds in the only way it knows how, whine
not sure how accurate she was about that, but it makes sense
We've run into the "money is finite" discussion a couple times with my nephew this year
The bank doesn't just hand out money, no, sorry buddy
And darn it, stop asking where Uncle Brad's car is! :P
There's a woman capitulating to her 3-year-old and agreeing to buy him a soda because he's being insistent about it
You want to say as a parent you wouldn't do that and that your encouraging shit behavior. But god damn your child melting down over something stupid and small is so easy to give in on...
It is damn hard to hold the line on that sometimes.
Just keep doing the limited choice illusion and hang on.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
My favorite thing about this boom is how many new agents its attracting, people who couldn't sell water in the desert think they can sell in a market that has nothing for sale. Their signing up to fail because they can't read actual news articles beyond "home prices highest they have ever been!"
Sure the commissions are probably double or maybe even triple what they are in Oklahoma or Colorado. But you're also paying those costs to live there, and, there's less to sell in a boom.
You'd be better off being a run of a mill realtor in bumfuckia nowhere and sell a dozen houses a month at 120k than selling one house a quarter at 600k+.
As someone industry adjacent, eh. Selling low value properties comes with a whole raft of issues that realtors fucking hate dealing with. Most of them seem to want to push into the luxury market if they can.
Yes, I know, I am familiar with "I am lazy and hate doing things that are my job"
Doesn't help realtors hate technology too, they could easily automate away 3/4 of their job writing up contracts if they wanted to. It's the same boilerplate shit over and over.
We actually offer really good paperless technology that makes it easy to write a contract up and send it off for esignatures, but I'd say over half our membership fucking hates it because they are the kind of fucking idiot that answers "What's your browser" with "windows".
Everytime we upgrade our mls software we get old fucks wanting to go back to the days of real estate books. And the disgusting thing is older agents have reputations and establishment leads that keep them doing business well past their use by date.
We did all of the real estate stuff via docusign I think. It was great. I liked our agent and understand why they exist but I'm not sure I'd need/want on on the selling side. Maybe it would be different if it's a buyers market when we eventually sell.
Buyers agents love sellers that aren't represented. Anyone who believes they are too smart for an industry are serving themselves up on a platter to it.
I guess it also depends on how fast you need to sell. The selling side of our transaction didn't do anything.
We signed, had some requests for repairs etc which were rejected.
I'm in Los Angeles though, and worked in the industry for a little while. Maybe I'm missing something though.
With our contracts I can think of several ways I could fuck a seller without them noticing they got fucked up until the closing. Could be differences in systems.
Real estate attorneys are $500 in IL and legally required. Wayyy cheaper than a broker.
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Just to briefly follow up on this point, it's really best to understand history writing as a series of people asking questions about the past. A lot of older history is actually still really good at answering the question it's trying to answer... Instead it becomes outdated because the questions it was asking are revealed as incomplete or myopic.
So like in the case of the Chinese expulsion, the first big history of the expulsion was probably Wilcox in 1929, who viewed the riots less in racial terms, although he acknowledged racial animus against the Chinese, but more as a matter of worker unrest against company bosses. He uses civil leaders opposition to mob violence not to demonstrate support for racial justice, but as a demonstration of the power of law over terroristic violence. His argument comes up not just because he suddenly wanted to talk about some Chinese getting kicked out 40-odd years ago, but because he's trying to teach a lesson against civil unrest in the Washington state of his time, which was facing similar tensions regarding Japanese immigration at the time. His history is actually quite good as far as it goes, he's quite correct on the basic facts of the incidents and who did them and why they said they did them, but he only considers viewpoints that relate back to his core message of fixing immigration through federal law and not local extra-legal means, and gives credence to viewpoints that a more modern writer would not consider trustworthy.
By 1948 Karlin writes a history of the expulsion which treats racism as a much more important part of the expulsion. He's not really using any sources that Wilcox wasn't, but now Washington didn't have immigrant pressures, and the US was still kindly disposed towards their wartime allies the Chinese, so he instead treats ethnic cleansing against the Chinese as something deplorable, reflecting his own post-WW2 moral viewpoint.... But also still not actually seeking out any Chinese viewpoints to include, even though he strongly critiques violence against them.
Skip past the Civil Rights movement and by 1982 there's historians questioning the very nature of the "white" vs. Chinese divide that had been typically assumed, and scholars theorized about how anti-Chinese rhetoric by local leaders was used to forge a shared racial "white" identity in the NW by identifying a racial other that working whites could oppose. Other historians instead looked at it from a Marxist perspective, or a labor perspective, questioning what role the Chinese had in the negotiations of power between labor and management. Then you get into the '90s and a growing Chinese population in the NW fuels growing interest in ethnic histories that approach the expulsions from the perspective of its effect on the Chinese/asian community in the NW, while other historians build on earlier questions about the NW's racial identities to argue that it wasn't "white vs. chinese" at all, but rather recent European immigrants fighting against entrenched American interests, which included the Chinese.
All these histories are presenting exactly the same basic facts and narrative, and yet they arrive at dramatically different impressions of the events purely because of how they question and examine that basic narrative. But there's never really some sort of effort to mislead by any of those writers, just different assumptions about what parts are important and interesting and which aren't.
My showing starts in 45 minutes. Unfortunately, I only got halfway through the original today.
you coward
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Henry didn't want to get ready for school. We got his shirt on him, and told him to put on his underwear. He yells "NO!", bends over with his naked ass in the air, yells "LOOK AT MY BOOTY!" then all-fours monkey walks out of the room as fast as he could. There's no counter to that. You just sit there and hope he doesn't come back before you've composed yourself.
The truest defiance is agreeing with someone you know is wrong.
pleasepaypreacher.net
I was working early in the mornings for a while and noticed how much better in general I felt when I didn't have time to drink a bunch of coffee in the morning. Too much caffeine really affected my anxiety levels.
...Now of course today I had a 30 oz diet pepsi from burger king because I'm terrible at learning my lesson.
The ending is the best part of the movie!
YES GOOD YES YES
Really why didn't he just agree right away. Disagree, he gets pain. Agree... ??? "There are five lights!" "Ok sure, five, whatever you say." "A HA now... wait... son of a..."
Some days zero, some days 1, 2, one day I might have 3
I think those zero days are real important, though
He would have gotten pain for agreeing. Picard brings it up with Troi later, but towards the end Picard was finding he could see the fifth light. He was being broken down to accept the reality his torturer was giving him.
pleasepaypreacher.net
If you go into labor during the movie will Blade Runner 2049 be a crowning achievement?
Some days zero, some days 1, 2, one day I might have 3
I think those zero days are real important, though
Gotta keep my pace up to keep up with my nephew and to match my dad's partner's energy level
Get out of here.
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He agrees he most likely gets pain anyway. It was a conditioning tactic. Defying the initial process was the only solution in place. Or turn over Starfleet secrets I guess.
The torture doesn't work if he just agrees though. If Madred shocked him no matter what, there's no reason for the lights. They could just zap him, go "Ready to tell us everything?" "No", and zap him again until he cracks. Fuckin, Madred just got a deal at Cardassian Home Depot or something and had extra bulbs laying around.
Its 2 + 2 = 5 basically.
Little Witch Academia is how the Marxists get you.
something a doctor (one that worked for us at one point) said to me once when we were discussing kids and why I wasn't interested in them is that for kids, all these experiences are new to them and their brain is wiring itself up to deal with the complexity of life and decision trees and all that
and that yeah you don't have anymore cookies, but, to the kid that is a situation where their brain is super interested in getting more cookies and doesn't know how to rationalize there's a finite number of cookies to eat and they are now gone... so it responds in the only way it knows how, whine
not sure how accurate she was about that, but it makes sense
It's good
We've run into the "money is finite" discussion a couple times with my nephew this year
The bank doesn't just hand out money, no, sorry buddy
And darn it, stop asking where Uncle Brad's car is! :P
I hate that the article ended with the names of his children because I had to do a double take to make sure I wasn't ready something false.
It's not funny but in a really weird way it's like telling one last joke. All of his kids names. . .are months of the year.
I am eating pork ribs from the grocery store, warmed up in my oven, watching a video about North Koreans eating fancy BBQ.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU
they ain't wrong tho
It is damn hard to hold the line on that sometimes.
Just keep doing the limited choice illusion and hang on.
Look at this highly professional torso!
So employable
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
you went with that?
hm.
Real estate attorneys are $500 in IL and legally required. Wayyy cheaper than a broker.
The photographer was insistent about that combo!