That's actually a really good point you've made here. It's easy to defend the shoes as a parent because you're the one who (1) understands the rationale behind buying them and (2) made the decision to buy them

I wonder if a good decision in this scenario is to just give the child a shoe allowance and let them pick. If they want Nike's they will have to find a pair that fits the budget

I guess on some level there's something wholesome about it being a gardening game. I wonder how much of the success is owed to the natural human inclination towards farming

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Whether this will hold up in court is a bit murky. But without a large, laborious court battle, they can and will sell the data and they are "legally" allowed to

I have the opposite view, but I thought it would be too incendiary a topic to bring up...

Shout out to Rich Dad Poor Dad which has never made anyone Roch in the history of its printing.

I'm going to rant here because your comment re-ignited my rage.

My family and I have weekly dinners. I drive over there and pass through their neighborhood. They own a successful business so it's a pretty nice neighborhood with a good median of trees down the main road passing through (still a 25 MPH speed limit). And every week for several years now, there is a discarded Pepsi can in the median. Not the same can, but a new can every week. Someone drives through there, likely multiple times a week and I'm just not there to see it,, and throws a Pepsi can in roughly the same spot.

It enrages me. It's so senseless and selfish that I cannot even fathom a reason. My best justification is that they're a person who is "sticking it to the rich" by littering in a nice neighborhood, but that's being extremely generous. I am convinced it's purposeful because the consistency is staggering. A new can in the same 100 feet of road, every day.

And I know it's not the same can because if it snows, the snow obscures the cans and the poor hero picking them up can't see them, so when the snow melts there are several cans littered about.

It genuinely makes me so angry, because it's so inexplicably terrible. I just hate things I can't understand. It makes me more angry than Donald Trump because at least with Trump, on some level I get it. I may hate what he's doing but I can logically see why he's doing it and that understanding is almost calming, in a sense.

But this? Absolute nonsense. I just cannot see why someone would do this

No it's quite welcoming as long as you don't overstay your welcome

I spend less than an hour a day, usually. I end up scrolling past a lot of the posts because they don't interest me and are more long form content, but I like to catch up on the memes and cats

One thing that always stuck out to me about the book is the introduction of certain editions. The author writes about himself researching the history of the country the story takes place in and describes it as real, saying he took his son to a museum with Inigo's sword and everything.

I was Googling furiously when I read it because I was so confused. I was astounded that the place (and people) was "real". It took a bit of research to find that the author just does this bit and hasn't let it go since he wrote the book

I'm still so charmed that he tricked me. It made reading the book that much sillier, for me

The US has a lot of bullshit in their labeling requirements. My wife studied food science in university and some of her biggest complaints are:

• Serving sizes aren't always the entire package*
• "Natural" has almost no meaning on a package, it is just a hand-waving word
• They can hide a lot of things in the ingredients under umbrella terms like "spices" and "flavorings"
• "Made with real juice" does not mean it was made with the juice on the label. For example, a pineapple fruit juice may be more apple juice than actually pineapple juice
• They can round down to 0 calories if the actual amount is below 5

The most egregious example I've seen lately was a jar of pickles I bought where the serving size is 1/3 of a pickle (now the website says 1/2). That's just so that the sodium doesn't get out of control and, in all likelihood, because an entire pickle may be more than the 5 Calories allowed to say it's "0 Calories".

*This is changing, slowly. Manufacturers now have to put servings for the entire container if it's small enough

That gen 1 of Pokemon didn't have compound types (i.e. Pokemon with two types). In reality they did

One potential reason posited by The 1619 Project is due to white Americans moving out of metro areas after WW2 in order to "escape" black residents. Then, they restricted expansion of public transportation development to those areas because making them more accessible and usable would potentially result in a influx of poorer, black residents who can't afford a car to commute to the suburbs.

The specific example they used is Atlanta, which has staunch racial lines, horrible public transport, and some of the worst traffic in America. They make a very compelling case.

Here is the relevant New York Times article about it and it's Chapter 16 in the actual book