FLYINGJESTER'S PROFILE

I regret nothing.

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I completely agree that there is actually too much focus on safety in the playground.

The playground in my hometown recently replaced the gravel with foam. I just about shit myself to see it. And I think it's harmful to kids.
Places like playgrounds should be inherently slightly unsafe. Because compared to anywhere else, they are already insanely safe. You have the best supervision available, people ready at a moments notice to respond to any accident.

Kids need to make mistakes in a place like that. When you're young, you need to get hurt. That's how you learn. You make small mistakes, even get minor injuries, all the way up to breaking bones. You do this in a safe environment, when you are young. And they when you grow up, you know your bounds because you have tested them. You are better adjusted to the world because you learned these lessons in a place where failure was not as severe.

Whenever my fundamentalist christian uncle gets started with the whole idea that all Muslims are about all the violence, I tell him that's like saying all Christians are about all the multiple wives.

He then gets very mad and stops talking to me. Which, while I didn't win the argument, is still a win in a different way.

I can imagine it happening to a white kid. US public schools in cities with triple+ digit populations are the epitome of paranoia. Bringing in something that looks like a hollywood bomb doesn't even require that kind of psychosis to question. But the cops and the handcuffs are a bit insane, to be sure.

I like the dropdowns a lot. That's usually how I get anywhere, and I actually wish the community portal had a link up there, too.

I do wish that when I mark something as read, it would update in my other tabs, too.