I agree, in the 2000's cities like New York were doing great. Michael Bloomberg was amazing. Arnold Schwarzenegger was awesome for California. Massachusetts also had republican governors during that time as well. Everything was pretty great, all around. TODAY though? CA cities are dumps, the 'punching game' is a thing in NY, and MA has the most expensive everything... Things can regress when stats stop being reported...

You never had any brothers or cousins doing double suplexes to each other after watching WWF? Your anecdotal evidence is discounted by mine. And since mine is real I think I have a case.

And WWF wrestling as well. My cousins would destroy each other playing WWF. Where'd they get THAT idea? Oh right... TV.

PS5 if only for the incredible controller.

False (I think) - Can you remember when the baby from Dinosaurs was responsible for causing a kid to wack someone in the head with a frying pan in real life? It was in the news back in the 90s... Most people can tease out fiction, but half of us have IQ's below 100 and can't.

D&D players usually role play as heroes... Rock and Roll, i don't think is as degenerate as your average rap music but I can see your point. And I DO think RAP is where this brand of degeneracy began back in the 90's.

What pushes some demographics to participate in street take overs, twerking on police cars, looting stores in cities, robbing from walmart, target, and pushing people onto subway tracks then? Just the larger urban culture? Where do people get the idea that that is fun/acceptable? It's got to come from somewhere, rap music is a big suspect, but video games like GTA make it much more 'real'. I don't think it's coming from rampant reading of books...

I bet a lot of kids idolize Franklin. He's the 'every man' protagonist as far as I can tell.

Crime stats look great when big cities don't report them.
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/05...

It is a fact, undeniable, that cities are inundated with crime. Also a fact that democrat cities don't report it.

That glamorizing this sort of game is directly responsible for the recent phenomenon of crime in US cities? Street take overs, rampant looting during peaceful protests and even sports team wins(or losses), shoplifting, carjacking, etc?

I could get behind GTA3 back in the day, and even Red Dead Redemption, but I think the evidence must be SOMEWHERE that kids, sadly, glamorize this type of behavior and emulate it in their every day lives.

Contemporary home-school does not look like it did decades ago.

We home-school and from what I can tell from the homeschooling community is that like us most of the kids participate in one or more co-ops that where groups of parents collaborate to deliver a course that are more hands on like science and music. Local YMCAs, gyms etc, offer classes during the day like Home School PE.

So homeschoolers get quite a lot of repeated and consistent interactions with other children. How 'diverse' those others are probably varies a lot by the size and makeup of where you live.

97% of Slashdot is now outraged that, if the economy grew at all, the money wasn't stolen from the parties involved and spent on "climate change" (a giant scam) somehow, someway.

Those 'successes' are all built on DRM and technical lock-out. As long as manufacturers go out of their way to fuck their customers, it's no real surprise they do not embrace EVs. There isn't a single EV that doesn't use DRM to lock mechanics out of battery service and the battery controller. There is no excuse for this that anyone should accept. It's pure greed. At least one can buy 3rd party parts for ICE cars.

They needed a 20K Slate Truck (https://www.slate.auto/) and instead gave us something that costs as much as a condo. No, just no.

Why would it?

The FAA could make the fee schedule in a way that encourages whatever behaviors congress sets out as desirable in its charters if it were made more independent. Nothing would stop them from say charging higher fees to file a flit plan for a cargo plan vs one with commercial passengers. No reason they can't do that even on a per source or destination airport basis. Want to fly cargo into LAX - $$$$$ but if you land it in some less busy airport a couple hours away in the desert its only $. Where a passenger flight plan with an LAX terminus might only be $$.

They can similarly drive more or less revenue for certification of aircraft. Maybe domestically manufactured craft get cheap certs, and AirBus gets bent over the counter and thoroughly reamed. Tons of opportunities and lots of potential stability improvements if you make it a little bit more removed from the executive branch, without an need for your basic plane fare to change a much. It would just be one hand giveth the other taketh.