First we start with:

> > Did we go too soft on corporal punishment giving the perception that there are no consequences for bad behavior?

> In a word, yes.

Second we continue with:

> There's a line between meting discipline and child abuse. My parents didn't cross that line. I got the belt and la chancla. But, I know some that did cross the line into abuse. That kid turned out criminal, literally criminal. Jail a few times, can't hold a job, etc. I'm not saying beat your kids.. I"m saying make them face the consequences of their actions, before they grow up to be a shining example of today's "adults."

So basically, what you're saying is that in a world of true scotsmen who know how to beat their kid just the right amount, these kids will grow up to be decent people. Funny, if such a world existed, there could also be a world of true scotsmen who know how to discipline kids with the perfect words and without violence.

Both are worlds are, ofcourse, fiction.

I'm Israeli. Our memory is not very good.

If ChatGPT can solve the final questions of a degree, then the problem is in the questions. These questions should reflect real work skills that the degree gave you. If the skills required to solve these questions can be replicated by a machine, then either the degree, or the questions are not serving their purpose.

> A UBI is pretty much the way to fix this long term. Arguably the only way. Yes, a country can make people disappear, but other than places like North Korea, that won't work in most of the world where people have a fighting spirit and already distrust the government.

A country can also encourage each people to be individualist and liberal so that they will not have children, then the country just needs to wait for a while. Maybe depopulation is what we needed all along.

The assumption that Biden is responsible for the recession instead of it being the result of a process that took years doesn't make sense.

That's what's dumb about democracy , many candidates, including the hated Trump, are blamed for processes that have started before they were elected

Don't you "elves are not real" me, elves, to begin with, are a metaphor for nordics, along with dwarves who are a metaphor for Jews. In general, although people won't admit it loud, one of the main points of the fantasy genre is to tell racial stories without offending people.

P.s. I'm a je^H^H dwarf

You're wrong. Most people will not use vpn, they will give their details, just like they do to Facebook.

Ntntntnt

As someone who programmed a lot of C++ and Haskell, the languages are similar in a strange way. The only difference is in what's easy and what's hard. In Haskell, all the standard library is full with super safe and friendly containers. In C++, it is full with pointers and APIs with bound checking.

Now comes the interesting part. Theoretically, C++ allows you to write completely safe containers if you always bounds checking apis and rely on ugly templates. Haskell also allows you to directly access memory, do mallocs, and violate access.

The only difference is in the defaults of both languages and what functionality they choose to hide behind complicated APIs.

I think both languages have their places. In industry projects I'm maintaining now, some would better remain in C++ while others should have been rewritten in Haskell.

I know that a bunch of old losers will come here and complain about how if this feature was not in C, it is not useful.

I'm also 40, I'm also a C programmer, but I'm going to be smart enough to not criticize what I don't understand.

Judaism actually has this a non-written law. If you tell your Rabbi that you don't really believe in god, he'll say to just follow his rules and that belief will come along the way. I was always taught that in Christianity it doesn't work like that because Christianity is belief based while Judaism is rule based. Interesting to see this type of behavior with Christians as well. Do you think there are many atheist church goers? Or are you a major exception?

I'm waiting for all the people who will insist that because they suffered from working 5 days a week, others must suffer as well.

No

Are you old enough the days when we thought the internet would make everyone smarter?

If the kids matter, then you should fight for blocking Facebook/Instagram/Twitter, or at least mandate a more accessible, universal all-devixr form of parental controls.

And no, saying "all parents should have technical know how" is just as valid "parents must know how to teach their kids self defense, or their child deserves to be beaten"