Honestly great I got to bike till my legs were sore & saw an amazing sunset
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mlegstrong@sh.itjust.worksto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it?3·1 month agoThat’s what story books are for they exist to explain that there is evil in the world & not all people can be trusted. Red Riding Hood teaches stranger danger, & other traditional stories teach other lessons. Just because these stories aren’t real doesn’t mean the lessons they hold are less valuable. Tell them a fairytale & explain how people in the real world can be a wolf but you may not see their fur or fangs. The fairytale elements allow a child to learn & they can apply the lessons when they face a situation that reminds them of the fairytale.
mlegstrong@sh.itjust.worksto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•A third of Americans don't drive. So why is our transportation so car-centric?English9·1 month agoRails & trails. We have spent the last 50 years building “one more lane” to solve traffic & all it does is incentivize more cars. Roads don’t promote high density travel like a proper bike network in a city or a commuter rail network to connect suburbs together.
mlegstrong@sh.itjust.worksto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•A third of Americans don't drive. So why is our transportation so car-centric?English111·1 month agoThey still need a way to get around any transport would make that easier
mlegstrong@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a haltEnglish4·3 months agoNa this is caused by immigrant /s
mlegstrong@sh.itjust.worksto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it possible to learn new things with no external stimuli at all?11·3 months agoI think you could make a case that you could learn new forms of pure math if you had a method of storing information in your brain.
mlegstrong@sh.itjust.worksto Books@lemmy.world•What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? January 073·4 months agoJust finished reading the Witcher Blood of the Elves & plan on reading The Stormlight Archive: Wind & Truth next
mlegstrong@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are there any words that you pronounce in a way that seems weird to most people?1·4 months agoI pronounce milk like melk. Is it wrong, definitely but I’m not gonna change it at this point
mlegstrong@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do any non-corpos actually like AI slop?2·6 months agoI used it a decent amount at my last job to write test reports that had a lot of similar text with minor changes.
I also use it for dnd to help me quickly make the outlines of side characters & flesh out my world.
mlegstrong@sh.itjust.worksto Books@lemmy.world•What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? October 153·7 months agoI just finished Lessons in Chemistry. It started of a little dark but quickly turns into a roller coaster slice of life novel that secretly weaves a series of plot points before coming to a heartwarming end. I am starting Meditations by Marcus Aurelius with annotations for context.
I’ll probably also read a second lighter book in-between sections of Meditation cuz it’s a dense book.
But if you used google for searching on the internet even using a non google browser it would undermine the trademark.
Idk I think it’s explained by different phenomena. In nature there are two child raising strategies, K & P types (might be different letters sue me). For fully K type parents they produce 1000s of children each reproduction cycle, release them into nature & let statics be the cruel parent to have a few reach adulthood. For fully P type parents they will have just a single child each reproductive cycle, & raise them to maturity. Obviously this is a scale & all animals lie somewhere in-between these two extremes.
Obviously all humans are closer to P type but someone in a poorer region is more likely to live in a less stable region. As such they will follow a more K type parenting style since there is a higher chance of something bad happening to their children resulting in a “waste of evolutionary resources” (no life is a waste but you get the point). In a wealthier region they are more likely to live in a more stable area. As such they will choose to follow a P type parenting style & put a lot of resources into a few children. Since there is a high likelihood of all of their children making it to maturity a few “high value” children is preferred to many “low value” children (nobody is really more valuable bla bla). So rich region parents act more like P type parent & poor region parents act more like K type parents. (Obviously there are more factors but I think this probably has the biggest effect)
Then for people who are struggling & can’t afford to produce one “high value” child they make a logical choice to do it later when they have more resources. Since humans are complicated they can create other values they see are more valuable then children or decide to do something later until having children is no longer a possibility. Either way it results in less children & we are seeing the results on a global scale. (Post note. Obviously I am skipping over the cultural factors like religion & other individuals factors, but on a macro scale people are making these choices unwittingly)