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Im going to piggyback on this post to add that in 2022 (Trump admin), the CDC changed the childhood development milestones. This is BAD FUCKING NEWS - changing the goalposts this way does several things:

- Problems will get overlooked past critical development windows where help is MOST beneficial for children, which creates problems that various industries will then sell us solutions to

- Insurance companies may deny support based on these guidelines and force you to wait until after critical support windows, increasing the likelihood that your child may struggle at least somewhat for life or at least impact their abilities as compared to their peers in school (and we know what not keeping up with our peers feels like and can do to a person)

- We cannot point to bad policies to blame them for falling childhood development stats if the guidelines say your kid is "normal"

Tech companies NEED your money to pay back all their investors, they are so in the hole right now over all of this AI garbage and they WILL lobby against your child's health and more for their own survival and tell you how benefical and easy it is to give your kid an ipad, and they'll even promote this as saving you the shame of having a "misbehaved" child, all the while they are spending a LOT of money to induce your kid with a screen/dopamine addiction (and i mean addiction, replace the word "drug" with "ipad" or "youtube" on any resource describing signs of addiction. It's one way to guarantee a market, that's for sure).

Health insurance and big pharma companies are also invested in making sure we are all sick or stunted enough to depend on them for lifelong treatments so it is on their best interests for your kid to miss crucial development windows so they acquire a learning disability or mobility issues that will make them lifelong cash machines.

I could say more, but the point of this is to say that childhood development milestones are no joke. They are not made up numbers (pre-2022, please please please follow pre-2022 guidelines if you have a child and make sure your doctor does too). This can be the difference between making your child's life as accessible as is possible for them to very very difficult for the simplest of tasks. And reducing the bar for what does or doesn't qualify as a red flag only hurts our kids.

Also, calling all parents, LISTEN TO TEACHERS. Seriously, check out the #teaching or #education tags every once in a while and you will get a front row seat to what kids are *really* like and what is *actually* happening from the people with the most face-time with a wide of array of children from various backgrounds. Students today are NOT like students 30 years ago who had much less solo access to screens and much fewer restrictions when it came to getting out of the house or making noise/disruptions at the community/societal level. Your kids are under attack but too many parents are focused on convenience and appearances. I get that youre tired and under attack too, we all are, so get mad and do the very least and call your local representatives every once in a while and tell them to fight for your kids! Theyre not even getting LUNCH anymore and we're not rioting in the streets? I can see how easy it is to dismiss a kid not holding a pencil as minor when we don't even make a move to fight for the food we all know we need to survive. Get up and get out. 5calls.org is a great resource for finding your local and federal representatives, i called my rep today and got ahold of a real live person on the line to gripe, but if not, there are voicemail scripts available. This is not just a social issue, it is critically a politicial issue as well. Our reps have sold us out to the investor class, we need to make some noise for our kids and our teachers.

what ppl defending kids on ipads don’t seem to understand is that there are other ways to keep kids occupied. my mom had a whole bag full of little toys and games for me to play with while waiting in lines at disney world. once your kid is like 7 or 8 they can read a book. they can color. or they can literally just sit there and imagine things. i did that a lot as a kid.

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"There's no thought crimes and no thought heroisms" is honestly such a good piece of life advice.

You could be having the most fucked up problematic thoughts 24/7 but if you treat people with kindness, the good you do is the only thing that matters. But if you have only the purest thoughts and all the correct beliefs, it doesn't matter one bit if you spend most of your time being an asshole to people.

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Agates carved into orange slices by wutong_crystal_carvings.

Source: x

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My Eyes at the Time of Revelation, 1911-13

August Natterer also known as Neter

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Jenna Barton

Artporn Magazine is on Facebook

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Monika Marchewka (Polish, 1988) - The Visit (2024)

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- Janusz Grabiański (Polish, 1929-1976) Illustration from Poetry for Kaya, 1969.

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Moonlight

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“Are you really different?” He looked at her in the rearview mirror. “From whom?” “You know.” He didn’t answer immediately. Then he said in dialect, “Do you want me to tell you the truth?” “Yes.” “The intention is there, but I don’t know how it will end up.” - Elena Ferrante

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L'amica Geniale, The New Name

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For a visual, I'd advise everyone to take a look at this website that demonstrates wealth inequality quite well. Brian Thompson was merely a symptom of a much, much larger problem. Even he didn't have a meaningfully impactful salary. We literally have TRILLIONAIRES, the definition of obscene wealth, which we *know* comes from the pain and suffering of *countless* people.

As we the conversation around class consciousness is taking hold these days, we have to be clear here about what the point of our arguments are, what the point of our actions are, and what are the actual changes that would lead to the most *meaningful* change that we would fight for. We are all working with much, much less than we labor for, so we have to be smart about where we apply our resources (or not!). We have had successful movements in the past and we can do it again, we are doing it now. Learn from our own and others' revolutionary histories, work on your propoganda literacy and biases, join organizations, participate in strikes/boycotts in unison, we have plenty of methods at our disposal and plenty of successes behind us - industries, kingdoms, and empires are toppled all the time! We can destroy wealth inequality! The best time to start is always TODAY!

Okay, so, friends. Occasionally I see an American post on here about “guillotine the rich,” and it turns out that “rich” means “anyone making over $50k.”

We need to clear this shit up REAL fast, because otherwise it’s gonna wind up like the French Revolution, where more middle class and poor people were killed for being “class traitors” than actual nobles. (Did you know that France has more nobles today than during the French Revolution? While there were a few showy executions, many nobles did just fine or experienced minor setbacks.)

If someone makes $60,000 a year, they are making about twice as much as a full time worker making minimum wage in California, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, or Washington State.

Brian Thompson, the CEO of United HealthCare who was just assassinated in New York City, earned $10 million a year, which means he earned 333 times minimum wage in those states. Basically, he cleared an annual minimum wage salary in just over a day. And that “rich” person making $60k/year that you want to guillotine? He made their salary in a bit over two days of a year.

So he was rich, right?

Well. Tesla is trying to give Elon Musk a pay package of $101 billion. That is 10,100 times what Brian Thompson earned and 3,366,667 times more than a minimum wage worker. (Tesla hasn’t been successful yet because of a complicated lawsuit from a shareholder, but they’ll get there.) If you are a minimum wage worker, Elon Musk makes more every SECOND than you do in a year. And that “rich” person who you want to guillotine? He makes their salary in about 1.6 seconds. Even when he’s sleeping.

Now, remember. The Muskrat also is the head of SpaceX, the Boring Company, X.ai, and X.com, so this is just ONE pay package for him.

What I’m saying is — you have much more in common when it comes to economic grievances with someone earning $60,000 (or even $200,000) than the ultra wealthy that have real power. They are not the people you should expend your energy on.

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alla mingalёva

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“This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.”

- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel