Homeschooling feels like an act of hubris. The idea that you and your partner know the same or more about education than trainer professionals is crazy. Each teacher has at least a college degree, most have a master’s and they all go through yearly refreshers on how to best teach on top of their on the job experience. How can one (or two) people do more than that?

On top of that your child will be exposed in their home life to things you know and think are important to understand. School can show them things you know you don’t know as well as things you don’t know you don’t know. I want my daughter to know things I don’t know and to expand her worldview beyond mine. Homeschooling limits their knowledge that what I know. (Which is usually the point to shelter a child from scary ideas which is not doing them any favors).

Can homeschooling be okay? Sometimes but not often enough and most people who do it aren’t prepared or qualified to do it

Looks like both of you have multiple relationships. Whether he is gay or bi is a moot point because this would be the same problem regardless of Alex’s gender since you feel he is taking some time from Avery.

Are you and Avery primary partners or are you non hierarchical? It seems like Avery and Alex have lots of new relationship energy. Did they just start dating? Is this your first new relationship for Avery?

The solution is you boring poly answer. A discussion about relationships, expectations and feelings. If it really doesn’t feel right don’t fall into the poly trap of not breaking up because you don’t have to

I think there’s is a lot of value in a short term relationship especially if it ends well without lot of resentment or drama. That being said the best short term have a defined end date. For something like this it’s more nebulous communication will be important. At some point both of you will need to find someone that would work long term. You might both agree that you can casually date other people while dating

The younger you are and the newer this relationship the more time you have. If you are young there’s more time in your life to find a different partner and you don’t know what you want and same with him. If you’re relationship is new there is plenty of time for something else to break you up. There are other deal breakers out there

Anyone who says they are self sufficient is lying to themselves. Communities of people can be but we all need each other

Just requested it from the library. Our composting in place garden has been producing a ton over three last year. We have lots of berries now and have a lot of functional plants in our urban yard. It’s mostly teas, medicinals and some cut flowers but we can get lots of use out of it. When you really try there is a lot of space to grow what you need even in a small space if you prioritize. I can’t feed myself but good supplemental for high value things

If you are interested I would recommend reading some books on permaculture. My first book was Gaias Garden which I loved. It talks about how to piecemeal increase your own sustainability starting in your own yard. It’s a great first step if this is what you want to do. Overall no one person / family / farm can stand all alone we are all interconnected

A porn instance is the perfect single topic instance. We need more of them

Then he is a really good hound. The louder the better

Looks like a good boy. How loud is he?

Here is a Time article about it.

In my head the closet part involves someone jumping out of bed and hiding in the nearest place to hide. A closet.

I’m not going to buy one because I have a Pixel 9a but it’s good they are making one

Agreed. A bunch of general purpose instances with slight variations on ideology that are pretty much identical.

I love a budget phone. At this point the lower end specs are good enough for me. I want all makers to have a low spec budget phone

Love the low price. I’ve been buying the pixel A out of pocket for years. Hate having to pay things off installments. Just give me a cheap phone

I’ve been using the A series since pixel 2. I want something new and cheap. I don’t trust used battery life

These Pro ICE fuckers are the scum of the earth. I know of someone who got stabbed by a Pro-ICE protester standing on the street last week

If you can hike part of the superior hiking trail do it. It’s stunning and super nice

I am going to give you two book recommendations that I think should be done in this order: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and The Wok

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is great because it talks and about what is needed for all recipes (it’s title). It talks about food science and theory so you can understand techniques and understand what each thing in a recipe does. It does have generic recipes that you can modify as well “lessons” to walk through what you learned.

The Wok is similar but just about using a Wok. I love the wide variety of things you can make with the wok. It also gives you some sidebars about how to shop of ingredients, sauces and how to chop for the recipes. It also talks techniques with then example recipes. Read both and try them out

While I appreciate the idea. Halloween happens to be based on Samhain which is the midpoint between the Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice.

The best method would be to rearrange the whole calendar so it’s always on a Friday. We would then have static days of the week for all dates as well

LemmyNSFW was the perfect example of a single subject instance. So much so that it was the only NSFW instance and another one is needed