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@hitmyspot @dadsplain I think that is kind of what we’ve been doing. I didn’t know it was a named method. We don’t force her to finish her meals completely. She just needs some encouragement to improve the vegetable variety in her diet.
@threeduck @dadsplain That is still kind of my instinct, but my daughter’s pickiness got to the point that it affected her health. Fortunately, we’ve made enough progress over the past few years that that problem is behind us. Now we’re just working on variety. We’re not forcing her to clean her plate. She just needs some encouragement and light pressure to figure out how to enjoy more than one type of vegetable.
@rxin @dadsplain it’s VLC for Android.
@SirBoostALot @Umbrias @usa I have no affiliation with the nuclear power industry. I just think global warming is an important problem that cannot be solved by wind and solar power. The risks associated with nuclear power are very small and completely outweighed by the benefits.
The Joshua trees are not a red herring. Their sacrifice is completely unnecessary and it exemplifies the insanity of our clean energy policies.
@streetfestival @dadsplain I deserve to have a little bit of warm and quiet.
@Tolookah @dadsplain after dinner it turns into a kitchen dance off.
@CrimeDad @dadsplain And apparently the images in Lemmy replies don’t show up in Mastodon either lol. #Mastodon #Lemmy
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@Umbrias @SirBoostALot @usa The Joshua trees are relevant because it’s an indictment of the system that produces the incentives that make destroying a forest of them a good business plan. We have the technology to safely generate plenty of reliable, clean electricity nearby to where people will use it. Instead, we go out into the desert and then pick one of the worst spots in the desert just to cheaply conjure up some renewable energy credits and call it good for the environment. It’s sickening.
@ptz @nostupidquestions Oh no. I don’t think I default to the Tucker Carlson confused face, but I’m a little worried that I might. I just signed on to a Teams meeting and my CEO immediately asked me why I looked confused.
@enbyecho @asklemmy Well, geriatric pregnancies start at age 35, so it’s really a flexible adjective. If you took it incorrectly, that’s on you.
Based on the mixed responses I’m getting, it is not an established stereotype that older people write emails and text messages poorly. If I knew it was then I wouldn’t have asked if others had similar experiences to mine in the first place.
@MissJinx @asklemmy I wasn’t sure of the right word to use. Geriatric seemed correct enough. To be clear, I don’t think there’s anything especially wrong or bad about my elders. I just think there might be some kind of technological and cultural collision happening that makes me feel like I’m crazy sometimes.
@bloopernova I don’t remember what people were annoyed with him about, but I do remember that it was a BOFA joke that was the last straw for him. Anyway, he’s the only high-profile Mastodon user that even comes to mind.
@SirBoostALot @Umbrias @usa Once again you are missing the point about the trees. They are not being harvested. They are being cleared away to make room for a PV solar plant that could go in any other sunny location. I do not personally care very much about them, but they are part of a special piece of wilderness that is being destroyed for no good reason. As for nuclear power safety and importance, here is a good article to help you find some perspective: https://earth.org/nuclear-which-is-the-safest-energy-source/#:~:text=A%202013%20study%20commissioned%20by,fuels%20from%20entering%20into%20the