While vaccins are usually spread out over the first ten years of life, babies can and do get vaccinated. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

I’d say that it’d be fair to give vaccinated people priority of care above unvaccinated people.

Don’t want to get vaccinated? Deal with the consequences.

RFK JR supports a pedophile. Reveal the unaltered Epstein files and step down

Yes.

Not mandating them will also harm the people affected by the antivax types. Think for example antivax parents who would rather let their kids die than vaccinate.

I’d also add that there be a yearly checkup of whether the kids at school/daycares/home education are vaccinated or not. The one to do the checkup is prohibited from being a member of an antivaxx movement, and must be medically qualified.

And the following consequences for not vaccinating:

1. 500 hours community time for not vaccinating.

2. 500 hours community service on top of that if spreading antivax ideology or supporting antivax groups, whether fiscally or nonfiscally. They also will be required to follow a course on how vaccination actually works, and take an exam for that.

1,000 hours community time would amount to 25 workweeks (8 hr, 5 days a week).

3. On top of that, a hefty fine of 5% of yearly net disposable income (stocks and non-material wealth included). Kid will be vaccinated also.

4. If the parents/caretakers lied about the kid being vaccinated, kept the person absent for the checkup, or didn’t register the kid (so services knows there’s a kid that needs to be vaccinated), they will be called to court for abuse. If they still register and vaccinate the kid after that note, the consequences are 1/3rd less. This all also applies for if the people themselves are not vaccinated; they’ll be called to court for endangering other peoples’ safety.

They are killing people. I say that that deserves a vaccine mandate with enforced consequences.

A waste of time and space, those cops are.

But now that they look over that crosswalk, perhaps a great opportunity to do it elsewhere.

A livability index would be nice, to make it clearer.

You could chop it up into various bits. In no particular order:

Costs
a) Food, water, electricity prices as % of median net hourly wage.
b) Median home prices, include quality of housing

Comfort
c) Safety and good governance (Corruption perceptions index,
d) % of roads that have dedicated, interconnected pedestrian and bicycle paths
e) % of city interconnectively covered by public transit (density, frequency, punctuality, comfort)
f) % of cityspace dedicated to green space (trees, parks, etc.)

and so on, and so on.

Doesn’t DeepSeek still censor sensitive questions (e.g. about Taiwan and the Tiananmen protests) when ran locally and offline?

Although it’s certainly got its merits (being FOSS? and much more energy-efficient than most models), censorship of state violence is still bad.

I wonder how other chat AIs do, concerning that censorship. Grok we already know to be shit, it warps the truth beyond words. Even regarding non-political stuff, its accuracy is trash compared to other models.

How about ChatGPT? Ollama? Kobold? Llamafile? Do they censor stuff?

And Ollama then? Kobold.cpp? Llamafile? Those might arguably be better.

Should note that transfem people can and do get periods too, if they vary with their E levels a bit. It’s just not the bloody kind, but you do get the muscle cramps ('cause those in cis people are also around the uterus as well) – and the symptoms with it.

Hugs. Transphobia sucks. Online, I think it helps to report, block and ignore them. There it does work well. A community with good moderation is worth ten bad forums or social mediums.

In real life what I usually did, is;

1. if appearing in good faith, civil, just confused; explain kindly, have patience. If they do get annoying then, smile, ask to end it there and leave if possible.

2. if appearing harassing/annoying and it’s in public, loudly ask to keep themselves to their own affairs and not be a creep

3. if alone, and/or they get physicaly threatening/intimidating; pepper spray or whatever else you can do to protect yourself.

When someone says that it’s a failure of parenting, they say that in bad faith.

Keep in mind; it’s not your responsibility to tell them who you are. It’s on them to not be an ass!

Pro-tip: block using keywords. Some instances also are defederated from others, meaning you don’t see their comments or posts.

Don’t. If the sport teams want to reach you, they gotta do it another way.

It’s both.

There’s no russophobia when that country would want you killed for opposing authoritarianism. Or when that country routinely invades Europe. Or when it shoots down a plane and doesn’t apologise nor extradite the criminals who did it (Girkin and Putler).

Or when it opposes your very existence as a person. Or when it infects your people with the disease of far-right hatred. And I could go on. Fuck Putler’s Russia.

Where did I talk about a 4-year-old? I’m not exactly appealed with you putting those words in my mouth.

That said, obviously there is a big difference. I already mentioned the gentle guidance, for that sixteen year old; eg. that if they ever have questions concerning the house maintenance and all that, they should always feel free to come ask you.

And… these aren’t really dangerous years to be unsupervised. In fact, I think it’s more dangerous to live supervised by a deeply controlling helicopter parent, evangelist family.

As I said: gentle guidance. I ask you to read before commenting.

Going by all your comments, honestly, I’d say, why not? You get privacy, your kid grows independent. Try it out for half a year or year at least.

Make clear arrangements:

• Clean your apartment every once in a while.
• Take good care of yourself, but don’t be afraid to ask for help.
• Pay utility bills themselves.

You could give a low allowance (so you can pay the rent for them). Once they work/study and can pay rent themselves, offer that they pay rent themselves in exchange for a higher allowance.

Or withhold a bit of the allowance (10%/mo?), and later together pick out a useful household item to buy, from that withheld bit.

You could try doing it with a trial for say, half a year, if that goes well, perfect.

Other than that, let 'em go for it.

That is strange reasoning. Not living on your own doesn’t help you mature or grow independent at all. It’s the reasoning insecure or helicopter parents tend to give.

People here move out earlier all the time. I think it’s a great way to foster independence and selfcare.

As long as the kid is gently guided (eg., put rules on paying a relatively low rent, don’t discriminate, that stuff), and knows they can ask questions re: “parent, how do I … X” and feel secure, that is good. A good parent raises their kid to be independent, not obedient like a dog.

Maybe the surveillance cameras need to be destroyed. Safety can only be achieved when the Epstein creeps can’t spy!

We actually do have EU-grown coffee beans, though not that much. In Spain there’s one. The Canary Isles also have some.

If CNN bent the knee to Trump, I wouldn’t trust it.

Better to look at news from elsewhere.

Life is too short
Make of it
What you can