OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
12hr ago
I guess you will not believe me, but in 2023 it was the case that I was kept from buying Amtrak tickets without as many adults as there are kids. Maybe it was a COVID rule. You have to admit, it would be weirdly specific for me to just make it up.
Where do you live that you see kids unattended all the time? I have never seen that since 2010 or so.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
14hr ago
Yeah. I moved from Washington State to Indiana with four young kids. While contemplating the move, I considered that it might be easier for me and the kids to get a room on a train, instead of a 5 day car ride with a nursing baby. I ended up having to do the 5 day drive, mapping out every playground with a public restroom along the highway and stopping every 2 hours to nurse the baby.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
14hr ago
The threat is there. Even if only 1% of parents who leaves a kid unattended they get CPS called on them, it creates a chilling effect.
All parks have signs saying something like, "Kids under 12 need adult supervision." Amtrak will not let you buy train tickets for kids unless you have one adult per kid. I have four kids, so I can't take my family on an Amtrak trip until they are teenagers.
The culture is different. The rules and expectations are different. You have to admit that much.
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Fiat justitia ruat caelum
16hr ago
I homeschool one of my daughters who still receives speech services from the Public School. She is 8 years old.
On the days where my daughter has speech therapy, my husband drops off the boys at their preschool and I drive my daughter to speech therapy. One day, my husband had to take a car to be maintained, and I figured I would drop off my daughter at speech and then take the boys to school, then come back to pick up my daughter.
I watched my daughter go into the school building, made sure she made it to the office where two secretaries are, then I started driving my boys to their school.
I hadn't left the parking lot before the school office ladies called. They were freaked out. "Where are you, why is your daughter here alone? You need to be here now, she cannot be in the waiting room without you." I told them it was snowing and I had trouble finding parking (both true). They told me, "OK, I will watch her to make sure she is SUPERVISED but I need you here right now."
By 8 years old I was left home alone for a few hours at a time. Waiting in the school office where there is a waiting room with couches, books, and a fish tank, two secretaries and a nurse wouldn't have been something to think twice over. My mom waited in the car to nurse my baby brother and had me walk into McDonalds to purchase a cheeseburger by the time I was five.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
16hr ago
Does anyone have any theories with the US shutting down airspace with no warning over El Paso, Texas? And similarly over the southern New Mexico border?
Piecing together what I can find:
Apparently the Department of War has been testing GPS jamming and directed energy systems in a base near El Paso. The FAA got spooked about how it is impacting instruments for aircraft and after a test (which involved hitting a birthday balloon with a laser) they pushed on the DOW to stop it. DOW would not stop it and the FAA shut down airspace to show how serious they were. When Trump woke up in the morning and learned about it, he told them to knock it off and airspace restrictions are lifted now.
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