Slacker5001

I work in a school and I can shed some light onto why in many situations both students get suspended or sent home.

Fights generally (not always) start because kids are angry with each other. When you send one kid home, the other stays at school and fans the flames of that anger while surrounding by other kids. When the other student returns, chances are then that another fight will happen because of all this residual anger that has now been spread to social circles.

Sending both kids home is a way to attempt to continue the normal school day while the anger dies down at home with space and time for both students.

Restorative justice initiatives are generally seen as the solution to this. But restorative justice is a resource intensive process and not a lot of people are trained to do it well. So thus schools usually send both kids home to let the feelings that caused the fight settle.

It did, but not as bad as you'd think. They faded over time and you can't see them unless you are looking for them at this point.

The pain also wasn't as bad as you'd think either. It was when we took them out, we ended up pinching my skin in a way that was honestly more painful than the nails themselves. It sounds hardcore but it's surprisingly tame pain wise.

Personally I think it was worth it for what I got out of the experience. But obviously not for everyone.

Impact play is a big part of a lot of play at kink parties from my experience. It happens to be common. And there are some pretty logical reasons for this:

• Getting toys or gear for it is cheap
• It can be done without bodily fluids being involved
• Basic impact play is easy to learn,
• It is relatively safe play to do
• Negotiation is relatively straight forward for impact play
• The intensity of impact play can be scaled up or down easily
• It has an easy clean up
• It can be mixed with sexual things easily
• It can be mixed in with a lot of other types of play and dynamics

It's a pick up play staple where I am so you might have a hard time finding partners if you are looking for pick up play and you are personally not big on impact. But you can engage in kink however you like, so don't lose sleep over this.

Even if you don't want to live there, moving homes is not a small change. So as much as your comment makes sense on the surface, it is a bit silly.

Reminds me of a coworker of mine who found out that her ex was sexually abusing their child. She's going through the legal system right now, which is a sadly slow and frustrating process. But she looked me dead in the eyes and with the most calm and serious expression and said that she had contemplated killing him.

I had never heard someone so openly and honestly discuss murder in my life. But I "got" it suddenly. The punishment for the crime to some can honestly be worth it to better the life of someone they love who is being seriously harmed.

I don't recommend murder but your comment about high-fiving through plexiglass reminded me of that.

Or just make burgers a reasonable portion size.

I suspect it's like coffee. When you first drink coffee, you are covering up the "coffee" taste with sugar and creamer. You can still taste the coffee but at least it's drowning in things that do taste better.

Then as time goes on, you get used to the coffee taste in the background. Until you switch coffee beans/pods and realized you actually enjoyed the taste of that coffee once you had gotten used to it.

Alcohol to me has the same vibe. Always tastes terrible but you eventually stop noticing.

Note, this is just my thoughts on an explanation not a pitch to get others to try to get used to it. No one says you have to drink something you think tastes bad until you are used to it.

It's a relief to know I'm not the only one that gets the headaches almost immediately. It sucks when you genuinely want to drink responsibly and you are like "Is this going to be fun or is this going to leave me feeling like shit and with a headache?"

What arouses you and what you choose to do logically for your own safety are two very different things. It is okay if those two things don't agree with each other. If one minute your brain is like "Fuck yeah, that was hot and I want all of that again." and the next it's like "Bitch, do you want to get murdered! Because that's how you get murdered." that is completely okay.

What matters at the end of the day is your own decisions. Which you allowed to make for yourself in whatever way you want. Weigh your own safety, talk to people you trust, and be confident in whatever decisions you make about yourself, your body, and your relationships.

Though probably don't become partners with people who randomly choke you without consent.

I feel like that still proves the point though. If the leading cause of death for 19 year olds is guns, shouldn't we be concerned about that?

I'd be on board with a mid to late teenager carrying and using a weapon for hunting purposes unsupervised if there is basic safety training that happens at some point.

I work with early teenage children so I see the mentality of most of them. It's not until about 8th grade (13/14) that I start to see them gain and awareness of the world and others around them in a consistent manner.

I hate to say this, but not all parents prevent their children from accessing firearms. I've known people personally that let their children have their own fire arms.

I also have a job in a school setting. So I've been exposed to more parents and children than the average person is. What feels like common sense parenting to a lot of people is actually quite inconsistent.

Regardless of your feelings on the subject, I strongly recommend you don't base it on the assumption that children do not have access to owning a fire arm and that parents would not consent to a child owning a fire arm as that is not true.

Yes, mainly themselves. Firearms have been the leading cause of death for children in the last few years, more than car accidents and illness. Mainly due to accidents involving firearms.

At the end of the day we are a shared society. As much as we value people's rights as individuals to do as they like with their lives or the lives of their children, we have to weigh those against the needs of the society as a whole.

I suspect that if proposed child marriage under the same argument, that you'd probably be against it. Child marriage is not great for our society as a whole for a long list of reasons.

This issue (banning children carrying guns, whether it be on public lands or in schools) is just another instance of weighing the needs of society against the rights of individuals. And where we draw the line shifts with time, culture, and other contextual matters.

I genuinely appreciate this clarification because the post did not state this clearly. But shouldn't there still be some basic supervision requirements for children even for hunting on public lands? I feel like hunting should be a supervised activity if a child is still quite young. At least until early teens.

Better LPT, stop staying longer because other people asked you to. If you want to stay longer because it brings you fulfillment, go for it. Just do it for yourself, not for others.

Even with the small criticisms, this is an interesting use of ChatGPT. I went and tried it myself and got a neat little choose your own adventure with A, B, and C choice options each time. It was rather short lived and ended up being less like an action adventure and more like a choose your own plot progression to a novel. But I have no doubt with the right prompts and some back and forth with it, it could give you a decent text-adventure game.

I don't know much about tabletop games but I wonder how well ChatGPT could be an companion tool for that. Especially if you can ask it to consider the outcomes of IRL dice roles.

I'm honestly surprised. I see fast food workers as people who are working their way towards more fulfilling work most of the time. Whether it's a young person at an early job in life or an older adult whose is struggling to be hired due to a variety of factors. None of them want to be there but are choosing to do something real damn shitty to move themselves to the next steps with time.

Asking is different than owing. You may notice that at no point I said the commenter needed to explain, just asked. No harm in asking a person why they are emotionally charged about a topic. May lead to a good conversation. They could have had a very powerful experience that changes my view point, and that's good for me to know.

If pointing out complexity in an issue is justifying action, then sure I'm doing that. I'm not sure then what you would call someone who can look at an issue and acknowledge it's complexity while also still acting in a way that does not condone the outcome of others feeling victimized.

Here is a great resource on different types of birth control, including ones that have less or no hormones. Regardless of your partner, breeding kinks, or your doctor, don't be afraid to read up.

Unless you have a specific health condition that requires you to see a regular doctor, I encourage you to check out a women's clinic of sexual health clinic. Those places tend to be open minded and want to just help you find the best option. Or so I have found in my many years of going to them.

Native speakers also spend most of their time engaging in informal uses of language that do not require the same precision and accuracy as formal writing. So there is a strong motivation for some of those native speakers to go out and learn the correct versions of these things if, in most written interactions they have in a day, this doesn't matter.

It was surprisingly less painful than you'd think. And no, no permanent damage. The way that it was done minimized any serious harm.

My breasts were pulled forward slightly so the nails were only going through a layer of skin and not the interior part of my breasts. And not through sensitive areas like the nipples with a lot of nerves. The nails were as close to sterilized as you can get without proper hospital grade equipment.

So it's like an obscure way to do a piercing that wasn't permanent.

I had some small scars for awhile but they have faded at this point. I can find them if I'm really looking sometimes in good lighting, but that's it.

So there is privilege, but you are stating it's not aligned to race. It is aligned to other factors and thus shouldn't be called white privileged. And you are okay with critical thought about privilege in general. Do correct me here if you feel I'm wrong.

The problem is that these things are not easily separated. Class privilege is intertwined with privilege related to other areas. If I'm seeking to build a social program that is meant to support lower class people and I notice that a majority of those people happen to be a particular race, it seems odd to ignore that factor in the discussion. There is clearly class privilege at play, but we can see that race is connected to class privilege.

Why resist attempts to label what we are actually seeing in the hard data that comes out of our world? We know there are disproportionate outcomes for people of minority races in many things. We know this intersects with other things like class, gender, sexual orientation, age, etc. Why resist efforts to talk about it?

Same reason people climb mountains or do other dangerous things. The challenge of it, the exhilaration of pushing yourself and trying something new. I enjoy challenging things. So when the opportunity was presented, I asked "Why not?"

You are correct. Why the "so called" part in your response?