GreatWhiteBuffalo41

This is a fantastic response!

Ooohh you seem like someone who would enjoy !nolawns@slrpnk.net (yes I run that and the original reddit one if you were ever there)

A city counsel meeting would be my go to. But you’re going to want to search all the benefits and how it could save them money because they’ll only see dollar signs.

Id also include how much prettier and nicer the town would look, how they can promote it as good PR “we’re fighting climate change right here at home and keeping you cool while we do it! And we’re using local nurseries to get it done so we’re also promoting local businesses!” Bonus if they plant native trees.

That’s how my niece felt. Like “how?? What??”

Adopt one? Absolutely. Intentionally breed for puppies? Hell no.

I cannot believe my brother chose to have kids. There’s no chance in hell I’d subject another human to this.

From what I understand, the kids who can figure things out, they read well, they can problem solve, they’re doing it really well. But the kids that my generation raised on iPads, didn’t work with them, didn’t let them go outside and play, didn’t let them fail, they really really can’t do anything.

It’s not that this generation is ALL fucked. It’s that the gap between the “smart” kids and the kids who got screwed is wider than usual. A lot of these kids are functionally illiterate. If they’re reading a paragraph and come across a word they don’t know, not only can they not figure out how to pronounce it but, they have no idea how to use context clues to figure out what it even means.

My 17 year old niece saw idiocracy for the first time recently. She compared it to half her high school. Some kid made fun of her recently for using the word “peculiar” because it’s apparently a big word no one has ever heard of before.

Damn. They have the more expensive version of mine but not mine 😭😭