I imagine it was also more common when people regularly had fires in their own homes. I bought that same child a pair of pajamas as a toddler that had a million warning tags about keeping them away from open flames because they weren't flame resistant... Not a problem, I tended to keep my babies away from open flames regardless.

It happened to me but that would have been the wrong reaction, tearing my overalls off was much more effective

They'll drop and stop sooner or later once the running gets boring. Might not roll though.

Yep. I'm old enough to remember doing nuclear attack drills in school a couple of times a school year.

There were 2 different drills, if there was a warning, and we had time we would all file out to a designated hallway, sit down with crossed legs facing the wall, head forward and hands clasped over your head with your eyes closed tight.

If there was no warning you either stayed in your desk, put your head down, closed your eyes tightly, and covered the back of your head with your hands. You could also slide under your desk, close your eyes, and cover your head. Pretty much the exact same drill schools still use today for tornados if you live in a tornado risk area.

As an old medic/firefighter, I cannot stress these drills enough. While they are designed to save lives, and they most definitely can, they also make it much easier to find the bodies because they will all be pretty much centrally located.

English is not phonetic

Like hell it's not. Just because gh has more than one pronunciation doesn't mean it's not phonetic.

From a semantic perspective that argument is badly framed but I can intuit your point using my foundational skills of reasoning. In the same fashion, the reason I can guess what words like phantasmagoria and phosphaturia sound like and tell them apart is because the written English language is still representational enough that you can develop common sense abilities and learn additional rules and exceptions from there. Every single word in your comment follows a rule pattern that another common word follows.

Cueing is poorly taught; the whole language approach makes no sense on its own. Why would you remove the tools for assembling the pronunciation of a multisyllabic word and instead suggest guessing at it? You wouldn’t. Nobody studying this is suggesting you throw phonics out in entirety, even the cueing advocates that don’t believe in dyslexia who sound suspiciously like they have dyslexia.

Except that the alternative method, the "whole word" approach, seems to have way worse outcomes.

Look cute, shoot & scoot.

FTFY

Plus flame-retardants in children's clothes and furniture are way more common than they used to be. So kids are seeing fewer fires, and when they do, they're less likely to get lit up.

This is why I say that "The kids will be alright." For fucks sake every generation has said that the younger ones will never make it. The kids today are the smartest ever not the dumbest. They just don't value the same things that we did and honestly, great. Leave my crap alone, figure out your own crap.

Idk man.

I've never seen millennials have an allergic reaction to a number before.

HTML is not hard. Someone who says "HTML codes" won't know anything past the basics.

They want their TikTok

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A lot of public spaces in the usa set their air conditioning to bone chilling levels. Especially restaurants and hospitals.

The hospitals argue it helps control bacteria growth, and the restaurants do it because the kitchen becomes a sauna in the summer.

I got AC when I moved out, prior to that I lived in an old single-wide trailer in the middle of a field... It was always hot but being near the GA/FL line didn't help lol.

I, too, know how to read cursive. The vast majority of it is unreadable eyedaggers.