I think you’ve been vacationing wrong.

The only types of vacations you can imagine are visiting historic urban cores, going on a cruise, or going to a resort?

What about a camping trip? Or a beach trip? Or visiting family that lives far away?

I mean, I guess that depends on what you’re defining as a “vacation”. If you’re talking about some big grand trip where you spend a ton of money and show off to everyone when you get back, sure.

But that’s not my experience with vacations, nor most people I know. A vacation is a break. It’s a chance to change your daily routine, change your scenery, and just disconnect from the normal stresses of daily life for a bit. It doesn’t need to be somewhere expensive or even far away. Hell, a weekend camping trip can cost virtually nothing and is a great vacation.

And for kids, vacations can be a great bonding and learning experience with parents and siblings. It takes them out of their comfort zone and forces them to experience and try things they might not have otherwise, simply because their environment has changed. Again, it doesn’t need to be something grand or expensive. Just something different.

Vacations aren’t just “consumer” behavior. They’re pretty important in a lot of ways.

My kid fits in just fine. She has plenty of friends.

Right? And I’m over here failing as a parent by buying books and letting her play outside. /s

Is there really fault at play here? I mean, is playing Minecraft a life skill that’s vital for a 5 year old to learn?

Maybe I’m parenting wrong, but my 5 year old has no idea what Minecraft is, let alone knows how to play it. The only video games she’s ever played is some Super Mario Bros 3 on a vacation once. She doesn’t even know how to do anything on our iPad except use the sketchpad app for drawing.

You’re probably right, but also, is it that big of a deal? I don’t buy just a screen protector, but the phone cases always come with one. I work construction, so I like to have a pretty durable phone case. I usually buy an Otterbox or similar. They always come with a screen protector, and I’ve never had a problem putting them on correctly.

I guess I just don’t see why NOT to use a screen protector if you already have one.

This exact thing has happened many many times in history. Not someone transported through time, but someone travelling to a place where nobody (or virtually nobody) speaks the same language, or even one related to yours.

I mean, for the extremely obvious examples, before the Columbian exchange, nobody in the Old World (Eurasia/Africa) had ever encountered any New World (Americas) language and vice versa. They managed to learn how to communicate within a fairly short time period.

But this was just the most obvious example. Until relatively recently (like past half millennia, or so), it was common enough.

You’d learn through immersion. You hear the language every day all day. You try to communicate by pointing and gesturing. Pretty soon you start picking up individual words (point at a piece of bread and say ‘bread’ over and over. Someone is going to respond with their word for bread. Do that a few times and you’ll learn the word for bread, etc, etc). That builds into common phrases. Before too long, you’re able to hold very rudimentary conversations, and it just builds from there.

Folding is the worst.

At least with my laundry when I take an article of clothing out of the basket to fold you can tell the volume in the basket is reducing. Each item is large enough that the difference is notable.

But when I take a piece of kids’ clothing out, it’s not noticeably less in the basket. It just feels like an endless amount of clothes.

This is a pretty silly mindset. I cook every day. I like to use high quality tools for my cooking. That includes high quality kitchen knives. Those shouldn’t be dishwashered. It ruins the handles and dulls the blade.

Same with my nice cast iron pans. And wooden cutting boards.

I also have several very large pots/bowls/etc that are just too large to fit in the dishwasher.

The dishwasher is an extremely useful tool, but it’s pretty ridiculous to limit what kitchen tools you’re willing to use simply because they aren’t compatible with another kitchen tool.

Only 20 minutes?!?! I do have a dishwasher, and I still spend well over 20 minutes hunched in front of the sink cleaning dishes that can’t go in the dishwasher every day.

Not OP, but I’m 6’6" (200 cm). I’m ALWAYS hunching over in the kitchen.

With kids it’s so much worse. I clean the entire kitchen at least 3 times a day, usually more.

Did you see him drop Ohio State’s trophy the other day?

Maybe he dropped the Pope?

Pat the bunny recently came out of retirement and released a new album called Friends in Real Life. It’s quite good, as is pretty much everything he’s ever done.

I haven’t noticed any moderation issues on lemmy.dbzer0.com

Mind if I ask what exactly you feel like is being censored?

I could go on a sub like NoStupidQuestions or AskElectricans, etc where someone would ask a question about some super obscure topic I happen to be knowledgeable on. I could write a long, in-depth response which would then get dozens of responses and further questions. I’d be engaged in the same conversation about this topic or that for days.

Here, it feels like 99% of conversations are about IT/programming, which is not my field, or about American politics.

If you wanna get into a really heady topic, see what happens when you put a piece of strut or gnd wire or another power wire in between parallel runs of power wire per phase on a three-phase AC system

I did a tenant fit-out in a new building where the base-building was still under construction by a different electrical contractor when we started our buildout. The building had a penthouse switchboard that was fed with 5 parallel sets. Except the other EC pulled it as 1 phase per conduit. So they had 1 conduit with 5x a-phase conductors. Another with 5x b-phase, etc. Even 1 conduit with just 5x EGCs.

I noticed it because we had to pull a new feed into their switchboard right before permanent power got turned on to the building. This was literally the day before the utility was supposed to turn on power, They were this close to turning on a 2000A feeder with a single phase per conduit. And it was all metal conduit. They’d have burned that whole damn building down.

I told them they did it wrong and were going to start a fire. They didn’t believe me at first, so I had to escalate it to my GC’s safety coordinator, who had to bring it to their safety coordinator. They refused to call the utility to cancel turning on permanent power, so my safety guy and I had to intercept the utility guys when they showed up on site to tell them not to turn on power. Man was that other EC’s foreman PISSED, but he eventually did have to pull it all out and repull it correctly.

this made me completely lose any sense of my place in reality

This is precisely why they used to (and still are sometimes, although not as often) be used for pilot and astronaut training. All the astronauts who went through the early Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions trained on one.