Unless they filmed a flashback to when I was killed, nothing.

My wife lost an inch, then had to have a vertebrae fused in her neck and she got the inch back.

Pissed off my daughter as she had just outgrown my wife, only for my wife to pass her and force her to do it again.

They measured my height the last few times I was in for a physical.

I think it’s because I’ve reached the age where they want to see if I’ve started to shrink.

It’s called “advertising”

I’d point out that taking responsibility for your actions doesn’t necessarily mean fixing them on your own.

It’s often more difficult (and more adult) to acknowledge that you’ve dug a hole for yourself that you can’t escape from on your own and ask for help.

Saying this as the parent of young adult children that are adulting well, but still need to ask for help. Also as the old adult child of my parents who must still force himself to ask them for help.

One big sign is when you stop demanding to be treated like an adult and just start being one.

Being an adult is just a decision you make one day.

Years ago my older brother was on the phone complaining to me because our mom found out he bought a motorcycle and was mad at him and my dad (who helped him pick it out).

He wanted to know why my mom thought she could treat him like a child.

I pointed out that when he decided to get a motorcycle and kept it secret from our mom, he was acting like a child and enabling her to treat him like one.

I have no interest in ever owning a motorcycle. However, if I ever did, it would never occur to me to keep it secret from anybody, because I’m an adult in charge of my own life. Everyone else can have opinions, but I get to decide whose opinions matter to me.

She doesn’t have the job because she’s smart.

She has the job because she’s on their side.

It existed as more than an idea in the late 1800s, because it is referenced in the US Constitution in 1787.

It looks like the concept was established earlier:

Intellectual Property

I was doing IT 30 years ago.

Back then you’d post a question on USENET and get an answer back from the guy who wrote the program you were asking about.

My go to.

They’re fishing for answers in the answer pond,

Except, they’ve actually dropped their lines in the stupidity toilet.

Scissors are the ideal utensil for correcting unseparated pizza slices.

I believe that computer just attracts people who are outcasts

I think you’re right, but I’ve also read that there might be some correlation between being trans and being on the autism spectrum. If that’s true, then it is reasonable to expect a higher than average percentage of IT people would be trans.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9014767/#%3A~%3Atext=(2020)+found+that+that+transgender%2Cand+sex+assigned+at+birth).

They also happen to be linked up to a rapid and highly efficient super computer far outclassing anything that humanity has ever devised

A neural network that has been in development for 650 million years.

I will say a proud (if dismayed) moment for me as a parent was being forced to see the text’s between my daughter and the boy she was interested in.

Context: they were both 15, and the boy’s parents were religious wack-jobs. The father specifically said that 15 was too young to have a relationship. I had to respectfully disagree, since my wife was 15 when we started dating (I was 16).

Of course, the parents monitored all the boys communications, and would send me crap i didn’t want to see.

In the texts the boy suggested that he and my daughter should lie to the parents. My daughter pointed out that there’s no way we wouldn’t know.

She knew that we considered lying to be the one unforgivable sin. So she wouldn’t waste it ;-)

Thankfully, that relationship died. It would have been a whole lot easier to let it alone, but his parents couldn’t.

I’ve heard that when the boy went to college he couldn’t handle the freedom and ended up dropping out and returning home.

That depends on the situation. If you don’t know them, then yeah, you’d need to confirm you’re taking to the right person.

I ended up meeting all the parents of my kids’ friends, so it would have been beyond difficult to fake that.

Said this in a reply to another comment, but I wanted to make a top level reply as well.

I’ve been in this situation.

My recommendation is to tell your son he has to have Tiffany ask one of her parents to give you a call.

You don’t want to initiate the call in case they don’t know and are nut jobs.

However, you want to hear them say they are ok (and what they are ok with) in case they don’t know and are nut jobs.

Establishing a relationship with her parents will help when it comes time to decide which grandparents are going to cover which babysitting shifts ;-)

Just kidding about that last part. Kind of.

I’ve been in this situation.

I wouldn’t initiate a conversation with her parents, but I would insist that they give me a call.

I would want to hear it from them. If they did give permission, I would want to find out what their expectations are.

Asking to hear from Tiffany’s parents also gets around the possibility that they think Tiffany is actually spending the night at Amber’s house.

I think you can dislike pedophiles and even want to see them punished, yet still recognize that some asshole doing it to get revenue from their YouTube channel is not the right solution.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that most crime is the result of either poverty or neurological flaws, and torture is not the best solution to either problem.

People need to be kept safe, and the criminal justice system is ostensibly the mechanism we’ve decided to use for that.

I want to see how they change the bulbs.