Poll of the Day
Some Graves Don’t Deserve Reverence
There’s something obscene about it.
Flowers. Trinkets. A polished stone. Praying hands. Roses. And the words “Our Angel in Heaven.”
Meanwhile, 19 children and two teachers are dead.
Twenty-one people walked into Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022, with every reasonable expectation that they would walk back out. They didn’t. Nineteen kids were denied birthdays, first loves, bad jobs, good meals, stupid mistakes, marriages, divorces, road trips, disappointments, triumphs—the whole messy privilege of getting older.
Confessions of Former Home-Schooled Kids
1. I’ve always been the awkward friendless outsider. I will always be the awkward friendless outsider. Four years of college, four years of graduate school, and over 15 years in the professional world. And I still can’t seem to carry on a conversation without being awkward.
I don’t have any friends, which makes life pretty hard when I’m going through rough patches. Coworkers quietly go to lunch and hang out after work without inviting me.
In-laws and extended family all have these meaningful relationships and go on vacations together. I’ve spent my entire life watching from the outside and it’s so depressing.
“How do I save my son from a toxic girlfriend?”
My 18 year old son was thriving. He was excelling in a competitive sport with Olympic potential, doing well academically, and had a healthy social life. Then he started dating his current girlfriend, and everything began to unravel.
Since meeting her, he has isolated himself from friends and family, dropped out of high school, and stopped taking his training seriously. He now spends most of his time waiting outside her school, walking her to and from class, or glued to his phone talking to her. When he does not do what she wants, she calls him crying, yelling, and putting enormous emotional pressure on him.
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How Our Family of Six Survives on $50,000 a Year
I make approximately $50,000 a year and support a family of six.
My wife and I are both 30. We have been married for 10 years and have four children. I am the only person in our household earning an income. My wife stays home, cares for the children and homeschools them.
When people hear those numbers, they usually assume we must be miserable or drowning in debt. We are not.
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Poll of the Day
Would You Approve a Data Center in Your Community?
Linkage
18 Fascinating Photos Collected From History – Ned Hardy
Forty First Dates and Still Searching – NYTimes
What it looks like to live next to a sprawling data center – USA Today
Evergrande tycoon at the heart of China’s property crisis sentenced to life in prison – Reuters
This may be the first academic profession to see its work taken over by AI – Archive.ph
31 Memes That Won The Internet This Week – Ned Hardy
Politicians Who Once Championed Data Centers Are Now Bashing Them – WSJ
Why Americans Stopped Reading Books – Open Culture
Brands Are ‘Maxxing’ and ‘Mogging’ as They Co-Opt a Controversial Trend – WSJ
Big Bear Bald Eagle, Shadow ‘highly likely’ to nest up with new eagle pal, biologist says – Archive.ph
I’m 50 years old. Why do I still struggle with the need to be liked? – The Guardian
As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings – Ars Technica
Mapped: Where Young Americans Are Buying Homes – Visual Capitalist
The Dumping Grounds
Would You Last in the Mafia?
Forget the movies. Survival inside a crime family had almost nothing to do with being the toughest man in the room, and everything to do with reading a room full of people who might kill you.
The ones who lasted understood the internal logic of the institution they’d given their lives to, a world with its own rules of rank, money, reputation, and loyalty, where a single misjudgment could be the last one you made. This is the brutal machinery of a criminal organization seen from the inside, not a celebration of it.