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“We have a finite amount of time on this planet, and you can be viciously mediocre, or you can get the fuck after it.”
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@EngineerDustin
@ajlamesa
It looks like the corner curb is rounded, not squared off into the intersection. This allows cars to maintain speed while turning and is a design flaw that makes the intersection much more dangerous for pedestrians.
@StrongTowns
covers this.
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@KeenanPeachy
It’s probably impossible to flunk out of Harvard. You can get expelled for saying the wrong thing, but you are pretty set if you can be sociable.
79% of grades are As at Harvard.
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A problem from my 12yo’s math.
We are firmly past what 99% of adults ever need to know and clearly into abstract reasoning development.
Most people should stop math education in middle school. They know enough and further math instruction is a waste of time and frustrating.
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@RemilioCEO
I keep a pic of young Alex Jones on my phone because years can catch up to you, man.
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@kaschuta
I can understand this logic.
What I can’t square is this logic combined with the urban woman’s casual attitude towards sex.
If they thought this way, why would casual sex with many partners be a thing? I would think it would lead to a deeply conservative attitude towards sex,
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@primalpoly
I can’t believe no one has mentioned the correct answer, and that is a giant tell on how bourgeois your audience is.
The correct answer is equestrian sports.
No excess muscle in the upper body, shapely lower bodies.
Did my wife ride Equestrian in college?
Yes, yes she did.
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Everybody talks about the Stanford marshmallow test, but nobody wants to give up their social life with friends they won’t talk to in five years to have more kids.
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@SpiritedSparr0w
I’m sure a single young woman who is watching her calories, hitting the gym, doing all the hair and makeup etc has trouble understanding what a man sees when he views the mother of his children.
It sounds like a lie: “she’s more beautiful than ever.”
It is and it isn’t. The
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@ProLifeDem
Because their business model doesn’t work without abortion funds. They need to rework their sources of funding to operate as a crisis pregnancy center, if Senator Warren doesn’t shut them down first.
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@Paulintoronto47
@MarcMethot3
@cia_dir
Yeah that’s the move. But I wouldn’t sign the card. Just send your kid to school with your card, then have the kid whip it out and ask to trade cards of their dads.
“Where’s your dad’s pro hockey card? Let’s trade.” Card in hand.
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Boomers don’t think multi-generationally.
Huge advantage for millennials who will.
You won’t see the effects for three generations though. Those financial effects will compound and all of a sudden your grandchildren are elite.
Make your family tribal.
“Us” vs “them”
I get asked quite frequently: "Should I help my adult kids out financially if I'm able, or should I force them to make it on their own?" HELP THEM. Real estate prices are crazy relative to incomes. Inflation just ran hot. Plus, they may have strong options you don't (the FHSA!).
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@politicalmath
No, Greg is fully consistent: operating on the elite principle of “rules for thee, not for me.”
Your kids need to mask up for 8 hours and isolate due to an “exposure” but Greg can have unprotected gay sex without any repercussions, consequences, or responsibility at all.
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@daffytweet
@wanyeburkett
😂😂 that’s why I couldn’t think of what it was!
“Man I’m just here to do this job and get paid so I can go do what I want.”
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@13243546k
@wanyeburkett
It was so bad when we moved from Connecticut to Florida I threw an absolute fit halfway through the semester (8th grade).
One of those days my mom needed to be home and advocate for me. My class was nothing but endless worksheets. You read the text book and fill out the
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@thebeautyofsaas
Tried to move my 1:1 with my mgr to 11:30am because a customer moved their call. Mgr is getting a haircut. Wanted to talk to a guy in Seattle about his process: “sure thing but can we meet next week? The sun is out and I want to hit the gym.”
Say no more.
Hit your numbers.
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@politicalmath
@ReaLitY_Siege
That’s the “high deductible health plan”, you know, the one with the lower premiums because you are responsible for the first $10 grand or whatever…
We are never going to break this system, are we? It’s going to be cries for single payer until we capitulate to waiting lists.
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@GovBillLee
From the Alamo to Eagles Pass, Tennesseans have always defended Texas from foreign invaders!
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To summarize, 35% of Americans born in the nineties are married today.
Americans born in the 1940s, at the same age, were married at a rate of 90%.
This will have massive political and social implications.
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14 years after
@garytaubes
wrote a book about it.
A new theory could change everything we thought we knew about nutrition.
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@sivori
@ElvisElven
This is the right answer. Parents with 3+ kids who drive SUVs are SCREAMING “I’m insecure and want you to think I’m cool.”
You show me a dad who drives a minivan, I’ll show you an extremely successful engineer or someone who has a high level of disagreeableness.
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@alexfeinberg1
There’s a hidden reason I get all my kids into weightlifting.
The reason I tell them: sports
The reason they do it: get girls
The reason they’ll appreciate some day: health
My top secret reason: they’ll never become political liberals
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@BrentBeshore
@joerogan
Joe walked right up to the edge of asking Jesus to come on the podcast.
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@jason_howerton
Kim understands if she holds on she is unemployed 1/21/25 right?
See, this is why we say republicans have no balls.
They don’t clean house of all these embedded bad actors throughout the government and institutions that depend on government funds.
When you have power, you
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I don’t know anything about this, but if republicans are holding up a vote on school choice waiting for an apology, they should resign.
Get your ego out of the way and allow parents to direct ed $.
Several sources tell me if the group responsible for the flier in Georgia about school choice perceived as an attack on Republicans would apologize for it, a vote would most likely happen.
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Movies from the 80s showing kids with agency is another world.
The karate kid? Riding your bike around town?
Rad? The Goonies? There are no groups of middle school kids hanging out with no agenda.
Everything is structured, planned, chauffeured and supervised by adults
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@BonifaceOption
When an ordained minister serving in the United States federal government says the country has to repent, is that Christian Nationalism?
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@simonsarris
It’s not happiness, but it’s a correlate. It’s not only ballerinas, but it’s relevant.
Juilliard entrance doesn’t mean you’ve made it.
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@NecktieSalvage
This is actually what I will do with my kids. When they turn 16.
18mo to go for the oldest.
Letting your kids walk around ignorant of how to attract a quality spouse is NOT the way to get a great family.
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@awilkinson
In Scottsdale, we made a rule: “never discuss moving in July.”
If you want to move in March, let’s talk about it.
In PNW, never discuss moving in February. If you want to move in Sept, let’s talk about it.
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Treehouses should be hard to get into/out of. If you are just waking up stairs, you have an elevated deck.
Adults should have to think twice before ascending/descending. Or be physically unable to do so.
Makes the space magical for kids.
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@iDoLikeSpam
What’s interesting is the lack of transference for most learning.
Iirc there are a bunch of tests that show when you teach a concept, and then test students’ ability to apply that concept in a new environment, basically no one can do it.
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The party in power calls you a fascist for wanting to make your own choices for your life, while working hand-in-glove with private companies to strip your God-given rights enshrined in the Constitution.
Then they hide behind “private companies can do what they want”
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@asymmetricinfo
Megan will be unsympathetic except she’ll have to live in the country and elections have consequences.
I think very few people will enjoy the consequences of KH.
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You can choose if your kids get a childhood without smartphones.
My 10 and 9yo played follow the leader through the woods yesterday, intentionally walking through the leaves and branches, giggling the whole way.
Create the world you want to inhabit.
I grew up in the 90s. It’s crazy to think we’re the last generation to experience a childhood without smartphones.
I’m grateful for this every single day.
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Marriage advice is tough, it seems every situation is unique.
I will say we mutually communicated and committed to our values early and “the D word” has and will never be spoken.
My backup plan is a coffin.
I see a lot of negativity on here about marriage, if y'all could retweet this with marriage advice & a picture of y'all married I'd appreciate it 🙏
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@GuyDealership
The salesman was fine. It’s the F&I guy I wanted to throw through the plate glass walls.
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Stone, wood, ceiling height. Notice the lack of artificial light?
I don’t know how dark it gets at night, but I’ll just walk around with my candle like ebenezer.
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@DanielleMorrill
Get started right now. Egg freezing is far from a guarantee. We had 7 kids in 12 years and my wife is giving birth to our latest this month at age 40.
You really don’t know how easy it is to get pregnant or how your body will react to everything until you get going.
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My word, it’s happening. Roe overturned. Universal school choice racing through red state legislators.
Once we give transparent medical pricing, we will really be cooking.
Iowa House File 68: "Students First Act"
The vote was updated to 55 to 45.
The Iowa Senate is expected to pass the bill by a larger margin.
Iowa will be the third state to pass universal school choice.
This is the way.
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@politicalmath
Law is basically about the definition of words. If someone can’t define woman, they can’t define any word, and they are unqualified to serve in the law at any level.
But of course she can define the word. As you say, it’s not in her interest to.
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@BrinzeiB
@c_gro
The total days off includes the weekends or holidays you get off anyways. It’s just aligning your pto with federal holidays to give you larger chunks of days off consecutively.
Jan 2-5 is 4 pto days, but plus both weekends and Monday off for new years gets you 9 straight days
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I thought it would be interesting to introduce my 14yo daughter to the music that was popular when I was in high school.
So I typed my year of graduation into Spotify for a top hits playlist.
And here’s what I immediately recognized:
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@etubruton
@kaschuta
So, in this view, a series of random casual sexual partners is safer than a husband for life?
The shorter the safer, probabilistically speaking?
Even when, as n increases, the chances of having a dangerous encounter approaches 100% despite the lower percentage chance of any
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Marriage is not a life capstone at 35 after you’ve made partner/VP. It’s an ingredient to all types of success.
Much better to build a life together rather than bolt-on as one more accoutrement of success.
The benefits of marrying earlier (than currently fashionable) seem very underrated. The earlier you do, the more advantages compound.
It's not a final thing you do, like graduation. It's foundational. If you get it right, marriage means having a co-founder for each other's life.
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Rebranding nuclear energy is genius.
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Narrator: you cannot make a world of difference in a 2k employee, $500m dollar system like my local one that can just wait you out.
While the kids are at 35% testing proficient at grade level reading and math.
People act like you have all the time in the world. You don’t.
I’m sad for people here who apparently don’t have access to the fine public schools I attended. I challenge you to make your public schools excel, encourage the teachers, mentor, volunteer. You can make a world of difference without redirecting public funds to private interests.
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@EduEngineer
I’m not unvaccinated, I’m loving my global neighbor by not taking one of a finite and short supply (apparently?) of vax that can go to someone else who has higher risk and less medical options.
When you think about it, I’m really the most selfless compassionate one.
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@dissproportion
If tinder was designed by and for men as a dating app (image: Yes or No?) it seems like Twitter would be the female equivalent.
All words, limited to no pics.
Would you fall in love with a pen pal, anon?
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You can really get by with very little when you have a young family.
Little kids don’t know and don’t care.
We had 5 kids under the age of 6 in a cheap 3 bedroom rental.
No walk-in closet, skinny master bath you couldn’t walk into if someone was at the sink.
It was fine.
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@eigenrobot
Plot twist: you get the money when each kid turns 10.
A) people are real bad at LT planning/delayed gratification
B) little kids are cheap. Older kids are expensive with activities and such.
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Hey twitter, Tennessee sucks, don’t move here!
10 worst states to live and work in for 2023, per CNBC.
10. Florida
9. Arkansas
8. Tennessee
7. Indiana
6. Missouri
T-4. Alabama
T-4. South Carolina
3. Lousiana
2. Oklahoma
1. Texas
The fact that these are all red states tells me there is a specific narrative they are trying to
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Look, kids introduce great emotional risk into your life.
In finance, “risk” is how much an asset’s value can fluctuate up or down.
You can live some emotional flatline of a life, protecting yourself from despair by never caring about anyone.
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@freefemininity
@FoundationDads
@limitlessleila
Homemaking is the ultimate career. All other careers exist to support the ultimate career.
-CS Lewis
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@360CitizenShay
@kaschuta
You’re saying the more committed a relationship is, the higher the likelihood of physical abuse?
I hadn’t heard that
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@typesfast
@man_integrated
Lots of these people believe the earth is over populated. Your tweet is a *feature* to them.
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@CREdebtlawyer
Reading through the comments and it soon becomes apparent that there is broad disagreement about what a wedding is.
If a wedding is a party for adults with drinking and sexual hookups, one answer is obvious.
If a wedding is the joining of two families before God, a different
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@MascMillennial
I blame TSA and increased security theater. Having to disrobe of all layers is a big impediment to dressing well.
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@Empty_America
I want to tread lightly here. Makeup. The answer is makeup.
The first two pictures are the same woman, who I assume is a very highly paid model.
Less than 1% of women in the US don’t wear makeup.
Less than 1% of men wear makeup.
That’s it. That’s the reason.
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@hybridathlete8
Because you track your calories and macros and are not eating a consistent surplus of calories.
People who don’t track have rules like “carbs make you fat” because they are less satiating than protein and fat and may easily lead to over eating.
I just assume you knew that, or
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@remnantposting
Just bought our first house last year. The oldest of our 7 kids turned 13 that month.
Family is life. Don’t put your life on hold waiting to check some boxes.
Don’t wait to approach the girl until you “deserve” her. Don’t wait to propose, have kids, apply for the job, whatevr
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@jtatsuno
@GovBillLee
@HouseGOP
You hack, it doesn’t take more $$ to STOP removing existing border control infrastructure. Literally do nothing.
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People really can’t imagine anything to do other than paid employment. A failure of imagination, a complete victory for wage slave indoctrination.
You really can’t conceive of a use of time that would bless your community, your family beyond getting a job for $25/hr?
Being a stay at home mom sounds great until the last kid moves out and you’re 46 years old and haven’t had a paying job in 25 years. Do you lay around the house for the last 40 years of your life or do you try and get a paid job with no experience?
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@KeenanPeachy
Last generation Californian.
How many kids are going to be permanently radicalized to the Right when they realize the controlling institutions of his country are racist against them?
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@conan_esq
I’m pretty sure dern is just a crazy progressive looking for problematic issues everywhere.
Run, Dr Grant, Run!
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I told a friend I had 3 goals for my kids:
1) marry my daughters off well
2) sons make 3x local median income so their wives can sahm
3) kids disciple my grandkids in the Lord
#3
is most important, but chronologically comes last.
My wife asked,
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@BillLeeTN
now that TN state Supreme Court has upheld, time to lift the restrictions on income and geography and allow parents to direct educational dollars to the best fit for their children.
Arizona passed the most expansive school choice initiative in the nation.
All families will be able to take their children's education dollars to the education providers of their choosing
The biggest school choice victory in U.S. history.
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Here’s the story where that really hit home for me.
I was following a twitter fitness guru. He sold a bunch of gumroad courses.
His landing pages and even his material had TONS of grammatical errors and typos. Missing commas, homonyms, missing words, etc.
Craigslist, making $500M / yr in profit: doesn't even know the word "formatting"
Post-MBA investment banking associate who never generated a dollar of revenue in his life: "on slide 79 there was a space between the end of the sentence and the period pls fix"
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@timothy_dexter_
@canna_brain
Legitimize his podcast? No one has heard of you, Matt.
I dont listen to Huberman, but you come off like a huge narcissist here.
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At what point will couples decide to keep a parent home full time for economics?
Perhaps we see the value of a sahm. Society healing itself. Watch anxiety and depression in children plummet.
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@politicalmath
Like, west wing convos: “actually, these high gas prices are great because they will accelerate electric cars and mitigate climate change.”
Then Biden just says it out loud in a presser.
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Many parents wish they’d had the marginal child.
If you are on the fence, choose life.
For more in depth discussion,
@bryan_caplan
‘s “selfish Reasons to have more kids”
@CharlieFleming_
PS - have a 3rd child if it’s not too late. Now that my kids are older, we wished we had another. It was soooo hard when they were young and close in age, we couldn’t fathom a third, but now wish we did and regret the decision. (I go out of my way to tell people this as a result)
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@Amer1can_Barbie
When he has armpit hair start him on this program:
I’ve taken lots of people through it. Best program for beginners. Will need to supplement with additional direct arm work. Trainer is only needed to make sure he does the program and doesn’t change it.
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@politicalmath
@ProfEmilyOster
Given her class and position.
But you forgive and move on when appropriate boundaries are in place.
You don’t forgive and move on when the abuser is in the house and has expressed no contrition, remorse, or repentance.
Build boundaries, limit the ability of these fascists
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The contrast of rough hewn and soft/plush tablecloth, rug, and chairs.
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@politicalmath
My favorite part of the Biden presidency is when POTUS makes public remarks that are clearly narrations of private dem convos that were never meant for public consumption.
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@CBedfordDC
“Do you think poor people should be killed if your minimum standard of living cannot be met?”
“Do poor people deserve to live?”
“What is the minimum parental income level below which you believe children should be dismembered and sold for parts, Dana?”
This isn’t hard.
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@1000yearhouse
You’ve lost the plot here, 1000. Don’t let Trump derangement syndrome show.
All people have to do is compare 3 years (pre Covid) DJT to 4 years Biden.
I can’t believe I have to explain this to you.
Also, just so you know, after Covid, and now Biden’s mental incapacity,
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@politicalmath
@ProfEmilyOster
There has been no accountability. No one lost their jobs.
Some pols may be voted out Nov 8th, but they will most likely leave bureaucrats in place.
There are no restraining boundaries that will prevent this from happening again.
Emily has been as good as could be expected
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You can still give your kids a lot of this. Not all of it. But a lot.
We are into Summer. Sprinklers, fireflys, tramping around the woods.
Hey dad--what was it like growing up without a smart phone?
Me:
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