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  • My mom led horror movies but was too scared to watch them alone.

    For some reason she thought kids don’t really remember things until around 6 years old.

    So with her I watched hellraiser, IT, Freddy Krueger, Chuckee, The Thing (Carpenter version), Amytiville horror, Pet Sementary, Alien, the exorcist, and some others when I was 4 and 5.

    Only ones that really freaked me out as a kid was Chuckee, and that hellraiser movie where pinhead comes out of a screen specifically (the third hellraiser I think?). Alien and Amytiville were my favorite ones.





  • Yes Prep Southeast campus (charter school does 6th - 12th grade).

    The school decided to experiment with separating the boys and the girls in 6th grade.

    The result was the 6th grade boys started a secret fight club with money involved in the restrooms, and some high schoolers were managing it. It was found out after a boy’s head broke a sink.

    The girls got very slightly better grades though.

    Other than that, the usual also happened; corruption, fraud, teachers doing pedophilia and ephebofilia, etc.





  • And that’s what we call survivorship bias. Sure you’ll be ticking along fine until some Legionella or Botulism just kills you before anyone knows it, other than maybe the doctor if you see one on time and the coroner. Then the next you online just assumes no need to wash things with soap because you just blipped out silently from existence.

    There’s a reason billions of humans didn’t populate the earth until modern sanitation and understanding of disease.

    Now sure some dirt every now and then from gardening (you still breathe some in after all) will do you good, keep your immune system busy. You’re right on that. But eating carrots straight from the ground is just rolling an unnecessary gamble you don’t need. You’re not wrong in that too much sanitation isn’t good either - but you do misunderstand a bit what that means. You don’t have to wear gloves working the ground - unless you have open cuts. You don’t have to soap up your carrots - but you do gotta give em a good rinse. Just dial it back a bit and you’ll make it unlikely to end up in a miserable time later in life, while still getting those benefits. A castle is strong, but just takes one thing to sneak in to bring it down from the inside - best not invite too many invaders once it’s already been built