Almost everything can be bought used. Furniture, kitchen stuff, bedroom stuff…. Or a cheap futon from Walmart can be a couch and a bed.

New stuff to buy: bedding and cleaning supplies.

Yeah I think you just have to have hot water running for a minute before you dump it and then keep it running for a few after.

Also, egg shells can’t go in a garbage disposal

Lol. I literally get what you’re saying. Hahah.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change#:~:text=Semantic%20change%20(also%20semantic%20shift,different%20from%20the%20original%20usage.

Here you go buddy. No one is talking about one person just deciding a word isn’t bad 😂. The meanings of words literally changes over time in a society.

The Marines should base literally nothing off of how the Army does stuff.

I based my entire judgement of another Marine off of their sleeve roll. Lol. Really jacked me up when we stopped. Now how am I supposed to make snap judgements based off of an inconsequential fabric roll?!

Yes we really can. The meaning of words changes all the time. Take guys for example. Originally a gendered term, but is now, in common language, gender neutral. Same with dude.

What the actual fuck? Like we’re north and South Korea? Or like about to leave a war zone in one of the shitholes we fought in (we made most of them shitholes btw)?

You want to lay mines across our border? To get all those evil unaccompanied minors and moms? Sometimes I can’t believe I fought for your right to say and think this shit. I’m very disappointed in america recently and this is why.

Anecdotally, my 12 year old games A LOT. He wants to be a professional gamer when he grows up. I can honestly say that with very little effort he gets all As and Bs in school (after two and a half years of online school, he’s back in public school now). He’s really good at math, problem solving, engineering,and has tenacity. I will say he struggles the most with language arts though. I wonder if he played more story games, with some dialogue and reading if he’d excel in that too?

I heavily cut down on his allowable gaming hours during the school week, trying to encourage more tactile arts, like sketching and reading. But the more I real of these studies the more I think I should encourage different types of games to build those lacking skills.

He’s in a STEM class where they use an engineering computer program to build out the specs of the things they’re going to build. He picked it immediately and is doing all of the blueprints for my at home projects.

The biggest negative effect I can see (compounded by covid and isolation) is lack of in- person social skills. We all know the way we act online is different than how we act in person. So he’s having a hard time making “real life” friends at school.