If you’re not trolling - what a bizarre thing to tell a child. If children can’t be children, then who can??

So it did help you get up then?

So much has manifested in the ripple effects from the pursuit of great things.

It’s mighty morphin’ time!

I tell younglings this fact all the time

“They know every smartphone”

So the question is - who will be in Gandalf’s company of dwarves (+1 hobbit)?

Yes, the US is a mirage of a first-world country.

In just over three weeks, Donald Trump has been able to redefine the United States’ position in the world from a global power to an international outcast.

This is exactly what people uttering “Make America Great Again” were asking for when they chose Trump to be the figurehead. None should be surprised.

Increasingly I am seeing Musk as the one solution to this problem:

John said “reading performatively” - so, unless you’re doing that…

the latter of which many look up to

When I read your whole comment, I feel like you’re ascribing the blame in the wrong place. It’s the “many” who choose to look up to these people, using their standards in place of their own, that I would say is the real issue here. Leo doing this does not normalize dating women for looks for me. Neither does Pharrell Williams buying a cybertruck and riding around in it influence or normalize cybertrucks for me. If people want things based on superficial reasons, they’ll learn that it’s only superficial and doesn’t have substance.

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend” - Faramir

Sometimes I need to wipe my face after a meal and have no napkins so I use money