amazon bought-out abebooks. Biblio.com is where its at.

How are you still even bothering to reply? I figured would end-up blocking you before you would shut-up, but this is just sad. I’m not flexing for your skinny or obese ass, whatever the case may be, but in-person, I’m certain you would have run-away or been carried off on a stretcher by now, and probably taken-down by a by-stander before I had to take your threats seriously or bother hitting back, at that.

Do Aussies not have Friday’s or something?

Look in the mirror. Asshole≠Wrong

You took personally a statement addressed to anyone who happened to read it, a statement parents the world-over make when told by a stranger, or “society”, others could do their job better, their priorities or wrong, whatever.

Whether it was meant to provoke you personally or not, whether I could tell you would or not, you made the leap to running with it, and I cannot fix that for you, and it does takes you solidly from “I don’t know you, stay away from my kids” to; No really, I now know more about you than I ever would have asked for and I was more spot-on in the first place than I realized, stay away from my kids.

That’s how you took being told to stay away from my kids and the statement that they are already creeped out by people like you? People who can’t handle being told their parenting advice/perscriptiveness and proclivity for labelling strangers as un-fit/inexperienced/ignorant parents is un-wanted?

An apology for a statement of my personal stance and a fact about my kids’ demeanors isn’t going to happen. Stop using strangers’ statements of trust/distrust as an evaluation of your own overall trustworthiness, for starters. I don’t trust myself around anyone’s kids more than their parents trust me, so why should I apologize for not seeing you as an exception to that? The fact you would apparently expect such is the instigator of my misgivings.

Overall trust isn’t something to expect or request, and versus the children of another person or “children in general” that goes infinitely more-so.

You would have to buy me one to do that, but fair enough. Good day, m’lady

Fair enough. I picked up on the idea “something’s not right here” and aggressively proded you rather than de-escalate or use my people skills really. Showing weakness on the internet usually gets others going for my throat, so I find its easier to make that happen intentionally in the hopes the other party realizes “wait a minute, why did I let this stranger get me going like this?”

… more often, I end up having to block people, but you didn’t quite give me enough reason, even if I did tell myself that was coming next a few times. See you around.

Now who is confused about who they are replying to? “Just Install Linux” wasn’t my comment.

You made that very clear from the start

This, I’ve gotta hear. Do you even have anything to say or any idea how far down an off-topic and de-railed thread you’ve chosen to step in?

If you’re so certain you’re up to the task, then by all means, correct me, pickled-sensei. I like a good chuckle as much as anyone.

… Yeah, no. Nothing I’ve said to you was meant for anyone else, and I doubt you’re a day older than I, almost as much as I doubt any child who has escaped your clutches ever talked to you again.

Wait, are you still on that non-sense where calling it your article means calling you the author? If you struck me as someone capable of feeling shame rather than hoarding personal affronts not entirely for you like little treasures, I guess I could have called it “your source”, but let’s be real, that was never going to help you back to the support group you’ve stumbled out-of.

First three words of it were the location, by the way. Imagine thinking the average mid-town Los Angeles family has such a nice yard…

Obviously you’re not the author, or your stanning of this non-sense shouldn’t have dipped into such weak-sauce semantics. Pretending that’s what I said was an amusing conceit though.

What of it? My nipples get cold too!

Nothing I’ve said was any less warrented than your “fuck you” bullshit. I know when I’m diving into the mud, unlike you.

Also, now who didn’t read the article from the OP? Somehow, it doesn’t surprise me that looking up the locations of places mentioned in an article you’ve repeatedly attacked others for “not reading” is a step far beyond your wheel-house.

I’ve probably changed more daipers than all but a few of the women you’ve met, but do go-on. “Stay away from my kids” deserves a fuck you? Go to hell where you belong. My kids aren’t sheltered from the internet and the wider world - I would be in prison if I were half the skeeve you’ve implied I was - but people like you rightly give them the ick.

You have no more understanding of technology or proper parenting than these, frankly, luddites, who themselves seem more ignorant than your average amish or mennonite. Those groups at least grasp the choices they must make to support their lifestyles in the modern-world and make them with intention versus faith and belief, rather than from a place of “I don’t control it from top to bottom, so its gross”.

Oh, and I read your stupid article about Los Angeles suburbanites, same as the other article it references about Los Angeles suburbanites. Really enlightened, salt-of-the-earth stuff. Reminded me why I left Southern California on multiple levels.

Somehow, I doubt the Venn Diagram of parents with the time, resources and energy to move their kids off technology without hurting their education versus those with the time, resources and energy to get their kids their own laptops is much less round and overlapping than a singular circle. In otherwords, the exceptions on either end are just that, tiny little slivers, and neither close to anything like “the majority”.

You’re half-right that the OS can seem irrelavent, but suggesting Linux is far less extreme than suggesting the removal of tech entirely.

These kids would rather have Steam-decks, AKA, capable general-purpose computers. They would probably learn more from owning them, and yes, being forced to take regular analog breaks from their use. Steam-decks run Linux, btw…

… but no, an educational, social, play and extra-curricular world defined entirely by parents’ biases is obviously best, the one thing we should all agree on.

No seriously, stay away from my kids. Their hand-writing is probably better than yours.

The rationales of tech-illiterate helicopter parents are not the only ones worth discussing.

I don’t think school districts have any business renting-out years-old Chromebooks full of spyware for amounts that could buy a newer laptop, but here we are.

Couple of weeks-ago, I had to basically trick my daughter’s Chromebook into caching a lesson at a resolution high enough for her to tell that her snow-day packet’s math problems actually were part of the lesson. There was no option to download the video or watch it on another device(also tried, even casting it to a TV wasn’t available).

… but yeah, what the district and Google are cool with is super-important. They don’t even use books.

I would treat it like a baby. From what I gather, that wouldn’t end-well for me, but the scarier part is that last bit is going to change, at least in-so-far as whether it is capable of intending to manipulate me towards an early grave, and its being “educated” by fools who buy the hype in the mean-time.

Smarter, saner people than I or the hype-machine, I hope you’re not letting the chance to even attempt to handle this correctly pass you by. For all our sakes.