>I know what a shitty brat I've been and I'm sure if God or karma exists, I'll get an equally shitty child or worse I'll make a very shitty parent.
Man, that kept me up many a night before my kid was born! She turned out to be amazing, though. Definitely didn't get it from me.
We had to rely on EBT (food stamps) and Medicaid when she was little and we were both in college. Medicaid was amazing, at least for someone who couldn't afford to go to a doctor for a decade or more beforehand, but besides that perk the welfare benefits for having a child basically balanced out the increased costs of raising one. Can't say how well this would scale with n+1 kids though.
I see plenty wrong with the stereotype. I've been on my own since 17, too. I'm 28 now. In that time I've worked at nearly every job you can imagine, with no parents to beg money from or go back home to live with. I know what grinding poverty feels like, and how it's all the worse when you actually have a full time job. Doesn't mean I wasn't financially independent. There's lots of us in the same boat.
I eventually ground out night classes while working and job-hopped my way into industrial automation and a halfway comfortable life, so I understand the appeal of passing judgement from a high and mighty place - but don't. It's a particularly pernicious intellectual weakness.
I'm not trying to condescend people who aren't financially independent. Maybe the use of the word "children" wasn't the best, because I can see how it gives off that vibe. I am just pointing out what I have observed.
Most people at the age of 23 are not in a position to support themselves yet, which is kind of off-topic w.r.t my original point anyway.
The fact that there are people like you who were able to work hard and make good things happen at a young age doesn't nullify the fact that the average 23 year old is still dependent on their parents.
But what I was really getting at is that there is a certain level of judgement/wisdom that is obtained by working hard and living on your own/supporting yourself.
This can be learned at any age (as pointed out by my comment about my Dad working at the age of 16). However, many people today are not exposed to these types of desicions until after they get done school, which is usually at the age of 23.
That's a good explanation, especially wrt intelligence being linked to identity. When I was growing up, I was used to being the smartest person in the room, but there was no "thrill of the battle" for me - it just kinda sucked. I grew up able to put that aside, cover it up really well, because nobody likes a know-it-all (like nefitty said in the other comment.) Now that I'm nominally grown, and probably well-adjusted, it's awesome to see people's faces when I break out with brains blazing every once in a while.
"Extend the use of state remote computer hacking from the security services to the police in cases involving a 'threat to life' or missing persons. This can include cases involving 'damage to somebody’s mental health', but will be restricted to use by the National Crime Agency and a small number of major police forces."
I didn't think I could be surprised, given that the UK hands out "anti-social behavior orders," but now they want to hack the trolls?
> I didn't think I could be surprised, given that the UK hands out "anti-social behavior orders," but now they want to hack the trolls?
I can kind of see what you're getting at and could agree that they are sometimes misused. However having lived in several locations where just one terrible family of 4-5 people can make the entire road hell to live on for everyone else, day and night, for years, I'm inclined to support their use.
Haven't some courts been going back and forth on whether it's 5th amendment kosher to compel someone to enter a passphrase and decrypt data on disk? I seem to remember a case involving mortgage fraud or similar.
Ha, for a second I thought they were going to do something about the ad saturation.
uBlock and NoScript on Firefox for Android pacify this consumer just fine.
Bingo. Every time I see a fresh gripe from the likes of the FBI, I think of how much worse it would be if we didn't have the nominal protection of the Constitution.
Man, that kept me up many a night before my kid was born! She turned out to be amazing, though. Definitely didn't get it from me.
We had to rely on EBT (food stamps) and Medicaid when she was little and we were both in college. Medicaid was amazing, at least for someone who couldn't afford to go to a doctor for a decade or more beforehand, but besides that perk the welfare benefits for having a child basically balanced out the increased costs of raising one. Can't say how well this would scale with n+1 kids though.