https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/boars-head-plans-to-reopen-troubled-deli-meat-plant-but-reports-of-sanitation-problems-persist

I appreciate what you’re trying to do here, but I just can’t seem to believe that most food factories are “perfectly fine”.

Especially right now in the US with our way of letting the food industry basically regulate itself.

There’s a case going on now in my home state, a boy fell off the radar (homeschooled) since 11 years old I believe. In his 30s now, he set his house on fire to escape, he weighed something like 65 pounds I think it said

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327122/connecticut-captive-stepmom-house-fire

DCF (CPS) was called when he was a child multiple times, but once they moved him to “homeschooling” he became trapped. Utterly horrible.

It’s the same questions comming from our community, how could this happen?

Ah, thank you. I never use Amazon and I was just curious what kind of things would only be available there. A computer part makes sense.

It’s not like you’d buy a CPU part constantly, but I’m kind of bummed that we don’t have more seller options for things like this.

What’s an example of something you would need that you can only get on Amazon? I’m just curious

This is exactly it.

Over the last year I have changed many habits, even the way I cook, to not support these giant corps. I have always been anti-consumerous, but I’ve made drastic changes over the last few years to really reduce my shopping habits. It can be done. It takes a little effort at first but then you get used to it.

Im not buying shit from anyone. Even my son’s gift’s this year will be sourced second hand and from small retailers. They made my vote woth nothing, I’m not buying their garbage landfill trash!

Never call it a good day while the sun is still up.

Bruh, that would certainly be devastating, and it’s disgusting I can see that happening.

Even regional grocers will feel this too. Any snap loss, is loss where ebt is accepted. So many different markets…

I remember when I made $2400 post tax a month. My rent was $750 (literally unheard of cheap for a one bedroom in the middle of nowheresville). Easy, except childcare was $950/month for my one toddler. So rent and childcare alone ate 70% of my income. I don’t want to talk about my electric bill because I was drowning, but had no debt, cold showers, but no debt, I’d say to my self on those cold winter mornings.

I had to steal from peter to pay paul, a lot. Mind you this was back pre pandemic, you could get a beater car for $500-$1000, and I did. Each car I had lasted about a year or two with repairs I could afford before they died.

I was late on my rent two months in a row, and my slumlord (you ever wake up next to a puddle?) told me, sarcastically, “well, maybe you should find a cheaper place to live”. He knew damn well he owned the cheapest, shittiest apartment in the area. He was a cunt.

Living somewhere “undesirable” to save a buck is folly.

… exactly. That’s the whole reason why it’s important to actually address these kids’ needs on an individual basis, and not just slap them into a for profit prison pipeline.

It starts with parents giving a shit and it is sustained with support programs.

Ah yes, I know those moments well. On the mild end, my son used to trash his room, and specifically destroyed our favorite read together books or books I got him special, just to try and get to me. It took years of me explaining he’s only hurting himself when this happens. He’s broke many things he loves out of anger. He’s finally starting to get it. Even sometimes, when hes upset and in his room working it out, in a healthy way, he will bring out his favorite possession and hand it/them to me, 'im not feeling safe and I don’t want to ruin this item" so he gives it to me to keep it safe, until he’s feeling better. It took fucking years to get to that point.

Meds have helped a lot, with ongoing group/individual therapy. After episodes, I’ve heard him, cry/whimper in his room, “why am I like this!?” And man it breaks your heart.

I’m glad you haven’t given up, I’ve nearly given up 100 times but we keep pushing forward. Keep seeking that light at the end of the tunnel. I see what you mean now, yeah, in the moment you have to assure safety. It’s not an easy job.

Absolutely.

I’ve dealt with some of these schools. You have untrained staff literally yelling, “Do your work now!” To a room full of kids with ODD and others. Then sit back and wonder why it’s not working. Their solution when they become dysregulated is to lock them in solitary confinement until they, calm down.

It’s garbage. It doesn’t work. It is institutional failure, because, well, profits over everything in the United States.

They had my son in a similar program, outplacement, not residential however. It was called High Roads. They have had multiple cases opened against them, and I refuse to let them ever place him there again. The school they had him in was a converted office space in an industrial park. It didn’t even have a gym. They are also for profit, and treat the staff like garbage.

I asked in an interview, how do you help a child who is in crisis, and they showed me their concrete cell. That’s the plan. Just detain the child in basically solitary confinement. My son self harms in this kind of thing, while it will keep other students and staff safe (highly important) it does nothing to help the child’s actual issues.

They tried to place him there again last year, I’ve loved all my son’s teachers, but last year’s teacher was, not great. So when he had trouble, they wanted to put him there again. I said no, and faught them on it with our states advocate program. High Roads the cheapest out placement for the school. When I brought to them other, more expensive, better outplacement options, they fucking folded when I said our compromise could be to keep him in his current in district program. His teacher this year is fantastic, and is so far doing well. Advocate for you kids man. And fuck High Roads and these for profit child prisions.

It’s like locking a misbehaving dog in a cage, and then they wonder why they bite. Its foolishness.

I’m deeply saddened that this event with the teacher losing her life. This is the worst I’ve ever heard. That’s absolutely should not have happened. Many of these schools are not meant to actually help children. They sacrifice the wellbeing of staff and the kids for profit. The system is fucked. And I guarantee you, this tragedy won’t be enough to change anything meaningful.

Yeah dude. It’s sad, but sometimes a kid is just dangerous to other people. There’s no amount of reason or gentleness that can help.

My son is special needs, has/had violent episodes. While this statement might be true, I just can’t agree. I may have given up my career to sit in therapist offices, but I believe every troubled kid deserves a shot. With enough love (and meds and coping skills) one can overcome the sheer angst that lives inside them.

I have absolutely had to ‘hold’ my own child at the school in years past. Shits not for the weak, but I’ve watched him overcome this, and is becoming more successful each year. With enough support, these kids can be successful. The truth is, the parents also need support, and they often don’t have it themselves, so it compounds into deeming the child a lost cause.

I hate when what should happen, doesn’t become what is. But no child is irredeemable. That’s how I feel.

I was going to mention this. My son was taught “sight words” and it’s the dumbest fucking bullshit I’ve ever seen.

On top of that, many parents of today, do not put an importance on reading at home.

Only one teacher he’s had has done spelling tests, in all these years… one teacher.

I practice both reading and writing with my son as often as he can tolerate at home. It’s really sad seeing these kids cannot spell or write, or yes even read.

They fucked a whole generation of kids, in more than a few ways, but one of which was definitely the years they switched off phonics and taught bogus sight words.

I think about the car thing a lot, as we may need a new one in a few years.

My husband’s father leased a new BMW. He picked us up on easter with it. The whole front is a giant screen. You wave your hand a certain way, it can change the song or adjust the volume… by waving your hand. While he thought it was cool, all I could think about was the fact something was visually recording every movement in the car. And what if you’re a person who talks with their hands?

Stupid fucking needless features.

Which Side Are You on?- The Almanac Singers (1955)

This is such good advice. I am stubborn about not playing the game with it though. Appreciate your thoughts here though.

sitting in the office waiting to die 8 hours a day

That is exactly why I absolutely thrived in manufacturing. Well, the right type of manufacturing. I’d rather die than work in an office. I lasted exactly one month at my one and only desk job before I had to quit and find something different.

I don’t write often anymore either, but recently tried to write a letter to someone, wow after a few sentences could I notice how out of practice I was. I ‘jot things down’ all the time, but a letter, paragraphs, whew.

I think it’s tough, because many degree jobs are all desk jobs, so it’s like, you want the degree and good money, but the work, doesn’t sound fun. Im glad wfh has helped though, thats great