The Stranger Things Netflix Problem is Killing TV

It's funny how I remember being told "don't believe everything you see on TV" but so many people explicitly believe everything they see on Facebook or Twitter.

LINDSEY IS RUNNING FOR OFFICE IN FULTON? FUCK YES QUEEN GET IT

When I was young, middle school age, I was writing essays on whether I believed capital punishment was something that I supported... So yeah, I think it's fine to talk to kids and allowing them to start developing their own opinions.

Friday PDS? It's been a long time since we had one of those

8 to 10 episodes would be fine if they didn’t slow burn and then save the entire story progression for last 3 episodes.

The lack of Mindhunter season 3 breaks my heart every time I see it just sitting on season 2. Absolutely tragic.

As a teacher. We try to teach media literacy. Unfortunately, more and more often, parents expect us to teach their kids everything. It's hard enough teaching them how to read, write, do math, science and social studies. Now we have to teach them how to be kind, respectful, patient, how stay in control of their emotions, and critical thinking. Basically anything you can think of we have to teach it. When many teachers have more than 30 kids in classroom, and have attention starved kids. It becomes highly difficult to guarantee you kid learns everything that we teach. If you as a parent think that something is important for your kids to learn, you need to check in with you kids, make sure they know that it is important. Check in with them. See if they need help learning. Show them that it is important. If we want to help our kids. We need to work together.

About children and the news: Just like with s*x, just because you are not talking to them about that, it doesn't mean that they are not curious and learning about it. And if you are not the one teaching, social media is going to fill those shoes.

7:30 I would actually argue the opposite. People like Mamdani helped them with their more "centrist" (I hate that term) agendas. It is the art of haggling: You start with an offer that is either too low or too high, because you know that you will have to "compromise". And that is the key thing, the more you can reduce or increase your initial offer, the more the other party is going to feel that they have won in the compromise, even if at the end you end up exactly where you thought you were going to end. That has been the Republican strategy for decades: Have the far right talk about crazy stuff, and then here come the "sensible Republicans" who say "listen we are not like those guys, we only support like 80% of what they say", and by comparison many voters are like "yeah, these are the centrist". And that is why I hate the term centrist, because it means nothing. It simply means the guy who is between two positions, but it doesn't say anything about what the position actually is. Currently, the US politics are so skewed towards the right that centrist means "right winger", not even center right, while people like Mamdani are labelled as "extreme left" while he is about or a bit to the left of your standard social democrat, which are the de facto center-left parties in Europe. Mamdani has the same effect that Bernie had in 2016 during the primaries. Suddenly, policies that had been abandoned by the top echelon of the Dems were mainstream, and all because that old man keep repeating the same message over and over and over. These people are fundamental to actually bring the "center" to a reasonable place, because at the moment being centrist mean being a laisez-fair neoliberal who doesn't hate gay people but believe that we have to "protect our borders" because they are (somehow) open. The Republicans, regardless of how many years have governed, have ultimately won the fight for the soul of the country for now, because their "moderate position" is considered the default and the status quo. "Compromise" and "bipartisanship" in the US is code for "accept what the so called 'moderate Republicans' want". So, yeah, I disagree that the "left wing of the party" is damaging the party. In fact it is a fundamental piece that has been missing for a long time, which has worked wonders for the Republicans. Mamdani will be called a dangerous communist for wanting to increase the taxes on rich people by 2% so that "centrist" Dems somewhere else can go "Woa woa, that guy is crazy, we are only going to increase it by 1%, much more reasonable" and get votes.

It feels crazier when you accept that modern content is intentionally written as “second screen viewing,” meaning they intentionally dumb it down for the audience because they assume you’ll be on your phone while viewing.