Don't see why this was removed. Though it does go right back to OP's victim mentality.
CatWhoMustNotBeNamed
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Hell, does anyone perfectly explain everything to each other all the time in the real world?
No, so this argument fails there too.
In the story we just don't know why things aren't disuccessed "perfectly". Like why does Hermione not explain to Ron that she likes him, instead she has a fight with him. Wasn't that an issue for OP? (It wasn't for me, because I understand emotions challenge us to communicate well, and I'm an old fart without the hormones of a teen).
Kids world and adult world are separate. Kids very often don't want adult involvement in their world - they see it as an intrusion. There's also a general distrust of adults: "you just don't understand", or "things are different now than when you were my age" are the refrains we hear every generation. Again, I'm old enough to have seen this several times.
And the adults are busy with their own responsibilities, so won't always catch on to what's happening in the kid's world.
Most importantly, the adults have to allow kids room to figure things out on their own, to struggle with difficulties. Always being there means the kids never learn to solve problems themselves, to build their own relationships, to figure out how to identify good people, etc.
Also, people are human, warts and all, communication is hard.
As a kid, getting explanations for things out of adults felt nearly impossible. I'm sure part of that was my phrasing as a kid, I just didn't know how to formulate a good question, plus adults surely thought I was often a smart ass or just asking dumb questions with obvious answers.
Good point about root exploit. It's a potential.
Thing is, every Linux server and windows box suffers the same risk... But we don't hear "the sky is falling" about those... Because it's considered a measured risk and security is layered. As it should be.
Hell, people still run windows laptops unencrypted today - which is far worse than an unlocked bootloader on Android.
Why am I not surprised.
The FDA is exactly the opposite of what it was mandated for.
Guess a bunch of people like to see CA dictate to half of all other states.
Authoritarian much?
Oh that's cool to hear about. Neat!
Hour of cardio? Maybe 2!😲
Lol, there's a name for "doing it but I really don't/shouldn't be".
I'm kinda relieved. I too was spending far too much time there. Got a new start here, thing I'm gonna "curate" (ugh, hate that word) my feed to just useful stuff. Block news, politics, emotional tugs, etc. Just "how does this work" kinda stuff.
New Mexico governor issues order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque
Thanks for finding which paper it was... I have a copy but didn't feel like finding it and finding the right paper. Call me lazy 🤷♂️
And in the end, they codified what they saw as a natural, inborn, individual right. That wasn't by accident - Jefferson was very intentional in the words he chose (and they argued over, properly). Knowing the language had to be clear and concise, this is what resulted. It's pretty clear if you've read anything from 1600 onward.
Some of how the writing of the time (and place, Britain) flows is, I suspect, partly an influence of French language that some also knew - "twenty and four years" is clear French construction, not English at all. Keeping in mind that before Shakespeare, the "English language" such as it was, was considered beneath "proper" Brits. Shakespeare marks the beginning of that change, so the French language influence carried on for a long time among the upper classes as a distinction.
It's pretty interesting to see this same kind of complex construction (from our perspective) in period writings, but also in many science papers today, where complex ideas are strung together in paragraph-long sentences in an attempt to capture the detail and nuance. Medical journals are particularly guilty of this.
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Who said kids are dumbasses? Project much?
My experience, as a kid, was that asking adults about things, or trying to tell them anything, was pointless. They were a bunch of thickheaded idiots. This was my experience with practically every teacher too, through college (which was 30+ years ago for me).
We're all flawed, imperfect. Effective ommunication is hard.
Can't say it any better than Marcus Aurelius:
His point is that everyone contends with the apparatus of a quite imperfect, continually breaking down physical being, on top of anything going on in our heads, making everything that much more difficult.
Kids don't grok this yet, so can't comprehend what being old like Dumbledore (or hell, even 45) is like.