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What are some of the stupidest, non-political takes you've seen on the fediverse? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine has to be some dude that insisted that advertising is a "30,000 year old technology"

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the annoying kids in restaurants stereotype we’re talking about are usually when the parents of the kids are ignoring the behavior rather than trying to teach their kids anything.

Your ideal scenario here is fine but 99% of the time when I’m super irritated at kids its because the parents are ignoring and/or downplaying the affect their kids have on other people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Gotcha. Yeah, parents can definitely suck just as much as any other human (or, to be fair, they can just be exhausted or distracted). Though I will also note that in the cases where my kids have acted unexpectedly badly, it is notable to me that my usual nuclear threat ("we'll just leave") carries with it a financial penalty as well (now we have to pay for food we ordered but can't eat), which adds an additional wrinkle to this problem; particularly for lower-income folks.

I do think that I usually have a lower tolerance for my kids' behavior than most of the people around me do, so hopefully that's part of what is on my side here.