Unfortunately the world often does the fucking around part for you, and you're stuck finding out with them. Sincerely a Remainer being forced to find out on Brexit.
Th4tGuyII
joined 5 months ago
It sounds like you are doing your best to connect with him (I'd have loved for my parents to take an interest in my hobbies back when I was a teen), but not all kids take the stresses of going through adolescence the same way.
... And they're very influenced by other kids, so if his friend circle puts emphasis on material things, it might be that he feels like he's struggling to keep up with them or is actually feeling FOMO, and is taking that out on you.
Either way, best thing you can do is to keep extending that olive branch to him. Perhaps try to see if there's any other hobbies he has that you might be able to connect with him over?
Hopefully it's just a combination of puberty stress and misplaced teenage FOMO. If you're doing your best with what you have, that's all you can do, and hope that he learns to appreciate that in time.
You might feel like a failure, but you're not. It's not your fault that the tides turned against you, and by the sounds of it you're doing your best with what you have to keep you and your son above water.
Your son sounds like a good kid, and I have no doubt that your situation will serve as a good lesson for him - to be prepared for what life can throw at you, and that financial success isn't everything.
I'm honestly more inclined to agree with longer interpretations, as I'm sceptical that he was enough of a natural at all the skills he demonstrates in the movie to have perfected them all in just 6 weeks
Ukraine really just needs to get some new nukes at this point. As much as I hate the idea of nuclear proliferation, Russia has very clearly proven it's the only way to stay sovereign against a nuclear power.
I would love to see Putin and his generals dragged into the Hague to answer for the war crimes taking place under their command, but I suspect that'll never happen
Anon playing a dangerous game with management.
It's all well and good until they find you, figure out what you've been doing (or rather not doing), then fire you and attempt to sue you for damages.
CYA. Make at least some attempts to be noticed. If they do notice you, at least you got a little bit of easily excusable free time - if they don't, now you get the easy life AND a paper trail so they can't say "why didn't you try to tell us".
Considering how historically ineffective age bans have been online, I'm surprised that countries keep trying for this. Telling kids, esoecually teenagers, that they're not allowed to use social media will only make them want to use it more, and thus bypass any restrictions, defeating the purpose of the ban.
It's like CoD being 18+ yet somehow still full of prepubescent squeakers who all apparently fucked your mother last night and have Dads who work for Xbox.
Forcing social media companies to put in place appropriate safeguards for kids who do end up on social media like this "digital duty of care" is probably more effective in the long run than playing an endless cat and mouse race.
Bloody hell, this is the US version of Brexit... this world would be such a better place if people just did the bare minimum of reading into what they were actually voting for before they fucking voted!
Also, seeing the other top searches being about the tariffs would have me creasing if it weren't so disappointingly stupid that these peoole seemingly knew nothing about Trumps most advertised economic policy before (assumably) voting for him
While it sounds a bit defeatist, he does make a brilliant point. All of this is no good if all the leaders of the worst offenders outright refuse to attend these events and actually commit their countries to meaningful change.
Wow that was a very short and to the point article.
Having said that, banks are about the most sleezy organisations around, so of course they'd pledge for net-zero with one hand and loan to BP with the other.