Middling city

Couple hundred thousand

"middling" lol

For me that's a lot 😄

For America, fairly small

i'm worried about my 8 year old cousin, smart little kid, everyone says he is just like i was at that age.
I'm worried that school will crush him.
he is loud and can't for the life of him hold still, I can't imagine teachers will like him much but he is also smart and learns fast.

Damn

They designed schools so as to disadvantage loud kids the most

my mom and his mom think he will be fine, but i'm not as sure.

@ARockRaider if he likes reading, definitely get him hooked on Pratchett, great source of common Sense

haha ya

ok god, if i tried to get him to read politial books (or ones with a political tilt) my mom would kill me.

1984 it is then

Try "wee free men" and the other Tiffany aching books

They're made for kids his age

I will try and keep them in mind, but I don't think i will even try.

Then he'll be asking to read the vimes books on his own

Don't give him 1984, he'll prolly hate it at that age 😄

that and the tech in 1984 is stright up vintage now.

"oh the screens can see you, and they are how large?"

haha hmmm ya

I listened to that one while i was driveing, the 5min hate or whatever stright up freaked me out.

But children are very good at grasping concepts

So they can ignore very well when reality doesn't match fiction

Or rather

They can handle it well

Pratchett liked the term "lies to children"

Things that are correct enough to give the right idea

But not necessarily true

Like I think therefore I am?

Yeah

"the earth is a sphere"

Or things like "the rain comes from clouds" true, but not the full story

the real answer is it's kinda sphere shaped, but not quite.

funny thing that, a while back it dawned on me that the idea that global warming would lead to drought is kinda silly.

if the oceans are warmer then more water will evaporate from them, and become clouds, and then rain.

also, the clouds make the area much cooler most of the time, so that system on it's own kinda becomes a global thermostat.

The earth tends to self regulate on an average on 2-4° variance. We're currently right in the middle of that swing. And Everytime the earth experienced a spike in warmth humanity has experienced a massive leap in the complexity of our societies

Actual global warming is good

so one might even say that the earth being warmer is better for us?

who would have thought! /s