I don’t think the Bean Dad is child abuse I just think he’s insufferable
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Mostly I just want to know why the 9 year old doesn’t know how to google?
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Replying to @DanaSchwartzzz
He kept her from using the Internet through this whole six hour "lesson" and from his replies to this exact question it's implied he harshly limits her "screen time" in general
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Replying to @arthur_affect @DanaSchwartzzz
Optimizing for surviving an apocalypse rather than navigating normal 21st C life is certainly a choice
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Replying to @arc315 @DanaSchwartzzz
It's not even realistic optimization Like I'm absolutely certain now that I think about it that accumulating a lot of "domain-specific knowledge" by looking things up while you still can would be far more valuable for the apocalypse than any six hour "resilience" lesson
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I did a thread before about this Ancient cultures survived by *already knowing* what plants were safe to eat and which ones were toxic, thanks to "experiments" carried out in forgotten ancient times generations ago
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If everyone had to just kind of blunder around discovering which plants are poison from scratch, we would just die out
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You don’t get to have a giant brain and helpless infants without society. We need it like we need opposable thumbs.
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One of the books that played a big role in my childhood was My Side of the Mountain by Jean George, in the classic wilderness survival genre fantasizing about a kid running away from home to live in the woods But one thing that sticks out to me is how dependent on books he was
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Replying to @arthur_affect @earnest_rs and
Unlike less-researched books in this vein where the wilderness survivor just magically knows things or discovers things Sam is a nerdy bookworm, he looks things up ALL THE TIME His one-person survivalist fantasy is only made possible by generations of other people's research
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I mean, he openly "cheats" He's not really cut off from civilization at all, he's only a few miles from town, he comes back regularly to check out new books at the library whenever there's a new topic he needs to research
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Replying to @arthur_affect @earnest_rs and
It's a self imposed challenge, he's decided he can come back to town for information, just not to buy actual food or supplies, and that qualifies as "living off the land" (To be fair, he is succeeding at living without spending money, which he doesn't have, only a library card)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @earnest_rs and
Yeah. And he's having fun. He's occasionally making a statement by it, but mostly, he seems to want to have a place to himself away from his big, noisy family. Who show up at the end to join him, for some reason.
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