This is a pretty uninformed take, and maybe entirely influenced by the intentional marketing/PR image they crafted, but I get the impression that Anthropocene was more of a “building a practical tool with this technology, and iterating on that practicality” and less “this will be digital god” sort of company. Maybe ther value wouldn’t crater as much since they’ve been selling as a reasonably practical corporate tool than a magical profit box?
you can be a shitty person and leader and still say correct things
Most definitely, but I think in general people underestimate the challenges they can find in adoption. Those kids deserve loving families, it’s just something I know people I personally know who have expressed interest in adopting would not be able to handle.
This is what my wife and I did. I think it is a good thing to do, but if you look at my comment history just one comment down from this, you’ll see good reason for what I’m about to say:
Not everyone should do this. It is extremely challenging, and its not something I think most people can take on successfully. Unfortunately, the fact that a kid is in a situation to be adopted means they have been severely impacted by trauma, which means that they will be considerably harder to parent than a kid you have biologically.
It is not for the faint of heart. Hell, its not even for those of a strong constitution. I have been nearly broken many times, and I’ve only been parenting my kids for 5 years. I have wanted to quit countless times.
My daughter has “reactive attachment disorder” and she can behave like this. She is adopted from a rough first few years of life and being in the foster system for a while before we took her and her older brother in.
Like you said below, as she gets older she is getting better at controlling impulses, but not 100% and so when she does get upset she is stronger and more dangerous. 2024-2025 school year was super rough for us. She went to the ER many times, as it was the only support we could utilize for the kind of violence she was exhibiting, and eventually we were able to get her into a child psych unit for a few weeks and then into residential treatment. It was tough; we had to push back on very judgemental hospital staff, drive am hour one-way for weeks to visit her in residential, call the governor’s ombudsmen, and just generally do a ton of work to get her the help she needed.
At one point, the psych unit’s family coordinator, who’s job was basically to convince us to bring her back home after a week of them basically only sedating her asked if we were ready to bring her back home. And when we told her that we weren’t because we expected her to rapidly move back to violent behaviors, she insisted we were going to have to, so I asked “and what if we don’t?” She threatened to call DHS. So I leaned into the camera and said “great, let’s do that then”. I believe this to be the only reason we got a successful referral to residential treatment.
All of this was necessary treatment for my daughter. She is doing much better now. She has an IEP, which has placed her in an “emotional support classroom” and is on some good meds that are definitely helping. That said, she is still exhibiting violent behaviors from time to time. The trend is moving in the right direction, but she still has rough days.
So anyway, I encourage you to seek help with this. It can be VERY HARD. You may be forced to make tough decisions and push back against people who are very judgemental and even making scary threats about you being an abusive or neglectful parent. They do not know your child. They do not know you. They do not know your home life. You must do what is right to being peace and safety to your home, even with these challenges. Good luck. Please feel free to reach out with questions or a non-judgemental ear to bounce off of.
Lmao I looked it up, on my delta flight… it was a delta ad: https://thehustle.co/delta-airlines-anti-union-video-games
Worth every penny I’m sure. I was making a reference to the anti-union propaganda that tried to argue union dues were worth trading for a PS5
$30 a month! That adds up to a PS5, totally not worth it! /s
Surely the intelligence agencies at work in sane countries are considering assassination operations, right? Isn’t this like the most worthy reason to attempt such a thing, threat of global annihilation?
Once the details of this list are distributed and accessible enough, hopefully some folks are able to start regionalizing the names so we can start posting name/faces of the fuckers who live in our community so everyone knows who around them should be denied any and all services that can legally be withheld. Refuse to serve them in your businesses, shame them whenever they are in public, protest in front of their houses. Make their lives hell, embarrass them out of their homes and communities.
And it’d be challenging to get around the tax upon tax review, no?
The most openly gay. I’d argue that the house and senate are probably filled with closeted gays at a similar rate. Hard to know for sure.
While all these ICE agents are out doing murders, who is making sure their houses don’t mysteriously burn down?
Shits fucked, and you’re right to press us (Americans) on taking action. but that 2/5 figure is not a very true look at our demographics. 1. There’s a huge contingent of non-voting americans; Some because they’re negligent, but plenty of others are children, disenfranchised through bullshit voting laws, non-citizens who contribute greatly but nevertheless can’t vote, or prisoners who have done their time but aren’t allowed to vote anymore. 2. Identifying parties from polls has always been suspect. 80% of people still willing to identify as republican in a poll support trump, but surely that self-selection bias is massively skewing those results. Would those farmers in the leopards ate my face community still say they’re republican in a poll? probably most, but not all who actually did vote republican.
Lots of other completely “doesn’t happen here” shit has been happening here. so if i were a degenerate gambler, I’d be putting money on Kalshi or whatever that this dude falls out a window in the next 6 months.
it’s probably a little bit of both. idk, i’m not involved and disagree with his politics. but he’s a good target for what you’d need to do to change minds because reasonable explanations can get through, but he’s been poisoned by whatever cultural influences reagan imposed on his stupid little kid mind; believes in trickle down myth and such.
is making a profit enough to expand your operation stealing from workers?
my dad does make a profit, he owns a small business.
Sorry I forgot to respond on this! I’m in Oregon. It may be a progressive state on the map and when you think of the general vibe of Portland, but our government is pretty behind in basically any category you can think of. The mental healthcare supports for children in this state is… poor.