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I'm not so sure. Children have a lot of desire and drive to monopolize an adult's attention and resources. This I think gives any one child a leg up on getting the best resources to survive better. And you can see it when you work with a group of children. They will group around you jostling for the best position to be first and get the best from you. They do of course, get better with age and as they learn patience, but there is still a lack of empathy to be found in their base behavior.

After all, if you grew up with siblings, I'm quite sure your parents at some point in your early childhood told you "Be nice to your siblings! You love them!" more than once. Or some variation on that theme. And if you are a parent yourself, you have used that phrase at some point also. Because who has better reason to want to "kill" each other than brothers and sisters? They want to get as much of mommy and daddy as possible. Those resources are scarce and your natural drive is to fight to get them.

And hopefully, as children age they learn to get and show empathy to those around them. Most do, but some never quite manage it.

That's great! I hope you learn something new everyday!

Yeah, it probably would. They would be interested in just how and why you got a bloody face. And even US cops carry basic medical supplies like a band-aid.

US cops aren't the best, but they can and do help with such things.

The short story is that all materials have internal stresses when made. Whether it's lumber or steel or cast iron, they all have stress that need to be relieved before you can expect them to hold their shape. Some materials are worse than others. And anytime you cut or machine them, they can move in unexpected ways that can make your parts not fit together as required to make a working machine.

A "green" iron casting has a LOT of internal stresses created by the rather violent process of making the casting. Even way back in the day, they understood the problems that those green castings had. And if you want your lathe to be stable enough to hold those tight tolerances to build a train steam engine or bore an accurate cannon barrel you needed to get as much of that stress out of those lathe bed and head-stock castings as possible before you carefully machine and scrape the ways on your lathe into perfection so that the casting becomes as stable as possible.

The best method of relieving those stresses from your raw castings was to repeatedly heat and cool that casting. And the easiest and best way to achieve that was to literally store those castings outside for a few years to let them naturally heat and cool with the changing seasons. If you go on YouTube, you can find videos of British steam engine manufacturing from start to finish. And at some point you will see their outside yard filled with raw castings aging in the natural heat and cold of the changing seasons.

We still age cast iron to today to make it stable enough to use. But we now use accelerated methods of stress relieving metals that are much faster, but more costly.

So after reading your manifesto, you hate yourself then also?

He didn't actually kill the intruder so that's something he can probably look forward to either after joining the military or law enforcement.

But joking aside, children by in large, don't seem to have much empathy about such things. You can see this in the bullying they do in schools and on the playgrounds. And it doesn't seem to bother them much.

I got no proof other than my personal experiences growing up and observing kids while teaching them in groups at a school.

Children by in large seem to have little empathy for others. Children have little to no problem with bullying others without any emotional issues. Even to the point of pushing other kids to suicide. They have little regard for others and even less control over maturity.

I think empathy is something that you develop as you grow older. It's more a mark of adulthood than childhood.

Indiana's main advantage is it's quick to drive through. It doesn't take long to get from Illinois to Ohio.

Though I can't see a reason to drive through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or anywhere on the east coast as a trucker actually.

We're gonna need a bigger oven......

There was panic about raw milk looonnnggg before Covid. And I if you had read what I wrote, I did say pasteurization IS a good thing and I'm all for it. But it's just not the evil most think it is.

You have owned a dairy herd?

It's a bad analogy and just plain wrong fact. Do better.

You do understand that ALL dairy farms that sell milk are regularly tested for safety of the milk they sell. This is federally mandated. You miss the thresholds for bacteria counts, you will be dumping all your milk produced until it tests clean again. So those cows can't be held in very dirty and vile conditions because your milk won't pass those mandated tests. Slackers go broke and are out of business in short order.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for selling pasteurized milk in stores. The milk you buy in the store can be a week old before you see it on the shelf. But the unreasoning fear of raw milk is just plain ridiculous.

A very large amount of those dug up diamonds end up as "industrial diamonds." Because they are far from gemstone quality. And they definitely get used up. I have used up my share of them as cutting tools when I was a toolmaker.

While I certainly don't miss milking cows, I too miss the insanely rich texture and flavor of that fresh from the cow milk.

I grew up on a dairy farm and we drank raw milk every day. I can remember my sisters bringing the milk pitcher to the barn and dipping into the bulk tank of raw milk every morning or so. No one got sick and no one died. We even made butter at home from it after separating the cream. But pasteurization is a good thing for all you urbane urbanites out there. It increases the shelf life and safety for consumption. Plus it reduces number of small dairies near population centers that used to exist. Dairies can be 100+ miles away now. After all, you wouldn't want to be exposed to the smell of cow shit right?

Raw milk does taste very different from store bought pasteurized milk, (whole milk ain't whole). And like shelf stable milk, I doubt anyone of you would like drinking it.

I don't mind the roads so much. We plow the roads to have a snowbank on the ditch edges to act as bumpers to keep idiots and fools from careening off the road into a tree. As a retired medic, it made it easier to get people out of their cars and with less serious injuries.

What really pisses me off is the inability of people to park correctly in a parking lot. When the lines get covered in snow pack, everyone loses their minds and just start to randomly park anywhere and in any direction. I've seen clown park across two parking spots. And it stays that way for a least 6 months out of the year.

Those are the best days to go outside when you can feel the brittleness of the air.

Those are the lazy people. Lazy people refuse to learn new things. You don't sound lazy.

Don't be like them. Hang out with those people that piss excellence.

I suspect it might be easier to teach high school students. You get them younger and they don't know no better. Fewer things to unlearn. But the skill gaps can be eye opening for sure. I'm old as dirt. I got my feeble tech start in front of a printer terminal-- we didn't have such things as monitors. I don't think I saw my first DOS prompt until I was maybe 19 or 20. But we stilled played Oregon Trail and some Space Invader game. And we loved it!

And the first rule of KDE is "There is ALWAYS a widget!"