We should be treating teens as more adult than we do. I don't mean some lowering the age of consent creep shit, I mean presuming competence. Get a job, learn life skills, learn to cook, be fully responsible for a pet, walk places alone (in daylight) or with a friend, have intergenerational friendships, teach skills to littler kids, be someone people can trust with more than wiping their own ass. Be someone they themselves can trust to do stuff and go places. We're stealing children's confidence by treating them like they can't do anything. Treat them like they can and should do many adult things and more will find the confidence to practice at them.

we SHOULD trust teens with more. we SHOULD make sure they get more opportunities to develop the neural pathways to navigate adulthood. the opportunity/necessity matrix is why some kids growing with neglect or parental illness are actually capable of moving out or managing a household at 16: bills, groceries, cleaning, appointments. it's why some kids get to college and can't even make their own phone calls. the ideal, the sweet spot of shepherding adolescent development, is giving them the space and expectations to build those skills when it's NOT neglect or crisis. but they absolutely CAN, and it's not inherently harmful to be able to do things. KNOWING it's not harmful, and even beneficial, and then watching other adults aggressively protect teens from those experiences is like watching the whole parenting world conclude that since kids can't really consistently walk and run without tripping until they're 6-7, that we should prevent babies from learning to walk until they're "really" ready.

a teen tasked with building a menu and a grocery list and potentially going over budget with an adult beside them to cover that last $11 is a "hold my fingers for balance" scenario. they get better at the skill when it's low risk. otherwise, you still have to learn it, but you learn at 22 when the overcharge automatically generates a bank draft fee of $45 AND you still have to put three items back on shelves.

My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.

They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.

"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.

But from what i can gather thats Crystal Thierry, also known as page73girl. Who seems to have been a model for the now defunct biggestletdown.com…

to Immanentize the Eschaton means to bring about utopian conditions and create heaven on Earth

the phrase is first cited in the Discordian religious text, Principia Discordia (1963), for whom Discord (aka Eris) is goddess:

the first line of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s 1975 The Illuminatus! trilogy: “It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.”

in Frederik Pohl’s The Eschaton Sequence (1997 - 1999), the human race is caught up in a galactic war between two alien races attempting to immanentize the eschaton

in Ken Macleod's The Stone Canal (1997), one of the chapters is “Another crack at Immanentising the Eschaton”