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  1. Arative

    Parent Thread

    Got our official letter from the county health department. Only my 5 year old son is on mandatory quarantine. My wife, me and my 2 year old daughter are free to go anywhere. Had the first day of distance learning. My son prefers to go to school.
  2. Arative

    Parent Thread

    Well my family is on quarantine lock down for 14 days. Son is in kindergarten and was exposed to another student who tested positive. Let the fun begin
  3. Arative

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    then avoid like the plague
  4. Arative

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Is the kid yours?
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Thought this was cool https://phys.org/news/2020-10-physicists-circuit-limitless-power-graphene.html
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    First set up a wallet of your own, so you can generate a bitcoin wallet address. When you buy on exchange, you can send those coins to your wallet.
  7. Arative

    Parent Thread

    We send my son to a private catholic school for kindergarten. They started on Aug 17th, full time. Its a fairly small school. just 140 kids or so. Had a teacher get covid last week and they quarantined two whole grade levels for two weeks as a precaution. I like that they are taking precautions...
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    Stargate: Origins

    The ip is probably too valuable to just let it sit there.
  9. Arative

    Parent Thread

    My wife was the same. Tried breastfeeding. Had to supplement before we left the hospital. Tried pumping at home and she got a little. It just turned into a miserable chore for her and she stopped. We used baby's only organic formula. When looking at formulas the baby's only was the only forumla...
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    Big Brother

    David shouldn't be there at all. He's useless but then so are Bailey and davonne
  11. Arative

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    But they'll call you racist or sexist or start to cry or something like that
  12. Arative

    Time Trax

    Travellers getting the axe bummed me out. That was a good show
  13. Arative

    Parent Thread

    We had the owlet for our second kid. Gave my wife piece of mind to get the kid in her own room at 4 months. It did suck a few times in the middle of the night when it got a disconnect alarm.
  14. Arative

    Parent Thread

    Our local library did baby sign language classes that we took both of our kids too. They knew enough to let us know some things before they could talk. In normal times I'd highly recommend checking out your local library for kids classes.
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    His writing gets better, if you read his books in the order of publication. If you read his later books then go back, it's going to be a bad time.
  16. Arative

    Parent Thread

    We got this for my daughter who had acid reflux...
  17. Arative

    Batwoman

    So it will probably go to shit
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    DC's Legends of Tomorrow

    I think this is the best show of the arrowverse.
  19. Arative

    Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience

    So are her doctors recommending she go to protests? Seems like a good way to get sued out the ass when she catches the rona.
  20. Arative

    The Astronomy Thread

    I watched this with my 5 year old son, so cool.
  21. Arative

    All things Brandon Sanderson

    If I remember right, a company optioned the entire cosmere to make films and tv shows but that was a few years ago.
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    The 100

    Also doing a backdoor pilot prequel set a 100 years before the first show. Right after the nuclear war
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    Home Improvement

    My parents have a cottage in Maine, so lots of rain and snow. They rebuilt a deck and went with the fake stuff, it's held up for 10 years looks nearly as good as when it went in
  24. Arative

    Parent Thread

    I'm sorry brother that's got to be rough
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/people.com/tv/fred-willard-dead-at-86/%3famp=true
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    Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience

    I know one lives with his 20 year old son and two grandchildren, so for sure he wants out. The others are married as well.
  27. Arative

    Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience

    I'm in an industry where States require us to work in the office. During the whole pandemic the States just didn't enforce the rules. Our owner gave us the option to come in on the 18th or June 1st. 4 people are coming back on 5/18. Everyone else wants to work from home until 6/1.
  28. Arative

    Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience

    Some daycares around here were making people still pay to keep their spots.
  29. Arative

    Parent Thread

    Had that issue with my son too. He would pee all day on the toilet but wanted a pull up to poop. We made him sit on the toilet with a pull up to get the sensation of it. Then eventually we cut a hole in the pull up so he pooped in the toilet with a pull up on so he still had a sense of control...
  30. Arative

    Parent Thread

    My kids have dentist appointments the first week of July. My wife and I have discussed cancelling them but we're waiting to see how things shake out with stuff reopening. Had to take my son to the doctor for an ear infection a few weeks ago. It was pretty locked down. Masks on everyone...
  31. Arative

    Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience

    Missouri is opening back up may 4th. The governor has given the power to local officials to set stricter guidelines. So st Louis city and county are still closed down indefinitely. Said they will revisit it on may 15th. St Charles county where I live is set for may 4th
  32. Arative

    Parent Thread

    My wife is a kindergarten teacher and she says kids that go to Montessori schools have a harder time adjusting to the structure of a public school. She said academics depends on the school.
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    Saved by the Bell

    Jessie still has crazy eyes bet she's a beast in the sack
  34. Arative

    Parent Thread

    My 5 year old keeps asking if the doctors have figured out how China got the flu. I don't want to tell him its cause they eat bat shit soup. For the most part he is aware things are different but doesn't ask a whole lot. Helps that we go outside for walks and play on a swing set.
  35. Arative

    Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience

    Some friends of mine taught classes at gold's gym here and heard today that gold's gym is just closing every St Louis location for good. Guess they couldn't weather the storm.
  36. Arative

    The Astronomy Thread

    https://www-livescience-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.livescience.com/amp/pillars-of-creation-infrared-view.html?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livescience.com%2Fpillars-of-creation-infrared-vi...
  37. Arative

    Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience

    Wife's school shut down until 4/24, her district wants her to use Google classroom to teach 23 kindergarteners, more than half are on free and reduced lunch and several of which dont have internet. One I know lives in a double wide with 4 siblings, one more on the way and no heat She's supposed...
  38. Arative

    Coronavirus Updates, Important Information, and Ancedotal Experience

    How was a teacher laid off? They have contracts unless it was a college professor I guess, I don't know if they have contracts. My wife is a teacher, she has a contract, she's being paid, even doing lesson plans from home to send out to her kids.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Back up to $5k on coinbase
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Bitcoin has dropped 36% in the last 24 hours. Down to $4900 now