I don’t think that that’s very uncommon. When one “goes to the bathroom”, it’s understood that this is a euphemism for urinating or defecating, not just hanging out there.

The broccoli thing depends on the kid. I loved broccoli as a kid.

Whether-or-not it and some other vegetables have a really unpleasant taste is a genetic thing.

https://distance.physiology.med.ufl.edu/the-science-of-supertasters/

It’s a tale as old as time. Growing up, your family tried to instill a love of broccoli and other leafy greens in you, but it never quite took. Now, you might be an adult who still doesn’t appreciate certain veggies, coffee or spicy foods. Perhaps you’d even go so far as to call yourself a picky eater. If so, have you ever considered whether you might be a supertaster?

Picky Eating

Many supertasters have a laundry list of foods they wouldn’t dare touch unless they were stranded on a deserted island — and even then, it would be a challenge. To their credit, there is a scientific reason behind their finicky food preferences. Scientists believe that many supertasters have the gene TAS2R38.

This particular gene increases a person’s perception of the bitterness in various foods and drinks. Many supertasters that have taken part in scientific studies often find that they’re extremely sensitive to a chemical called propylthiouracil (PROP). This chemical is often used in research to measure a person’s sensitivity to notes of tartness. Because PROP has an easily detectable bitter taste, supertasters often note an extremely bitter taste when given the chemical, more so than average or non-tasters.

Camouflaging Bitter Flavors by Overcompensating With Other Flavors

Broccoli and spinach may leave an overwhelmingly bitter taste in the mouths of supertasters, but that doesn’t mean they don’t understand the nutritional value veggies offer. To mask the bitterness, some supertasters add sweet, salty or fatty flavors to foods they wouldn’t eat otherwise. This makes certain bitter-tasting foods more palatable so supertasters can have their vegetables — and their nutrients too.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Easy-Bake-Ultimate-Electric-Oven-Playset-Kids-Toys-for-Ages-8-up/5512174576?classType=REGULAR

Easy-Bake Ultimate Electric Oven Playset, Kids Toys for Ages 8 up

CAUTION – ELECTRIC TOY: This toy has a heating element, which can result in burns.

I’m absolutely confident that I helped Mom in the kitchen long before 8, though. A relative’s toddler was helping make cookies the other month. Wasn’t putting the cookies in the oven, though.

A lot of services today do require a cell number for sign-up, as a form of “expensive ID” that one can’t just make more of.

My guess is that a lot of kids might be kinda conditioned to provide it to services, since these days, they’re probably already handing it over if they’re getting a Google account or something.

All this is assuming that the kid has a cell phone with service. I suspect that it’d be easier, from a technical standpoint, to keep a kid from cell service — which actually costs something and is harder to share — than Internet access.

Not a hard link, but first grade is normally 6-7 years old, so eighth grade is 13-14.

On timing, I’d say that unless you plan to live in wilderness somewhere and limit connectivity options, that it’s going to happen pretty quickly regardless of your position. Even if you don’t provide access to the Internet, once kids start going to school, I expect that they’ll make friends, and at least some of those friends are going to have Internet access, probably in a mobile form.

And phone-based WiFi hotspots and Bluetooth tethering means that if someone’s friends have some sort of cell service with unlimited data, as long as they’re around them, they can share an Internet access link, so can use their own WiFi-capable device, don’t need to share devices. I expect that used WiFi-capable devices are not going to be hard to come by, though I guess that a parent could try to forbid their kids to have one.

And once a kid’s location isn’t restricted to being around their parents all the time, for anyone in an urban setting, there are going to be foot-accessible places that provide WiFi access — like, everyone at school knows the local Starbucks password or whatever.

EDIT: On consideration, I don’t think that Starbucks actually passwords their WiFi service, but even for restaurants or shops or whatever that do and have guest WiFi, not a super high bar.

I can type 160wpm on a good day.

That’d be very fast. I mean, even without doing real-time composition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Blackburn_(typist)

The Guinness Book of World Records included her speed records amongst others in the “Typing, Fastest” category of the 1976[5]–1986[6] editions, where she was listed as able to “attain a speed of 170 wpm” and “maintain 145 wpm for 55 minutes”

Blackburn was popularly recognized as the “world’s fastest typist”[9][10] and made media appearances to exhibit her typing speed and the Dvorak layout, notably appearing in a 1985 episode of Late Night with David Letterman[9] and in a television commercial for the Apple IIc.[10]

On my system, I can just run

$ sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

And it’ll take the system to the BIOS.

From the systemctl(1) man page:

   --firmware-setup
       When used with the reboot, poweroff, or halt
       command, indicate to the system's firmware to
       reboot into the firmware setup interface for the
       next boot. Note that this functionality is not
       available on all systems.

       Added in version 220.

   --boot-loader-menu=timeout
       When used with the reboot, poweroff, or halt
       command, indicate to the system's boot loader to
       show the boot loader menu on the following boot.
       Takes a time value as parameter — indicating the
       menu timeout. Pass zero in order to disable the
       menu timeout. Note that not all boot loaders
       support this functionality.

       Added in version 242.

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If readline hasn’t been reconfigured from the default emacs mode, you can use Control-P and keep your fingers on the home row.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a component of Microsoft Windows that allows the use of a GNU/Linux environment from within Windows, foregoing the overhead of a virtual machine and being an alternative to dual booting.

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html

This paper explores a novel interface to a system administration task. Instead of creating an interface de novo for the task, the author modified a popular computer game, Doom, to perform useful work. The game was chosen for its appeal to the target audience of system administrators.

The Doom process manager (PSDoom) is a modification of the game Doom [8] that displays representations of the processes running on a machine. Rather than using standard text-mode UNIX tools to view and manipulate processes, one surveys and shoots at a room full of bloodthirsty mutants, as shown in Figure 1. When a user starts PSDoom, currently running processes are instantiated as “process monsters” in a single room in a “dungeon.” These monsters have their associated process’ name and id printed on them. The program periodically polls the operating system to add newly-created processes to the game. The user may choose to view the processes from a balcony above the room, as shown in Figure 2, or to enter the room to interact with them. If the user inflicts a wound upon a process monster, the corresponding process’ priority is lowered to give it fewer CPU cycles. When the monster accumulates enough damage and is killed, the associated process is also killed.

More verbose, but also more emotive:

$ killall -KILL kitten

That’d be equivalent. Emacs has a number of way to input arguments to functions.

$ git clone https://github.com/sharkdp/vivid.git
$ cd vivid && cargo build && cd ..
$ grep -v "^  nord" <vivid/themes/nord.yml >theme-template.yml
$ csplit theme-template.yml /^colors:/1 -f "theme-template"
$ sudo apt install cimg-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/ImageProcessing-ElectronicPublications/palette.git
$ cd palette
$ mkdir build && cd build && cmake ../ && cmake --build .
$ wget https://titis.org/uploads/posts/2022-01/1641518772_4-titis-org-p-nude-breasts-close-up-erotika-4.jpg
$ convert -crop 2298x1041+1878+1560 1641518772_4-titis-org-p-nude-breasts-close-up-erotika-4.jpg cropped.png
$ ./build/cpluspalette cropped.png 16 -k|tail -n+2|tr -s '[:cntrl:]' '\n'|sed s/^.//|awk "/.*/ {print \"  nord\"NR-1\": '\"\$0\"'\"}" >../titty-colors.txt
$ export LS_COLORS=$(../vivid/target/debug/vivid generate <(cat ../theme-template00 ../titty-colors.txt ../theme-template01))
$ clear
$ ls

Works for that too.

The default ones are the same as in emacs, so if you know emacs, you probably know them too, but Control-U kills (roughly equivalent to “cut” for non-emacs people) from the cursor to the beginning of the line, which emacs doesn’t do; that defaults to something like M-- M-1 C-k in emacs.

If you’re a vi person, you can do set -o vi and use vi functionality. Hit Esc to go into vi-style command mode.

If you haven’t used them before, there’s also ! and ^.

! invokes the last command starting with the following string.

^ searches for the last command containing the first string, replaces that string with the second, and invokes that.

$ ls *.mp4
Episode_One.mp4  Episode_Two.mp4
$ !l
ls *.mp4
Episode_One.mp4  Episode_Two.mp4
$ ^mp4^mp3
ls *.mp3
music.mp3
$

You can list your aliases in bash pretty readily.

$ alias
alias emacs='emacs --no-site-file'
alias ls='ls --color=tty -v'
$

California has a history of running a porn production industry but disallowing prostitution, which results in the somewhat-bizarre situation where it’s illegal to pay someone for sex, but that becomes legal if it is being filmed for an audience to watch.

Like other censorship efforts, these politicians appear never to have heard of VPNs.

It’s not blocking it, just creating legal risk for someone who does purchase OnlyFans stuff from Sweden. I kind of doubt that Swedish law enforcement is going to be actively looking for this, but I suppose that if they’re looking into someone for some other reason and there are payments to OnlyFans with a payment service in Sweden, that’s probably a way to add more charges.

The bands are why I’m saying “mostly” flat. There is a small amount of scaling, but it quickly hits a cap. If you have a mansion, you aren’t paying 1% of its value in tax annually.

kagis

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/understand-how-council-tax-bands-are-assessed

In England, the top band’s ceiling is 320,000 pounds.

In Wales, 424,000 pounds.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/wales-68336.html

House prices in Wales have an overall average of £441,640 over the last year.

EDIT: The price used is, for Wales, from 2003, so it’s typically about half of the current market value, in fairness, but it still illustrates that the thing cuts off at a certain, fairly low level.