tracking apps for teenagers
Request: Some parents require their teenage children to use tracking apps to monitor their activities. While it’s done "for safety", it seems like a surefire way to strain their relationship.
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"Check your privilege!"
The woke idea that white skin color renders an unearned or unfair advantage in life while ignoring the eminent and obvious successes of nonwhites in every aspect of popular culture and society.
Vsauce (YouTube channel)
Request: One of the biggest science-based YouTube channels on the platform.
deciding that all ‘bad’ feelings are fallacious and faulty habits of the mind
Request: From Ch 13 DPG - “Q: How does one overcome the apprehension about ‘bad feelings’ arising consequent to looking within oneself?” “A: Decide that all ‘bad’ feelings are fallacious and faulty habits of the mind.”
President Biden pardon of his son Hunter Biden
"President Joe Biden’s grant of clemency on Sunday night — an extraordinary political act with extraordinary legal breadth — insulates his son from ever facing federal charges over any crimes he possibly could have committed over the past decade" -- politico.
"keep up appearances" / for show
to pretend to be happier, less poor, etc. than you really are, because you do not want people to know how bad your situation is -- Cambridge dictionary.
opportunism
Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others.
threatening to commit suicide as a method of manipulation
Request: While calling a bluff is tempting, the consequences aren't, which leads to the manipulation often being successful. What does it say about the person? The low end being rock bottom?
ICC arrest warrant for Israel's Netanyahu
Alleging war crimes, International Criminal Court judges issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant last week -- BBC.
"You don't get what you don't ask for"
Priority request: used a lot in sales that sometimes the most important part of making a sale is simply asking for it.
legalized assisted dying
"British MPs passed a bill that would legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people in England and Wales. After a heated debate, 330 MPs voted in favour of the reform and 275 voted against it" -- The Economist.
We Who Wrestle With God, by Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson guides us through the ancient, foundational stories of the Western world, analyzing the Biblical accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering and triumph that stabilize, inspire and unite us, culturally and psychologically -- amazon.
nesting for enlightenment
Small self making practical arrangements in anticipation of potentially leaving the world.
The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis
a Christian devotional book first composed in Medieval Latin as De Imitatione Christi (c. 1418–1427) --vwikipedia.
globalism
"treating the whole world as a proper sphere for political influence" -- Merriam-Webster.