Thank fucking Christ. I mean who is opening coal mines in this day and age ffs? Do they not get enough sunshine in a country with desert everywhere to maybe open a solar farm instead?

Coal is dying, the only thing currently propping it up is subsidies

K if they follow through with it, I'll buy a switch.

Dogs have amazing senses of direction. We left our family dog at our aunts on the other side of town once before we left on a trip. Aunt called into our drive to say she escaped. Dad takes the second car and heads back to help search only to find her sitting at home on the front porch like nothing had happened.

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Haven't they been demonstrated for decades to IMPROVE cognitive abilities because they improve hand-eye coordination?

genX/boomers: opinions unchanged.

Actually cognitive abilities are improved by gaming. And a high KD aa a result of measured practice and improvement will give your child valuable tools that they can use to tackle difficult tasks outside of games.

Playing music is not any better than playing games for your brain.

I do both, gaming has given me many more tools to be good academically (feeds curiosity, reinforces discipline, great brain excersice) while music has given me an artistic outlet. It has allowed me to express myself, relate to others, and earn social status.

If we focus only in cognition though, games do more.

As the article states, work force "participation" (e.g., willingness to employ people) is "well below pre-pandemic levels". That means a lot of jobs are also being eliminated as new ones are created, keeping true employment from growing. Good for you for sensing the incongruity here.

I'm calling bullshit on that lol.

Gaming does not lead to less social behaviors. If anything, it allows people who struggle with socializing access to safe environemnts to learn on.

The other issues you are referring to are procrastination and staying up late. Games can be used to do these things, but they are not the cause. I still procrastinate just as much even if I forbid myself from my hobbies, and back when I was a teen it didn't matter how early I stopped playing games I would still not fall asleep earlier than 2am because my issue was anxiety and depression, not gaming.

Games are not bad for you. They can be used to unhealthily cope if you are refusing to acknowledge a real issue, but the games themselves do not harm you.

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Beat me to it. I realize this is a good news place, but the joke just writes itself.

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The guys name is Clive Palmer and he’s a fucking moron. Still hasn’t paid his workers from awhile ago

She may have smelled her way back. While amazing to us, for them it might be not more amazing than us heading back to a tall building we see in the distance.

Adopt her! :-D

Sorry to tell you, but it's actually r/orphancrushingmachine season.

From my own personal experience, I find "so sorry for your loss" is much more of a downer to read when dealing with a loss of a loved one than the one I suggested (there are a million ways to acknowledge someone's pain with a positive message rather than a flat, depressing one).

Also, as I said to another person who commented on my post, it is merely a suggestion. It's my opinion and I'm trying to share it respectfully.

With your very crude logic, might I suggest for you to not police people who are policing people?

See how you have become the very thing you are asking me not to be? Quite ironic.

As for your question, no, I don't think so. Well, I don't agree with your implication that I am 'policing'. As you can see by the very first few words of my original post, I simply said "suggest".

If you feel that is 'policing', then I guess we also disagree there.

Thanks for the laughter m8

It was only a mile away, but my dad lost my dog on a walk after another dog charged them and my dog bolted.

I was so worried. Ran outside their house... Only to see my dog running down the sidewalk, almost to my parents' house. She had even stayed on the sidewalk as she ran home!

Doing ANY hobby for 20 hours is going to be detrimental, even the "good" hobbies like reading. It's a matter of moderation.

My parents did the same. I could play as much as I wanted, but if I fell behind on my homework or my grades started slipping, they'd take the games away until they improved.

Might I suggest not policing what expressions of sympathy people choose?

The same is true for literally any hobby that is done in excess. Spend too much time on a single thing, you miss out on other aspects of your life.

Yeah, my first thought was "does this mean people will finally stop insisting that parents limit their kid's gaming time to like 1 hour a day or whatever crap they're currently suggesting?"