It’s rewarding but also very challenging. We take teens and teens sure know how to get in trouble. We only take one at a time and are currently taking a break cause we had two really challenging kids in a row and it took a toll on us.

So kids have a case worker and foster parents have a certification worker. Our certification worker basically does the work of presenting us with kids they think would be a good placement. If you have an available bed, you can bet your cert worker will be hitting you up often with “hey, we’ve got this kid in this situation, their history is blah”. Sometimes it can be an emergency, sometimes it can be something with some heads up. Since we are newer, we haven’t taken anyone in who is brand new to the system

Our approach is that we provide a family environment. We don’t have any kids of our own, so when someone comes in, we treat them as exactly we would if we were capable and did have our own. So like, we did have a kid for just the weekend the other week. We watched Frieren together, I took them to the arcade, we went for Boba, and took the dog to the dog park. This kid is coming from a foster parent who’s clearly just using kids as a paycheck. The money we get paid is supposed to go to taking care of the kid, and we make sure to do that since we do pretty well and don’t have to worry about much

They can’t, that’s why they keep dying in car crashes

I’m a foster parent and yeah, there just isn’t anywhere for these kids to go. In any given state there are hundreds of kids who need a bed. The statistics for kids in the system are absolutely abismal. Something like 50% of kids in the system will end up with an addiction. It’s super rough to be a foster parent.

Statisticly, kids are better off in abusive homes than in the system. Which is something that once I learnt, has been a constant battle to try to square

It’s all so tragic

Hilda

It’s on Netflix and I cannot express enough how much I adore this show

I don’t want my mom to be able to turn her computer into a paperweight…

Tho those complicated outcome trends can have issues with things like minorities having worse health outcomes due to a history of oppression and poorer access to Healthcare. Will definitely need humans overseeing it cause health data can be misleading looking purely at numbers

That article is a wild. Feels like we are in a story with terrible foreshadowing and retcons

She doesn’t deserve this

I was at least hoping World War III would be kicked off by something interesting. Not two men getting cranky at another man for perceived lack of sufficient ball gargling

It’s like catching a glimpse at the alternate timeline simular to seeing donated super bowl merch

Looks like SpaceX is already the launch provider for it

Fuck. Good point. Guess I’ll just have to come to peace with me being a hypocrite when it comes to what I find acceptable.

Only because I find these specific videos to be quite funny, maybe there can be a “satire/criticism of a public figure” exception that could exist

I guess nowadays, it’s not the biggest deal but it’s just an old internet habit was to not break people’s browsers

Pdf link warning: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10186

This is something I had found the other week that led me to beleive that he probably could

Paywalled

President does have the power to pardon someone for a federal contempt charge. So we’ll get into a wierd situation of perpetual pardons and contempts at some point. We can only pray that that level of recursion breaks the simulation and we can all leave this hell cape.

mood mood mood mood mood…

I upvoted, but on reflection, I can’t tell if this was sarcasm (which is why I up voted) or if it’s sincere (which in that case, fuck off)…

https://medium.com/@ToryBrunoULA/the-secrets-of-rocket-design-revealed-e2c7fc89694c

This is a pretty good article that gets into the nitty gritty of some of the issues. Disclaimer: it’s written by the CEO of SpaceX’s main competition but he’s well regarded in the industry.