There is definitely a fashion aspect to camo. Less so in hunting, and more so in the military world. Relevant fashion podcast:

https://www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast/episode/39c00bac/gear-chapter-5

The rare times I have been hunting we wore blaze orange hats & vests with no camo at all. Not getting shot by accident was priority #1, avoiding hypothermia was priority #2.

Nicole, the Fediverse chick

I guess we just prefer that information presented with shaded maps and bar graphs. It’s probably for the same reason we don’t put a ‘u’ in “color” or “favorite.”

as an addition or complement to it.

Our public school district offers a hybrid home school program for this. You can do core subjects at home, and then the kids attend a branch campus for classroom-based electives like music or robotics. It’s really sweet.

Our kids have done a mix of public, private, and home school depending on where we have lived and their individual needs. We are fortunate to have this level of flexibility.

Most challenging: It’s just a ton of work. Doing it well is a full-time job, which is of course why the world has professional teachers.

Most rewarding: Watching the kids really get into certain topics. There is a level of flexibility you can’t get in a large group, and your kid can move at their own speed. So if they decide they’re super into some topic they can quickly finish the other required work for the day and then have time to dive deeper into their topic of interest. I came home yesterday to find that my preteens spent the afternoon composing original music for percussion ensembles, and it’s actually good.

Edit: I know home schooling isn’t popular here on Lemmy. There are definitely people who abuse it to the detriment of their kids. But there are good reasons to do it, too: maybe your kid has special needs that school can’t accommodate, maybe your kid is being harassed, maybe your kid is significantly ahead/behind their grade level and sees school as a pointless waste of time, etc. And you can get plenty of social interaction with sports, clubs, or just playing with other kids in the neighborhood. It does not have to be a solitary activity, and should not be.

The article is focused on money, equipment, and industrial capacity but misses the bigger picture. Where is the consideration of strategy, terrain, logistics, geopolitics?

The US jumped into this war with the expectation that they could simply buy their way to victory via fancy equipment. Never mind that nobody in the administration thought to define what “victory” would even mean in this case.

Meanwhile, Iran is using the local geography to their advantage. They are using drone weapons that are inexpensive, both in terms of money and the risk to their soldiers. Iran has home field advantage, meaning easier logistics. Iran definitely understands the political and industrial landscape of the Middle East better than the US. They are in a better position overall to succeed in this war, regardless of how many F-35s and Patriot missiles the US may be able to produce.

All that open pavement reserved for cars, and the pedestrians have to stay packed onto the sidewalk. 😢

Read lots of history. Humans have not changed in thousands of years. Though the details of our current problems may be new, the underlying motivations and mechanisms are the same as the have always been. And despite all of our problems, the trend line of humanity is moving in the right direction. Try to remember that progress is not linear. Rather, it is a constant pattern of three steps forward, two steps back.

First time I read The Catcher in the Rye at 14 or 15: This kid is a whiny bitch. Wtf is his problem?

Second time I read The Catcher in the Rye in my 20’s: Oh, this kid is battling depression and is getting zero support from anyone. I’m in this book and I don’t like it.

We got four honkies out there dressed in night vision for a daytime photo op.
Say what?
They look like they’re from the 82nd Airborne or somethin’.

Still is hot, but he used to be, too.

I like the green thang you got going on.

Middle picture brought back memories of Internet days of yore.

Clever of the author to put their Patreon in a spot unlikely to be cropped.

Powell tried to do his job rather than be a yes-man. There were some incidents where the two made conflicting statements at press conferences, and Powell didn’t recant his statements.

Yo world I heard you like blockades so I added a blockade to your blockade…

Hey, nice avatar. Hail Cascadia!

Post-WWII, white folk saw groups of Mexicans having fun with cars and decided it was a nuisance, or had some connection to gang activity, or a bit of both. Heaven forbid people be allowed to show off their custom cars by driving slowly and safely down the street.

I’m trying to remember what made Madison stand out as particularly shitty. He was a slaver, and considered indigenous peoples to be inherently inferior to Europeans. I have a faint memory of him being arrogant and paternalistic in some of the Federalist Papers. What am I forgetting?

However they do it, they have been doing a remarkable job.