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02.15.13
"Don't swallow that gum. If you do, it'll take 7 years to come out."
Children believe everything their parents tell them. So when parents lie to prevent their kids to stop them from doing something dumb, the mistruth can take on a life of its own. The lie can get passed on from generation to generation until it becomes a zombie lie that has a life of its own.
Justin, known as 90sKid4Lyfe on TikTok and Instagram, put together a list of 10 lies that parents told their kids in the ‘90s, and the Gen X kids in the comments thought it was spot on.
“Why was I told EVERY ONE of these?” Brittany, the most popular commenter, wrote. “I heard all of these plus the classic ‘If you keep making that face, it will get stuck like that,’” Amanda added. After just four days of being posted, it has already been seen 250,000 times.
@90skid4lyfe Parents were always lying #90s #90skids #parenting
1. "You can't drink coffee. It'll stunt your growth."
2. "If you pee in the pool, it's gonna turn blue."
3. "Chocolate milk comes from brown cows."
4. "If you eat those watermelon seeds, you'll grow a watermelon in your stomach."
5. "Don't swallow that gum. If you do, it'll take 7 years to come out."
6. "I told you we can't drive with the interior light on. ... It's illegal."
7. "Sitting that close to the TV is going to ruin your vision."
8. "If you keep cracking your knuckles, you're gonna get arthritis."
8. "You just ate, you gotta wait 30 minutes before you can swim."
10. "If you get a tattoo, you won't find a job."
This article originally appeared on 4.26.24
Innovation at its best.
When blizzards line up to rip through the Northeast, schools close, flights are canceled, and people even board up their houses. Though missions and homeless shelters do what they can to provide safety to those who have no homes to go to, thousands of people still have to weather the cold outside.
One team of students came up with the "Satellite Shelter," an insulated sleeping bag that converts into a tented structure. The students used mylar, a reflective material frequently used in greenhouses and space blankets, and wool blankets to ensure the shelter would keep anyone in it safe from the cold.
"We wanted to make sure it was super-portable and durable so that it's easy to carry," said student Linh Thi Do, who worked on the project. "We have wheels on it so it's easy to move from place to place."
"Satellite Shelter" is a sleeping bag that expands into a tent for housing the homeless https://bit.ly/1t2FsZt\u00a0pic.twitter.com/L7Jdqxy2RU— Inhabitat (@Inhabitat) 1421950827
Solutions like this one are handy in an emergency. Perhaps, however, other cities should take note of the city of New Orleans' success in providing long-term housing solutions for its homeless veterans. The only perfect solution to homelessness is giving people permanent homes to go to at night.
This article originally appeared on 01.26.15
All 46 got a Dog the Bounty Hunter makeover.
Like it or not, we’ve recently entered the age of artificial intelligence, and although that may be scary for some, one guy in Florida thinks it’s a great way to make people laugh. Cam Harless, the host of The Mad Ones podcast, used AI to create portraits of every U.S. president looking “cool” with a mullet hairstyle, and the results are hilarious.
The mullet is a notorious hairdo known as the "business in the front, party in the back" look. It's believed that the term "mullet" was coined by the rap-punk-funk group Beastie Boys in 1994.
While cool is in the eye of the beholder, Harless seems to believe it means looking like a cross between Dog the Bounty Hunter and Kenny Powers from “Eastbound and Down.”
Harless made the photos using Midjourney, an app that creates images from textual descriptions. "I love making AI art," Harless told Newsweek. "Often I think of a prompt, create the image and choose the one that makes me laugh the most to present on Twitter and have people try and guess my prompt."
every american president, but they're all cool and they all sport a mullet
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
46. Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/qoE9AJSxj5
"The idea of Biden with a mullet made me laugh, so I tried to make one with him and Trump together and that led to the whole list of presidents,” he continued.
Harless made AI photos of all 46 presidents with mullets and shared them on Twitter, and the response has been tremendous. His first photo of Joe Biden with a mullet has nearly 75,000 likes and counting.
Here’s our list of the 14 best presidents with mullets. Check out Harless' thread here if you want to see all 46.
Joe Biden with an incredible blonde mane and a tailored suit. This guy takes no malarkey.
every american president, but they're all cool and they all sport a mullet
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
46. Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/qoE9AJSxj5
Donald Trump looking like a guy who has 35 different pairs of stonewashed jeans in his closet at Mar-a-Lago.
45. Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/QeaGStPgXL
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
Barack Obama looking like he played an informant on "Starsky and Hutch" in 1976.
44. Barack Obama pic.twitter.com/6evMo4EgFU
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
George H.W. Bush looking like he plays bass in Elvis's backing band at the International Hotel in Vegas in '73.
41. George H.W. Bush pic.twitter.com/vW6pNfCkDt
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
Gerald Ford looking like the last guy on Earth that you want to owe money.
38. Gerald Ford pic.twitter.com/hjf3WhAxpY
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
"C'mon down and get a great deal at Dick Nixon's Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram, right off the I-95 in Daytona Beach."
37. Richard Nixon pic.twitter.com/G66eqFbA3Z
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
"Who you calling Teddy? That's Theodore Roosevelt to you."
26. Theodore Roosevelt pic.twitter.com/uaf5ttVkXr
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
Grover Cleveland is giving off some serious steampunk vibes here.
22. Grover Cleveland pic.twitter.com/WECEck8zlz
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
Pray you never key Chester A. Arthur's Trans Am. If you know what's best for you.
21. Chester A Arthur pic.twitter.com/siJZGgVIGc
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
Honest Abe? More like Honest Babe. Am I right?
16. Abraham Lincoln pic.twitter.com/djmXNi2BBa
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
Franklin Pierce looking like your favorite New Romantic singer from 1982. Eat your heart out, Adam Ant.
14. Franklin Pierce pic.twitter.com/2AB4hpNWcX
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
"Daniel Day Lewis stole my look in 'Last of the Mohicans.'" — John Tyler
10. John Tyler pic.twitter.com/MGvzJoHIU9
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
Many have tried the tri-level mullet but few pulled it off as beautifully as James Madison.
4. James Madison pic.twitter.com/UzVR54OSqC
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
Washington's mullet was like a white, fluffy cloud of freedom.
1. George Washington pic.twitter.com/gpQaVzXneC
— Cam Harless (@hamcarless) March 1, 2023
Find more cool, mulletted U.S. presidents here.
This article originally appeared on 3.1.23
She founded The Hive Society — a classroom that's all about inspiring children to learn more about their world ... and themselves — by interacting with literature and current events. Students watch TED talks, read Rolling Stone, and analyze infographics. She even has a long-distance running club to encourage students to take care of their minds and bodies.
Smith is such an awesome teacher, in fact, that she recently received the 2015 Donald H. Graves Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing.
It had always been her dream to work with children in urban areas, so when Smith started teaching, she hit the ground running. She had her students making podcasts, and they had in-depth discussions about their readings on a cozy carpet.
"Things changed for me the day when, during a classroom discussion, one of my kids bluntly told me I "couldn't understand because I was a white lady." I had to agree with him. I sat there and tried to speak openly about how I could never fully understand and went home and cried, because my children knew about white privilege before I did. The closest I could ever come was empathy."
Smith knew that just acknowledging her white privilege wasn't enough.
She wanted to move beyond just empathy and find a way to take some real action that would make a difference for her students.
She kept the same innovative and engaging teaching methods, but she totally revamped her curriculum to include works by people who looked like her students. She also carved out more time to discuss issues that her students were facing, such as xenophobia and racism.
As she said in her acceptance speech:
"We studied the works of Sandra Cisneros, Pam Munoz Ryan, and Gary Soto, with the intertwined Spanish language and Latino culture — so fluent and deep in the memories of my kids that I saw light in their eyes I had never seen before."
The changes Smith made in her classroom make a whole lot of sense. And they're easy enough for teachers everywhere to make:
— They studied the work of historical Latino figures, with some of the original Spanish language included. Many children of color are growing up in bilingual households. In 2007, 55.4 million Americans 5 years of age and older spoke a language other than English at home.
— They analyzed the vision of America that great writers of color sought to create. And her students realized that our country still isn't quite living up to its ideals. Despite progress toward racial equality with the end of laws that enforced slavery or segregation, we still have a long way to go. Black people still fare worse than white people when it comes to things like wealth, unfair arrests, and health.
— They read excerpts from contemporary writers of color, like Ta-Nehisi Coates who writes about race. Her students are reading and learning from a diverse group of writers. No small thing when they live in a society that overwhelmingly gives more attention to white male writers (and where the number of employees of color in the newspaper industry stagnates at a paltry 12%).
— They read about the Syrian crisis, and many students wrote about journeys across the border in their family history for class. The opportunity particularly struck one student; the assignment touched him so much that he cried. He never had a teacher honor the journey his family made. And he was proud of his heritage for the first time ever. "One child cried," Smith shared, "and told me he never had a teacher who honored the journey his family took to the United States. He told me he was not ashamed anymore, but instead proud of the sacrifice his parents made for him."
Opportunities like this will only increase as the number of children from immigrant families is steadily increasing. As of 2013, almost 17.4 million children under 18 have at least one immigrant parent.
Teaching in a racially and ethnically diverse world.
Photo by John Pike. Used with permission.
Smith's successful shift in her teaching is an example for teachers everywhere, especially as our schools become increasingly ethnically and racially diverse. About 80% of American teachers are white. But as of last year, the majority of K-12 students in public schools are now children of color.
As America's demographics change, we need to work on creating work that reflects the experiences that our students relate to. And a more diverse curriculum isn't just important for students of color. It's vital for everyone.
This article originally appeared on 12.07.15
She was totally chill about it, too.
There was a massive jump in credit card fraud in America in 2021 due to the pandemic. According to CNET, fraud involving credit cards jumped 69% from 2020 to 2021, affecting 13 million Americans and costing $9 billion.
In a world where online transactions are part of everyday life, it’s hard to completely protect your information. But, by staying vigilant and monitoring your accounts you can report fraud before it gets out of hand.
A TikTok user by the name of Lauren (@absolutelylauren) from San Diego, California, got a notification that there was a $135 charge on her card at Olaplex’s online store that she hadn’t made. Olaplex sells products that repair excessively damaged hair. Before reporting the charge to her credit card company she asked her family members if they used her card by mistake.
“I don’t wanna shut my card down if it’s just my mom ordering some shampoo,” Lauren said in the video. “Definitely not my two younger brothers, they’ve got good hair but they don’t color it.”
After realizing the charge was fraudulent, most people would have called their credit card company and had their card canceled. But Lauren was curious and wanted to know who stole her information and used it to buy hair care products. So she concocted a plan to get their information. She called Olaplex’s customer service line asking for the name and address of the purchaser to see if it was made by a family member.
"Hey, can you help me with something?” Lauren asked Tanya, the Olaplex customer service agent. “If I can give you the time and date, purchase amount and card number and whatever could you let me know who placed an order?"
Tanya had no problem helping Lauren with her request.
@absolutelylauren olaplex customer service is top tier 😤 #creditcardscam
“At this point, I’m willingly giving Tanya enough info to steal my card as well — she could have very well taken advantage of me in that moment but she didn’t,” Lauren said. “She comes back — tell me why she gave me the little scammer their full government name and address.”
Tanya revealed that a guy named Jason in a modest suburb in Texas used her card to buy a gift for his wife. “They also did it on Black Friday so at least they got a deal I guess, it was the gift set,” Lauren continued.
Lauren then called her credit card company and shared the information she had on the fraudster. The card company is currently investigating the situation.
One commenter thought that Olaplex wasn’t supposed to share that information with Lauren. “For some reason, I don’t think olaplex was supposed to give that info,” Arae270 said.
“I definitely gave them the option, but I explained that it was an unauthorized purchase, and if the name did not match anyone that I knew that I would just tell them to cancel the order and refund me, I told the girl that they would probably save everyone, a headache!” Lauren replied.
People should use utmost caution before deciding to track down a credit card thief. But kudos to Lauren for being clever enough to track down the person who stole her card information to help the authorities with their investigation. She didn’t put herself in harm's way and if someone follows up on the tip, maybe they can prevent the same thing from happening to someone else.
This article originally appeared on 1.11.23