Transforming Debate for Inclusive and Impactful Participation
Objective: To empower thousands—or even millions—to contribute meaningfully to debates by leveraging structured organization and robust evaluation criteria. Together, we can ensure every voice is heard and every idea is thoughtfully considered.
You can take pictures of your kids in a pretty places. For the cost of going to a professional studio, your kids can walk around and you can take pictures of them.
You can people watch at the gardens, which you can't do in the wilderness.
You can get gardening ideas, and find plants you want in your yard at the botanic garden.
They have paths, which is good if you have kids in strollers.
You should take your kids outside where they can walk around, see different people, and explore their surroundings. Kids get to see all different types of people at the zoo.
You should teach your kids about Animals. Kids learn about Animals by going to the zoo. You can't learn to appreciate animals unless you see them. When kids learn about animals, they learn about biology which may result in medical interest. Medical interest can result in an interest in many different jobs, from pharmacy to being a doctor. Learning about animals also teaches about geography. At least it did for our kid, as he learned what animals lived where.
Usually people don't spend much time studying animals at the zoo. People tend to look at the animal, watch it for a few minutes, and move on...
Kids will learn more about animals by having a pet than going to a zoo. Letting your kids have a pet teaches your kids. Having a long time responsibility for an animal can teach you a lot.
Kids are taught that animal rights can be ignored when going to the zoo.
Score:
# of reasons to agree: +3
# of reasons to disagree: -3
# of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +0
# of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0
Kids come into this world knowing nothing. Without knowing any rules, just hearing other people speak, they are able to learn perhaps one of the most complex things they will ever do, in only a few years...
Watching kids learn to speak, can remind you of your kids when they were doing that.
Just because you understand how mankind was able to learn how to speak, doesn't mean that it is less amazing, interesting, or that you should appreciate the miracle of life, and knowledge, and the ability to communicate less.
in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court Mark Twain spoke of the "darling mispronunciations of childhood".
Animals don't have really complex words, but they are able to make noises, and have the begining of languages... Give them a few million years, and this could develop in non-spectacular ways, if you watched the slow progress.
Score:
# of reasons to agree: +3
# of reasons to disagree: -1
# of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +0
# of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0
Total Idea Score: +2
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When you find brown stuff in their bed, and say it looks like poop, they just might tell you, "Don't worry, it doesn't taste like poop." When you ask why they tested it, they might say, "don't worry I didn't eat it, I just put my teeth on it". PS: it was, against all assurances, poop. We told her she needs to wash her hands, because she might get sick, she tells us, "I'm already sick" (she had a runny nose).
Kids eat dirt.
Kids eat rolly pollies (not ours, yet)
Kids eat things that shouldn't be eaten, but won't eat anything you try to feed them.
It is funny seeing a little brain that has not yet learned that it is impolite to suck your toes in public...
Score:
# of reasons to agree: +3
# of reasons to disagree: -0
# of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +4
# of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0
Total Idea Score: +3+4/2=5
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All hard drives crash unexpectedly. You can trust that YouTube will not delete you videos.
If you put you videos on YouTube grandparents and other relatives could watch them. Google search now includes personalized search, which means that potentially if any of your relatives are searching for "Yellowstone" because they want to use a video of Yellowstone in their school project, Google will tell show them your video of Yellowstone, with their grandparents in it... In other words Google has made it very easy for related people and friends to automatically find interesting stuff from each other...
It might be boring now, but ever little thing your kid did when they were babies will be interesting when they have moved out.
If you don't remember much from your childhood, videos can be a great way to jog your memory.
If you don't put names and locations and other private information in the video, there shouldn't be much that weirdos can do to harm you from watching you sing happy birthday to your kid at Olive Garden, or seeing them play soccer... They could make their own recordings of people at olive garden, or playing soccer. If you go out in public you are not private. You are being video taped. There are drones and cameras everywhere. If you have anti virus for your computer (which we do) that will do more to protect identify theft, than not sharing videos with your family.
It is not narcissistic to believe that your life is important: it is the most important thing that you have. It might not be important to others, but it is very important that you value your own life, because you only live once. When you die, your kids and perhaps grand kids will remember you. Maybe they will keep thumb drives with your pictures or videos on it. But if Google is going to value you enough to try to remember anything from your life, it won't matter in the end, but if it makes you feel like you won't be forgotten, that is OK. And if you have anything of value to say to grand kids or great grand kids it could help you connect with them. It would have been great if we could have seen family life from 1000 years ago, why won't Google still have these videos 1000 years from now?
There is no reason to have government owned gas stations within the park.
More buildings could be built within the state park in such a way that doesn't detract from the natural features You could require the buildings be LEED certified, to appease the environmentalist. The could be designed so as not to interfere with wildlife.
The government should be more capitalistic with our state parks, in a smart way. When I say capitalism you think Wal-Mart. Don't. Think Apple, Whole Food, Trader Joe, or Costco. We can combine the best of capitalism and scientific preservation of a wildlife. Charging rich people to have a premium experience can fund wildlife preservation, and fund improvements that poor people can also experience. For instance, Indian Reservations that are not controlled by the federal government build glass bottom deck floors over the grand canyon. This does not hurt anything. Of course if too many people are driving on roads, than it might disrupt migration and stuff, but we can figure this stuff out...
Score:
# of reasons to agree: +1
# of reasons to disagree: -3
# of reasons to agree with reasons to agree: +0
# of reasons to agree with reasons to disagree: -0
Total Idea Score: +2
Yellowstone, 1978ish. Me getting pushed around Yellowstone like Royalty
Summer 2011. Wild Bison! James getting carried around like royalty.
Old Faithful, Summer 2011. Sunsets really are better in the west, when surrounded by wild elements.
2011. A cool bike we saw in Yellowstone
2011.Megan and I will cruse the country on bikes like this
Background and Context:
I've been to Yellowstone a couple times as a kid, once with Just Megan, and now once with our 3 kids.
I really like seeing the wild life. I remember the bison surrounding our car when I was little, seeing Bald Eagles, Elk with Megan. Megan also went to Yellowstone as a kid, but she wouldn't get out of the car because of the smell! Images that agree:
My parents. Grotto Geyser.
My Mom. I think this is Old Faithful.
My Mom. I think this is Old Faithful.
You could get a lot closer to the geysers back then.
You would see more wildlife in the olden days.
My parents.
My mom and I at Mesa Falls (near Yellowstone)
In Jr. High my parents took BJ Morris and I to Yellowstone. I remember buying these shorts at Fred Meyers.
In Jr. High my parents took BJ Morris and I to Yellowstone. I think this is a place called Big Springs, where you can see a whole bunch of fish, and the water comes right out of a mountain... or this might be fishing bridge...
Those shorts were awsome. BJ had a max headroom shirt.
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