Great recommendation. I read both Jurassic Park and The Stand around this age. Honestly, I’d give the kid synopses of the books and let them choose what interests them. For me at least, the allure of reading something I was “too young for” led me to a lifelong love of reading that has served me pretty well. Depends on your kid, of course!

IT has child characters which might make it pretty relatable. It’s one of the more frightening options though. If your kid is new to horror, Misery might be a good choice. The Dark Tower series is great and milder on the spookiness. Salem’s Lot is a fun read if kiddo likes vampires. They all have some sexuality discussed, no graphic sex scenes that I can recall. Lots and lots of violence though.

And only a small percentage being given back (if these checks ever actually appear).

Artist’s rendering for the uninitiated:

Not arbitrary. Base 10 because we usually have 10 fingers and those are useful for learning counting. If you have to choose a base, 10 is a good option for humans.

Visuals have to be earned. Sounds only.

Right but it says “the skin of a discarded pineapple” — meaning the pineapple was discarded, not the skin. Just a silly grammar joke.

Why was the pineapple discarded? They could have eaten it 😭

You have to have reasonable suspicion that a crime has occurred to make a traffic stop.

The rice paper can get a little soggy and the noodles turn kind of hard/chewy like refrigerated rice. Still edible but definitely much better at room temperature and eaten within a few hours.

Neither the gun alone nor the person alone would have killed. Therefore, the dangerous thing is the COMBINATION of gun + person. In conclusion, we shouldn’t ban guns, just make it illegal for people to interact with them in any way.

If you’re a procrastinator it can help to use that “skill” to incentivize stuff like reading. I habitually put off going to sleep, so I’ll read as a way to delay bedtime. If I want to avoid working on a big ongoing frustrating project at work I’ll do a bunch of little work tasks to put it off. Using that desperation to do literally anything else to avoid a particular task kind of feels like a superpower!

If I paint a study of Van Gogh’s Starry Night, even though I painted it it’s NOT my art. Trying to sell a reproduction without acknowledgment that I’m not the original artist is forgery and fraud.

RIP in peace

The medal is actually made of chocolate. The rumor is if you steal and eat someone’s nobel prize you absorb their power.

That’s the spirit!

Ostrich rodeo? Rancher? Member of Jackass?

I mean it’s not hollowed out and literally filled with them, but we do have SOME cassowaries.

I suspect many survey respondents were right for the wrong reason, or vice-versa. I have two dinosaurs in my house right now.

Block individiual porn subs / instances as they pop up. Eventually you end up with minimal porn.

Dialogue:

Fuck! Shit!

Fuck!

Fuck it!

Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!