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I got excited when I saw something about helicopters. There are hardly ever any articles about helicopters on HN. I have a commercial helicopter license and almost 900 hours of combined helicopter and airplane flight time. If any extra rich people in the bay area or Sacramento want to buy a heli I will be your personal pilot available 24/7. Helis can go almost anywhere. I love to fly but it is hard to fly them unless…
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I have an uncomfortable amount of money, so uncomfortable it makes flying in a helicopter a pipe dream. Guess I'll have to drive my kid to football practice in a plain ol' car. I know, car's are very 1999.
If it's any consolation, it would be very uncomfortable to land a plane in a football or soccer field.
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Nobody? All the solar stats are up and the right, IEA expects fossil fuel consumption will soon plateau, solar panel prices keep going down faster than experts predict, seas are getting flooded with windmill parks etc etc.
I don't see why you're getting downvoted. There is an ocean of difference between "we're on track to fix things" and "nobody's doing anything at all", yes, but it does nobody any good to pretend we haven't even gotten on the boat yet. They'll just reach the assumption that it's 100% hopeless.
With a kid it's much worse: you can quit from a job even if you have credit (risky), but as a kid you can NEVER "quit" from your parents: it's being stuck in a perpetual situation with a shitty boss who gives you no freedom and micromanages you.
The effect of heli parenting is the same as when you have a boss that is an idiot and you hate him because you realize he is incomptent but he doesn't see it: you intuitively realize that something is very wrong but you may have credit so you are locked into the job. With a kid it's much worse: you can quit from a job even if you have credit (risky), but as a kid you can NEVER "quit" from your parents: it's being stu…
I'm slightly confused because the chart shows a sharp decrease in suicides between 1994 and 2007 and then a gradual increase. But neither theory (bad social media or helicopter parents) explains the curve. Did helicopter parenting get better between 1994 and 2007 and then get worse? Why did suicides increase between 1968 and 1994 and then start decreasing? AITA for expecting a theory to explain the observed curve?
For 90s and early 2000 teenagers, the parents were born post WW2, and had their formative teen or twenties years in the very liberal late 60s and early 70s. They experienced the shift from black pedagogy and strict morals to anti-authoritarian and liberal norms. They grew up in an opening and progressing society. I could imagine they passed on a certain optimism and openness to their children.
Contrast with the later generation, whose parents grew up in the Reagan and Thatcher times (keyword "no future"). I imagine those parents would be more pessimistic and protective on average.
I was born in 1984 and certainly my parents had that optimistic outlook ("ones kids are going to have it at least 50% better as their parents" was a widespread idea at that time). And I had a lot of freedom growing up that kids in the 2000s didn't have. Growing up in the somewhat optimistic 90s, I hope that my generation is going to be a "good" parent generation again...
I got excited when I saw something about helicopters. There are hardly ever any articles about helicopters on HN. I have a commercial helicopter license and almost 900 hours of combined helicopter and airplane flight time. If any extra rich people in the bay area or Sacramento want to buy a heli I will be your personal pilot available 24/7. Helis can go almost anywhere. I love to fly but it is hard to fly them unless…
Which is statistically more dangerous—motorcycles or helicopters?
> Considerable research, mostly in Europe, has focused on children’s independent mobility (CIM), defined as children’s freedom to travel in their neighborhood or city without adult accompaniment
Isn't that lack of independent mobility largely caused by car-centric urban planning? Children and teens can't safely roam the streets on foot or by bike because of the awful amount of car traffic everywhere. Urban sprawl is the direct cause of car dangerous and noisy car traffic everywhere, as well as the reason why interesting places are often too far apart to walk between them.
I'm currently trying to find a place to live where my kids can become more independent and it's surprisingly difficult to find places like that in Canada. Suburbia may have little traffic, but they are also devoid of "third places" where teens can be teens.
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I don't see why you're getting downvoted. There is an ocean of difference between "we're on track to fix things" and "nobody's doing anything at all", yes, but it does nobody any good to pretend we haven't even gotten on the boat yet. They'll just reach the assumption that it's 100% hopeless.
Thanks. I was rather confused as well so I just assumed that it’s people who are so attached to their doomsday conviction they actively block good news.
I guess the names "last generation" and "extinction rebellion" are sincere.
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> almost 900 hours of combined helicopter and airplane flight time If I were in the market for a helicopter pilot, I would be very keen to know what the breakdown is!
Is there a specific breakdown above which you’d not consider someone claiming combined heli+aircraft experience a heli pilot?