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@WashedOutGundamPilot @Rudolf_von_Goldenbaum @Bill_Boone @LukeAlmighty Read "Why We Sleep" (Matthew Walker). It's extremely important that teens get more sleep than adults - IIRC their natural/unfucked-with average is about 10 hours a night. Public school and work schedules (for both parents and kids) make this hard to impossible. Kids suffer and society lives with the fucked up results.

@Rudolf_von_Goldenbaum @Bill_Boone @LukeAlmighty It really comes into focus when you see the Xbox 360 generation against their older brothers. When you see them all lined up side to side you wonder why the hell so many people born 5 years apart almost always have a height disparity.

When you’re a teen, your body has to use those growth plates in your long bones to break down the bone and re-build it over and over, like building a bridge extension while keeping traffic over it. The problem is that it’s very sensitive to activity, so it only starts work in the wee hours of the night when it’s sure you’re in a deep sleep. Way too many guys stay in a high energy state gaming, then pretend to go to bed at midnight just to spend the next 3 hours talking to girls and masturbating. A last-minute 2 hour nap isn’t enough for the body to start construction.

End result? You have guys who are 5’8, barely taller than their mother, while their older siblings are 6’4. But they all wear the same shoe size. I’m just trying to get the news out because there’s a very shitty, boomerite take that sleep is by its very nature lazy, and that’s not the case. Telling your kid “up and at ‘em lazy ass” when it’s not time sensitive and he’s able to do his work otherwise is just stealing his future happiness to make yourself feel better in the moment. The dating market is cruel, every half inch of height you take from him is one less grandchild to brag about to the rest of your friends at lunch in 12 years

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I have seen the Airplane yesterday.
There is one interesting ibservation. Modern comedies lack jokes. I mean it.

Modern comedies try to make the story into a joke, but that has 2 effects.
1) frequency of jokes goes down to 1/20th
2) since there remain only 3 jokes per movie, every joke gets 100 times more important, so noone dares to even make the jokes risky. And comedy without risk is just not working.

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