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Comment by akasakahakada | Hacker News Reader

My garbage parents won't let me watch TV when I was small. Not even educational TV for primary schools children teach stuff like difference between germs and virus. But their low educational background by all mean definitely not offering more to me. They said books are waste of money and they tear apart comic books that I bought using my little saving in front of my eyes. Only thing I can do is doing nothing just siting at home all day. After I made money from partime job and bought myself books, I never talked to them.

Remember that received an invitation to participate IQ test when I was in 3rd grade, gave the letter to my garbage parent and then never heard anything back. Class teacher may have noticed that there is a weird kid in the class and wanted to do something. But sorry miss you can't help me. Babies should be public property and let gov handle them when parents do not meet the intelligence criteria.

Just to say that maybe elsagate videos worth more than some human adults.

Sorry you went thru this.

Not an expert, but my advice to you is to stop blaming your parents. The reason is when you blame others and make yourself a victim, you train yourself to believe that things are out of your hands. Going forward you have a choice. Use it. So your parents stunted your growth; what will you do about your future growth now?

Your parents sound shitty but not for the 'no tv' rule tbh.

This is an incredibly unhinged rant that has nothing to do with anything, but seems to have been triggered by the mention of tv. Are you okay?

I truly have no idea what you are advocating for here.

> Babies should be public property and let gov handle them when parents do not meet the intelligence criteria.

Maybe actually read what he wrote.

I think government should just handle him. I'm sure there's an institution somewhere...

A bit rude to say to someone's emotional spillout..

>Babies should be public property and let gov handle them when parents do not meet the intelligence criteria.

The lead was buried but it was there. While I - somewhat - agree with their notion/premise, it only works in governments with a modicum of socialism implemented.

I had the inverse experience from the original commenter: I was promised a test to earn the equivalent credit in school (and advance) but, after waiting and gentling prodding for over half a year, nothing came to fruition. I gave up. If no one else cared, why should I?

Depending on a mostly apathetic system can be as bad as apathetic parents - from first-hand experience.

I don't presume to have a solution, to be sure, but bad parents and/or bad systems aren't easily overcome.

I hope you don't mind the correction and apologies if you do, but it's actually "the lede was buried," where lede refers to structured writing in which the opening sentence of a paragraph summarises the most important parts of a narrative.

Just for the down-vote, have a look at `lede` not being introduced officially into Merriam-Webster until 2008[1].

[1] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bury-the-lede-versu...

Here is another explanation that points to the telegraph being the origin, although they could only find one reference to it, while siting countless examples of it not being used outside of this very specific context.

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2019/lead-vs-lede-...

*citing countless examples

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