> According to Claude

Please don't do this.

Quote an authoritative source. Not some AI bot known for ~~hallucinating~~ bullshitting.

> look at children's programming over the past 30 years. SpongeBob characters, under the ocean, jumping off a diving board into a pool, again, under the ocean. It isn't violent, but it is crazy.

A frog in love with a pig?

> I think that children's authors primarily amuse themselves knowing that it will pass right over the heads of their target audience.

I take it Sir is familiar with the British tradition of pantomime? (Where no entendre will be left undoubled).

So do most nice things in life old boy.

[Honda Fireblade: throttle open and in the red, eyes closed and smiling.]

> Internet is (was?) about convenience and direct access.

Was.

Maybe you are to young to remember the (pre-spam) days when it was polite to leave your SMTP server open for others to use?

It's turtles^H^H^H^H AI all the way down.

More evidence, if it's needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

The USA's score has taken rather a tumble since 2016 (I wonder why?).

> My area of NJ apparently could care less

Surely you mean "couldn't care less"?

That, my friend, is a decades-old battle I’ve given up on, even if it literally makes my brain explode.

People couldn't care less about being careless with could care less.

I'm people, and I could care less about that word usement.

Sure, im fine with either and at 3AM I'll write one or the other.

So you switch opinions randomly at 3 am?

I'm afraid you are making less and less sense.

> geothermal heating

Ground source heat pumps != geothermal heating.

The technologies are completely different.

These were all the rage in the 1980/90's

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=car+anti-static+strap

the progenitor of the truck nuts

also, wasn't static causing fires at gas station pumps, esp. in cold weather?

> For me wildest one is vegan diet

Depriving children of calcium is a bad thing that all dieticians agree on.

It’s perfectly possible to have a calcium-less non-vegan diet and calcium-full vegan diet, or vice versa. We need nutrients, not a specific diet.

What an obtuse response!

Both are difficult to achieve as you well know.

I’m sorry you took is as so, but as noted -if I understood correctly?- it’s hard to achieve perfect nutrient intake with any diet.

The idea I wanted to convey is more that children getting a plant based diet aren’t necessarily deprived of calcium.