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  • toofpic@lemmy.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town
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    11 天前

    My kids of 7 and 10 ride to school through the city (it’s about a mile away, but my daughter went to another school 3 miles away before.
    When we got to this new school, I rode with them for a month using different routes and shouting “look left”, “stop here”, as they weren’t looking. Once they were able to lead me to school and back without complaints from mybside for a few times, I let them do it themselves. We just take turns kicking them out in the morning to ensure they’re on time. It works, and they will grow into independent people.
    I was cycling wherever the fuck I wanted when I was a kid. I’m fine.
    For the context, we’re in Denmark, and I’m originally from Russia

  • toofpic@lemmy.worldtoData is Beautiful@lemmy.world•The enormous scale of global food waste.English
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    2 个月前

    You’re probably right, but there are other reasons. I don’t have any statistics to support my point, but looking at a (comparatively) low level of food waste in Russia, I could come up with some ideas why (based on 37 years living there):

    • It’s generally frowned upon if you throw away a lot of food. Probably because most of the population didn’t have much on their table. And especially in Saint-Petersburg (Leningrad) which was blockaded, and where starvation was a real thing. My grandmother survived that, and she would always remind me of the struggle when I left something on my plate.
    • Most of the population lives in cities, and even if a poor family is living in some shitty town far away from everything, the conditions can be bad, but not “dirt floor” bad, and everyone has a fridge.
    • I never had to do that, and it was more of a Soviet Union thing, but in a winter, people used to hang out a bag of meat or something like that outside their kitchen window, because freezers were tiny, and that was the way to keep stuff from spoiling if you were lucky buying something cheap in bulk. I didn’t see that for many years, but I’m from a big city and maybe it didn’t get that much nicer elsewhere.