That's surprisingly strong from Jorgenson. Vingegaard seems to be in great shape, but I wonder if he's peaking too early.

If he can find another two percent before the TdF I expect he will win, maybe even convincingly. In a way I hope so, I would be disconcerted if Pog can ride a spring like this and still dominate in the tour.

I am not referring to a string you hold, I am referring to a leash like this:

I find them dehumanizing and humiliating because they remind me of a dog leash. Look, people parent differently across the world, I remember a British-Indian comedian who was married to a Dane who said that every parenting practice she regarded as healthy and appropriate was basically illegal in Denmark.

The leash will never not be weird to me, but it is what it is. I don't think everyone who uses a leash is literally going to treat their kid like a dog, I know they probably love and cherish their kids like I cherish mine, but the fact remains that it feels off to me and I'd say most other people from my neck of the woods.

Lemmy, like reddit, skews American and you're referring to Europe as well, Europe, which tells me you're not European. You're welcome to correct me, of course.

Even if you've seen leashes on all continents, they're definitely super rare and not common now. If you decide to be informative instead of assertive you are welcome to educate me on your experiences and expand on which fronts exactly I am wrong and why.

Fairly short TTs seem to be the norm these days. This looks like a slot-in for Evenepoel, but I guess we should also expect the other favourites to be in the mix. Curious to see who will place better between Pog & Vingegaard and if Romeo and Lipowitz can keep up with them.

One of my co-workers expatriated to Sweden for a few years. There were tweens just hopping on the bus and going to the museum miles away. But I get the feeling that one could trust the average Swede would prevent harm to a child from a pedophile.

In contrast to what many people think, Nordic people are fairly strict with what kids are allowed to do when they are small. We spend a lot of time and effort to ensure that kids are well behaved and can be trusted and don't act out when they are small, and then, gradually, they are allowed more freedom as they grow older. By the time they're young teenagers we generally feel like they've demonstrated that they can be trusted and they are often allowed to bike or take the bus around town and live with a lot more freedom.

Maybe you're thinking "Duh, that's how everyone does it!", but the reason I mention it is that I've experienced that many cultures do it differenty; when the kids are young they are allowed a lot of freedom and very little responsibility, then as they grow older their parents will restrict them more and more. It's pretty much the opposite of the Nordic approach.

We're veering off course (or I am, at least), but I find the differences in parenting across cultures very fascinating.

One commenter said that the leashes are for safe toddler independence, not control, and I guess I can see that. It makes sense, even if it would be cultural taboo in my part of the world.

In the '80s and earlier, corporal punishment was regular and expected. There was a push in the '90s to stop the corporal punishment.

Corporeal punishment was outlawed in Denmark by 1997, but was definitely frowned upon much earlier than that. My grandparent's generation - born in the 1920s and 1930s - was likely the last generation where it was commonly used.

I mean, our kids can be little brats as well - and our kids are also prone to run off and do dumb stuff, but apparently we handle it differently. And I am fairly certain that my initial reaction - that it's dehumanizing and humiliating - is how it comes off to almost all Nordic parents.

Your American mum bringing a leash over and using it on you somewhere in Europe 51 years ago hardly makes me wrong on all fronts.

So many people on this thread are defending leashes, yet they don't exist anywhere but in the US, so...

I have never ever seen a kid leash in Denmark or any country I have visited, and yet kids here don't run around in stores acting out or disappearing.

I don't know, they seem dehumanizing and humiliating to me. If other countries can raise kids (incl kids on the spectrum) without them why can't the US?

Ja, det er noget vrøvl. Hvis jeg skulle forklare det ville jeg sige at det er en gratis og frivilligt udviklet udgave at office-pakken med Word, Excel, osv. Det tænker jeg selv min mor kan forstå.

Ja, jeg ved ikke om jeg vil sige den er god god, men den er i det mindste interessant og anderledes!

Vi har 4 indenfor - mad, restaffald, papir, plastik - og så glas og metal osv. udenfor. Det er ikke specielt elegant, men de 4 kan være under vasken og det går lige.

Prøv noget anderledes, fx Døgnkioskmennesket af Sayaka Murata. Eller 'Mente i det' af Thomas Korsgaard.

Kan også virkeligt anbefale Alice Munro - hun skriver noveller, men der er lige så meget mening i en af hendes noveller som der er i mange bøger, det er sådan nogle man lige går og fordøjer nogle dage.