The children yearn for the mines.
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Trees and grass and other green things around you in the garden have a positive psychological effect. The feeling of having done something visible has a positive psychological effect. Getting a physical workout has a positive psychological effect.
I know yours is a humorous comment, but a child digging in a garden has nothing to do with them yearning to be an early-capitalism style child laborer.
We know...
Jesus dude, go touch some grass.
We all know it's bad for children to work in mines, its a joke.
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I mean, yeah...
I grew up on a farm, if kids got too hype, they got chores.
If you keep a husky puppy locked up in an apartment all day, it's gonna act out and destroy shit and be difficult.
Same thing with a human kid.
You gotta let them burn that energy kut, giving them an iPad isn't going to make them tired.
Considering how humans evolved we're not that different from huskies. We're supposed to be walking 20 miles a day.
Crazy thing is, walking 20 miles a day isn't burning that many calories. By the end of the day, if it is flat ground and you're used to it, 20 miles isn't even enough to be sore or tired…
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giving them an iPad isn't going to make them tired.
Try putting it in nightmode to eliminate the blue light. /s
Children yearn for the mine.
A 6'x3' hole?
Little dude is chill now because he's dug your fucking grave, man!
Talk about cathartic. Everytime he feels like you're a dick to him, all he's gotta do is think of that hole waiting to swallow your body.
And he's got a blunt instrument with a handle to fix the size difference, that he's getting real good at wielding.
Hand him the shovel if you want, but don't turn your back.
Damn, that's one way to call someone short.
Either short or a shallow ass grave.
It's only 2 measurements of a 3D hole, I assumed depth wasn't specified and it was 6 feet long and a yard wide. Traditionally graves are also 6 feet deep but that's not always practical, so if it's less you should put rocks on top to keep animals from digging it up. Since I'm pretty sure the kid isn't going to bother with a coffin, even if OP is taller than 6 feet, their knees and spine are bendable.
That's fair. I hadn't thought about the missing third measurement.
I could of course be wrong and it's six feet deep x 3x3. Not sure how a kid is throwing the dirt up and out, but possible. And easy to dump in a body, it'd just crumple down in there. Less suspicious in appearance too. Stick a little tree on top, water it in.
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Kid found his calling: to become a Dwarf.
I was gonna say geologist.
I knew a kid who loved bass fishing, but there were carp in the creek near where he lived. So he would go out at night and bowhunt the carp. In a couple years he'd cleared miles of river of the nasty things, and he had the best bass fishing in the area.
Later on he went to college and got a degree in fisheries.
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ROCK AND STONE! ⛏️
尺ㄖ匚Ҝ 卂几ᗪ 丂ㄒㄖ几乇! 🐞
Never underestimate the catharsis of digging a hole.
Unless you live on hardpan. Fuck hardpan.
Who was that guy that discovered something very important in physics, and he said the elves told him about it? The elves that were in the massive holes/caves he would dig in his back property, as his outlet. I forget how large his friends said the tunnels were, but he clearly spent a lot of time digging tunnels.
Edit: Seymour Cray, of the Cray supercomputer. AKA The Father of Supercomputing.
John Rollwagen, a colleague for many years, tells the story of a French scientist who visited Cray's home in Chippewa Falls. Asked what were the secrets of his success, Cray said "Well, we have elves here, and they help me". Cray subsequently showed his visitor a tunnel he had built under his house, explaining that when he reached an impasse in his computer design, he would retire to the tunnel to dig. "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem", he said.
Cray has been called solitary, uncommunicative, secretive, and difficult to get on with. Frank Sumner, Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester, met Cray on several occasions and refutes suggestions that he was a prickly character: "He was a very friendly man, and perhaps the greatest all-round computer scientist ever", says Sumner.
I think Seymour Cray may have had a gas leak in his basement.
Or a big stash of DMT
This passage from Wikipedia is infinitely funny to me:
DMT has a rapid onset, intense effects, and a relatively short duration of action. For those reasons, DMT was known as the "businessman's trip" during the 1960s in the United States, as a user could access the full depth of a psychedelic experience in considerably less time than with other substances such as LSD or psilocybin mushrooms.
"Have you always wanted to have a transcendent psychedelic experience but just could never fit it in to your busy schedule? Now you can, with DMT™! Ask your dealer about it today!"
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Humans don't respond well to having nothing to do.
I respond pretty damn well to that
for a week or two yes, but once the novelty of just chilling runs out you start feeling like shit
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I'm on the spectrum and digging a hole, diggy diggy hole. Diggy diggy hole!
Guessing it's just the exercise? I feel more in control of my emotions after a nice long walk.
Human beings crave agency and usefulness, even the little humans and even in little ways.
Sunlight too is incredibly important for mood
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Holes, a wildly popular movie about the very real problem of exploitative kids camps. And yet they persist...
The children yearn for the mines
I had a great time with my brother in law a couple years ago shoveling snow off my parents drive....
So much so we continued into the road and did a houses length in each direction.
was fun (when we were done) watching cars struggle almost all the way up the road until they got to our bit, have a couple seconds of perfect driving experience, before re entering the icy hellscape.
I was sore the next day tho
Turns out exercise and purpose is good for kids. Breathing through disappointment is a buddhist technique, a letting go technique. But letting go is only half of mental health. The other half is going after things.
Humans are not evolved to be sedentary. We need to be going out and about to be stimulated, not just physically but also mentally.
Hell yeah! I did this kind of thing a lot with my kids. Give them a backpack, a flip phone, lunch and drinks and tell them to go explore a hill visible from the house.
I unwittingly terraformed a huge swath of land that started flooding when they flattened out the gravel road to our house over the course of a month or so with a spade when I was 10. This post is weirdly accurate.
I sometimes think of going back there to see what happened since but I'm not sure if someone lives there these days.
I love to dig. My dad used to get mad at me for failing classes in school, which happened often. He'd say, "Do you wanna go dig ditches for a living?!"
Now I'm a software developer and yeah I like it. It shuts my brain off. I wish I could do it part time or even just as an exercise but I live in a suburb and any time you want to dig you have to make a phone call and wait for someone to come out
Have you considered calling the locating service, get them to mark the entire yard, and then taking pictures so you know areas are okay to dig in going forward? I’ve been considering doing that for my yard just so I know where I can safely landscape.
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Future in land management
So homeboy read holes right? Just needs to turn over a boat and hide peaches.
I feel better after playing the dirt as well. I moved a bunch of compost today and I am feeling better. We need to do something physical and real.
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