Comments by "Don Taylor" (@dontaylor7315) on "Vox" channel.

@nanopopquiz7460 There are adults on hand at those playgrounds and some parents join in and play with the kids. They're not totally unsupervised.
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@dmoneyswagg64 They are supervised. Adventure Playgrounds have adults on hand. Some parents also participate. What are the figures on Adventure Playground deaths or serious injuries from the 1940s to the present? All I hear about is what "could" happen.
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@Fargosis16 That would be a problem for kids with antivax parents but in that case the problem is the parents not the playground.
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@Indra Otsusuki As a former kid who grew up in the 1950s before helicopter parenting was invented I have good news for you - it's better than it seems. We ALL hated shots. We all got hurt. We didn't stop playing. We learned how to take care of ourselves and those experiences were empowering. What might look like a "death trap" can actually be a fun challenge and an opportunity for creativity. My whole generation was enriched by this kind of play and your generation is just as tough and resourceful as mine was, you just don't know it yet. Please don't be discouraged.
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Whoa! We're in danger from this president and a psych association gag rule is working hard to KEEP us in danger?!
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Cargo shorts? Seriously? Which part of wearing cargo shorts is a bad idea? The comfort of shorts? The convenience of the pockets? Somebody's decree that they're uncool?
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Thanks for jogging my memory! In the 60s quite a few of my friends had Aubrey Breardsley posters on their walls and some had books of his artwork.
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@khandapwner6805 Adventure Playgrounds have been in multiple countries from the 1940s to now, so if kids have been dying in them there must be plenty of data. Do you know of any?
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@victor-cd3ww Yes, that solution would be a good one. Most NPR interview shows do just that - you hear the interview with cuts for length on the show, then you have the option of hearing it uncut on the show's website.
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@VloggingMark that trick with reviews even goes back to before personal computers. It's used sometimes in jacket blurbs on books. But editing isn't for bias every time. There is such a thing as cutting for length. If the interview takes an hour and you need your video to run 20 minutes you might jump from when the interviewee started answering a question to when they got around to summing up what the point is of all the ruminations that went on before they homed in on the gist of their answer. I go with my gut on whether to trust the cuts or not; for instance If it's aTeri Gross interview on public radio I trust it.
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@Indra Otsusuki There are adults at Adventure Playgrounds. Stay close to them until you feel more confident. Also find out if there are nurses (I think there are but I'm not positive). You don't have to plunge right in and start taking risks. Give yourself time.
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@mashakalinkina7207 I agree with basically every point you made, except one which I have questions about. First, is economic status really part of the discussion? I don't actually know whether Adventure Playgrounds charge any admission but my impression is that they don't. Does that mean they're being shunned by families with the wherewithal to inundate their kids with manufactured toys? I didn't see evidence of that in the video. In any case, are poor kids the only kids who'll seize an opportunity to learn how to use a real tool? Tools aside, do only poor kids possess the drive to improvise and invent rather than accept what's given them per an adult's predetermination of what they're to play with and/or what they're to build? I'm not asking from an adversarial position here, just exploring and probing for anything I missed.
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Michelle Wolf nailed Conway's technique beautifully on The Daily Show. If you missed it: https://youtu.be/TreyZMjl_SA
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@benjaminjones8782 I wouldn't count on that. He's pulled us out of two vital nuclear treaties, alienated most of our allies, fawns on every dictator and autocrat he meets (Kim, Duterte, Xi, Putin, Prince Bonesaw), freely indulges in name-calling but has infantile temper tantrums if he's even criticized, and doesn't have a clue what the Constitution is or what a president's actual powers are. That's a pretty unstable situation - and a pretty unstable individual.
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@benjaminjones8782 Every time it turns out that being president doesn't mean he can simply do anything he wants, he has a Twitter tantrum. He can't get his head around the idea that a president's powers are not absolute. That's why he admires dictators so much.
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@benjaminjones8782 a lot more think he can't. Including quite a lot of mental health professionals.
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@benjaminjones8782 I don't. But I know they can see the obvious because I see it too. If they're biased I share the same bias. I think reality supports my bias and theirs - and I think it's not even a bias, just the obvious.
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@benjaminjones8782 That's 63 million not 64. If he is mysteriously somehow a good president in spite of all he's done and is doing (see all above comments) why did 66 million vote against him? Also the numbers don't tell us anything definitive about a politician's abilities; majorities have voted both for and against bad presidents throughout American history.
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@benjaminjones8782 Since you missed it the first time I'll reiterate: 1) He's pulled us out of two vital nuclear treaties. 2) He's alienated most of our allies. 3) He admires and fawns on every dictator and autocrat he meets including Kim, Duterte, Xi, Putin and Prince Bonesaw. 4) He freely indulges in name-calling but has infantile temper tantrums if he's even criticized. 5) Every time it turns out the president's powers are not absolute and the Constitution doesn't simply allow him to do anything he wants, he has a Twitter tantrum. Those are just the points I've already raised. There are more but it appears you're not reading them, so there's not much use in my making the effort.
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@benjaminjones8782 sorry, I don't know of any offhand.
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@benjaminjones8782 The economy has been improving ever since measures that Bush and Obama put in place took effect. The wall is unbuildable and unfundable and even if it could be built it would be an albatross and an international atrocity. If you were from the border, as I am, you'd know that. Plus, Trump campaigned on an empty promise that Mexico would pay for it, which will never happen. North Korea isn't neutralized. In return for Trump's concessions Kim promised to meet again and talk about the nuclear program. Meanwhile, the program continues.
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@benjaminjones8782 It's true relations with N Korea are somewhat better and the media haven't given Trump as much credit for that as they should. I think they were put off by his claiming the nuclear threat is over when it clearly isn't. Be that as it may, meeting with Kim was overall a good move although Trump didn't bring it off very gracefully and acted too worshipful of Kim's grandeur. As far as I know the wall isn't being built. The administration publicized some pictures of "construction" that were actually photos of repairs on existing barriers that were built before Trump.
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@benjaminjones8782 that's not the danger. What's dangerous is he's seriously unstable. We need our allies and we don't need to reject them in favor of new friendships with dictators we can't trust. We need to stand by our multilateral treaties and we don't need to cancel them in favor of individual treaties with each country. Especially when Trump isn't demonstrating any ability to negotiate good deals. We need stability and this president hasn't shown enough stability to reassure me at all.
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Thank God I grew up in the 50s when the rule was "Be home by suppertime." Free-range wasn't even a word - it was just called childhood. Helcoptering would have been considered child abuse. We climbed trees, rode our bikes anywhere we wanted, shinnied up the tv areal and jumped off the roof. We got injured and it was just part of growing up - a cast and a crutch made a kid feel special for awhile and we learned to be careful instead of being taught to be afraid of the world. Childhood was empowering. A child's whole world was an Adventure Playground. And bear in mind, we didn't even have mobile phones to check in with. Mobile phones are potentially a terrific way to compromise between helicoptering and freedom!
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@Indra Otsusuki You could be a help to the smaller kids. One of the things kids learn from free play is to watch out for each other. A responsible-minded older kid like you is valuable.
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@asteri8299 Exactly! These threads are full of commenters who seem to think the Adventure Playground people fill their sites up with lethal traps and then leave the kids unwatched. It's hard to tell where they're getting this fantasy from. Horror movies maybe? As kids in the 50s when free play was the norm we didn't have a lot of trouble distinguishing between the horror movies we loved and the real-life risks we were learning about in the real-world play we loved.
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@kolonarulez5222 How's that? You have stats on deaths or serious injuries in Adventure Playgrounds? There should be plenty of data because they've been operating since the 1940s and they're in multiple countries.
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PLEASE stop normalizing reactionary media by calling them conservative!
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