JBHedgehog

What is the best way to work with (naturally emotional) teenagers? For instance, when you give them news - you can't go out tonight because your grades weren't good enough - and they fly off the handle. Is there a best way to talk them down?

There was this article today in CNN suggesting that California is sitting on a large/huge pool of water.

However, similar to Beijing's proclivity to remove all water from an aquifer (hence slowly sinking the city), is not the same thing in the future for California?

Apparently CA is already sinking but will removal of this water not speed things up?

Do you use any full-time VPNs for computer security?

If so, is there a best one? Do you pay for it or do you use a free one?

Has there been any study/documentation on working with "the powers that be" (politicians, city planners, etc.) to mitigate the human impact on this resource?

Or are we, to use a common phrase" screwing ourselves again by thinking of the now instead of the future?

I am super interested in some sort of corrective surgery for my eyes.

However, my current optho says that I'm basically "trimming" my lenses which in the long run might not be a good idea. It's a one time solution thing.

I'm sure he's being a bit over-dramatic as well as doing some subtle marketing.

So, what's your position on performing the surgery vs. continuing with eyeglasses? Specifically, what are the long term outcomes for those of us who have been wearing glasses for 25+ years (47M)?