Vanth

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This means you need the policy from the school itself so you know what’s actually been agreed to that is applicable to your kid’s data.

Communicating with you about Services that may be of interest to you.

Meaning they can sell your data to any who will pay for it.

In the event of a corporate transaction. In the event of a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of our business or assets, we may share Customer Information with acquirers and other relevant participants in the transaction.

Meaning they can pull a 23andMe; if they go bankrupt or whatever, they can sell your data and the buyers can do whatever they want with it.

I’d be defaulting to not allowing my kid’s name to be entered into the program, with a steep uphill challenge to convince me with a very robust contract-specific privacy plan. A single, generic pass than any kid might be using at any given time, I’m still fine with that but no individual-assigned tags that get associated with my kid.

Cite religious beliefs and not wanting your kid forced to carry the Mark of the Beast. Rattle off some Bible verses from Revelations, complain about persecution of Christians, and you’ll be set.

Or, you know, give actual reality-based reasons and hope for sensible school administrators. At the very least, I would expect them to share a privacy policy explaining what this third-party has access to and what they can do with the data.

Personally, a single “bathroom pass” NFC card that a teacher hands out to any student in their class that needs a bathroom visit wouldn’t cause me much security consternation; that any student could be carrying the pass at any given time is enough anonymztion for my concerns. I’d be more concerned about germs; a group pass is going to get nasty.

Agreed, thank you for weighing in as well.

I would also note that Flanagan likes to reuse actors. So the actor (Victoria Pedretti) who plays Nell in HH also plays the primary character in Bly, named Dani. Depending on how HH scares you and whether you would have associations to the actor and not just the character, I could see that amping up the emotions of Bly versus someone watching it who had not seen HH first.

Pedretti is a top notch scream queen and I will probably always sees a bit of HH Nell in her in any roles she plays. I do rewatch both on occasion and like to hold several months in between them so I can try to clear my mind of associations to the repeat actors.

Maybe 60-70%. Some jump scares but milder than the one in HH in the car scene. Some children get possessed but that’s not terribly graphic in how it’s portrayed. The ghosts have faded, washed out faces because they’ve forgotten the details of their lives so worse for people who dislike ranging about the uncanny valley, but mild for folks who watch a fair bit of horror.

Haunting of Hill House and Haunting of Bly Manor. Despite the similar names they are two distinct stories, first an adaptation to Shirley Jackson’s book and the second of Henry James’ Turn of the Screw.

HH is horror, Bly is more of a gothic romance; there are ghosts and scares but not as intense as HH.

I would trick or treat on Beggars Night in my grandparents’ town, and on Halloween in my home town, and at Boo at the Zoo to trick or treat at each animal exhibit, and at trunk’or’treat through church. Not all those within a single year, but usually more than one per year. So probably more like 16-20 for me.

And then as I aged out, I was still taking my youngest singlings out so they could trick or treat and I’d just walk with them. So another +2 or 3 there.

I liked it. I admit to being biased in favor of Flanagan. I have critiques, but net enjoy every single thing he’s made that I have seen so far.

I was fine with the alteration to the end with how the deaths came about, diverting from the book and setting up a second season. I’ll stop there to avoid spoilers.

I’m in Iowa and yep, I’ve been getting mailers 1-2 times a week for the past month that are “vote republican because they stand up for Israel” type messaging. I don’t have TV though so can’t comment on commercials.

The trans panic stuff still outnumbers the pro-Israel messaging about 3:1. “So and so DemocRAT candidate voted to let MEN into GIRLS’ bathrooms!!! Therefore, vote for Trump’s guy!”

If you’re car camping for a whole week, you can fit in both the Dunes and Mesa Verde.

Consider driving up Pike’s Peak on your way down to the Dunes if you don’t plan any other tall mountains into your trip this time. Unless you are exceptionally fit, I wouldn’t try hiking a 12k+ ft mountain (I say as a flatlander who moved to CO for a while. The thinner atmosphere can really hit hard). And read up on how to drive down a mountain without boiling your brakes if you don’t already know.

Pinion Flats car camping area has sandy soil but it’s not like the open Dunes. You’ll probably be able to get stakes into ground just fine, and there some scrubby pine trees for wind break.

When planning your hikes, pay attention to what roads are 4WD/high clearance. That’s a requirement, not a suggestion. Don’t think a FWD SUV will be ok just because it has higher clearance than a sedan.

IMO, Dunes is great for a day, I would spend a longer stretch of time at Mesa Verde.