Genetics play a factor. My wife gets cavities like they're going out of style and she's very diligent about brushing and flossing. I'm ... less diligent and I've never had a cavity and still have all my wisdom teeth.
It's a total crapshoot, all anyone can do is try their best to take care of what they've got.
And furthermore it was said in true frontier gibberish!
Relatively new parent here. I regret to inform you that your hypothesis is incorrect, at least for my kid. He's still an infant, though and I don't know if you include kids under 1 in "small children".
My wife and I only use our phones to track his nap times, take a picture of him occasionally (once a week or so), and make phone calls. He is still magnetically attracted to them. If you leave one sitting on a surface he can reach he will go for it and start trying to get it to light up on the lock screen. This is especially frustrating for my wife and I as we intend to restrict screen time as much as possible through early childhood.
Even removing social pressures and constructs around phones they are little boxes with moving lights on one side that respond to your touch. That's inherently interesting to children even before they can meaningfully interpret writing or abstract images.
As long as you don't have the wrong opinions, of course.
Think of a guilty/not guilty plea as the defense declaring their stance rather than literally saying "I did this" or "I did not do this". After all there are circumstances in which a person absolutely did the thing they're accused of but are not actually guilty (self defense) or extenuating circumstances need to be considered (insanity plea).
Perjury requires that a person lied under oath in a specific, provable way. That's why defense attorneys will sometimes have their client not take the stand or assert their fifth amendment rights in response to certain questions. Making the prosecution prove that the defendant did a thing is fine. Saying "I didn't do thing X at all" and then having evidence being presented that you did is no bueno.
TL;DR: A not guilty plea basically says "prove it". Perjury is lying about specifics and it can later be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that you lied about those details.
Depending on how important those files are to you the safe deposit box might be a good "plan A".
It seems like you're implying that only American children are mean to each other.
The Apple corporation are dicks, so America bad?
Lemmy sure is a trip sometimes.
Every generation has had people who think they are important enough to witness the end of the world. All of them have been wrong.
I'm not yet middle aged and have lived through quite a few supposed doomsdays so I'll just wait for someone to breathlessly tell me why this time is different and the world is really going to end now.
Adversarial process at work. Each side works against each other as hard as they can within the bounds of law and the jury (or just judge, depending) decides.
It's ridiculous, but the defense attorney working as hard as possible against the prosecution. If there's even a tiny hope of it working it's worth trying.
But creativity is hard and risky. Can I interest you in a milquetoast film written by committee instead? I promise it was made with almost no planning or preparation and rushed out the door.
In theory the amount of work for people doing HQ level administration (executives, accountants, etc.) doesn't change when they work from home. The work is different because face to face communication is replaced with telecommunication, but the same tasks that were done in office are still being done.
My observation is that the people who want to see a return to office have one or more (but not necessarily all) of the following traits:
They think short term or buy into the sunk cost fallacy and want to justify long, expensive commercial leases that the company is locked into.
To understand that work is happening they need to see work happening. This can be driven by difficulty dealing with abstraction or generalized trust issues.
They don't have a good home life. For a lot of people home is unpleasant and work is a respite. That respite has been taken away by a large, sudden societal shift.