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Kids Plan Saturday

No AI experiment this time, Silentpoisen hands his seven- and nine-year-old total control of the family's Saturday, and Magpie scores the whole thing like a Congressional Budget Office analyst.

In this episode:

The kids' written agenda includes a literal scheduled item: "10:15am, argue about who gets the blue cup."

A gas station candy trip where "only look" gets legally reinterpreted so hands never touch anything.

"We did not vote for buying," delivered dead straight by a nine-year-old defending the rules.

A herding dog tries to manage a mandatory 4pm family dance party.

The real takeaway…

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