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Cake day: January 13th, 2025

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  • I’ll preface this with I am not a parent and have no interest in child-rearing, so I’m speaking purely from a realm of past experience and some child development statistics I’ve read over the years.

    I’d say absolutely yes, fully knowing and expecting that they probably are planning to have sex. If you haven’t had a talk with them about what that kinda entails, I’d highly recommend doing so, and making sure that they’re practicing safe sex. This might be your kid’s very first time, and it’s very important to instill healthy sexual habits into them. If you’re in the U.S., do not think that their school’s sex education has prepared them in the slightest.

    The last thing you want for your kid is for them to go through an unexpected pregnancy or get an STD. If you teach them to be thorough about protection and consent now, it’ll set them up for the rest of their life.









  • It’s a real pain in the ass for the best source of news about the games I play to either be reddit or Discord, so my options are shit or shit. Sometimes developers post clarifications on game mechanics on the subreddit, and that’s the only source of that information. I wish more companies could understand the benefits of instance ownership, especially considering all of the ongoing issues with social media owners. It’d be great if that kinda news would migrate somewhere better so I could finally ditch reddit permanently, but I’m sure I’ll just eat a ban eventually.





  • This is a struggle I find myself in now. I was very politically active in my youth, and I’m currently looking back on everything I did thinking “wtf was the point of any of it? Should I have just focused on college/employment the whole time? If I did, would I have been in a position to escape?”

    In the past, the big thing that kept me going was my local community. Sure, I never accomplished anything that reached a further stage, but I was at least making my local community better. Eventually though, I was given the opportunity to leave my shitty local community, and I immediately took it. Now I live somewhere great, that fully represents me, to the point that I started taking a step back from politics. No reason to campaign for an opposition mayor if I like my mayor, right? I still go to the monthly town hall meetings, if only to assure myself that things are going well locally, but I’m less vocal. I don’t really need to be, and that’s wonderful, but it’s pushing me to be even less active.

    I’m sure my hometown has gotten significantly worse in my absence though, since visiting family feels like visiting a corpse. Did I even make a difference there, or was it a temporary mirage? What was the point of any of it?


  • I see it as the height of cowardice. If you feel like your life is truly worthless, that it has no value at all, you’re wrong. You can always give your life fighting for a cause you believe in. I continue to live, continue to train, because I wish to die on my feet in battle. If you’re an American like me, I’ve a feeling that battle will be coming very soon. If you aren’t…well the world’s a pretty violent place right now with fascists rising everywhere you look. I’m sure you’ll find a good moment to fight back. Who knows, you might even survive to win, and could change your world enough that hope can live in your heart once more.



  • It’s really weird to strike at my job, because I work at a non-profit who genuinely does great work to help students go to college and university. Probably the worst part about our program is that some of the companies we take money from are shitty, but it’s hard to be mad spending evil money on educating students. They also give me an incredibly generous PTO program, meaning even if I don’t come into work for a day to strike, I’ll still get paid for the day, which seems antithetical to the purpose.

    I’m still not gonna come into work on March 14th, and maybe if I can get all my coworkers to do the same it’ll still feel like a strike, but it’s just a weird situation.