So you don’t have an answer then? You could just say that.

What do you propose I do? I already said I’m fucking broke. I have no space of my own to do hobbies. I can’t afford to travel. I go out with my friends a couple times a month and that kills my spending budget because everything is expensive now. I just had to buy a laptop and get my car worked on (again because I don’t have a space of my own to do it myself) and just that wiped out six months of savings. How can I think about anything but money when if I take my eye off the ball I’ll be fucked?

It’s not wealth I’m after. It’s security. I want to be able to reach a point in my life where I don’t have to give 50+ hours of my time every week to some fucking company that doesn’t give a shit about me just to barely scrape by on rent and groceries. I can’t do that from where I’m so I have to save money wherever possible and build my career. Congrats to the guy I responded to for finding someone willing and capable of providing for him but most of us aren’t going to be so fortunate.

You are.

The main problem being that they’re cheapskates and won’t lift a finger for anything not directly benefitting themselves. They don’t know how to cook, and learning anything unrelated to their jobs is seen as a “waste of time”

Maybe they’re stuck trying to get ahead in their career and don’t have the mental energy to focus on anything else. Most single dudes I know are focused on their careers because where they’re at doesn’t meet their needs or isn’t enough to meet their goals even if the goal is as simple as just owning a home and be able to retire someday.

I’m currently a stay at home husband who does all the cooking, cleaning and dishes.

Easy to throw stones when you’re not the one responsible for keeping the lights on.

EDC, I want to talk about cool gear.

Yeah, in practice the death penalty doesn’t work because the justice system is both fallible and corrupt but if we could somehow eliminate those problems some people are certainly deserving of it.

No, but if we lived in a fantastical star trek society where everyone had the resources they needed to do the things they wanted to do… Yes.

The flip side being the rest of society providing support for you to pursue your lifes work. If it’s just you struggling along on your own then you should be able to make sure you’re getting paid.

I’m fine.

I honestly could not tell. It’s completely believable that something this stupid would exist. Like I didn’t necessarily believe it was but I wasn’t confident in either direction.

I use frozen berries to flavor my proats. They cancel out the weird tang from the protein powder. So far the only thing I’ve found that works and healthier than sugar anyway.

Not at Applebees. That place is terrible. I’d rather eat McDonald’s.

Yea I’m not using anything that requires an app. If there’s an app I can host myself I might use it but I won’t rely on anything that can’t be controlled manually. The place I rent now has ceiling fans that are controlled by remote and I fucking hate them. It uses a shitty up/down button that has a horrendous delay or both the light and fan. It’s all the frustration of using a pull chain with no improvement. I can’t even figure out how to get it to switch directions for winter.

Yeah I had sex in parks, random construction sites, parking lots, etc. It was really stupid but I cared more about getting laid than not getting arrested. Parents think by having open door policies or whatever it will stop it from happening but at best it delays the inevitable. A better course would be educating them to know the risks and how to be safe.

Even if you’re not comfortable with it. Do you want it to happen in the safety of your home or in a hopefully empty parking lot behind a building somewhere? Teenagers who want to fuck each other will find a way to do it.

If it came from stealing actual artists’ work then I hate it. If they somehow generated it using all fairly sourced data then I don’t care. Still would prefer an actual artists work and I’d certainly never knowingly pay for something generated by AI.

I wait til I’m sleepy which is usually around 10ish. If it’s the weekend I push through that and squeeze out as much free time as possible but I wouldn’t say it feels good usually around 1-2 am I actually feel pretty shitty to the point I have a hard time getting to sleep.

I have a friend that does this for me. I don’t pay them but it does work surprisingly well. I’m grateful that they’re understanding about my social anxiety issues and allow me to reject some of their invites without cutting me out in the future.

I’m not a psychologist or whatever to say how long but the dad should get as much leave as the mother does to help deal with all the new baby shit and bond with the child.

You should take all the time you can get. Fuck other people’s expectations.

Our IT sent out a test once that was a fake “someone sent you this document on teams” link and I fell for it assuming it was another stupid microsoft workflow for sharing documents. The only reason I didn’t actually hit the log in part that would have got me reported was because I didn’t care enough about whatever it was that was supposedly sent to me.