If you need a job, it’s a job to have!

Right? It’s such a petty thing. Yeah, I get not wanting to touch the toilet, but I don’t understand why the burden should be 100% on either gender. Just pay attention to the seat before you use it (regardless of which direction it’s going), do your business, keep it clean, replace the toilet paper when it runs low/out, and we’ll all be fine.

Edit to add. My ex’s ex made a huge deal about the toilet seat. When I first moved in with him, there were stickers that said “PUT THE SEAT DOWN” on the bottom side of it. I thought it was humiliating. I bought some Goo Gone and removed that shit.

It’s because a lot of women “hover.” They don’t want to touch the seat, but also don’t want to use seat covers or lay down toilet paper. Instead, they squat and hover over the seat, which leaves a gap for piss to spill onto. Then for some unknown reason, they don’t take some toilet paper and clean up the pee they leave.

It’s terrible and I can’t understand it.

I’m a woman but I grew up with guys, so I never understood what the big deal was. It’s ingrained in me to check the seat before sitting, as well as to check the amount of toilet paper before going.

Guys have to lift the seat, I have to put it down, so what? I’m washing my hands when I’m done anyway (and I hope others are too), and I’d rather just have to put a seat down than have to wipe someone else’s piss off it (which I have to do in public restrooms, because some women are straight-up animals there.)

Anyone else notice his instance name? It all makes sense.

The pilot program, which starts on Jan. 1 and will run through Dec. 31, is being implemented in six states — New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Washington.

Saved a click. The headline highlights New Jersey because the site is nj.com , but there are more states that will be subject to this crap than just NJ.

Thank you for your sacrifice. That must have been difficult to get through without chucking the book at the wall.

Thank you for clarifying. Women often get tasked with extra emotional labor, so I wasn’t sure which way your post was going at first. I withdraw my downvote and wish you a lovely day!

It’s only the wife’s job if the husband makes calls for her, too. (In a hetero relationship, of course.)

At least, for me. I do and have made calls for partners, and they’ve made calls for me too. I gel best with other introverts, so we take turns when one of us doesn’t have the energy to make a phone call. No need to gender it, it’s what supportive partners do for each other.

Oh snap, you’re right. I saw that earlier today too and thought it was weird.

In b4 bUt YOu dIDn’T aNSwEr thE qUesTiOn

We need some kind of de-Redditing step-by-step manual or something. Lately I’ve been coming across some really silly arguments by people with relatively new accounts, clearly unaware that Lemmy has a different style. Some of the things that fly on Reddit aren’t going to go far here. We know we’re not obligated to play by stupid rules.

It’s somewhere on Pornhub, probably

Now I’m picturing Bob Ross painting Uranus.

Name-calling? From me? Where?

However, the population of the earth increases year over year. At a certain point, we have to stop doing that. How do you feel we should handle that change?

Now this is a better question. I’m sure there can be sophisticated answers, but I feel like a “gestures broadly” at the state of the world can suffice. That is, population increase has been declining, and also many don’t want to bring a child into this world due to worries about the future.

Not to mention, redistribution of wealth would provide more than enough resources for each person. I’d rather take that route than try to control birth rates through artificial limits. But it seems that right now, for many people, just knowing the road humanity is heading down is enough to keep us from reproducing.

You realize not everyone wants to have 10 children, right? A lot of people don’t want any, or are fine with one or two. I grew up in a family of 4 kids and even in the 90s many people thought that was “a lot.” Nice reductio ad absurdum, though. It’s been a while since I’ve seen an example in the wild.

Glad to see you here, I was actually thinking about your situation when I was reading the part about “hidden kids.”

Every step the Chinese government has made here is absurd. Then again, it seems many politicians really don’t see the rest of us as humans, just as a mass to control. I love to see that the young women are like, “Yeah, no, fuck all of this. We’re done with you telling us what to do.”

I’ve got a friend who throws great parties. All around the house, she has dishes and cups filled with pre-rolled joints anyone could just pick and light up.

I’m excited to go to her birthday party coming up.

tradition

Where? 😍

Oh, it’s just Christmas again. Nvm

Which just means wait about a week and try again.

Also not a tech person, but I am an artist. I used to consider going into digital art, but now I’m grateful I didn’t and instead have honed … I guess you can call it “manual” art? As a way to say things I make with my hands? Maybe “analog” or “traditional” art?

Point is, I haven’t seen an AI create a pencil drawing or an acrylic painting. I get the feeling that as people tire of AI generated images, they may find renewed interest in these distinctly human-made art forms. I suppose we’ll have to wait and see. For now, AI may try to steal forms and ideas, but picking up a pencil or a paintbrush and creating something on a canvas are still out of its reach (thank goodness.)