Well this certainly hits me hard. I had the opposite happen. I was with a woman who was very staunchly “no kids.” And while we were dating, I was on the fence about having kids. All the reasons, they cost too much money, too much time, the environment is being destroyed, what kind of future will they have, I can hardly take care of myself, how can I take care of them?

So I told her, “I could go either way and be happy. Kids, no kids, no big deal.” And that was true at the start of our relationship. But after a decade… Well before we got married I broke down one evening, real drunk, and told her that I really did want to have a child with her, and that if we couldn’t have a child, then whenever we can afford it, I’d like to adopt. She told me she didn’t want to have kids, but would consider adoption. we decided to put a pin in it, get married, and talk about it again later.

Well this time it was her turn to change her mind, because after being married 2 years we have the conversation again and this time the only kid she’d be willing to “adopt” would be a gay teenage run-away. Like if a family kicked a kid out of their house for being gay, she’d be willing to bring them in. And I’m just like… I pictured adopting a child, like a 4-6 year old at the most? So now it was big decision time, and I had to make one.

She didn’t want to make me unhappy by us never having kids, and I didn’t want to make her unhappy by forcing her to have them. So what did we do? Us, two people who loved each other unconditionally? We split up. And it was the hardest, most awful thing I’ve ever had to do.

I’m just now getting over the relationship enough to start dating again (just took me five fucking years), and now I feel like I may be too old to have kids! I’m 39 now, and I know guys can have kids anytime, but I want to be able to play with my kids, be present in their lives, be a fun dad. well at this rate I’ll be mid 40’s before I’m ever teaching a kid to ride a bike, and good god then I’ll have to work until I’m dead just to make sure the kid has a chance at a happy life.

I just don’t understand how people just “have” kids. Like, zero forethought, zero planning.

At this point, I think I should just find a cute single mom because I just don’t feel like I have time anymore to build a family from scratch

Oh so they all admit it IS A FUCKING BRIBE THEN? GODDAMNIT FUCK EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE SLIMY FUCKS

How can anyone be working for ice and not think

*reject

I dunno man, just look at ol’ rudie guiliani and mike lindell (the pillow guy). They’re both broke as shit, ruined their lives. Now all they have left is grift

I misread the headline and thought it was a cautionary statement, explaining that elon musk was going around “woo-ing” at people, and you should (under no circumstances) “woo” back.

Thought I was going to see a crack appear on the driveway, that’s what I was watching originally. Then it happened and I was like “What? The driveway stood still and the rest of the Earth just lurched forward?” Holy shitballs

I would take a “Weekend at Bernies” Bernie Sanders over literally any moderate DINO the DNC will push on us. I don’t care if he’s 99 and on a ventilator, put that man in office so we can finally join the rest of the civilized world with universal healthcare.

The everything is already awful enough without us having to carry around a device that connects us to all the awful everywhere we go.

nobody would care

Information Overload. The march doesn’t matter. The people who did the upsetting thing have already gone on to do several more upsetting things by the time we’ve started marching against the first one. The people reporting about the upsetting thing miss the point but it doesn’t matter because nobodies actually paying attention, it’s just fluff on in the background. The white noise we need to go about our day maintaining some false sense of “staying up to date” when it’s impossible to do. The torrent of information comes from all over the globe and never stops growing. Even if everything is suddenly perfect in your neighborhood, city, state, or country, it doesn’t matter because there’s a genocide somewhere else, and the pope died, and there’s a famine and a new study that says the sweet treats you like are going to kill you and the stock market is down but it’s back up by the time you check and you should’ve bought the dip so you could actually retire but you were too busy ignoring a TV while looking at bad news on your phone and eating a sweet treat because nothing feels real anymore and you just need a hit of dopamine before you start panicking and reach for the gun in the nightstand to put a bullet in your brain because at least the bullet will be real and the silence afterwards won’t be temporary.

I understand the abhorrent history of church run schools, but what did Pope Francis, specifically, do to garner such hatred from you? He’s been the most liberal pope we’ve ever had? Celebrating the previous popes death, I get, but Francis?

Because he is so damned competent. A true leader that cares about his crew, and who respects life and people. He’s a student of history, an amateur archeologist, and he has his own damn saddle.

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We’re all still allowed to like Harry Potter

I was specific.

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I mean, don’t buy new HP stuff, you can find it used literally everywhere (or just sail the high seas). I just said it’s OK to enjoy it, not give that cunt more money.

Shit, man, I still refuse to eat chik filet.

yeah, zero interest in supporting kamala “keep arming isreal” fucking harris again.

financially supporting someone who is actively dismantling our government at the whim of an increasingly authoritarian traitor is quite a bit different then enjoying a michael jackson song when it comes on the radio, or re-reading/watching harry potter.

This is why I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch all the new Star Wars stuff. Or all the new Lord of the Rings stuff. Or all the new Marvel stuff. It’s just all a fuckin hokey cash grab. However, there are still a LOT of new things coming out that are great. I watch a new (to me) movie just about every night, and there’s been some real gems.

being a jk rowling fan*

We’re all still allowed to like Harry Potter, just like we’re still allowed to dance to Michael Jackson songs