It doesn’t answer any questions I’m interested in.

I do the basics because I have to budget. Interpreting and understanding statistics are helpful at work. Sometimes I build things, and sometimes math helps.

Some folks have chosen to opt out of the social contract and deny others their right, let alone, safety to exist. What comes back to them, is on them. I won’t take pleasure, or offer them comfort, when those choices come back on them.

He could epicly shit his pants on stage while babbling “Wheels on the bus” and his base would call it election interference, blame the “radical left”, and send Obama the drycleaning bill.

I cut my Mom off. Dad was pretty deep in it too, he’d voted for Regan and Nixon, but he died before I couldn’t take it anymore.

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French food! And uh, rotting whale taint buried in sand for three months, then pickled in shark piss.

I generally think of these as “transformers”, but I call it a power supply. Mostly folks look at me like a Labrador trying to do calculus, and say “You mean a power brick?”

Paranoia is common in mid-late dementia.

Oh no! Surely the plan to force Nazi values on OBGYN’s so effective, it’ll definitely force a value change in educators.

Oklahoma, first in fascism, 4th in grade education level!

You live in Nomand land, and your trying to flex with corn? Sir…

You folks are awesome! Housing, Democracy, fuck yeah!

I’d just clockwork orange the Nazis.

Wouldn’t cousin’s be more okay? Pulling out adds a +1 to once removed.

If your brother was 17, and your mother did this, and a mandatory reporter found out they would be calling CPS - level of abnormal.

Sexual orientation tends to be relatively stable over the life span. Why couldn’t we consider parenting a part of ones orientation? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-019-00195-x

I got a vasectomy at 23, a little over 2 decades ago. I heard the same arguments, but I knew since I was a child that I had zero interest in being a parent.

I think it’s interesting all the folks talking about neurological development, or alluding to wisdom with age. Because we’re on Lemmy, and not somebootlicker MAGA platform, I bet not a single one of those folks would question a 22 year old who said they were gay. Not one damn person would tell you to wait 5 years, or tell you you’re too young, bank your sperm, or you might change with age, or you might meet the right person and become straight for them.

My advice is to be thoughtful, be curious, and ultimately to trust yourself.

Shit colored goggles.

Fuck that, I’d ask if you have more.

Make phone calls.

We have neighbor cat who always wants to come to our yard and start shit with our cat. Said neighbor cat has an odd narrow dark strip under his nose. We call him Hisler, or Der Furrer.