She would probably have to get a second job to support them which means she would never see them and she would be working all the time and miserable.

Having a kid costs so much money it's hard to explain even to my parents one of whom was a grant writer and nonprofit organizer for children's healthcare.

If you don't have at least $50,000 in the bank that you could spend without suffering you're not ready for what the hospital is going to do to you. We have totally fucked this whole country up.

But we need new people here. We don't necessarily need Americans to make them. Plenty of people see what we do here and come here anyway. They are willing and ready to make the kind of sacrifices necessary have another generation of their family, and we generally as a society are benefiting from their ambitions to do that.

I don't understand how so many people can be so pro-birth and anti-human at the same time, but I don't begrudge people who run the numbers and say the math doesn't math and so abstain from having children.

I know American families that are spending that much a month. It's really wild how expensive they have made it to have kids at the same time that all of the free outdoor stuff we used to do with our parents now costs money and is far further apart.

It encourages foreign divestment which is good if you are in the crowd that thinks that trade is bad.

It also leads directly to rapid inflation as those dollars once used for trade are now sitting idle in the money pool. Rapid inflation is good if you own monopolies on essential goods like housing, fuel, groceries, and medical care as it provides cover for you to raise prices and decrease quality.

Also, with rapid inflation it becomes easier to hide graft and extortion in the government and maybe go after people like Powell for cost overruns on projects that could never have predicted that you would tank the economy.

Stuff only burns for so long. We might learn more about the geometry of space and that there is more out there at greater distances where maybe even other Big bangs are possible but there is a certain maximum amount of time that a star can exist.

Over the time scales of the life of a proton the maximum variability in the amount of time a star can burn is a rounding error against the scale of numbers needed to express the amount of time it takes for hawking radiation to reduce black holes to ultra long wavelengths of infrared radiation.

Some people's parents didn't teach them to fear and respect the escalator.

One of the best bosses I ever had was a Korean man who was very religious and yet very kind. He made a similar comment to me once. I was on my lunch break and he came to me to talk about work stuff, I was watching the clock and when my lunch break was up I went to punch in. When I sat back down he commented about how it looked like I was only there for the money.

It was a good job but I don't feel comfortable speaking other than the truth even for niceties so I leveled with him.

"This is a good job, and I am here for the money. I do respect you and I respect your time but I have bills to pay and I have already been warned about going over 40hrs on the time clock to complete rush cases on Fridays. If we are going to be a team and we're going to work together then you need to understand that I share a two bedroom apartment with three people and none of us can afford a car. You came to me on my lunch break to talk about CNC equipment and I was about to run out of time on my lunch break so I clocked back in. This is a work conversation so I don't feel out of line and doing that. Is this not a work conversation?"

He was a little shocked but respected it. It opened up a line of dialogue and a relationship that I felt was quite meaningful. In the following years he and I had a lot of awesome conversations. I miss that dude. I stayed with the company until just after they fired him and then the company went to shit.

Silimar, I had a teacher ask us to write down the first animal that came to mind and I wrote, "wolf spider" because to an 8 year old, there are few more bad ass sounding animals.

She said "really? That's the First animal you think of?" Eye roll

Me: looks down at doodles of giant spiders battling tanks that shoot lightning, "it's the only animal I'm thinking of right now..."

They might just choose to ignore you. They do that you know.

Sovereign immunity

This is the first step, the next one is buying those farms when the farmers default and then the final step is rich people gobbling up all of this property to turn it into factory farmland.

During the transition we're going to see Americans starve. Some of us will die but that is a sacrifice they are willing to make for more profits.

"Will the things help?"

"No the ones that help will be illegal"

Yeah when I was a kid my dad used to say, "If everywhere you go, you're surrounded by asshole, you need to take your head out of your ass."

I'm a long haired freaky people and have been for almost 40 years but I found my hair is healthier if I rinse it regularly, wash it once or twice a month and condition it at the same time.

I use Nizoral AD (some almost medicated antindandruff thing) and Head and shoulders conditioner twice a month at most.

I still have my long luxurious hippy hair and I'm told there is no recession yet so I got that going for me.

I said almost this exact same thing to my dad, a 72-year-old man with a political science degree, and I saw genuine surprise wash across his face before he said to me, "huh. That's a good point." We just sat there with it for a minute.

He's generally a pretty thoughtful guy but something about that generation doesn't lend itself to independent reasoning especially if that contradicts conventional wisdom or popular ideology.

Maybe they need regime change... And freedom. We should liberate Israel. There's even an insurgent group we could fund for our proxy war against the mad regime.

I guess game of thrones will be grandfathered in?

This one policy is better in this extremely superficial description.

Neither country has workers rights on par with Europe for example.

We should let the Democratic party choose a person through a primary to run for president and then allow that person to run for president.

If a woman makes it through that process on her own merits then the party will probably vote for her.

If on the other hand a woman is selected because she's a woman who will cooperate with the donors and they decide to skip that process or subvert it in some way then you probably won't win.

They will cater more and more to each other until they turn inward and start hoarding and rearranging resources into their compartmentalized cocoons while they attempt to transform their empires into launch pads that will let them escape the planet like some sort of fungal spore to infect and consume another world.
They will fail to develop a way to sustain humans off world and will leave behind a polluted hellscape of toxic nonsense and dysfunction.

I hope someone still has the resources to pour concrete over the entrances of these billionaire fallout shelters when the front finally falls off the whole yacht.

Paid : give money for

Payed: nautical term meaning to let out some slack on the rope or to cover the deck in tar/pitch for sealing it