Ugh all these American pronunciations are making me feel very stupid. I’m saying kregg out loud and then Crayg and they sound exactly the same.

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I can spot AI images 75% of the time. 🧠 Can you beat me? realitycheckk.com

The stars ones beat me every time. How can that many stars be a real photo?? Long exposure blah blah blah

I hear you, And heck even pull out is pretty effective. Mix that with one actual contraceptive and you’re basically golden. Unintended pregnancies aren’t that hard to avoid.

I still think your comment sucks. Basically implies poor people don’t deserve to have children, and the literal driving force of our species should be reserved as a luxury for people who can afford to have one adult not work.

The hours taking care of children thing seems very small to me as well, but there was a lot less to raising kids back then.
Parents weren’t expected to participate in educational or self-esteem raising play specifically for their kids. Sure, playing blocks with my daughter is better than scrubbing on a washboard, But it’s not something I would pick to do without her. Parents are spending way more time with their kids than they were in the '70s, so I can’t imagine how much of what we would consider neglect today was happening in 1900. It’s still a chore. This is about time, not difficulty. I’m not arguing that things aren’t better now. I’m just arguing that we don’t have a lot more time.

And I don’t know if you manage your household, but scrolling on Amazon for the thing you need sucks. I don’t like doing it, and it absolutely counts as a chore. I wish it was someone else’s job. I’m not saying it’s hard, but it is not leisure. Emptying and filling the dishwasher are both very easy tasks, but they’re not leisure. Our chores are way easier, but they still occupy a crazy amount of time considering how little time we have. Part of that is because our houses are bigger which is definitely nicer, but part of why our houses are bigger is because our communities are smaller/ non-existent.

It’s all trade-offs, but frankly I’m pretty sick of the argument that because things are better than they were in the past. We should all just be happy and satisfied with things that are crappy.

Immediate edit: And saying that shopping is a leisure activity so it’s not work… I don’t think they’re talking about going out window shopping downtown in the chore section. Pretty sure they’re just talking about household management shopping. I’m surprised that has gone up, except for when you add travel… That’s commute. I’m 0% surprised that has gone way up.

Yes! If society wants any firefighters, teachers, doctors, artists, whatever 30-50 years from now, parents and children of today need better community support, mental health resources, and better free education

A lot harder to agree with this statement when the abortion laws have regressed so much so recently.

Oddly, though the work type has changed, there’s only about 5 hours less a week of housework than there was in 1900. Heck that’s less then 45 minutes a day difference, even with everything you mentioned.

I agree the work is far less physically demanding, but modern standards dictate about the same amount of time burden, the difference lies mainly in that men have picked up 13 more of those hours a week, and that it’s more rare for only one adult to work outside the home.

https://www.nber.org/digest/oct08/hours-spent-homemaking-have-changed-little-century?page=1&perPage=50

I think it’s more likely that people saw their parents or grandparents living on a single income, so between two people there was a lot more “free” time. When one adult is managing the home, and the other is making money, both get to be more off duty after work. The grocery shopping, meal prepping, social calendar finagling, and cleaning were happening simultaneously with the money making job.

Managing a household is a whole ass job and a lot of people are expected to do it on top of their day job and that’s why we feel like we have no time. I don’t think we’re comparing ourselves to celebrities, just our own family members.

I think they mean it’s a cop out for people to say “parents need to parent” as a solution. The solution is “society needs to provide more support to parents.” Parenting your kids was a lot more possible when one income covered the fiscal needs of the household.

They’re doing a job of removing the bread already - huge benefit cuts from the most vulnerable among us

One important list I have is Things lent Lent to me, lent from me. Money is something I need to write down or I will NEVER remember. I mean I will forget I lent a thousand dollars. I have forgotten. But then I found my list! Unfortunately I just found an envelope labeled $1,210. But now it has $1010 in it. I know I lent out the thousand to my mom for a quick thing and she paid me back, but then what happened to the 200? Did I accidentally give it to her with the 1k? Did I take it out for something else?

If I don’t write it down, I genuinely will not remember.

Thank you for sharing this! A good read.

We just did this tonight! We kind of meta role play though. Like tonight he said something like we should play message parlor sometime and then instead of doing it, it was like “yes, you’d be like, I need to relieve this tension” and he says, “yeah, I’d go up your leg just a little too far at first” like we’re fooling around and writing a script together but not actually being the characters, we’re just ourselves discussing what we’d do if we were playing massage parlor?

Wait, is that just dirty talk? He was acting out the motions, but that’s how we take the pressure off the acting part of it

If we’re changing the title it should also just say over MAGA comments. What he said had very little to do with Kirk, and was just slamming MAGAts

Yeah how do you even know when someone has blocked you?

We did the audiobooks of the expanse and loved them!

Jokes on them, my therapist doesn’t take notes. She’s not very good

I’d give up my just cousin for free if he’d gone on Jan 6.

That’s nuts, you’ve never heard anyone tease about green chat bubbles? Never heard the joke “I don’t talk to poor people”? Didn’t see all that stuff blow up extra when the air pods came out?

There are plenty of crunchy granola moms who only let their kids play with wooden toys, regardless of age. Yes, your parents’ generation does affect your upbringing, but it sounds like your buddy had unusual parents regardless of age.