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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
Low effort / spam videos might be removed, especially weeb content.
There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.
A weekly watch party happens every Saturday (Sunday down under), with video nominations Saturday-Monday, voting Monday-Thursday. See the pin for whatever stage it's currently in.
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I've had the opportunity to foster twice in my life and both times are some of the happiest I've been. I'm gearing up for a run at permanent adoption in the next few months because I think kids are absolutely amazing and I want the opportunity to raise someone from childhood to adulthood in order to share everything about life that is good.
I've got friends who are in the teaching field, and they regularly give me some wild stories. But the worst things they inevitably come back on are the administration hurdles and the idiotic bureaucracies. The kids are always the reason they stay in the field. They love the kids, even the rough cut ones. They even like the parents, more often than not.
Having kids is an amazing, life changing experience that transforms you and gives you the realiest opportunity to connect with other people and transform the world around you. The fact that we treat it as some kind of luxury, rather than a fundamental part of life, is a tragedy that's reflected in the hollowing out of the nation.
Good on you, comrade. Providing a safe and loving house to an adopted child that needs a family is something I deeply respect.
Being a dad has been the most fulfilling aspect of my life for a long time. I wish you the best of luck and nothing but joy.
I don't have words this good to say but I just wanted to echo this.
I love being a dad. It feels like the most important and fulfilling thing I've ever done and I love my kid more than life itself. The only thing I'd change about it IS doing it under capitalism. Childcare costs, having to do a religious preschool because secular ones are even MORE expensive, my wife and I both having to work full time jobs (often with decent length commutes) and not feeling like we get enough time at home with him.
None of these are inherent to parenthood they're inherent to capitalism.
I’d love to have kids if I could afford to properly take care of them. But I sadly cannot.
it's not thanksgiving or christmas dinner, you're not by bf's christian parents/grandparents, why are you birthsplaning natalist propoganda at me?
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bro it isnt a "fundamental part of life", its just that you are a caring and responsible parent who understands the gravity of what it means to raise a child to adulthood and accepts it wholeheartedly
raising kids should not be seen as a way of finding meaning for the sake of finding meaning, its someone elses life in your hands, meditation, prayer, and shitposting also exist
idk man he kind of implied it overall by saying: