Melonius

Bidens fat poops are for imperial citizens ONLY. Sorry China you gotta find the right gut microbiome and manufacture it yourself if you want in on the secret sauce.

We usually stick to more expensive lactaid milk or plant based milks for the kids for the longer expirations and dodging lactose intolerance issues. The price difference is pretty big but worth the convenience IMO.

Daycare is incredible there were a few days we had just one kid+baby in the house over the holidays and its exhausting when they don't have anyone else with their same energy levels to play with

The borderlands game Tiny Tina's wonderland or w/e had this AND it wouldn't reset the sound to your preferences until the main menu loaded every time.

I remember nothing else about this game other than the permanent ear damage I suffered.

I really appreciate how easy this book is to go through, and how gentle it is for men even though I dont feel like a lot of men deserve that kindness (maybe myself included)

1. my initial biggest takeaway was just how pervasive patriarchy is in all things. Its inescapable, even when the source is unintentionally perpetuating it. Realizing that family, society, media pushed masculine expectations on to me, whether intentionally or not, has made me have to reexamine a lot of my personality that I feel is pretty foundational in who I am. Maybe not always negatively, but they are parts of me that I accepted uncritically because I was supposed to, not because I wanted to.

Its also much more clear how very strongly intertwined capitalism and patriarchy are. Being emotionless beasts who give pats on the head to good performance and unbridled unempathetic anger to missing expectations is a perfectly binary cog in the profit machine. Everything that makes us human gunks up the machine, so as long as we can put on our Man Mask at work were doing a great job. Women are expected to do this too, if they want to advance.

2. Finding out all this so late in my life is a little crushing but I can at least try to raise my kids without those toxic expectations. I have already had to talk to my parents about how they interact with their grandchildren and Im positive it will get more complicated as they age. Something that has helped me is labelling my emotions in front of my kids and partner. Instead of falling back on anger or more commonly some cold emotionless numbness, I try to say "That made me feel sad." I also try to check in on other peoples feelings because I will usually notice when someones in a certain mood but I try to dance around it rather than engage with it - even good moods.

3. Elephant in the room question - reading all the struggle session posts makes me feel guilty even though I rarely post and dont think i've posted anything hugely reactionary, but dwelling on it some more I think being silent is part of the problem. I have seen some misogynistic posts on here and just kept moving on. I think all users should make it a point to correct them or at least tell the user to clarify what they said as it comes off mysogynistic or promotes toxic masculinity. And at least reporting the stray hitlerites that wander in from other instances.

That being said this site is really great and we can always do better. I feel like I don't have a lot of ways we as a community can improve without everyone saying theyll try to carry some of the mental load we leave to the power posters and mods.

Thanks for hosting this the book is great for rereading and dewormed my brain a lot. I wish I could have been more active but I did appreciate reading everyone elses comments.

Other replies cover it better, but I tend to fall back on a little toxic stoicism for coping. Climate change isn't going to be a light switch, things will change over time. You, me and our children are going to adapt to it. My middle kid is happy with a bowl of rice and running around outside, if we need to adjust to digging an underground mud hole while eating tree roots, well still eek out a good time somehow.

But nothing happens in decades

Whoa!

Its been baking for decades but it will be the primary focus of the next financial crisis.

Many of these defaults have involved so-called distressed loan exchanges. In such deals, loan terms are changed and maturities extended as a way of enabling a borrower to avoid bankruptcy, but investors are paid back less.

These distressed exchanges operate in a legal grey area and intentionally favor larger lenders. Smaller lenders will be exchanged in to new loans with haircuts and no collateral while the majority lenders get new secured debt. As defaults rise this will continue to contribute to more centralization and accumulation by the largest firms. Typical infighting among the clergy in their religious institutions.

Lil conspiracy brain for me but liberalism relies on pushing the end of history narrative. Convince people that what's happening now is part of the normal operating time loop so they can go back to brunch is a much more effective way for them to defuse this than rehashing the "do you condemn hamas" garbage

No, I go to work because I live in a free country. I also need to pay for healthcare, rent, and to not starve to death but that is ancillary. They go to work because they are trying very hard to convince us that its not worse over there, but they are not free. If they don't, something worse than being homeless and starving will happen to them, because they must already be homeless and starving. This is all being orchestrated by a complicit and brainwashed populace.

Its all very straightforward if your mind is a penrose triangle like mine

Didn't even know they did a movie version of going postal, I really like moist as a character.

Love the hogfather. They did teatime almost like I imagined him when I read it.