There are plenty of families where it's working out great.

Worthless? Do you know how important a good burger is? It's one of the small pleasures in life that make everything else more tolerable. I will always hold good burger flippers in high regard. And if you're a good burger flipper you can hold your head high knowing you've made someone's day just a little better by making a tasty burger for them.

I would be devastated. I'm so sorry...

It's probably true on average. As you get older, chances are some of the things you fought for when you were younger are now the new normal, and further change is something you're more skeptical about.

But definitely not something that's going to apply to every individual, plus when the world is mostly regressing as it is right now, the whole effect should disappear.

It’s a waste of money and a bs poster for what your life should be. F kids.

This thread you created was actually very important to me. Now I know for a fact that safe spaces aren't bullshit. You expressed your opinions that are very controversial and lemmings accepted them, it resonated. I especially agree that tons of lies ingrained on us takes a toll to break

And it's hard on the body and the culture is super toxic just like the materials and environments you may be subjected to.

I'd still love my kid if they became a maniac killer. I would feel so guilty as the parent. I would dedicate my life to anonymously making the victims' lives better. I wouldnt protect the kid from legal justice. I would turn them in myself the moment I knew. But I would still love them. Because if I don't love my kid as a maniac killer, who would? I'm not saying it would be easy.

I love my kid unconditionally. At least I believe I do. I can say lots of things.

We were learning Roman numerals in elementary school and the teacher made us work out the current year.

I was the first one to correctly work out "MCMXCVIII" only to be quite smugly told by the teacher that you can just do "IIMM". It took more than a decade until I learned that he was full of shit and my answer was the only correct one.

Basketball was invented well after the slaves were freed. Basketball came on the scene in 1891 (Juneteenth was 1865).

I still don’t have square eyes even though I was sitting in front of screens my whole life.

Also “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger“ is really bad advice.

US Football is a little more complicated than, say, hockey.

All you really need to know to enjoy hockey (other than the good guys need to put the puck in the other guys' net) is the blue line. There are more rules than that, obviously, but once you understand that, the stoppage and player behaviors in hockey make a whole lot more sense.

In football, you've got four downs to go 10 yards at a time. You get six points for ending up in the end zone, and then you can either kick between the posts for one point, or try again for two points (not six points this time). You can kick between the posts at any time, too (but it'll only get you three points). Sometimes, they just kick the ball way up and out to the other team. One of the teams can grab onto the opposing players, but not like that, except sometimes that's OK, but never like that. Also jets flyover and a bunch of people play music in the middle of the field. 😵‍💫

Not all parents. Some were teachers (the Spots on tongue and the Maximise window)

Billiards too, but there are more destination options.

I hate to be that guy because I pretty much agree...

But the immaculate conception refers to Mary's birth.

I know, it's weird. I know, it doesn't make sense.

But who was Jefferson.

Someone who owned human beings as property? Someone who raped at least one of those humans and then (at least for a time) enslaved the resulting four children?

Yeah, sorry if I don't see him at a moral paragon

I imagine it has to do with all of the sexual assault that they deal with regularly. Just a guess.

And they still haven't decided what the definitions of a catch, pass interference, taunting, unsportsmanlike conduct, roughing the passer, and holding are.

My favorite foul that happens every season: "Personal foul, number 42 Defense, not allowing a Tom Brady (or the star quarterback of the year) touchdown. Half the distance to the goal line. Repeat third down."

In Germany you can, but in France you have to do XIX-C-IV*XX+XIIX
/s

Please don't F kids

"[redacted] your landlord."
Hey, some people manage to pay their rent this way

Yeha we were all kids at same point so don’t say f kids. Instead F the societal expectation of parenthood/natalism. My main reason is that there’s already too many ppl on this Earth and parenthood is hard, very hard with no return policy

True genetics also come into play

I understand that welding takes skill. But I'm more wondering why I've personally talked to several parents/grandparents with kids about to graduate highschool with poor grades - and nearly everyone of those people has said that college isn't the right choice for their kid, so they're going to go into the trades and become a welder.

So far, none of the kids I'm referring to have actually become a welder. Are those family members saying their kid is going to become a welder because of the skill involved at the highest level of the craft? Is welding the blue collar equivalent of becoming an artist?

I grew up with a conservative father who regularly listened to Rush Limbaugh (may he never rest at all). So yeah. All of.... That.

Oddly enough I took a lot of the lies to heart. Like how the government should stay out of people's private lives, like what/how they worship and who they love, which was my gateway out of that kind of thinking. Went to college, traveled abroad, and now I'm just about as radically far left as you can get without circling back around.

My parents heartily believed in honesty. Even regarding mythological figures, they basically said "some people believe in them, some don't" and tried to provide context for me to decide myself whether to believe. My kid hasn't brought this up much but when they do I try to emulate the same behavior.

However, when I was in second grade, my teacher told me there is no such thing as negative numbers. Looking back on it, she was trying to teach remainders. She asked what you would get if you took seven pencils away from five pencils. She intended to say you can't have negative two pencils, which I acknowledge, but that and some other stuff she said and did disillusioned me with public education for a long time.

That's what happens when you do drugs, you end up chasing a dragon, which ends up much worse than running from one.

• Gym teacher, probably

"Conservative" as in hating taxes and loving capitalism

I know I was a kid dumbass but fuck children in general I can’t stand being fucking near them. I wish I wasn’t born. Fucking hate living. So hop the fuck off white knight. I don’t care how hard it is. The military was hard and I don’t fucking bring that up for my bad behavior I stay home. Also fuck pedophiles for the asshole who told me not to f kids.

So sorry the love they had for you was conditional :(

I still have to have that conversation with my parents. It's nerve-wracking!! I need to just rip that bandaid off and be done with it.

What really annoys me about this one is that if there really was a drink that would make you grow breasts, surely it would be regular milk, no? The fluid secreted from the mammary glands of post-partum female mammals?

Don't think you are wrong and having that reaction towards men after being sexual assaulted is in my mind very comprehensible. The bigger problem seems to be generalization actually, saying all men, all women, all people of color, etc, is always stupid. Hope we can all learn and grow even with our traumas and scars we take along the way!

"You won't always have a calculator in your pocket."

Out of all the wrong things I was taught in school... A calculator is probably the least complex thing I have in my pocket at all times.

However, understanding basic math, up to algebra and trigonometry is extremely useful on a daily, if not at least weekly basis.

This is so stupid of that teacher. Because what is debt, if not a negative number? You use $1,400,000 from a bank to get into an entry-level, 50-75yo shitbox of a home in an old neighbourhood which missed gentrification, and what does the bank have on your balance? A negative number that you have to fill back in.

Rent goes up faster than taxes.

And isn’t it fun when rent goes up even when the mortgage does not? And especially when the mortgage is fully paid off?

I was also told that about conservatism. Actually understanding conservatism and capitalism - and how fascism is essentially the corporate state - has bodily yeeted me so far left that I’m two shakes away from being an anachro-communist.

When i was in grade 1 we had to write letters to santa, so i raised my hand and said, "I'm jewish so i know santa's not real, do i still have to do this?" I did, and the teacher assured everyone that santa is real. I was confused and disappointed.

So many.

But also a lot of truths I had to learn the hard way (and being ASD exacerbated this).

Crime does pay. Especially if you’re rich. (Wish: no it should not fucking pay)

No. You don’t have to share. Nobody makes an adult share their car with some rando who shows up to the family bbq like we make kids share their toys with some kid showing up. (No, don’t compare this to taxes, that’s shallow and devoid of nuance)

IMO people are not inherently good. They’re not inherently bad, either. They are often shortsighted, apathetic, and self-serving.

I wish that all the fictional lovely futures we’d imagined when I was a kid were real. Clean cities. Flying cars. Clean power. Space stations. Amazing medical care. The ability for everyone to choose a nice life and what to do with it. We’re getting the opposite.

Worst lie currently: “checks and balances in the US government keep anyone from getting too much control.”

There are a lot more. They’re easier to remember when confronted with them.

Dinosaurs were all green or gray/drab and they all went extinct.

You have a $1.4m home? Dang.

That’s what “starter homes” go for in my region. In CAD, but still.

I have discovered through a decade of my scientific testing, that what matters is keeping the neck and facial edges trimmed.

Nothing else seems to matter.

The entire thing can be a giant sopping wet bag of hairy soup, as long as your cheeks and neck are not scrubby, you're good 👍

Been many ways, I keep my facial hair versus shaving, because I can trim edges in 20 seconds, and shaving is a huge pain

Science has shown that how easily you become wealthy determines how likely you are to shift conservative.

Boomers - in America and Canada, at least - grew up into adulthood during the most expansive period of the middle class in human history. There has never before been a time where someone with an 8th grade education could find high-paying employment and become moderately wealthy off of it with just a few basic financial techniques. It really was stupidly easy to live a comfortable middle-class life. Show salesmen and VCR salesmen could do this without any serious financial stresses.

So yeah. While some resisted the shift right, many did not. They climbed the ladder, and upon reaching the top they pulled the ladder up after themselves and told the younger generations, “fuck you, I’ve got mine”.

Looking up the exchange rate, that's between 3-4x my already rather lavish home, which I'm very grateful to occupy and terrified of losing. Canadians must be doing well. Good for y'all!

And if they are near ovulating, they go freaking bonkers for shaggy facial hair.

Are we of different species?

I let my beard grow out in the winter, it is not thin or patchy in the least, and since my late 20s I have noticed that I get less attention with a beard than without.

Like, I can grow into a full “mountain man” beard, which matches my stature quite well. Yet… nada.

Now granted, I have also been in a singular relationship since my mid 20s, so I have been thoroughly off the market and not interested in the least in catching the attentions of other women. But I’m taken, not dead. I can still observe reactions and always appreciate positive attention; I just won’t act on it.

Was thinking it was called the SEGA Genesis one of my dumb beliefs? That was what I knew it as but both this comment and a video I watched recently about the tower of power both just called it the Mega Drive without any mention of "Genesis" in the entire video.

Lots of bad fumes and dust.

Can’t recall where I saw it, but I have run across a welding helmet that doubled as a respirator for exactly those conditions. Looked kinda like a full-face respirator only with a permanent clear plastic front and a welding mask that was in front of that and could be flipped up. Capable of working with beards, positive-pressure so no shroud needed over the nose and mouth that would otherwise muffle the voice.

Now granted: stupidly expensive. But the filter was on the helmet, not on the back or the waist (no hoses to get in the way). And it had a normal power-tool battery slot with adapters for the common ones like Milwaukee or Bosch.

Amen. Country was always rotten, from the start

I am with you, I think ppl think to literally with that saying and also use it too much... It is dismissive of them if someone tells them about their shity situation and they try to encourage them with "what doesn't kill you...". It also only works for some or takes a lot of time and effort and help for it to make them stronger, I think you should only use it in a jokingly way and nothing else.

Canadians must be doing well.

No, we aren’t. We are just suffering from regulatory capture and really, really wealthy home builders that buy up local politicians like they’re penny stocks.

We desperately need to import the Vienna Model, but then those brainwashed by Cold War era shite will start screaming “communism!!1!”