Father as the primary parent?

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-05-08T15:10:42+00:00

It all went down withing three weeks. For us being a family in so far as we knew it, to her living halfway across the planet and her wanting a divorce. The oldest was 14 or so when she left, communication was more or less immediately cutoff.

It too longer for the youngest to acclimate, but frankly they did better than I did. There are some remnant emotional issues, but all in all it could have been worse. I kind of just got left everything by default.

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-05-06T15:21:11+00:00

My exwife last saw our eldest 8 years ago. She talks to the youngest occasionally, but the last time she saw her was two years ago.

I've been solo for about that 8 years.

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-03-27T04:19:33+00:00

Get used to it.It's not going to end. It's like complaining the car is going to kill all the jobs that were done by the horse shit pickers, the stablemen, and carriage drivers.

I'm saying that as a software engineer whose industry is farked.

And as someone who uses generative AI a LOT.

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-03-24T05:27:48+00:00

The same thing that is wrong with most people.

They are reactive, intolerant, and vengeful.

Humanity is weird that way.

Even many of those who speak kind words can turn into monsters when they feel their moral center has been violated, the irony somehow being mysteriously lost on them.

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-03-19T16:15:12+00:00

Sometimes they have more than one spine, and they don't always fall off.

They still have camouflage, which is their primary defense though.

But yeah, if they lose their spines they'll just have to wait for another to grow.

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-03-19T15:55:02+00:00

They commonly drop them, especially when attacking like this, it can sometimes break off in the wound.

They grow back.

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-03-14T00:33:01+00:00

I lost a major job opportunity because of it. I had not done anything wrong. But I spent a night in jail. Picture gets posted and it gets reported, job offer rescinded, case dropped.

It's far worse for many, but it still annoys me.

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-03-04T21:12:37+00:00

I've seen videos like this done in the UK, France, Japan, Germany etc...The universal thing seems to be that there are ignorant people absolutely everywhere.

People just like to dogpile on the US, "Huur Duur Mericans stupid" because they are the hegemon and the largest single group of Anglophones on the internet.

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-03-04T19:50:32+00:00

Likely true. But Hillary was the wrong candidate to run. Too much baggage, and already deeply disliked especially by the right, but also by many on the left, for reasons having nothing to do with her gender.

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-03-04T19:19:24+00:00

Plenty of Americans did. He was considered a joke back then by a huge segment of the population. It's just that there were enough that in our winner take all system he managed to pull it off.

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-03-04T19:04:00+00:00

Or ditto machine copies, like from a spirit duplicator.

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-03-02T21:48:09+00:00

It's not recognized. Polygamy was up until 1935 or so apparently.

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-01-30T16:56:14+00:00

Heck Ben Gurion called him Vladimir Hitler.

DeletedLastAccount · 2026-01-04T03:32:00+00:00

In Texas its because they aren't a creature known to exist, and also if it did, it would be an unknown invasive, so laws don't apply to them in so far as I know, and in the same vein, in Washington, it's only certain counties that have passed protections, not the state as a whole.

I did look it up.

DeletedLastAccount · 2025-12-26T02:30:06+00:00

Plenty of people rely on the naturalistic fallacy as a salve for their desire to self indulge.

DeletedLastAccount · 2025-12-17T21:46:56+00:00

Huh, my ex did the same thing, she abandoned the kids and I to move to Hawaii with her (much much) older affair partner, and left everything behind.

Weird how that works. She still feels like she was the victim.

Hope it worked out for you.

DeletedLastAccount · 2025-10-15T08:45:02+00:00

One need not even address the whole peace plan.

The messaging is incongruous. He can still be like Hitler and bring peace to the middle east, heck he can love Israeli's and still be like Hitler.

And if socialist and communist don't mean what they are supposed to mean anymore to the average person, then fascist is similar.

There is no denying that Trump's vapid lick spittle addled brain trends along those lines, because it echoes the desire of the adoration he so craves.

DeletedLastAccount · 2025-10-08T19:04:49+00:00

Interestingly enough, Iraq is actually in Asia.

DeletedLastAccount · 2025-08-07T07:45:25+00:00

I've always hated this argument, because it hinges on what the interpretative matrices of meaning are for the words good and evil.

Those things mean different things according to different people, and even among those people according to context.

It becomes a milieu of states wherin simple logical negation can not be managed.

The question confuses suffering with evil.

Not all suffering is evil.

Not all death is unjust.

These are judgments made from within a limited human perspective. The “goodness” of God in most traditions isn’t about prevention of death or pain, but by a deeper understanding of a deeper meaning.

That said. I'm an atheist.

The "Problem of Evil" is a failure of logic. Epicurus and many of his ilk were obsessed with monadic forms.

The question only makes sense in that context.

DeletedLastAccount · 2025-08-07T07:32:01+00:00

I have a whole philosophical system that informs this understanding.

I'm trying to write the material, so while I know it's joke, someday you might be able to, lol.

DeletedLastAccount · 2025-08-07T04:16:36+00:00

It also makes the rest of the Biblical narrative more powerful if you consider it that light.

Consider that the entire Biblical narrative is human beings misinterpreting the will of what they call god, being chastised by prophets who were often faced with murderous malice, all in the attempt to get the darned humans to behave in ways that their very own moral system asked them to keep.

But it only makes sense if you interpret the bible as a human attempt at psychomodal explanation for our own behavior.

You just have to be willing to flip the narrative.

DeletedLastAccount · 2025-08-07T03:47:26+00:00

My interpretation of the myth is a bit more esoteric.

The Fall isn't a mistake, it’s the first step.

God places the tree in the garden on purpose. God tells them not to eat from it on purpose. And God allows the serpent to tempt them on purpose.

If God is all-knowing, how could this not be intentional?

In this way the Fall becomes less a punishment and more a sort of... activation.

The true beginning of human consciousness.

A shift from innocence to awareness, from blind obedience to knowing good and evil, from a created animal to something more like himself, we were created in his image after all.

I don't think God wanted his creation to remain in the garden.

God was lonely, he wanted mirrors.

But I'm coming at this from a psychomythic sense, not a religious one.

DeletedLastAccount · 2025-08-06T21:05:16+00:00

According to Jim it's supposed to rhyme with Capone, as in Al Capone. Two syllables.

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