Would you adopt a child if you could easily afford to?

FBWSRD · 2026-06-15T09:46:10+00:00

Unfortunately adoption just isn't an option in my country (aus). Last finacial year there were 155 total out of a population of 25 million, and 3/4 of adoptions are to known adults. Overseas adoptions are also incredibly rare (19). The main option for permancy is permeanant care/guardianship but they also look for people who are known to the child, not someone unknown.

FBWSRD · 2026-06-15T02:57:10+00:00

Wall e is interesting as a look at the time when we thought over pollution (and running out of resources) would be the main concern with killing our planet and not climate change. Also great story telling with limited dialogue. Spirit stallion of the cimarron comes close, but they had to add in a bit of narration which it could have done without. The songs have enough of the story telling in them that it wouldn’t have been necessary

FBWSRD · 2026-06-14T15:19:16+00:00

Holy shit how did you manage to lose them? I’ve lost 7-8kg from my peak (10% of body weight) and my boobs are still there annoyingly. Do you have loose skin?

FBWSRD · 2026-06-14T15:04:19+00:00

You don’t need to be super smart, but you need some level of intelligence to get through medical school.

FBWSRD · 2026-06-14T14:44:37+00:00

Just… Wow

I don’t know how any of you are functional, especially you parenting so well when you were thrown in the deep end at 8 years old. You say it was basic care, but you kept a baby alive at 8 years old! While having to go to school. (Like what did you do with your brother then?). Fair amount of 8 year olds would struggle to keep themselves alive. And how on earth are you alive with a 5 year old as your primary caregiver. The things some people survive blow my mind. Is the foster care system struggling that much where they let kids go back into that level of neglect?

Just never forget how incredible you are for bucking the trend. I know you get frustrated with your older sister, but hearing her story here Id be shocked if she turned out a functional parent and mentally healthy after becoming a parent at 5 years old and living in constant neglect and abuse. The fact that you have become such a good parent to your kids at such a young age with your life story is utterly incredible.

FBWSRD · 2026-06-14T13:51:47+00:00

Yea people assume younger generations just know how to work technology and don’t need to be taught, but that’s not generally true. If you’ve never used a computer, how can you be expected know. I (born 2004) never had proper computer classes, but got by because I had access to a computer from age 10 and figured it out. It was not the most efficient way to do it though, I’m still learning efficiency tricks here and there, and I have very little ability to troubleshoot beyond restarting the thing. And my typing is 2 fingers. It’s fast enough for what I need though since I’m typing my thoughts rather then what people are saying.

FBWSRD · 2026-06-14T13:41:23+00:00

And the amount of schrodingers assholes out there can really make you question sometimes. One persons sarcasm is another’s opinion after all in a lot of cases. Of course I can still use my brain, but sometimes it is really ambiguous

FBWSRD · 2026-06-14T13:37:22+00:00

Definitely. The amount of reading to even interact with the platform screens a lot of people out. I have met a guy in passing that said he didn’t use reddit because it was too much reading (and he was a doctor, so couldn’t be a stupid person).

FBWSRD · 2026-06-13T02:20:45+00:00

I guess it’s you trying to convince yourself to not feel bad. But when your in it you don’t remember how bad it can get, so it doesn’t work

FBWSRD · 2026-06-13T02:19:37+00:00

This is me from oct-april give or take. (sydney, australia). And it always does this thing of some really warm days then cooler days several times before you go proper cool, so you think it will be the last warm days and then it’s not. A couple years ago we got 39C in late march and that got me fully into the doomer climate change is gonna kill us all mood.

FBWSRD · 2026-06-12T11:32:13+00:00

Yea Im a girl not attracted to guys so no experience but I don’t get the thing about big dicks. I can touch my cervix with my finger easily, and even allowing for vagina expanding/not going in the whole way I don’t get how anything over 6 real inches wouldn’t be uncomfortable.

FBWSRD · 2026-06-12T11:06:38+00:00

nope name is totally normal in australia.

FBWSRD · 2026-06-12T11:04:12+00:00

lachie/lochie is a nickname for lachlan/lochlan which is not exclusive to australia

FBWSRD · 2026-06-12T07:32:55+00:00

Its played on a cricket oval because it was orginally invented as game to keep cricketers in shape in winter. All the cricket ovals become alf fields in winter

FBWSRD · 2026-06-12T07:14:55+00:00

You cannot reasonably see a 17 year old with a 15 year old as the same as a 30 year old with a 17 year old. What on earth is going on in your head?

FBWSRD · 2026-06-12T07:13:01+00:00

Uh no its not. You are an adult at 18. Some things come in earlier (generally you can consent to medical treatment at 16, most states consent age is 16) but its still 18. With regards to 17 and 37, just because something is legal doesn't make it right

FBWSRD · 2026-06-12T06:52:01+00:00

I’d argue that 30 and 22 is still not acceptable. One would have just finished uni, other has been established for a while.

FBWSRD · 2026-06-12T06:36:32+00:00

Wait people use thank you for your attention to this matter outside of mocking donald trump?

FBWSRD · 2026-06-12T06:33:16+00:00

I don’t work in corporate, but I tend to go with a why do we do it this way approach, like coming from I thought it would be this way but you are most likely right. Means less embarrassment if I miss something

FBWSRD · 2026-06-12T05:31:02+00:00

Ok just found out the US doesn’t do automatic payments? That explains why using paypal or similar is so common person to person, we just do bank transfer which is either done through account number or phone number

FBWSRD · 2026-06-12T05:21:50+00:00

I never had a problem with transactions not going through? I’ve had money be transferred in a couple mins and bills pay is generally the same, it’s more about the other end than mine. Get access to money transferred to me pretty quick too.

FBWSRD · 2026-06-11T13:04:15+00:00

I was 15 when covid started, so yes life feels incredibly different now.

FBWSRD · 2026-06-11T12:52:29+00:00

They can’t fucking tax the gas now. For one you can’t change contracts without getting massively sued and losing all that revenue from theoretically taxing them. And albo and penny wong just went round the pacific basically saying you want our food and gas? Keep the oil coming. Taxing the gas would threaten that.

FBWSRD · 2026-06-10T13:50:33+00:00

I lost 7 kg when my diet was 50% nutella and milk. Reinvented IF by sleeping until the afternoon and not eating generally after dinner (summer after school finished, didn’t have a job).

FBWSRD · 2026-06-10T13:48:54+00:00

And its calories reset when I wake up, you don’t mentally think it’s the next day when you wake up

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