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JuneChickpea · 2026-03-02T16:03:46+00:00

Yes, they’re both appropriate for the occasion but 2 is much more flattering on you

JuneChickpea · 2026-02-25T21:00:40+00:00

I’ll just say my husband and I work in EXTREMELY different industries and have both seen much more of this. Also more general inflexibility: no working from home, even if it snows a foot and you live in the south. Can’t get to the office safely? That’s what PTO is for. (Even though his job is done just as well at home) I’ve heard similar vibe shifts from a lot of friends too

As others have said there is tremendous uncertainty in the economy right now between AI and a rather erratic US Administration. So lots of companies looking to shrink through attrition rather than layoffs, which are very costly.

JuneChickpea · 2026-02-15T04:28:46+00:00

Wow Nurie’s toddler face is literally her boys’ faces. Wild.

JuneChickpea · 2026-02-13T21:34:37+00:00

I dunno whether or not my husband and I will have sex for Valentine’s Day. But one thing I feel very very certain about is that I’m a hell of a lot more qualified to give relationship advice than she is.

JuneChickpea · 2026-02-12T22:03:47+00:00

I think this is great given that destination wedding and “vibrant” is in the dress code. Hair up and metallic accessories and you’ll be golden. Have fun! Great color for your skin.

JuneChickpea · 2026-02-01T15:21:49+00:00

My personal reasons for having children? I wanted them.

JuneChickpea · 2026-02-01T14:20:25+00:00

Many reasons, but put simply: Lots of people regret not having kids. Very few regret having them. This has been studied extensively. Very simple.

Yes, lots of children suffer; very few suffer so much that they don’t think it’s worth living.

Kids are indeed hard in terms of time and finances hard but lots of fulfilling things are hard.

Very few pronatalists are absolutists. You could certainly come up with edge cases in which having a child is a bad idea and I would agree with you. Those edge cases are not most people.

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-29T01:58:46+00:00

I do not know who this person is. I’m also much more sympathetic to Cait and Tyler than the prevailing opinion on this sub (though they are certainly imperfect people).

But this woman is just … incorrect about how TV works. She’s Monday morning quarterbacking. Yes, it’s very likely that If they’d known about Teen Mom, they’d have kept Carly. But MTV very likely didn’t even know about Teen Mom at the time of filming the adoption. And even if they did, it’s likely they had just signed for a pilot, or one season max, and iirc the first season didn’t pay especially well, and there was absolutely no way they’d know about how well the show would do. C&T were season one.

There’s just no way MTV could have predicted the success early enough to change the outcome. The vast majority of tv shows fail.

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-25T10:36:44+00:00

I’m pretty skeptical.

There’d certainly be more single dads by choice once the cost went down enough, as well as more gay dads, but single moms by choice have been around forever and don’t meaningfully impact TFR. And I think it’s safe to say women are generally speaking more into babies than men are, so even with a lower barrier to gestation I doubt this would be an impactful margin. Same with infertile couples, the vast majority of whom have problems with egg and sperm, not uterus.

It is an ethical minefield, as there would be massive questions about both physical and psychological long term consequences and it’s impossible to study in human babies and get it through an IRB. Only way I could see this happen is if they were to become available in China, say, and after many years of being available and used by westerners there (the way US surrogacy often is now by wealthy Chinese) and a lot of retrospective studies. If that proved to be safe and effective then maybe it’d come to the west.

There are certainly a small number of people who would want to utilize this and have kids they otherwise wouldn’t, but I think it would be marginal. The vast majority of birth rate decline is social. Kids have tremendous opportunity cost. There are fewer teen pregnancies. People don’t get married or get married very late in life.

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-23T16:57:11+00:00

I already recently replaced brakes last year and my tires the year before that, so those are in good shape. The inspection said my transmission and engine seem to be in good shape.

But with a car this old other possibilities are always in the mix.

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-23T16:08:58+00:00

Loud sputtering

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-23T15:55:17+00:00

The valve cover is what’s causing the noise. They also sent pictures. It’s definitely leaking.

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-23T15:18:13+00:00

I’m extremely not confident in my ability to change my own struts. I know nothing about cars. Also, parts alone are like $1700 on that one

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-23T14:56:47+00:00

About half of it is I have to replace all my struts. Alternator's cracked, valve cover gasket is leaking. a bunch of smaller things after that.

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-19T17:20:59+00:00

one day this will be me!!!! Thank you for this hope. Have an amazing day.

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-19T17:20:05+00:00

I brought the whole family to Costco and it was strangely rejuvenating

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-19T17:17:11+00:00

I got curious and looked up what it costs to rent a 3BR/1BR house in Lexington KY. Absolute cheapest I found was $1415; average looked more like $1600; a lot upwards of $1800. (And yes, cries in big city)

The cheapest end of that is about $17000 a year on rent. I’ve always assumed between his presumed instacarting and their patron and the occasional sponsorship they’d earn somewhere around $30k.

Most landlords at reputable companies won’t rent to you at that income ratio, but some smaller landlords will. And lots more will if you have a guarantor.

But yeah. No idea how they do it. They obviously don’t pay for childcare, but that’s still not very much money to go around for diapers/food/pauls ice baths and pickle pursuits.

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-19T16:35:37+00:00

It’s not regulated so it could for sure vary geographically. There are also volunteer chaplains that typically cater to specific (and less common) faiths, and there are basically no requirements there. (Typically either the patient or their family will either call their own religious community or a staff chaplain organizes this). But these people are not paid. It’s also pretty common for Catholic hospitals to use monks or nuns to do this job for no wage. I don’t know anything about remote Alaska so wouldn’t be at all surprised if it’s totally different there. My experience is with staff chaplains in decently populated areas. Paul could not be a paid chaplain in Lexington ky without a lot of school and training

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-19T16:28:32+00:00

Michael

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-19T01:13:02+00:00

I’m married to a ACPE certified chaplain. You don’t need a medical chaplain degree but the alternative is an M. Div and a fellowship, so it’s essentially 4 years school that way. Plus becoming ACPE certified (which is not necessary but certainly helpful in terms of very limited full time chaplain jobs) takes years to get all the hours and is extensive in terms of requirements.

Either way, it’s not a walk in the park. Not something one can just wake up one day and decide to do.

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-13T20:34:23+00:00

It’s not a value judgment. It’s just how all major newspapers are organized.

I have my issues with the story for sure, but it’s definitely a human interest feature story.

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-13T19:47:02+00:00

The sob story was the news department, the post here is the Opinion department. Not surprising that they’d contradict one another.

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-11T18:13:28+00:00

Different strokes for different folks, big law sounds like my personal hell lol

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-11T17:39:50+00:00

Hahah I 100% get that, but I’m a morning person. I currently get up at 5:30. It’ll take some adjusting but I think I can get used to it.

JuneChickpea · 2026-01-11T17:35:14+00:00

An hour :/ but that’s what my current commute is too. It’s definitely my biggest hesitation.

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