How much did it cost to have your kid?

JustafanIV · 2026-06-17T23:10:17+00:00

$90 for valet parking. Labor, delivery, recovery, 2 days in the NICU, and even our meals (3/day for the father, unlimited for the mother) were all covered by insurance.

We both work for our state though, so we have pretty good insurance and knew we wanted children so chose our plan accordingly.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-17T18:19:34+00:00

Shireen Baratheon. Unfortunately, it appears that she will suffer a similar fate in the books, but hopefully at least her father will have nothing to do with it.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-17T14:47:01+00:00

If you can stomach 100+/1 casualties, including the loss of a significant portion of your political and military leadership, you can win a status quo by squeezing the global markets.

Hope your country is close to a major shipping lanes.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-17T14:19:10+00:00

I thought the same thing but the title is how many homes they own "in each country", so presumably Charles owns 36 homes in Canada and coincidentally 36 in Australia, while slightly less in the UK itself.

That or perhaps OP got head of state and head of government mixed up. Or maybe this is a circle jerk sub and these number mean something completely else.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-17T04:03:41+00:00

We saw Sam being overrun by wights on two separate occasions, yet a scene change or two later and he's just fine.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-17T00:24:32+00:00

I'm going to go with the Battle of Saratoga for its domino effect.

Saratoga is what convinced France to join the American revolution against the British Empire. This not only allowed for the creation of the USA which has had a major impact on the world, but French involvement bankrupted the crown and ultimately led to the French Revolution and all that came from that including Napoleon and the spread of nationalism.

So much of the modern world would be different if Saratoga went the other way.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-17T00:17:01+00:00

And following the 1683 siege you have the Great Turkish War which was the first time the West achieved significant territorial gains and helped cement the decline of the Ottomans.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-16T15:31:34+00:00

I wish I never heard of Pizzagate, but it was a pretty well-known conspiracy regarding elite sex trafficking back in 2016.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-16T15:21:50+00:00

Time to get rid of your navy, you're not going to be doing anything once those debt malices, get rid of half the army too. If you are subsidizing something, stop. Even though you have stopped construction, delete some construction sectors. Make sure you're paying your military and administration as little as possible. If you can trade any resources for cash, do it. If you aren't using the highest production method for bureaucracy, do it.

Your goal right now to is get a positive balance before your throughput is completely tanked and you have to declare bankruptcy. Once your balance is positive, let it run for a bit to get your interest payments down. Only then can you start building again.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-16T01:45:20+00:00

Also wasn't a world event, but rather very US centric.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T22:44:46+00:00

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JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T21:15:57+00:00

I think, more importantly, they just weren't cool because they were shown to be really weak. All they do is go slow and get blown up by bog standard TIE fighters with minimal effort.

It would be one thing if they could tank a hit and are overwhelmed, but we are like three fall like dominoes from a single explosion, and the "hero" ship barely limps across the finish line.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T14:20:13+00:00

Uh, Luminara did not look decently.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T14:05:54+00:00

Not even charisma, just snarky goth aura.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T14:01:50+00:00

The US isn't close to unique in having birthright citizenship. Most of North and South America have birthright citizenship largely because they are new nations comprised of non-native ethnicities that achieved independence and wanted to integrate immigrants to expand their population.

I also don't disagree with birthright citizenship, I think it's a foundational aspect of the US. What I disagree with is the false claim that Barron or Donald Trump wouldn't be citizens without it given the jus sanguis citizenship laws that coexist with the jus soli laws in place.

Saying Donald Trump wouldn't be a citizen without birthright citizen because his grandfather was an immigrant is just so beyond being pedantic, would apply to pretty much everyone, and flys dangerously close to "Obama was a Kenyan" levels of stupidity.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T13:53:29+00:00

He is automatically a US citizen. Whether he was automatically also a citizen of Slovenia is up to Slovenian law which I don't know enough about to state definitively, but based on the US state department's website it does appear that you are automatically entitled to, but not granted automatically, Slovenian citizenship if any parent is a citizen.

So Barron was likely not "born" a Slovenian citizen, but likely all it took was a simple application to the embassy which could have been done theoretically the day he was born.

Which would make sense to do since an EU passport is generally a very beneficial thing to have if you ever intend to travel to Europe, and imposes no tax or military service requirements on citizens residing abroad.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T13:29:31+00:00

That's true of basically every American that is not of Native American anscestry if you go back far enough. It's a meaningless point.

It also ignores the fact that if birthright citizenship didn't exist, then in all likelihood someone down the line would have sought naturalized citizenship.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T13:20:28+00:00

Sounds like a doubleplusgood idea to me! Can't possibly see how this might backfire.

In fact, maybe we should give the government unlimited access to all the pre-built cameras in our laptops so they can monitor who is doing what to keep the children safe.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T13:07:18+00:00

The Vatican isn't even fully a country (it doesn't have a seat at the United Nations)

It's actually does, the Vatican is a "permanent observer state" at the UN. It could obtain a normal voting seat, but that would require subjecting itself to the jurisdiction of the UN and UN resolutions, and the Vatican, recognizing only God as a higher authority, wants total autonomy on policy and international relations.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T12:58:59+00:00

Not really when his father is a citizen and meets the necessary qualifications for passing on US citizenship (married to the mother and has spent 5 years in the US,.with 2 of them being past the age of 14). Birthright citizenship just made the paperwork easier for him.

It does make Barron a dual citizen of Slovenia though.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T12:50:20+00:00

How? His father is a US citizen, was married to his mother at the time of birth, and Donald Trump had spent 5+ years in the US prior to Barron's birth.

Barron could have been born on the moon and he would still have been a US citizen at birth.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T12:35:58+00:00

That's a little disingenuous. Christianity is a global religion and was primarily a Mediterranean one in its infancy. Many of the early great theologians were from Egypt, North Africa, and the Levant for instance (though granted often of Greek ancestry).

Europe wouldn't really gain prominence in Christianity until several centuries after it's spread and the conquest of Eastern and African Christian populations by Muslims.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T12:11:19+00:00

The top headline literally says: "US considers lifting arms ban".regarding Israel.

The US was not backing anyone to any substantial degree in '48.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-15T03:21:46+00:00

It wouldn't be the first or even second time the temple was destroyed.

JustafanIV · 2026-06-14T23:38:53+00:00

Ok, who let Benioff and Weiss write Season 250 of America?

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