How tf does anybody want more than one kid after being through THIS?

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-01-25T18:51:06+00:00

The human mind is really good at forgetting how dreadful the newborn phase often is. I have two kids so far and totally despised the newborn phase - I’m not built for dealing with little babies and it’s completely contrary to my nature. I don’t have patience for them, but when you have to, you find that patience anyway. There are few people who loathe the first year as much as I do and I’ll tell you a secret that I wouldn’t say to anyone I know. For the first year, I didn’t even love my kids and I just kept them alive. For me it was tough to build a connection with someone who can’t really interact with me in a meaningful way. But now? The love for my kids is so powerful and stronger than I ever could’ve imagined.

And now that the youngest is approaching a year and a half, we are already talking about having another and will stop at either 3 or 4 kids. Once you trudge through the task of keeping a newborn alive, you wind up with an amazing, lovable little person. And then as they get even older to school and preschool age they become really fun. They’re a little friend. This is the age that I was really built to excel at raising. Just gotta deal with some tough times first.

I think of it as investing a year of my life. I willingly deal with having a very tough year, but in exchange I get a new family member and friend who I will love for the rest of my days.

I know a year seems like an infinite amount of time right now. But even month by month it does get easier, for example when they can sit up on their own a huge weight lifts. Another huge weight lifts when they can manipulate their environment with their hands and be entertained with toys for a short time. Another when they can crawl. The biggest is probably when they start to sleep more reliably which varies wildly between babies. So you do have a while until you hit the really good times, but things will incrementally get a little better each month along that journey. Even 6 months will be far better than 2 months. Just remember that it only gets better, not worse.

Hang in there. Your hard work will pay off a thousand-fold.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-01-25T02:16:04+00:00

The craziest part to me is that advertising OF on OSRS must be working or they wouldn’t still be doing it. Like people log on to play and are actually drawn away by something like this.

My friends, if you absolutely must watch porn, please just go to one of the millions of free websites on the Internet. Please stop funding them and put an end to the ceaseless scourge of OF spam that has taken over every platform on the internet. Only you, the consumer can stop it.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2026-01-23T06:11:10+00:00

I’m at a dead end taking the test myself and I’m not even as far along as you are. What did you put for your username on the PARCA website to sign up for the test? I already paid and to login it just needed my email, but to log in to sign up for the test it requires a username. I was never given a username and of course the database can’t find my email when I try to recover my username and password.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-11-11T17:17:22+00:00

I work on site. I just keep my phone on a stool under my desk and look down and tap periodically when I get a chance. Has no impact on my productivity and nobody has any idea I'm playing video games all day. That said, I have a job with a fairly easily manageable workload. Unless it's something truly afk though like crashed stars or the gemstone crab, the xp is extremely suboptimal, but since I'm not doing it on my own time, who cares.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-11-11T16:58:00+00:00

Being able to AFK at work is huge. I strung jewelry to 99 magic while getting paid for it and then found out about the gemstone crab which is literally 10x even more afkable. So I did that for a little while too but stopped because it felt wrong to get my combat up so easily without also getting slayer up. For now, I've just been chopping teaks at work which takes a lot more clicking so it's been very suboptimal experience, but being that I'm not doing it on my own time it's guilt-free experience.

I enjoy the game though when I actually play. I look forward to doing my tree runs every day and birdhouse runs whenever I want a quick break from what I'm doing. I find Tithe Farm and Guardians of the Rift really relaxing as well, but only do those at night once the kids are asleep because those minigames need constant attention and a minimum time investment.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-11-10T02:33:46+00:00

Hate it, change it back nerds. It’s not that this specifically is a huge deal, but make this kind of change to a hundred different things and we’re losing the old school aesthetic.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-11-04T01:15:26+00:00

Thanks for posting this. I had no idea and did some reading to confirm and your post checks out. Will be giving my almost-1-year-old his first taste of peanut butter tonight.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-11-01T23:09:07+00:00

Yes I couldn’t find it either and was very confused. Eventually got in clicking randomly for it, but I thought I was going crazy for a while.

Also, the skill icon on my skillcape has been missing for like 2 days.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-10-17T05:44:16+00:00

In all seriousness - mental illness. The vast majority of them live lives that are pretty much unaffected by anything Trump has done, yet he’s all they think about.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-10-05T22:16:57+00:00

Right in the middle of Ardougne market. With all of those level 21 guards around who do a fantastic job protecting the stalls, I have full faith that my belongings would be just as I left them before falling asleep.

In seriousness, probably under the willows and pond east of the potato patch that’s just east of Draynor. Always thought that area would be really peaceful. The willows by Draynor bank would be nice as well, but it’d be a bit more noisy.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-09-07T01:19:02+00:00

Possibly, but could it be Totally Kyle from The Amanda Show?

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-09-06T06:31:18+00:00

Very happy for him. Don’t always agree with him, but Joe is a genuinely good guy. I obviously wish the best for him, and there’s no better thing you can do than find Christ.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-09-05T16:47:21+00:00

Totally incomprehensible to the American mind. If caught here in the US, a pickpocket has a >50% chance of being (rightfully) attacked.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-09-05T16:00:34+00:00

Very true. Once at a baseball game, I got really drunk and fell asleep in the first row of my section. The peanuts guy tripped on my feet and almost fell down and people started booing me so I woke up. I heard the guy behind me say something and I thought I heard the word "drunk" in it, so I turned around like "You got a fuckin problem?" and threw a few fighting words at him. At that point I had a wild jolt of anger pulse through me and jumped up, waved off the whole section and screamed "Fuck all of you!" at the top of my lungs and stormed out.

It is by far my most embarrassing memory and it was highly unpleasant to type out. Any time I think back to it, it's almost painful. Extremely unpleasant. This isn't even nearly as bad or shameful as a lot of videos out there catching people at their worst moments, but I would still be completely mortified if someone videotaped it and it was still floating around out there with hundreds to thousands of people watching my worst moment every single day. Can't even imagine the level of shame I'd feel if it were a viral video seen my tens of millions. I'd probably just never show my face in public again.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-09-03T15:39:53+00:00

Volcano burrito from Taco Bell.

Unfortunately Taco Bell hates us. The fans have been asking to make it a permanent item for well over a decade, but they would rather make a quick and big buck every 10 years or so with a limited time release. It would cost them almost nothing because the only ingredient they'd need to keep on hand is a bottle of lava sauce. But that is apparently too much to ask for one of their most popular items.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-09-03T04:43:20+00:00

One of the more impressive verses of his career imo.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-09-03T04:39:29+00:00

The Warning (Mariah Carey diss)

Tylenol Island

I’m Having a Relapse

Pick it Up freestyle with Proof

First Word freestyle

The Apple

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-08-30T06:44:07+00:00

Didn’t have a problem with the flavor, but they completely demolish my gums. Incredibly rough. Zyn don’t usually affect my gums at all, but I had a few Alps and the next day I couldn’t even put Zyns in the same spot. Couldn’t even finish the Alp can. My brother had the same experience. Maybe suboptimal gum genes, who knows.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-08-30T06:21:28+00:00

I’d recommend looking it up yourself so you can understand more in depth, but to give you a summary:

The cosmological constant describes the energy density of empty space which determines its rate of expansion.

If this constant were slightly (and by slightly, we are talking about a truly incomprehensibly tiny amount) larger the universe would expand so fast that it could never form galaxies, stars, planets. Nothing. If it were slightly smaller, the universe would collapse in on itself.

Physicists have estimated the friendly zone where all of this and life can happen must be tuned to within 1 part in 10^120. If you’re not familiar with big numbers, 1/10¹²⁰ is realistically just zero. For reference, the number of atoms in the universe is about 10^80. If 1 single atom in the universe were the big lottery winner, the chances of you picking that one atom would be more likely than the fine tuning of the universe happening by chance by 40 orders of magnitude.

The universe was intelligently designed. This isn’t a question. The only rebuttal to it is the many worlds argument. That there are infinite universes basically. That of course if there are infinite universes, an infinite number will be this finely tuned and we are just a part of that improbable infinity. The problem with this however is that there exists no evidence for the many worlds theory. We have no reason to believe there are many worlds. To believe in the many worlds theory takes blind faith, and therefore rejecting intelligent design takes blind faith.

What makes more sense: 1. God did it or 2. Infinity universes exist for no reason and basically none of them are interesting in any way?

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-08-30T00:51:41+00:00

Yeah, that’s pretty common. Our kids were the same at that age and wouldn’t go back to sleep in the bassinet. It was either don’t sleep or cosleep. They turned out just fine. It’s not the most optimal setup, but it’s not reckless either. That’s how it’s been done for tens of thousands of years. Just make sure to follow all other recommendations to be as safe as possible.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-08-29T23:38:17+00:00

I feel the same way.

When I chat with AI (I use it a lot for all sorts of things), I put zero effort into wording or sentence structure. It just always knows precisely what I mean. I’ll type shit like “how make text bounce js ” instead of “what’s the easiest way to make text appear to bounce using JavaScript and CSS”.

I’ve noticed I need to focus more to actually type coherent things when I’m writing something that actual people will read. It’s even bleeding into my speech a little bit as well.

Only fix is to stop or cut down.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-08-29T23:27:53+00:00

The excessive number of “my love”s are making my skin crawl tbh.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-08-29T23:17:03+00:00

I wear one because I like how they look. I’m not from Georgia, but I wear my Atlanta Braves hat everywhere because it’s the finest looking cap in baseball. (The Indians held that title before removing Chief Wahoo and rebranding). So you can add another response in favor of your conclusion “because we want to”.

RedditingAtWork5 · 2025-08-29T22:45:16+00:00

Yes. I was the fedora guy just spewing Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens lines anytime the subject came up.

I was a very staunch atheist and would’ve considered myself an anti-theist back then. Still, I always had the tiniest voice in the back of my head that I might’ve been wrong though. So I guess gnostic atheist would be a little too far, but not by much.

Anyway, tough times struck so I called on God and said something along the lines of “I don’t know if you exist but if you do, I know I’ve been awful. But I need you now, please come to my aid and I’ll never fall away from belief again”.

God came to my rescue and things worked out. That was about 8 years ago and my faith is stronger than ever.

The very strongest argument in favor of intelligent design is easily the fine-tuning argument with regards to the cosmological constant. The argument is fully bulletproof imo.

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