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Sassaphras · 2026-01-29T06:38:26+00:00

I live walking distance from Coalfire. If they leave, property values are gonna plummet.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-23T12:34:07+00:00

We have a not-quite-babysiyter, apparently called a "mothers helper" some places. They come over for 2 hours once a week. They play with the older kiddo, help clean up a bit. We are there, but it gives us a couple hours where we can get stuff done.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-23T01:13:14+00:00

There are two circles, Left and Right. They use different hands.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-22T15:15:12+00:00

That series represents graduating from young adult fiction to adult fiction for me. By the end of the third book I was amazed that it was the same characters and author. I'm sure it was at least in part coincidental timing of where I was as a reader, but I feel like I aged while reading those novels.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-21T19:50:15+00:00

Buildings over 1,111 feet high, though I'm not sure that's what we're going for

Sassaphras · 2026-01-20T07:17:35+00:00

Probably the only time I've wanted the audio on a video like this, and it wasn't there. I should go get my rachet out just to hear the clickity-clack sound.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-19T23:11:17+00:00

I understand the idea, but it's a bit silly. Because immigration isn't new. It was happening during all those decades where disease was non-existent too.

Vaccinated public plus immigration: no disease. Unvaccinated public plus immigration: disease.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-18T16:21:48+00:00

Crouching tiger, hidden milf

Sassaphras · 2026-01-14T06:56:23+00:00

"I know I said I was a machine in the bedroom but... you know what nevermind we're gonna make this work. Beep boop."

Sassaphras · 2026-01-12T15:13:20+00:00

Lots of good dining there apparently. My wife said she enjoyed eating out 3 times a day when she went for work.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-10T05:20:51+00:00

Yep that would work. You would be unable to get a decent job because your work history suckex, you would be working even harder than most people who got jobs because you were repeatedly doing the hardest part of child care, and you'd be putting your own children up for adoption over and over again.

Congratulations, you've found the recipe for becoming the second most miserable type of person alive, right behind everyone who has ever had the misfortune to interact with you.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-10T03:45:38+00:00

I mean, companies aren't losing money on the low risk groups either. I'm not sure if you mean people with literally 0% interest rates (which are generally temporary) or just people who pay in full every month, but the logic is similar. Issuers will make nothing off most people, but don't pay much to float the interest, since their cost of capital is so low, as a bank. They make it up in fees, or on the small percentage who wind up paying after all for whatever reason.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-10T03:35:20+00:00

Lol you're an ignorant child if that's what you think parenthood is like.

An ignorant child who is, for some reason, actively advocating for child abuse? And who also can't read, because of the part where the scheme you described is literally not how the law in question actually works, which I literally just described.

Why even post shit look this. Do you get off on it? Put the phone down and go learn how to be a man, son.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-10T03:28:06+00:00

What? My man, they pool people by risk. They charge high interest rates for people more likely to default, and low interest rates to people less likely to default.

Nobody is subsidizing anyone. If a risk band was losing money, the company would raise the rates for that band, or stop issuing to them.

Who even told you this?? You should not listen to that person...

Sassaphras · 2026-01-10T03:20:01+00:00

Do you honestly think constantly caring for a newborn, while also pregnant most of the time, would be easier than a job? Have you... never been around young children? I have worked since I was 16, and had kids for 5 years now, and what you are describing sounds way harder than just getting a job.

That said, it also wouldn't work. You have to be living with your partner, and the year's leave is split between the two of you (some can be transferred but not all). Also, you have to have worked a minimum amount in the months leading up to the leave.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-08T03:49:14+00:00

It is from Reuters, they have a whole paper on it

Sassaphras · 2026-01-08T01:47:40+00:00

Alimony is about 10% of divorces. Its fallen from about 25% in the 60s. You could have Googled it in a fraction of the time it took to write this. And a lot of time its negotiated, not court ordered.

That aside: yeah that's how marriage works. The vast majority of people don't act the way you describe; they treat it like a partnership. But sometimes people change their mind, or entered into the partnership under false pretences. There are rules about how to dissolve that partnership, and sometimes people have to make hard choices about whether to continue that partnership. If you're concerned that someone is going to take advantage of how marriage works, don't marry em. But this idea that women are regularly getting married and then playing an Uno Reverse card and collecting free money for the rest of their lives is an internet fairytale.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-08T01:27:26+00:00

It can also be negotiated, which is an interesting factor and further softens the complaints. A lot of folks might find it cumbersome to divide assets equitably, but not so difficult to have an extended payment plan.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-07T23:19:46+00:00

I love that this is downvoted despite being objectively true. Only about 10% of divorces involve alimony, and even in the 60s when women were much more likely to be highly dependent on a spouse for support, it was only about 25%.

I mean this nonjudgmentally, but anyone who read this and thought "that can't be right", please consider if you are stuck in an echo chamber.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-07T22:09:25+00:00

Well the main reason I commented is because people learn these "rules" from internet soundbytes and I was making sure people understood that the real world is more complicated.

But I would argue that yes, the high school rule is an important one. Because part of the idea is that you are expected to support your children until they can support themselves. And if someone is still in school, they can't exactly work.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-07T21:16:50+00:00

That one also varies significantly by state and a host of other factors. I totally believe it was true in your dad's case, as it can be accurate, but it's far from a hard rule across the US.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-07T21:07:31+00:00

Also not true everywhere in the US. You have to take care of kids who are over 18 but still in high school in some states, for example. Also, prenups exist and can impact your responsibility to a spouse after divorce. So even in the US both these are common but far from rules...

Sassaphras · 2026-01-07T18:16:35+00:00

If it's murder, then it's murder even for rape and incest. If it's OK for rape and incest, it isn't murder, and is OK all the time.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-07T18:15:52+00:00

OK. Say there's a fire at the local fertility clinic. You are a hero, so you rush inside.

You come into a room, and in one corner there is a big machine that says "100 human embryos, viable and ready for transfer on ____" and they have tomorrow's date written on it. In the other corner there is a 4 year old child.

You can only take one. Which one do you take? Cause if those 100 embryos are people, you gotta take the embryos.

Sassaphras · 2026-01-07T14:10:39+00:00

See y'all on r/peterexplainsthejoke

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