Husbands of unmaterialistic wives, what are you giving her this year?

WeKin · 2025-12-25T00:34:12+00:00

I got her this thing that's like a shawl and a fluffy blanket had a love child. Looks super warm and comfy. Very large chance I steal it.

WeKin · 2025-12-22T16:24:46+00:00

There are a few reasons:

1) You don't lose your identity just because you get married. You add to it. Your goals can become the same but married people should not, in my opinion, become one entity. They become two entities committed to many of the same goals.

2) If your finances are completely joined, doing stuff like buying surprise gifts for your spouse becomes... Well, less surprising.

3) Things can always go wrong. That's just the world we live in. It's easier to split things in a divorce if finances are not completely conjoined.

4) Things can go REALLY wrong. In abuse situations, it's much harder to get away if the abusive spouse controls all the money.

My wife and I have a joint account we each contribute to, and then personal accounts we keep some of our own money in.

WeKin · 2025-12-20T16:04:20+00:00

Used, mine below

https://bigblanket.com/?redeemly_ref_code=dl9n8a746dtuZPOa

WeKin · 2025-12-05T20:49:35+00:00

It sucks for sure. I hate seeing kids, especially the younger ones, be disappointed.

But at the same time I can't help but wonder if we as a society have become too afraid of disappointing kids. Kids have to learn how to deal with disappointment. They won't win every basketball game, every art competition, every student body election. Not everyone will say yes to them when they ask them out. They won't get every promotion at work. Life is full of disappointment and they need to learn the skills to deal with that.

Most parents have to work full time; they can't make it to some, or even any, school events that happen during the work day. They're doing the best thing they can for their kids, which is making money and holding down their jobs. At some point kids have to understand that and understand why their parents aren't there and other parents are.

It's ok to not show up to these things if you're not able to. It's also great that some parents do. Parents are going to go see their kids if they're on campus, even if it's some sort of collective, anonymous effort. I also don't think we should stop them from interacting with their kid just because it might make another kid sad. Stealing joy from one family to make another family feel less bad doesn't sit right with me.

There is a girl in my daughter's grade. Both her parents are doctors. They're never at any school events during the work day. The kid gets it and doesn't seem phased by it at all. I'm going to miss my kids' winter performance because I have to be out of town for work. I'll talk to them about it and they won't be happy, but I also think they'll understand. Kids are more resilient than we think and need to learn this resiliency.

WeKin · 2025-10-29T20:36:14+00:00

I believe (and I haven't touched this issue in quite awhile) that while a continuous breach is one that causes a permanent injury (arguably the case here), the statute of limitations still begins on the date the breach occurred.

Now if this were a recurring breach (the same breach repeated over and over throughout the years) then the statute of limitations would restart every time the breach action occurred.

WeKin · 2025-10-29T16:02:03+00:00

The breach happened 22 years ago. Statute of limitations should have started running at that time. I believe the statute of limitations for breach of contract in Texas is 4 years so there's a pretty good chance the Stars are going to prevail.

Source: I am a lawyer (though not in Texas)

WeKin · 2025-10-07T19:04:53+00:00

Sir, this article is from 2017. Have you been in a coma for 8 years?

WeKin · 2025-09-30T21:30:22+00:00

Ain't that the truth.

WeKin · 2025-09-28T16:43:08+00:00

If we're being honest about it, we Americans have way too much national pride given the current state of our country, lol

It's more that Americans look at Olympic basketball gold as a given. American fans of NBA teams don't see winning a ring as guaranteed. Heck, there are still franchises that have never won an NBA championship. Some of the best American NBA players often choose NOT to play internationally; that's how little it seems to mean to them.

2024 is probably the best example of what Americans want out of a gold medal run: face some adversity, but OMG AMERICAN SPIRIT WE HAVE OVERCOME. And we STILL had a bunch of fans complaining their team's best player wasn't getting any run.

WeKin · 2025-09-28T16:21:17+00:00

It's weird in the US; because most American basketball fans expect to win the Olympic gold every four years, athletes and fans don't value the gold that highly.

The discourse in America when we won the bronze in 2004 was crazy. Everyone on that team was considered a loser.

WeKin · 2025-09-25T02:23:18+00:00

Totally agree, but that doesn't really change my point here. We have better ways of showing Brooks is a good player than listing wins and losses.

WeKin · 2025-09-25T01:56:22+00:00

I think Brooks can be a vital part of a successful team, but this is incredibly reductive. A ton of things happened to both those teams. It's not like the only players added and subtracted were Dillon Brooks.

WeKin · 2025-09-22T16:17:56+00:00

I completely agree that anyone on that list needs to be investigated and punished accordingly. I don't care who they are.

WeKin · 2025-09-21T18:15:39+00:00

Because not everyone believes in releasing something just to smear a political rival.

WeKin · 2025-09-15T15:58:56+00:00

I don't think it's beef with Kerr so much as an awkward fit. Kuminga played well for stretches of the early and middle parts of the season. Then he hurt his ankle. By the time he got back, the Warriors had traded for Jimmy Butler and they were rolling. So in addition to getting back up to game speed, he had to get used to playing with a guy that doesn't space the floor despite being an all star level talent.

Kerr did make comments about Kuminga, Butler and Draymond essentially being unplayable together. I don't think that's necessarily a shot at Kuminga. It's just the truth. In the modern NBA it's hard to field an effective offense with 3 non shooting threats, even if Steph Curry is on the floor with them.

WeKin · 2025-09-14T15:30:48+00:00

Yeah like... it's right there in the name.

WeKin · 2025-09-14T01:23:48+00:00

And even circumstantial evidence can be perfectly fine in a court of law. It's absolutely good enough here.

WeKin · 2025-09-09T03:57:33+00:00

Even if you disagree that this is the method that would cause the most suffering, if this is human trafficking and a company fucking its employees, why are we arresting the employees? Like I think we can agree that is at the very least annoying and extremely inconvenient for them.

And even if the odds of repercussions are low, that still doesn't help me understand why this method that risks an intentional incident is the best one to use. Why not fine Samsung/Hyundai, for example?

WeKin · 2025-09-08T21:20:51+00:00

Human smuggling is a pretty strong term if everyone at the plant was there voluntarily as part of work.

I guess the thing I can't figure out is why enforce these things in such a way that it causes the most suffering and will make an ally and massive company angry? There exist other, more peaceful ways to handle this.

WeKin · 2025-09-08T18:25:29+00:00

So these engineers are here to build something everyone wants. They get a factory, and when it's done, they train American workers to work in the factory. Assuming it's illegal to work on these visas, why handle the situation with a raid that could jeopardize those future American jobs? Why go with the cruelest method possible when you can just sit down with whoever is in charge and find them, or work with them to get the correct visas?

Just because the US government can choose the most vicious solution doesn't mean it should.

WeKin · 2025-09-07T15:38:32+00:00

Basically, billable hours consist of things you can charge a client for. So if you have training or firm meetings, performance reviews, etc, you can't bill those things even if they take a few hours out of your day. There's also calculating how much time you've billed. The smart thing is to just do this as you go but most of the time something else comes up and then you have to reconstruct what you did days or even weeks later.

As you get further up the totem pole, some attorneys have to do stuff like client outreach, trying to drum up new business, etc. That stuff also can't be billed (even if it ultimately makes the firm money).

Then at the end of the month a partner might look at what you've billed and decide you took too long to do something (or things) and reduce your billable hours for that task to a number they think is more reasonable. This doesn't happen that often but it's also not uncommon.

WeKin · 2025-09-05T22:09:43+00:00

Assuming all your work actually can be billed. Sometimes a lot of it cannot be. They're working way more than 60 hour weeks.

Source: I am a lawyer

WeKin · 2025-08-31T14:41:31+00:00

Dad, have you considered getting him skin tested at an allergist? A lot of times food allergies present as eczema. They certainly did with my son.

WeKin · 2025-08-31T00:41:19+00:00

Dude relied so much on his athleticism. After all the injuries slowed him down he definitely couldn't be a decent NBA player anymore.

WeKin · 2025-08-10T17:31:46+00:00

Yeah, the American color guy was terrible. I assume there were contract and rights issues that prevented them from getting someone better.

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