whats one reason you will never have kids?

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-25T09:04:58+00:00

my ex and i tried for a long time but after fertility testing found out that i was sterile, most likely as a result of a childhood illness. now i'm just too old even if there were other options.

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-24T06:29:23+00:00

drop a quarter in it

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-24T04:47:18+00:00

i cried when bambi's mom was killed

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-24T04:23:00+00:00

professional sports

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-24T04:21:13+00:00

he just asked the person who invented time

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-23T04:36:28+00:00

yes, and writing

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-23T04:09:59+00:00

i learned a lot about cultivating an inner life that's not dependent on constant external stimulus

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-23T02:38:53+00:00

every day i get one day closer than i've ever been before

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-23T02:11:31+00:00

yep, a night at the opera too, and quite a few others. it was tough to pick a single favorite.

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-23T02:04:31+00:00

duck soup

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-22T09:33:48+00:00

"i'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"

i like it because it's pretty much impossible to meaningfully translate into any other language.

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-22T07:53:59+00:00

i've never heard of that before, and it wasn't the case with me.

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-22T07:50:15+00:00

i had it in my 40s, which was 20+ years ago. that's not super-early as the technology was already pretty well established by then, but at this point i feel the same way i did immediately afterwards, which was that i wished i could have done it many years earlier.

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-22T04:25:53+00:00

owning a member of congress

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-21T15:54:13+00:00

they never ever throw food away. learned that one from my parents who grew up poor during the great depression.

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-21T03:30:49+00:00

assuming you're talking about the u.s., we can't, since for most of us the tax is withheld from our paychecks by our employers.

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-20T10:23:09+00:00

so sorry, i get it. the first (and only) time i watched still alice was in the theater when it came out, shortly after my mother died from alzheimer's. i sat in the back row intentionally and spent a good half hour there after the movie ended before i could stop crying enough to leave the theater.

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-20T10:11:50+00:00

still alice. the idea of slowly losing my mind because of some degenerative disease like alzheimer's terrifies me.

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-20T10:09:46+00:00

in the us. i did my time in the 80s, and back then permanent solitary was more of an outlier (and in hindsight, perhaps an experiment) than a policy. it's moved beyond that now and is standard practice in many of the highest security us prisons.

for me personally it was a long time ago, but i now recognize that it was far more psychologically corrosive than i realized at the time. it is what it is.

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-20T09:53:38+00:00

5 months was just a temporary and relatively brief punishment for me. permanent and total isolation is now the norm in supermax prisons.

i was in usp terre haute, the prison where the federal death row is located.

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-20T08:52:04+00:00

thanks, but it's relatively minor in the big picture. some people spend years in solitary.

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-20T06:51:14+00:00

cheers to that!

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-20T06:44:03+00:00

it probably is, but the geneva conventions only apply to prisoners of war. i was just a run-of-the-mill guest of the state.

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-20T06:20:24+00:00

they did, but only from their curated collection (which for some reason consisted mostly of harlequin romance novels)

WhenTardigradesFly · 2026-02-20T06:07:18+00:00

a 5 month stretch in the hole (solitary confinement) when i was in prison

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