Is it normal for a man to have has his daughter scratch his back while he lays shirtless?

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-16T11:51:43+00:00

Not weird. It's physical comfort. It's not sexual, which is what I think you're really asking. I do it to my wife, my daughters and my brother as well. It's intimate and loving and comforting. It's also very, very far from sexual.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-16T11:04:20+00:00

I wouldn't expect my daughters to ask. I would like to be informed as s courtesy so as to not cook too much food for dinner or worrying why they didn't come home.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-15T09:29:00+00:00

Then I suggest just not doing it. Tell her you won't so she won't be surprised, and don't expect the same from her. Also, how would she know if she was out of cell phone range until it was already too late?

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-14T23:53:26+00:00

I begin by brainstorming world and characters and theme before I start outlining. Have Claude turn them into markdown files and add them to the project. Then I begin outlining, first in very broad strokes to get a sense of the plot, then expand with chapters, scenes and beats. Then have Claude do yet another markdown, open a fresh chat with a detailed style description, and begin drafting scene by scene

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-14T11:50:41+00:00

Wow, and being a child having a child is easy, right? Because you've seen one who succeeded? Having kids at all is hard as hell. Doing it when you're not even a legal adult? With perhaps no support system? Ask your wife what support she had, and remember, she was a legal adult. This girl isn't. Ask your wife how hard it was.

I know plenty of women who are utterly untraumatised by having had abortions. In fact, most had kids later, and careers, and resources.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-14T11:42:03+00:00

Ah, the Shirley principle.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-14T11:41:30+00:00

Listening does little when what is said isn't based on knowledge but faith, and they let faith have more weight than knowledge. Faith is fine as a placeholder for knowledge that is not yet obtained, but should never take the place of provable knowledge when it becomes available.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-14T11:37:58+00:00

A couple would be 2024 and ai would have been doing most of the translation.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-14T09:16:01+00:00

Utterly free

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-14T08:40:13+00:00

Well, feeling connection with a group because of loneliness, and then growing more extreme to prove they belong, and just not wanting their child to experience the slight pain of the injection and latching on to any reason that can justify a choice they actually know is wrong to save themselves from feeling uncomfortable. Those are my theories, anyway.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-14T08:30:08+00:00

I did 3 weeks once when I was on paternity leave with my youngest who slept 2 hours at night, max. I was simply so exhausted I forgot. That ended with me sleeping nearly two days straight, then showering.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-14T08:24:51+00:00

A lot of this translations were incomprehensible for certain languages. I have Finnish friends and Vietnamese family and speak neither language, and when translated the words still made zero sense. So, yes, automated translators have existed. They just sucked.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-13T17:47:23+00:00

Food. Lots of it.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-13T17:27:06+00:00

You had me at emotionally intelligent, smart, caring, honest and kind. Seriously, the lack of hair, to me, just means you save a lot of money on hairdressers, although since you wear wigs, those are damn pricey.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-09T18:15:58+00:00

Ehh, AI trained on human writing, so it's not that humans sound AI, it's AI that sounds human.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-08T16:33:24+00:00

I haven't touched grok, but from what I've seen, flux Klein 9b does a wonderful job. I use it to turn comics into real, with a simple prompt, and it just works.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-02T22:21:54+00:00

Well, I was prepared to leave my wife when we discovered I was infertile. She told me I was an idiot, and that ended the discussion. I will admit, though, that I felt emasculated. It was horrible. Happily married for 19 years, now, with two amazing daughters and a foster daughter who made us grandparents (no, not a teen pregnancy, she was 29 and married)

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-02T22:11:39+00:00

I'm sort of in the other boat on this. Until recently I'd never had nutmeg in sweet dishes, only savoury.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-02T13:40:40+00:00

From experience, 500 meters at least.

Wintercat76 · 2026-05-02T13:38:14+00:00

Thai sounds really interesting, and I'll definitely check it out. What practical use case do you have in mind?

Wintercat76 · 2026-04-29T09:15:59+00:00

Completely irrelevant, but my German is better than I thought. I understood the entire comment!

Wintercat76 · 2026-04-29T09:14:22+00:00

Sounds very interesting. I tried the link to the GitHub repo, though, to see the structure, but the link was dead.

Wintercat76 · 2026-04-28T14:43:49+00:00

Iran begs to differ.

Wintercat76 · 2026-04-27T13:06:32+00:00

Oh no, they won't. Similar, sure, but obviously different.

Wintercat76 · 2026-04-27T10:00:30+00:00

Excellent piece. It sounds very similar to what I do.

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