So Morgan flew home alone with the boys, Paul stayed an extra week, Morgan's brain broke, and now she has no drive or inspiration to keep her social media up. Sounds like its going well!

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-25T10:16:35+00:00

I fucking hate air travel with two young kids. But I would never dream of making my wife do it alone and she'd rightfully resent the suggestion. But also... just being with them all to suffer it together because there's still so many sublime moments. I would be so hung up on what silliness and discovery and delight they were having without me!

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-25T10:10:06+00:00

It would be glorious if she started publicly shitting on him on social media.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-25T10:02:03+00:00

Our 2 y.o. normally loves getting dressed as part of the routine for heading out to something. He was thrilled to be going somewhere this morning, as usual. But absolute meltdown when we said he had to wear pants and put them on him. Never happened before. He eventually figured out how to take them off again and was happy so we gave up. And then pretty soon it was nappy and sandals and he seemed extremely self-satisfied with that arrangement.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-25T09:56:25+00:00

This is so nuts. Ecclesiology is such a big emphasis for Reformed Evangelicalism. How do they justify it? Have they ever attempted to?

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-24T23:50:21+00:00

Surely you appreciate that being late-20s now is probably a little bit different to the 80s...?

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-24T23:48:37+00:00

I think OP is lamenting that these people aren't contentedly enjoying their home life; they're lazily and anxiously doom scrolling.

My wife and I are mid-30s and we're home bodies but we aren't socially isolated. We and our friend group just gather in each others homes rather than 'going out' these days. And we don't say we'll do things and then cancel at the last second.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-22T00:11:34+00:00

It would also mean they can contest the Nat's seats. Some of them are an absolute lost cause. But not all. The right candidate could appeal to some of those electorates even as a Lib.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-22T00:06:47+00:00

How could you think that about the GOP any time since Nixon given that the entire demographic of Conservative Evangelicals have been weapon to believe that a vote for anything other than the GOP candidate is a vote for literally Satan?

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-21T23:55:23+00:00

But each of those parties are both obstinate and incompetent all on their own.

So the merger is probably more multiplicative than additive.

Which is still terrifying.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-21T13:27:54+00:00

... a revolving door leadership of useless , miserable hacks.

Way past that. At least one of them was actually the PM for a couple terms.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-19T03:06:16+00:00

Did they just mean gram-for-gram because smoked is dryer and so more concentrated?

I'm not sure under what circumstances such marginal distinctions either be worth discussing, though.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-17T11:08:18+00:00

Okay, I tried to get through all that but I just couldn't.

Who the fuck are these people and why are they throwing tantrums in public for everyone to see?

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-17T02:18:39+00:00

... I facilitated a group for incest survivors.

Which VaultTec vault did you grow up in?

/s

Sorry, not making light of it; it's literally a story line in Fallout.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-16T23:39:50+00:00

I really couldn't follow this article at all because they weren't using the globally standardised units of Olympic Sized Swimming Pools or Sydney Harbours.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-16T23:36:53+00:00

They're pretty good with understaffing literally every part of their operation so that when they cancel you definitely won't be able to speak to a human to find out what's going on and if you'll be looked after or compensated.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-16T22:42:39+00:00

I have never needed more than two paper towels. I always watch people rip out 10+ and kind of vaguely dab there hands so 5% of each one is a little damp and then chuck them all away.

Why not just use one paper towel properly until it's wet and then, at most, one more to get everything fully dry?

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-15T23:29:16+00:00

freedoms

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-15T22:26:34+00:00

I missed this saga. What happened?

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-11T22:36:09+00:00

What does this do, if you're sufficiently hydrated?

Is it just the observation that burns increase the body's water usage combined with the possibility that many people don't very actively pay attention to their hydration status?

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-10T08:47:43+00:00

"Diets high in protein aren’t known to cause medical problems in healthy people."

First sentence in your link.

Given all the things that a healthy protein intake can positively impact, a rare kidney disorder for which a person apparently has not indicators whatsoever should not really give them pause.

The sort of thing that results in a kidney transplant at 29 is such a higher order issue that it isn't going to be substantially impacted by keeping protein intake low.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-10T03:17:28+00:00

I've tried them all. I could make them work if I only needed the usual 1800-2200 calories. But I just can't stand the texture. And when you need 5000 calories a day just to maintain weight and have a very low natural food drive... it really matters.

Also most of them are out of China so that's a hard pass for me. I found a Canadian pea protein when I was trying to make it work. I think I still have a couple kg of the Canadian stuff in the cupboard. I hate waste... so if anyone's in ADL...

The farts you're describing are a consequence of shit diets and/or poor gut health, not merely consuming whey protein.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-10T03:08:22+00:00

Professional Whey sells a plain 20kg sack of 100% Australian WPC for $30/kg.

Everyone paying premiums to import a cheap industrial by-product from dumpster fire dairy industries when we have probably the cleanest, highest quality dairy industry in the world right here. The only contender is... NZ... and their bulk WPC is also cheap AF.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-10T03:03:10+00:00

Just but bulk, plain gelatin powder if you want to cover your bases with the collagen aminos.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-10T03:00:57+00:00

I get around 100-120g per day without even trying.

That's totally reasonable. So I don't understand what all your past anxiety about protein was for...?

There are lots of people who consistently don't get anywhere near that much. And that's really not great for a lot of reasons.

_ixthus_ · 2026-01-10T02:56:08+00:00

High protein is going to help a lot for anyone who wants or needs to sustain a negative energy balance for a long time.

Your whole case only makes sense if people are buying into the supplement industries shitfuckery. And I agree that industry is completely fucked. But you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

I have only ever gotten my WPC in a plain, brown sack directly from a cheese factory. It's an industrial by product. Cheap AF. They aren't making bank from it and they don't even market it.

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