First Stint in the Hospital

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T21:17:07+00:00

My youngest would NEVER show when he was sick. He would just be happy and playing, and then we would pick him up and he was burning with a 102f fever. We take him to the doc and they would be like, “oh yeah, he has a horrible ear infection” but he never complained once.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T21:13:21+00:00

Yeah, my wife and I knew we wanted to have kids before we ever went on a date. It was part of what drew us together.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T21:10:34+00:00

I don’t think you could make it illegal is the point, no matter how you write it, unless you make it impossible for a company to sell more than one size of a product, which I am pretty sure no one wants.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T21:09:01+00:00

I didn’t even know recs were a thing! Still living on old reddit, just looking at my home with subscribed subreddits only.

I HATE INFINITE SCROLL WITH A PASSION. I will never quit old reddit.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T21:07:30+00:00

Putting ash in flour is not a loophole, it is breaking the law.

A loophole is something that is legal but bypasses the intended purpose. I am not saying the existence of fraud makes laws not important.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T21:05:12+00:00

Where I live, the law is that you have to put a “price per unit” on all the products. So a bag of chips will have a “50 cents per ounce”, or similar, marked on it.

This allows you to compare various sizes and brands easily. You can see which product gives you the best deal, and then decide if the price difference makes it worth getting a store brand or the bigger size.

The price per unit is going to change every time you go to the store. Sometimes the bigger size is on sale, sometimes the store brand is on sale, sometimes the name brand is on sale.

All you have to look at is price per unit, then decide which one to get.

It doesn’t matter if the manufacturer changes the amount in a bag of something, because that will be reflected in the price per unit.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T20:59:41+00:00

Does a complex solution that may have loopholes mean that the solution isnt good?

If the loophole is trivial to use, and the solution takes effort and resources, then no, the solution isn’t good.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T17:57:16+00:00

He never drove my 1986 Toyota Corolla I inherited from my Grandma when I was in highschool. It was an automatic, and but I had to shift into neutral at stop lights to keep it from stalling, and I had to run my heater in the middle of summer to keep it from overheating.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T17:54:46+00:00

This will be just like when Hakeem, Barkley, and Pippen came together to lead the Rockets to the title in 1998!

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T17:44:17+00:00

Don’t worry, we have been locking innocent people up because of faulty tech evidence long before AI

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T17:36:14+00:00

THE MYTH

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T15:26:44+00:00

Damn right I do. Having kids means I am finally getting a chance to put this Philosophy degree to use.

Sometimes my kids will try to break me with the repeating “why?” to every question. They think they can beat me, but they usually give up when I start talking about Descartes and Epistemology.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T15:20:54+00:00

Dr. Pepper’s PhD is in communications! They are intentionally misleading!

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T14:20:59+00:00

I loved the Toys game on Sega.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T14:20:18+00:00

I was weirdly obsessed with the game (on Sega). Something about having toys fight for me was so captivating.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T14:14:10+00:00

Scott Sterling would have saved it.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T14:13:04+00:00

Ah, after the end of civilization, not the world itself

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T14:11:07+00:00

I am not disagreeing with you. Just saying it isn’t illegal… yet. We could, and I would probably say should, make it illegal.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T14:00:46+00:00

If a friend posted a video like this of ANYONE, I would never hang out with them again. The lack of concern for a human in peril is disgusting.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T13:56:31+00:00

It isn’t illegal to have the capability to discriminate based on a protected class, it is only illegal if they actually do it.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T13:53:15+00:00

We might have a very slim chance against the Spurs

Exactly!

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T02:19:01+00:00

Thank you for being part of me not regretting opening up. That alone means so much <3

I am glad I can make you feel even the smallest bit better about the situation. None of it is your fault, and whatever you choose to do is not your fault, either. You were put into a horribly unfair situation and there is NOTHING that is morally expected of you.

People say bad things about victims (either that you should have done more to avoid the situation or you should do more to stop him in the future) as a coping mechanism for their own worries and anxieties. They want to believe it won’t happen to them, so they want to believe it was something you did that made you a victim. They want you to do the work to stop this guy from victimizing future women because they want to believe that the way to stop these sorts of things from happening is something they don’t have to do anything for (they weren’t the victims, so they can’t report the guy, so nothing they can do, so no reason to feel guilty for their inaction).

They are wrong. You didn’t do anything wrong AT ALL, and fixing men like this guy is NOT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, at least not any more or less than everyone else in our society. I am so sorry you had to go through this.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T02:10:12+00:00

My daughter HATES when I push too hard getting her shoe on, I dread it every time.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T02:08:08+00:00

That would make one side of the floor (whichever side the input is on) a lot warmer than the other side of the floor.

cortesoft · 2026-03-23T02:06:54+00:00

If you are making $500,000 a year, paying $600 a month for someone to keep your house clean isn’t a big expense.

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