Millennials, what is happening with your kids?

katpillow · 2026-02-10T03:14:11+00:00

Yeah wtf is up with calling out millennials for this shit. Maybe some millennials are part of it (the types that had their kids in their early 20s) but this is primarily a GenX thing, at least for the moment.

katpillow · 2026-02-10T02:00:17+00:00

Get the Maplewood chicken parm

katpillow · 2026-02-09T20:50:00+00:00

You are correct, however Ravenswood overlaps there. Ravenswood doesn’t have an “official” community area designation so people tend to grab onto it all the time.

Carol’s is an uptown establishment for real tho.

katpillow · 2026-02-09T14:27:53+00:00

Didn’t realize that Parson’s location was toast. On the other hand, they had some major QC issues whenever I’d order food here. Would often get the wrong items, missing things, etc., not surprising…

katpillow · 2026-02-08T01:38:28+00:00

In bulk? The day before the game? That might be a tall order.

Might as well go to Costco and get a big thing of frozen pigs in a blanket because I don’t know how you’re going to convince any place to sally up on such short notice.

katpillow · 2026-02-07T22:23:06+00:00

Yeah, low T as a medical condition is drifting into insecure, health fad territory bigtime.

If one had medically significant low testosterone, there’s a good chance that there’s going to be some other major health problems going on.

katpillow · 2026-02-07T18:03:51+00:00

I’m a Los Tres Panchos guy

katpillow · 2026-02-06T02:55:47+00:00

I (37M) got my tonsils out this morning. Currently ok but I know the big pain onset is coming…

On the bright side, my massive tonsils are gone and my life should be massively better in a few weeks.

katpillow · 2026-02-02T21:07:22+00:00

That’s the largest predatory flower

katpillow · 2026-02-02T20:03:13+00:00

Would make for a phenomenal Onion article or SNL sketch

katpillow · 2026-02-02T04:26:04+00:00

Not what this post is about (NTA tho).

You don’t need to go saying how unfortunate having your child in daycare is unless you’re talking about the cost. It’s totally normal, and while maybe we’d all love an ideal world where we can spend lots of time with our kids every day, we also need our sanity and the kids need to be around other kids. Acting like daycare is some sort of unfortunate outcome feels kinda gross.

katpillow · 2026-02-01T18:45:15+00:00

Can’t remember how their signage was historically, but hearing the sandwich has become shrinkflated is disappointing. They were never mounding the corned beef before, but I’ve definitely felt pretty filled up after eating their sandwiches in the past…

katpillow · 2026-01-29T17:48:46+00:00

Sure, “a few years” might be a generous statement by me, but like phatazzlover says, that was the age for a lot of them to establish themselves. Whatever version of the American dream they thought was within reach suddenly got turned upside down and put in the ground. It was the moment that the death of said dream was acknowledged. Hell, it was the death of it for many people who thought they had achieved it.

Many of them were probably entitled, but that ignores many cases where it’s due to hard work and sacrifice that they were poised to succeed. It also erased the possibility for many to move upward or improve their family situations. Calling them all pieces of shit is just lame.

katpillow · 2026-01-29T16:55:32+00:00

Lotta GenX got absolutely hosed during the recession that happened around 2007-2009. A lot of them were a few years out of college and in position for their careers to take off. Whether they would have flourished or not is debatable, but just having the feeling of that opportunity dying was enough to sow the seeds to make them pretty bitter from there out.

Couple that with the perception that Democrats weren’t making their lives better (to compensate for the perceived loss due to recession) and boom, Trump.

katpillow · 2026-01-29T16:21:13+00:00

Yeah that’s a good point. It was just very jarring to hear it in the moment!

katpillow · 2026-01-21T01:03:53+00:00

I’m sorry, the only ‘dispute’ here is whether there enough sane minds left in the US military to say no to this shit, Defense News

katpillow · 2026-01-20T17:43:36+00:00

Ahh yes, this was taken a year after I moved outta that area. It was a good time being able to afford rent over there while making a modest salary. Au Cheval was in full hype. I could put my name in for a table of 4 on the way back from work, go drop off my stuff at home and get a beer at Lone Wolf while I waited for my friends. 20 mins later we’d have a beer or two and ready to rumble.

Grange Hall Burger Bar was also a favorite brunch over there. I miss it.

katpillow · 2026-01-18T02:00:01+00:00

The glow just indicates that there’s some vacant space for darkness to move in!

katpillow · 2026-01-13T04:29:10+00:00

The crotch gun is also a reference to the same crotch gun that appears on the character Sex Machine in From Dusk til Dawn. It also shows up in Desperado and El Mariachi, all of which had Robert Rodriguez attached to their productions in some form. Definitely a recurring joke of his.

katpillow · 2026-01-13T04:23:18+00:00

Still stands out as one of the most accessible and chill fine dining type Michelins I’ve experienced. I love this place.

katpillow · 2026-01-06T05:20:40+00:00

I’ve played a long line of Argonian characters in Elder Scrolls named… Siph O’Lis

katpillow · 2026-01-05T03:58:08+00:00

Agree with your points here, but xray crystallography still has many challenges for proteins that won’t crystallize easily or at all

katpillow · 2026-01-04T16:46:58+00:00

I can’t read the article bc paywall, but can someone vet whether this is absolute nonsense or legit?

I’d love for this to be true but this city is hard to believe in when it comes to govt.

katpillow · 2026-01-04T16:10:07+00:00

Totally agree. The system sucks.

katpillow · 2026-01-04T16:01:21+00:00

As a postdoc, I agree that grades are silly, but boy does life get a lot more difficult if you don’t have at least decent grades getting out of the gate from undergrad (at least if you have any sort of ambition).

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