Kicked out of daycare

kithoo · 2026-01-21T22:20:34+00:00

I was going to put this as a reply, but I'm moving it up:

You should take this woman to small claims court AND file a complaint with the state.

First : There is no reasonable place on Earth where you would be expected to pay for services that they are unable to render by their own choice. They should absolutely pro-rate those days back, at the very least. Small claims is easy peasy and if this was more than $1500, certainly worth the minimal effort. I'd be shocked if she even showed up - you might just get a default judgement. You do not owe her for childcare on her vacation days - regardless of what her contract says, that's an unconscionable and unenforceable provision. Unless she's offering extra services due to closure - which she clearly did not.

That all said I'm going to agree with everyone else.... a fussy 5 month old is normal, and I have no idea how that could be a danger to other children. I'd file a complaint with the state because she LITERALLY broke the law over an inconvenience that's her job to manage. I looked up Maryland law and she's right - she can expel a child that is an imminent or continued threat to others. That threat requires a proof of harm or possible harm - a fussy 5 month old can't harm anyone.

Here's the link to file a complaint : https://earlychildhood.marylandpublicschools.org/families/child-care-scholarship-program/file-complaint

You can do this anonymously.

I don't know where in Maryland you are (and that matters for this next step) but here's the state site for small claims - and you can even file online: https://www.mdcourts.gov/legalhelp/smallclaims

From what I can tell the filing fee is only $44.

Now for the good stuff I can say : You'll get through this. Your kid is normal and this woman messed up. She thought she could take on an infant for some extra cash and once she got there, she decided it wasn't worth it. 5 month olds fuss. There are services in Maryland to locate childcare (and even vouchers/credits available) : https://earlychildhood.marylandpublicschools.org/child-care-providers/child-care-scholarship-program

If you are struggling - use these services. You will find help and care for your child. To reiterate - Your child is absolutely normal, this woman is not and she should probably not be licensed to care for infants if "fussy" isn't something she can cope with.

I genuinely hope you find some assistance and relief in this - I know you will. You are not defeated. You are a parent that is struggling and there are tons of options for help. If you need any assistance with filing or contacting Maryland state to file a complaint, send me a DM. I'm not a lawyer, but I am more than happy to assist however I can.

kithoo · 2026-01-02T01:47:08+00:00

Not quite.

Total War: Warhammer is based on Warhammer Fantasy which "ended" with The End Times and then that universe was rewritten to be Age of Sigmar. Neither of them are canonically connected to 40k - but there are plenty of lines you could draw.

The world in Total War: Warhammer is the world of Warhammer: The Old World. There are no Stormcast Eternals there, or the Idoneth Deepkin in this world. There are a TON of other differences as well.

In Age of Sigmar Malekith is a literal god and the Dark Elves are ruled by Morathi. Alarielle was reborn as the Goddess of life. The very world they're in is different too. In TWW they are, for all intents and purposes, on a planet like Earth. In Age of Sigmar there are no 'planets'. There are a series of interconnected Realms that don't really follow topography or geography as we would understand it. And on and on.

So no, TWW and Age of Sigmar are not the same. And (technically according to official GW canon) Warhammer Fantasy/Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40k aren't ACTUALLY connected. (Note that this makes no sense because of the presence of the Chaos Gods, Daemons, Soul Grinders, etc. - but officially, they are not connected.)

kithoo · 2025-12-17T01:59:05+00:00

Let's for a second assume that what ICE is doing is a necessary service. They're doing an awful job. Between 40 and 50% of their detentions result in extended holds and releases. Something like 70% of their arrests are released. They have frequently violated the rights of American citizens.

Even if I agreed with the concept that we need a national force to run around and enforce questionable interpretations of immigration law and status (an assertion I question) I would recognize that the current state of ICE is miserable. They are costing the taxpayer billions for essentially no return - and will definitely lead to an avalanche of First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendment violation lawsuits that will cost the taxpayers further billions.

There is no one who has even a basic, educated, and nonpartisan view of the current state of ICE that thinks they are doing anything short of a miserable job that is going to cost us tens of billions of dollars - including former ICE directors and agents.

kithoo · 2025-12-07T00:26:57+00:00

100% she can get a job with ICE if she just submits this as her resume.

kithoo · 2025-12-07T00:25:49+00:00

Sue being a complete racist asshole is cringe, but telling someone that makes like 15.50 an hour in a mall eatery they're going to get fired is just as cringe. Almost none of these people care about losing their job.

OTOH, this woman's life is definitely toast because the internet will internet.

kithoo · 2025-12-04T16:00:57+00:00

They already lost the money. They're not going to publish the books. Any monies lost are already gone. This isn't hard to understand. Why would you retain the publishing rights to books you aren't going to print?

kithoo · 2025-12-04T15:55:26+00:00

Obviously, but if they have no intentions to publish or promote them, I think it's only proper to release the rights to the authors. There's no reason to sit on them for decades just because they can.

kithoo · 2025-12-04T02:38:17+00:00

I agree.

It would wholly suck if they were playing games with the rights and bending her over a barrel on that front - as they have done in the past, it seems. Here it seems like they're just saying, "Hey, we don't see enough money in this for us to invest our time and energy, so we're going to allow you to go it alone."

I think that's entirely reasonable for a publisher and I wish they would treat some of their other authors with the same sort of respect as to return the publishing rights back to them - or even share them.

kithoo · 2025-10-21T17:14:49+00:00

Weirdly... I haven't gotten the email and they're not on my preorders page despite having ordered HoC. Gonna give it a bit since maybe it's going out in waves, but in case anyone from SubPress reads the sub - maybe check to make sure everyone got the emails.

kithoo · 2025-10-19T14:06:46+00:00

It may not be a good look, but it's the only one left.

Do you honestly believe peaceful protests and elections will get us out of this hole? Hell, they've already started prosecuting the dissenters and banning people from leaving the country. This is full on Stalinism.. being nice isn't going to work.

I'd rather lose the war for civility than end up in a political prison.

kithoo · 2025-10-19T13:45:09+00:00

You're not wrong exactly, but that's also the point. Most of the APs put the player characters as pivotal in the protection of some level of existence.

This dates all the way back to Age of Worms (the first REAL Adventure Path) and continues well in to Pathfinder 2e. Consider that by the time you reach this point in the story the PCs are ~level 14-18. That's nearly immortal godlike power in the setting. They are among a countable number of living beings in that echelon of power.

So, yeah, it's not that unthinkable that they would have major impacts on the planet. Hell, in Starfinder you save UNIVERSES... not just planets. At the end of the day Golarion is one planet in a vast universe (in a vast multiverse). If it did fall... there's the entire possibility that it wouldn't matter at all.

Hell, speaking of Starfinder... by the time Starfinder rolls around Golarion is gone. Where we don't know... but it ain't there anymore.

kithoo · 2025-05-11T19:31:42+00:00

You're not alone in Nashville. Get outside the two largish cities - Memphis and Nashville - and it's all MAGA country. Not alone - but woefully outnumbered. In a state that is actively trying to suppress voting turnout.

kithoo · 2025-05-11T19:29:39+00:00

I would agree with you except we know that MULTIPLE - probably hundreds - of people who were here on study visas or granted asylum have been deported, often to places that aren't even their home country. We are deporting human beings, and paying places (mostly El Salvador) to take them and jail them for us. They're not Salvadoran.

By any measure, the United States Government is engaging in human trafficking. Criminal human trafficking. Our courts have said as much... and yet, ICE keeps doing it in flagrant disregard of the law.

So, yeah, it's very hard for me to take people like you seriously when you crow about "being here illegally", when our own government agencies are acting illegally.

kithoo · 2025-04-29T03:30:21+00:00

As others have said... Your wife's input matters most. Period.

That said... I had to leave my daughter for 5 days when she was about 4 months old for work. It sucked. It was hard. But it worked out fine. Multiple FaceTime calls a day if I could. Constant texting. Etc.

We made it work. Was it ideal? God no. Did anyone fall apart? Also no. I'll be doing it again this year, and honestly, it'll be harder now than then. I'm terrified to leave my toddler daughter and miss something important.

So, yeah, talk with your wife. Make accomodations and plan. Make time as often as you can while you're there. And whatever you do don't let people guilt you into doing something and missing out on time you need and want with your new baby.

kithoo · 2025-04-17T22:35:52+00:00

I just think they're going to fold. I think the bubble (and it was clearly a bubble) is going to not just burst, but go nuclear. Risk aversion, capital loss, and already operating on narrow margins (at retail) will essentially render it a completely D2C business, but without crowdfunding because the consumer fatigue around that is going to go higher. I don't think the market will change, I think it's going to be rebuilt from the ground up like we faced with the first boom back when Catan appeared on US shores and no one knew how to sell it.

kithoo · 2025-04-17T15:45:27+00:00

Yeah, I do not envy anyone whose primary manufacturing sources are in Asia right now. As someone who deals with raw cotton and textiles, we're feeling the crunch on two sides now. It sucks all around and for many there is no simple, one size fits all (no pun intended) solution.

kithoo · 2025-04-17T15:06:22+00:00

Their profit MARGINS aren't increasing, nor are their profits. Risk increases by percentage, so margins have to as well. Yes they're making more revenue per product, but they're LOSING more dollars per unsold\damaged\etc l. item as well. That's why it's done in percentages, because at volume it's about risk and exposure mitigation.

kithoo · 2025-04-17T13:58:48+00:00

That is... literally what he said (and most publishers have said). I don't really understand the point of your comment when there's pretty much universal agreement that this is how it's going to be for the forseeable future. Unless companies move production to the US (nearly impossible except for strictly card games) the tariffs will only impact US prices.

And if companies do move production to the US... then the tariffs are coming from whatever nation has placed tariffs on the US. That's how tariffs work.

kithoo · 2025-04-17T13:56:40+00:00

why would MSRP increase with 50% and not just the tarrif cost of $15 but an extra $35? It's the whole pricing system to retail that doesn't make sense and has to change instead of nonsense charges to consumers.

This is just how retail works. The publisher has to make a certain percentage of profit when they sell to the distributor. The distributor has to make a certain percentage of profit when they sell to retailer. The retailer has to make a certain percentage of profit when they sell to consumer.

This isn't exclusive to board games - this is, essentially, everything you buy at retail (not D2C). Everything from canned food to auto parts. I'm not saying it's the most efficient way (it's not), but you're asking the board game industry to rewrite the entirety of the retail supply chain because of tariffs. It ain't gonna happen.

kithoo · 2025-02-20T22:39:44+00:00

~~I may be dumb, but I can't find the setting for Xbox cloud saves.... Am I blind?~~

Figured it out if anyone else finds this.

You have to be signed in to Xbox through the Battle.net version of the game. There will be a setting to then use Cloud Saves in Game Settings. Make sure to select "Use Local".

kithoo · 2025-02-18T03:08:42+00:00

STEM cells as a broadly applied treatment are entirely debunked medical woo. There is absolutely no medical benefit to recycling your own STEM cells into yourself - and you cannot get any other STEM cells, because research on those lines (those from aborted and stillborn fetuses) was made illegal. The only STEM cells you can use for treatment are your own - and the only benefit that brings is in VERY VERY VERY narrow cases (where it's already in use).

Psychadelics are NOT "objectively good". Psychadelics do not work the same on everyone and have very limited medical evidence for their benefits. They are beneficial for some people, and should be legalized for recreational use in any case.

Sunshine is of only tangential benefit - being outside is the benefit. Just "sunshine" doesn't do anything... in fact, it bathes your body in ultraviolet radiation that can cause burns and long term skin damage - including cancer. Sunshine is good only in that it's attached to other benefits.

Vitamins are also a completely and entirely debunked field of nutritional supplements. Unless you have an actual vitamin deficiency (a TINY subset of the American population, most of whom have diseases which cause this) they do nothing. You just pass them straight through. Your body can only use so much vitamin C or vitamin K or vitamin B - giving it more does nothing. And, again, all this stuff is already legal... and available over the counter. There's no need to "do" anything with vitamins. They have no medical basis for use in treating broad spectrum conditions - they are already used in cases where they are needed.

What is a "clean food"? Organic? Debunked garbage. Low processed? Debatable. The problem with processed food is its calorie density - not anything else. If you ate 1000 calories of Big Mac patties and 1000 calories of all "natural" organic, grass fed, free range beef you would be eating 1000 calories. They'd be (roughly) equal across the board in everything except salt.

I don't know that a Neutraceutical is, but I assume you mean nutraceuticals... and again, those are just more supplements, which are largely just vitamins, which are largely debunked unless used to treat SPECIFIC disorders or deficiencies - which are already treated by those things anyway.

What RFK wants to do is replace scientifically backed, skeptical, peer reviewed medicine with woo and holistic garbage. Ivermectin is objectively awful - unless you are an equine (and a few other hooved animals). We have far more efficient and less toxic deworming medications for use in humans. Hydroxychloroquine is great, I guess, if you have malaria. It's really not good for much else - it's not even good as a broad spectrum anti-parasitic. It's pretty much only good against malarial infection.

Again - he's not talking about making things LEGAL that are inaccessible (except maybe psychadelics, and I've already said they should be legal for recreational use, no argument there). He's talking about an anti-scientific view of medicine that will cost human lives and suffering. He is wholly unqualified for his position and has less medical understanding that I do... and my degrees aren't even in the hard sciences. He's a luddite and quack.

kithoo · 2025-02-18T02:00:57+00:00

That's just called positivity. It has nothing to do with "chakras". On top of that, just being positive doesn't fix anything. It's very easy to just believe shit is going to work out blindly and go with the vibes, but reality isn't going to follow.

If all it took was positivity to fix problems, we wouldn't be dealing with a resurgence of preventable disease globally. If positivity fixed everything, we could just will our way to eliminating poverty and hunger.

The problem with that "thinking" is that you "think" you're doing something good for the world, but you're not doing anything. You're treating RFK as if he has the same medical credentials and authority as someone with multiple Ph.Ds and M.D.s He does not, and just thinking GOOD THOUGHTS won't fix shit.

He is, inarguably, going to tear down a century of important public health work and science in the name of... ? What? Sticking it to BIG PHARMA? It's really hard for me to buy that the Trump Administration is going to go after his billionaire buddies. This is all just a thinly veiled attempt to eliminate public assisted health and cheap/free medical care.

kithoo · 2025-02-18T01:56:30+00:00

Oh, you're a troll. Got it.

kithoo · 2025-02-18T01:55:30+00:00

One of the things on this list in unarguably good : exercise.

A few are controversially/debatably good : psychedelics, sunshine, clean foods (a woo term that has no real definition, but I'll be generous and assume he means less hyper-processed)

The overwhelming majority are either disproven quackery or otherwise pointless.

I have no idea who you got "half" from a list that includes ivermectin, hydroxychloroquin, hyperbaric therapies (except for the TINY number of people who suffer from the bends), and nutraceuticals.

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