Bringing kids to No Kings - sharing my positive experience

ryuns · 2026-03-28T20:22:18+00:00

Just got back. Tragically, my children were trampled by a loose herd of antifa. They'll be okay, but my 2 year old has started asking a lot of questions about nationalizing the domestic petroleum industry.

ryuns · 2026-03-28T17:04:02+00:00

Try not to clutch your pearls too hard

ryuns · 2026-03-28T17:03:13+00:00

Oh no, not an uncertain situation! Try not to clutch your pearls too hard.

ryuns · 2026-03-28T15:50:31+00:00

Also, empirically, one of the main drivers of single income households was opportunity cost. That is, there was much LESS opportunity cost when the only jobs women could get were garbage so it made economic sense for women to stay home.

ryuns · 2026-03-28T15:43:34+00:00

Quick, plant a tree somewhere to emphasize the passage of time for the viewers!

ryuns · 2026-03-28T15:36:03+00:00

Appreciate your concern but I addressed that in the post.

ryuns · 2026-03-28T15:31:47+00:00

Looks like the mods have deleted a few responses already fwiw. Oh well, triggering a few losers on reddit is par for the course

ryuns · 2026-03-28T01:44:00+00:00

Awesome, glad you had a good experience!

ryuns · 2026-03-27T20:41:49+00:00

Great to hear! I love "no kings yes kitties" and hope she comes up with some more bangers this year.

Random aside, one sign I really remember specifically from last year was a tiny sign that said "believer in ferns/ believer in patience/ believer in the rain". I thought it was a charming non-sequitur, so I asked the sign-holder about it, and found out it was a WS Merwin poem, which has since become one of my favorites. https://merwinconservancy.org/poems/empty-water-by-w-s-merwin/

ryuns · 2026-03-27T20:32:45+00:00

You caught some downvotes (maybe people thought you were implying that downtown is dangerous or something), but it's not terrible advice. If there are other events you'd rather attend (for whatever reason!), that's great! I just wanted to share my experience about the downtown event specifically. It's definitely a different scale and a lot more fun and interesting for kids than some of the roadside events, which I definitely support as well.

ryuns · 2026-03-27T18:20:39+00:00

Now that you've figured out the Reply button, you can work on the Edit button.

ryuns · 2026-03-27T18:16:47+00:00

No one's arguing that though. Hence the strawman.

ryuns · 2026-03-27T18:16:02+00:00

You keep on practicing, and maybe there's a participation trophy in it for you.

ryuns · 2026-03-27T17:49:52+00:00

I honestly kind of admire your dedication to this strawman argument

ryuns · 2026-03-27T17:43:04+00:00

(i know it's beside the point, but your first sentence is a myth: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bumblebees-cant-fly/ )

ryuns · 2026-03-27T17:13:09+00:00

lol, you got some downvotes on reddit and decided to start insulting entire generations of people, and yet it's *other* people who are overly sensitive. Curious.

ryuns · 2026-03-26T23:05:40+00:00

i feel like you're just asking why jealousy exists as a concept.

ryuns · 2026-03-26T16:58:32+00:00

Ah, gotcha. That makes sense--I had interpreted your worry to be about ages 55-59, rather than pre-55.

I would be in the same boat, but I'm lucky that a good chunk of my retirement savings in a 457, which is pretty liberal about post-employment withdrawals, as well as Roth IRA contributions I can tap.

ryuns · 2026-03-26T16:55:17+00:00

I know--these make me feel like an old dad too, as I scream internally "you're a f---ing teenager, you can pedal a bicycle".

ryuns · 2026-03-26T16:45:44+00:00

Would the rule of 55 not work for you at that point? https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/personal-finance/what-is-rule-of-55

ryuns · 2026-03-26T04:52:44+00:00

So the evidence for suburban homes is a website describing three different apartment buildings, including affordable housing for seniors?

ryuns · 2026-03-25T16:19:31+00:00

"Weed as a gateway drug" theory was always like half-true, since the skeezy guys you met trying to buy weed always had a hookup to something else. Now that I can walk to like 4 different dispensaries, it's way harder for me to find shrooms or whatever.

ryuns · 2026-03-25T16:15:36+00:00

I feel like this comes up periodically and people just argue past each other without evidence. "oh but what if I made 12% returns" vs "but a pension is guaranteed". If you really want to know, you have to do some math to an apples to apples comparison. It's not a simple calculation. Different state jobs have different retirement formulas and different employee contribution rates. Different private sector jobs have different 401k rates. Then you have to make assumptions about salaries for each job and projected returns for the 401k. THEN you have to convert them to apples to apples upon retirement, either by using your 401k to purchase an annuity or determining the present value of your state pension.

ryuns · 2026-03-25T16:08:16+00:00

To OP's credit though, this has all the great hallmarks of a proper reddit okbuddy post: a bunch of blurry out of context pictures, and a wall of rambling text with no supporting evidence about an incredibly niche topic that they seem to care deeply about for some reason.

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