Okay, this… is hilarious.

It takes two to tango. No-one is holding a gun to her head or shackling her in chains up to DiCaprio. This is 100% her decision.

And for anyone who then claims, “but she’s not 21, she’s not even legally an adult!!!1!”… how can you possibly call yourself a feminist if you’re going to absolve adult women of personal responsibility? You’re reducing these women to the state of children or the intellectually disabled who cannot make and follow through with decisions of their own, and need to be “taken care of” like cattle or property.

And that is massively misogynistic.

“Trickle down economics only occurs when the wealthy bleed.”

Similar, and appropriate. The working class will only benefit once the wealthy are no longer wealthy.

“Only connections can comment on this post.”

Yeah, they’re clearly butthurt from all the constructive criticism.

My mom isn’t into tech at all, so she has no real tech that needs supporting aside from her TV.

My dad, on the other hand… he’s in his mid-80s, and sliding into Dementia, so I have to be careful and break instructions down into the simplest and easiest-to-remember form as possible. But even with his problems he still takes the time out to google his own issues, find solutions, and if those don’t work he comes to me with his entire workflow for me to look over to see where he went wrong. And then he still tries to absorb what I’ve done to help him.

The dude is 85, with a 5th grade education, suffering from dementia, and he still does better with “struggling with tech” than a majority of people out there.

I am definitely seeing a time when he starts shutting down certain programs for the last time, and eventually even the entire computer, but damn I’m proud of the old fossil.

It’s why I take as long as he needs with whatever problem he has.

Women are often delaying their first child well into their 30s or even 40s

Women who delay into their 40s are highly likely to never have children. Even waiting until the mid-30s dramatically reduces a woman’s chance of ever being able to have children naturally.

Pregnancies after the age of 35 are called “geriatric pregnancies”, because they occur at the very tail end of a woman’s fertile timespan.

Fertility itself starts going down some time between 28 and 32, and really starts plummeting by 40. The medical field considers nearly all women 45 and older to be “functionally sterile”, even though menopause itself may still be years or decades away.

I mean, can a woman get pregnant naturally after the age of 45? As in, without modern medical reproductive assistance in the many tens of thousands of dollars? Sure, but it is vanishingly rare.

Awww… are the violent genocidal colonizers feeling insecure and butthurt?

Where I live, that could buy a parking space.

In the nearest metro region (about 3 hrs away), ten times that amount might buy a parking space. A very sketchy parking space, at that.

Land prices in British Columbia - even way out in the boonies - is totally f**ked.

Men: never go to a female therapist, they will NEVER be able to understand you from a man’s perspective. All they see is abundance, with men chasing them and paying attention to them, and will never understand how few choices those men in the bottom-80% are left with.

There are so many goddamn stupid people in this country.

You are more correct than you even fear.

Consider this: almost half of all American adults cannot read beyond a fifth-grade level. This bars them from a lot of information and nuance, preventing them from making the decisions that best serve themselves, and forcing them to rely on conservative propaganda that has been explicitly dumbed down to obscure the fact that those choices will hurt them the most.

None of that would have happened with a well-educated populace that could employ bullshit detection and critical thinking.

Hell, I doubt even conservatism in any capacity could survive as a going concern in such a society.

The entire American food pyramid and food ecosystem was explicitly designed to create metabolic disorders and enslave the American people to the for-profit medical system. It’s why raw foods with zero processing (and so, zero additional costs) cost several multiples more than highly processed foods (which cost much more to produce).

Y’all all need to largely remove the bottom level of the food pyramid from your diet, and start viciously curating highly-processed foods out of your diet.

Canada has had 4 shootings at elementary and high schools in the better part of a century. To increase that, you would have to include colleges and universities, and that would only increase that number to nine.

Nine.

Meanwhile, America has almost 300 every year. And that’s only elementary and high schools.

“The truth is paywalled, but the lies are free”

I can understand putting on Die Hard, and only the first one. I mean, it really isn’t Christmas until Hans Gruber falls off of Nakatomi Plaza. But have that kind of stuff in the background, for anyone to either watch or ignore.

Especially if you have it on while everyone is getting supper ready, and Hans’ fall is the call to come to the table. The movie ends pretty much right after that, anyhow.

Just to point out, many software dev places are trying to replace developers with AI.

I mean, that’s not going to work out well, what with the high rates at which AI hallucinates. But businesses are going to keep trying until they collapse from all the shitty code that’s been created.

The rectum is considerably larger than your mouth, and can hold a lot more shit.

Well, fuck. Not just squick, but full-on nightmare fuel.

Some people were never meant to operate machinery of any kind, much less machines physically larger than they are.

Like, don’t even let this person touch a lawnmower.

Considering that the majority of the GOP electorate is in the bottom-50% of incomes, this becomes very much a “leopards ate my face” moment.