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Clementine
5hr ago
Yeah, in fact I did the same till age 8 or 10 so it's jumping the gun. I'm too used to thinking in terms of "a boys room" and "a girls room".
Ugh but closets. Whatever. Need to just resign myself to furniture constellations being something I'll have to tweak and change and tweak and change.
Clementine
5hr ago
I'm not blaming men, just noting them as a category of people not talking about it that doesn't fit "well it's because they regret having kids but can't say that so can't talk about it". Men have wives and see their wife go through XYZ during pregnancy but it seemingly doesn't get discussed during public discourse.
Your point re doctors is very true. Expected = irrelevant.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
5hr ago
I agree with the diagnosis but it's very harmful. Even 10 years might be too long a timeframe. What happens if there's some sudden crisis or emergency? Covid 2: More Gain, More Function. War with Iran. War with China. War with Russia. A recession. A great big AI arms race.
All of these will require massive borrowing, during a major crisis where everyone is already feeling anxious and skittish. Cutting taxes into a big deficit is not a good idea.
remzem
5hr ago
Yeah he's not as influential as Tucker, but still has a decent audience. I don't really understand why Bannon still stans for Trump so hard tbh though. Trump basically tossed him aside early first term and never looked back. Trump really doesn't come close to Bannon's populist levels. First term Trump, Bannon wanted taxes raised on the 5m bracket to bring down deficits. He wants the dollar to stop being the reserve currency to help US production, etc. Trump is almost closer to Romney politically than Bannon at this point.
remzem
5hr ago
Who are they even pillaging it for? Dems are more PMC now so they are hardly all low income and will likely benefit from the tax breaks, especially the SALT deduction changes. There are plenty or rust belt Trump voters on medicaid that will lose coverage along with the inner city dems. The military gets more funding which seems to be a requirement of every democrat or republican bill so it's basically bipartisan. I guess the border funding? Seems like pretty lame spoils compared to Biden's term.
Skulldrinker
5hr ago
In retrospect, the biggest "win" of DOGE was cutting off some of the federal funding that was paying the salaries of ideologues and activists.
remzem
5hr ago
Yeah but everyone knew USAID was just a regime change operation and wanted it cut for that reason. That was the whole point. Neocon Rubio swept in and pretended like we really cared about mosquito nets to Africa or w/e
I might be confusing a lot of things, for a lot of other things. For instance, I might be confusing the abrupt breakup for an indication that Musk needed and didn't get a bailout, but I'm not confusing anything for Twitter drama.
Skulldrinker
5hr ago
I assume she was convinced I was up to no good, as an unattended male.
I was new to the city and was at the event precisely because I hadn't made friends yet.
I've been specifically trying to to be more outgoing lately, I just keep getting anxious flashbacks to shit from almost a decade ago.
2rafa
5hr ago
Yes, I also thought Bannon was irrelevant but a lot of moderate Trump supporters listen to his radio show pretty religiously.
2rafa
5hr ago
Yeah because it turned out that most of USAID’s budget was bribe money to local elites in the third world so they don’t defect to China, which Trump is set on antagonizing and competing against.
2rafa
5hr ago
If Trump was smart he’d cut a deal with enough Dems who genuinely want infrastructure / railroad / whatever funding to pass a bipartisan budget that raises taxes somewhat on everyone (but especially on ‘the rich’) that can be framed as an ‘emergency national bill’ by all parties.
ChickenOverlord
5hr ago
And that's also assuming that cutting spending so drastically wouldn't have negative second and third order effects on the overall economy that lowered tax revenues in the process.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
5hr ago
Only if you confuse getting attacked by a bunch of Trump accounts on Twitter with "going down in flames."
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
5hr ago
State of disbelief?
I'm actually somewhat worried he'll tank the whole MAGA thing by using his connections to Trump to try to save himself.
Since the whole "save yourself by using Trump" plan didn't pan out, looks like he's determined to drag them down with him. Hopefully they can cut him loose before he does too much damage.
Pigeon
coo coo
5hr ago
I’m guessing this is a reference to the early Ming treasure fleets, in which case this is inaccurate as the treasure fleets were not exploring as much as they were re-establishing relations, and the ships were built for such.
Or this could be a reference to a brief period of theoretical Chinese naval superiority in technology between the Song and the Ming, before the Ming went all sea-ban and lost a lot of knowledge about building seaworthy ships.
Probably referring to the Ming treasure voyages. It's a fun little meme but I don't think it seriously applies. Chinese civilization is not going to randomly commit suicide in this era, certainly not more than everybody else is.
pataTactician
5hr ago
Insult to human dignity? Elon basically asked for this; he loved it until he realized that he was just a hype man. There's a reason the DOGE Twitter is spilling digital ink crowing over defending legume studies instead of posting sober cost/benefit analyses of Social Security.
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
5hr ago
I (male) shared a bedroom with my sister (female) for a pretty long chunk of time. It's really not such a big deal.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
5hr ago
To be fair, it takes a really high IQ to watch a man go down in flames and say "I want in on some of that action!"
pusher_robot
PLEASE GO STAND BY THE STAIRS
6hr ago
Agreed. Forcing cities into receivership that puts state legislatures into an oversight role can only help Republicans. Even in Illinois, the Democrats don't control the state as strongly as they control Cook county.
Jazzhands
6hr ago
The Abundance Dems aren't even real. Let us know when they pass anything of substance in a blue city; until then it's pure marketing.
roystgnr
6hr ago
I'm living the dream!
We don't have them often enough, since my youngest isn't as big a fan as the rest of us, but variety is good too.
Do unattended males tend toward more antisocial behavior? My experience is that men in packs are rather the ones to keep away from, or be leery of. Or avoid entirely. Especially when drunkasses. Unless you're in a trenchcoat in summer carrying a duffelbag or something really suspicious. Lone man at bar, since when is that a red flag? Odd.
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