In my experience, grandparents are the worst when it comes to breaking your screen time rules.

I’m not a parent yet (plans in the works) but I am going to be pretty strict on screen time, if that counts as a toy, because I cannot get through my entire waking hours without screens and I don’t wish that on another human being. I would probably not like overt weapons (like, toy guns that are meant to look like…

Several carpet and furniture stains later, we have a VERY strict “no slime in the house” rule. 

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People Online ran this yesterday, and it was such a mindfuck. It was like, “Surfing instructor arrested for killing his two toddlers” and then pics of him at the beach cradling his babies and smiling with his wife. I was honestly confused if the dad in the pics was the murderer in question because…why are you showing…

Not to mention Fox news and right wing republicans would point out how this is indicative of that community. If he were black, another example of black on black crime. He were muslim, It would be about how terrorist are here in our country and we should have a muslim ban. He were mexican, another example of bad…

I get this so much and I hate it. I refused a family trip to New York once because one of the women (related to my family by marriage) is so anti-gay that it makes me feel like I might have a rage stroke.

Also, like... generic white guy is exactly what I expect a family annihilator to look like?

You have to do what I do, lock myself in my room when they visit (because my wife is apparently unconcerned and unwilling to tell them not to), and actively decline any and all trips to see any of them. It sucks, and it may one day cause a rift in our marriage, but I only get one shot at life and I’m not going to…

You’re doing God’s work.

I have three brothers-in-law who, when I married Mr. Valve, were pretty nice and decent guys. One by one, they’ve all fallen down the internet rabbit hole into crazy QAnonish/far right garbage in the past five or six years, until I can’t even stand to be in the same room with them anymore. With each of them, I’ve…

Someone would have brought up that he smoked weed while in high school once too

What is a man who kills babies with a spear gun supposed to look like?  Is there a difference in what he’d be supposed to look like if he’d killed them with a machete?  A pistol?  He’s a Qanon scumbag who murders babies.  Who cares what he looks like?  

If he'd been literally anything else other than white, we would have gotten his arrest record and mental health history complete with "a history of violence."

Yeah, no, I don’t want to talk to more strangers, I don’t even want to talk to coworkers. I am happiest alone or around family or my closest friends, and I don’t need a lifehack to know that. Maybe only SOME people are horrible monsters, but the rest are self-interested actors, just like me, who don’t have the time or…

Written like an extroverted city dweller.

Counterargument: No.

I keep reading that I should never acknowledge, approach, talk to, or look at anyone ever as they automatically see me as a threat.

Let’s say you have 100 people in the same occupation, and one of them decides to make a reality show out of it.