Except the reality of the world is that humans are really, really bad at resource allocation. Really bad. The rich are not going to give away their stuff. We’re doing a horrible job of forcing them to contribute, and since they won’t do it voluntarily, that angle isn’t very effective. We can’t control this well.…

RBG YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DIE UNTIL AFTER NOVEMBER.

I hear you there. My partner is actually okay with a child under some circumstances, but he knows that I’d never be able to live with one.

Use protection, everyone. We don’t want a baby boom because you all got bored during quarantine.

Having kids in general shouldn’t be a thing everyone does IMO. Even if biology is screaming at you, you are affecting the world. You are bringing in one more person for us all to support when most people barely can support themselves. You are harming the environment more than any other decision you could make, CO2…

I think the thing with kids is that it’s a situation of extremes. There’s a lot of good and bad. Like, you do have to give up a whole lot. It’s a massive change of life. It’s only human to miss that, and to talk about missing that. On the other hand, many parents get so much fulfillment from their kids, even if the…

All of you are mocking this guy or acting like this part is obvious, but the thing is, you can only control yourself. The billionaires behind Amazon etc. do not give a single shit. You are harming sick people and poor people during this crisis, way more than you’re harming Jeff Bezos, if he calls your bluff and just…

I used to live in St. John’s County. Dammit, guys, get your shit together.

And it would work just fine if not for voter suppression, the Electoral College, and other bullshit that the Repubs use to cheat. (Yes, the EC is basically cheating now. It discounts so many votes of real people whose voices should matter.)

I am the worst human being but I’m crossing my fingers it fucks up red states harder so we can get Cheetolini out of the White House for sure come November.

Definitely 100% this. Settling for someone who you mostly have to put up with is not the way to go.

I honestly am not surprised by much on the internet these days, but I had a pretty similar response. It went from “wow, this guy is immature” to “...that’s...pushing things” to “WHY HAVEN’T YOU STOOD UP FOR YOURSELF HOLY SHIT YOU’RE TRYING TO BE A SAINT AND IT’s BAD” to “Oh yeah, definitely incest, he’s using you as…

My strategy is just to use the “appear offline” function in whatever messenger I have. Barring that, set your status to “Away” a lot and set a message saying “I’m low-energy and not feeling social; it’s not you.” And just ignore anyone who violates that message and tries to talk to you anyway. Possibly set a scheduled…

Sadly, they do care. They care about population density...which means the liberal cities are still going to get hit with a Mack truck. It sucks so hard.

It’s not just you, that’s how Evangelicals are. Either that or telling you you better keep converted or you’re going to hell. That’s it.

The only thing I can do if this goes into effect is cross my fingers that the moronic chunk of the Boomers dies off so that we can finally put this movement to rest forever. Heh.

Rich people can be jerks for so many reasons, but this isn’t one of them. If you were watching a plague roll in, and you had the ability to hoof it away, you would. Don’t you lie to me. It’s human to want to survive. Staying and getting sick because your neighbor is too poor to leave is like cutting off your leg…

Okay look, I see where you’re going here. And it’s just not the right tack, if you ask me.

That’s fair on the edge cases thing. I didn’t exactly know people went to therapists in the long term to “just have someone to talk to” (at that point, shouldn’t the therapy be towards ‘let’s help you make friends so you don’t need to pay for someone to listen to everyday problems’?). I figured if someone is paying,…

They don’t pay therapists in particular?