I’m a dad of two kids, but married to a man, so we didn’t have preconceived gender roles. Instead of looking at what is fair division, look at what’s important to you and your partner. Then take that role on.

For me, birthday cakes, homemade is important. He prefers store bought. I do that. For him, laundry should be done when the basket is full, for me, it should be done when the cupboard is empty. He does that.

The issue is if one parent is doing too much or things don’t get done. The other stuff that is not important, you just have to divvy up. It’s important that you’re both clear on that. I wouldn’t to leave the cake to him and be disappointed it’s storming bought. If he’s busy and can’t do laundry, he tells me. Obviously both help out where possible. If I’m at end of closet and going a load of clothes, I do his and the kids. If he’s at the shop the day before a kids birthday, he checks it I’m baking or need ingredients.

You just need to cover the basics. The rest is as it happens. However, when simple stuff like school forms. Having one parent responsible for all permission slips means less checking with each other as to if it’s done. One parent can just ignore emails and reminders.

I suppose you could pose the question differently. Who would you give 10,100,1000 to if they said they needed it but they said no questions asked.

I get that. My point is that in arenas that have usually nothing to do with the USA, it’s being talked about as fact that the USA is in a failed state at the moment.

It doesn’t have the dramatics of things like 9/11 that changed the world irrevocably. However, it’s a similar feeling for those not in the USA. The world has changed and won’t be the same. You don’t have to follow the news to be aware.

It’s not just in the news. My husband is a lawyer. He was on a training conference today. Part of it was about how the rule of law needs to be followed and society only works when it is. They then discussed how important it was to upkeep that using America as an example of a government no longer following rule of law. This wasn’t internet memes. This was senior legal minds discussing how American democracy is failing.

Ugh, now they just know lots of ways to commit suicide and ended up damaged. Parenting is hard.

To be fair, there was enough information correcting that misinformation that you would have known what was real and fake if you had any inclination to find out.

Misinformation was definitely a problem, but racism is a bigger problem that was exploited.

Yep, the switch was a great idea to bridge console and handheld. Once the technology is out and the steam deck is open, without subscription, without lock down, allowing all past purchases, etc. ; the console is dead.

Haha, I’ve just kept the embarrassing pics (3-2-1 backed up) as blackmail material. They’re still only 8 and 6, so not changing DNS yet, but when they do I’ll be proud. I plan to make weak blocks and ramp them up as they learn to circumvent. Teach tech skills while allowing a drop feed of inappropriate content.

The bigger issue for me is how to teach them privacy when they have never experienced it.

I’ve a Synology nas, so it’s running synologys os. It started as my docker container manager but it’s a pretty basic one, so my laptop became the docker manager for the more hefty stuff. My Nas just acts as a qbittorrent and file server now. Laptop is opensuse tumbleweed.

Yes, all sex he has is transactional. He’s not seducing anyone.

Ubiquiti is reputable and has the infrastructure to manage sensitive data from many companies. The software phones home and is cloud based for logging in and back ups etc, however its network information and settings rather than personal information. This does include data about your devices, sites visited, apps used etc. However, as a b2b rather than a consumer facing company mainly, they are not really into data mining, yet. I’ve used them for my business. It’s a bit pricy for my home needs, but I’m due an upgrade soon and will be looking at their equipment. It works well together, is both powerful and mainly intuitive.

Any internet connecting hardware theoretically has access to all your data passing through it. So, I’d either go ubiquiti or open source. My understanding is that the open source options are playing catch up as most modern routers don’t release open drivers for their components. So, although the software is theoretically equal, practically it isn’t, but that may change with openwrt releasing a new router soon. If you need stuff now, I’d get ubiquiti.

When everyone is looking for new trading partners, the only person missing out is the person declining to trade.

If it’s the same case I saw, he was gay. So, not exactly not a minority.

If there is no retaliation, then there is no incentive to stop the tariffs on the USA side. Even if that wasn’t trump, it’s logical.

A del would imply he’s good at negotiation. He isn’t. He’s good at leveraging people, but mostly that’s been illegal. If he was good at deals, he wouldn’t have messed up international relations, which is deal making, but more complex. He’s a rich kid that fell upwards and inspired a cult following through sheer luck.

While I agree, they are useful, I don’t expect Russia to respect international waters should Greenland remain in control. Already they frequently venture into European water and have severed communication cables.

Shipping lanes are only useful if countries are still trading with each other.

Yeah, I think the indie scene is more creative with all aspects. Art, mechanics, themes. However, they still follow previous work and develop on it. All games would be necessity be more creative if all parts were patentable.

I think there is a case to be made for parents as they protect innovation. However for software, which develops rapidly, it’s more a choke on innovation and development as innovation is more iterative.

It’s the same in all art. gaming just has mechanics and code that is more easy to fall within the patent system. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t support parents on game mechanics. However, I think for many games we are rewarding derivative dross rather than innovation and novelty. There is a middle ground.

Perhaps parents for a shorter period, maybe 10 years. With development lead time, this would actually be shorter in practice. However, the flip side would be that if you apply for a patent, your code becomes open source after the patent expires. For that game and all derivatives of the patent sold during the period. So make the option to patent something have an upside for consumers and other companies too.

Or we’d have a huge variety of different games that are more creative.

I think talking to counterparts means talking to those, apart from trump who have some influence but might also be level headed. I assume they will all be pushed out over time for loyalists but there are likely still rational actors. Somewhere.