When dad’s going down on her:

HOLY DIVER!

You’ve been down too long in the midnight sea

Oh what’s becomin’ of me

No, no, ride the tiger

You can see his stripes but you know he’s clean

Oh don’t you see what I mean

HOLY DIVER!

$5,000 will easily cover diapers, food (even if not breastfeeding), clothes, etc. for a year and more.

We can play with adding other costs, but kids can be way cheaper than paying “retail”. FFS, toys, cribs, car carriers, all that shit is free, all day long. What we did pay for amounted to change, and then we sold it for change or donated it.

People have a kid, acquire all that stuff, and in a very short window suddenly have no use for it. You just about can’t give it away. LOL, how many babies can wear the same one-piece until it’s worn out? 10?! Our landlord’s wife worked a charity for baby stuff. Gave us tons of goods, we gave it back.

American here. I don’t remember paying a dime for either of our kid’s birth. Don’t think we even had copays for the doctor.

neckbeard freedomfighters

LOL, that is delicious.

Been downvoted plenty of times for saying I don’t get 1/10th of the Windows hassle lemmy talks about, probably less. Don’t have the LTSC version of 11, but it’s from a plain Jane ISO, not a factory install, which I would bet is the cause of many people’s pain.

Worked just a couple of months ago. Doubt it will this time.

A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union.

In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.

Rape play. More of a common feminine desire that most men know and/or will admit. Broadly speaking, women like the man to be dominant, it’s just a matter of degree.

54 here. 40s are peak womanhood for many. 50s women can be crazy hot, but it’s far more rare. In either case, they’re mature women who tend to know what they want. OTOH, we all have baggage by middle age, so there’s that.

Oh god, make it an Igor from Discworld.

Sounds fun to play around with, but lonely, socially isolated people will get sucked in. God knows the internet has created enough people like that, this just feeds the beast.

If someone says they eschew “wifi”, I assume they have internet, just no wireless in the home.

Have we gone so low-tech in our vocabulary that “wifi” now means “internet”?! Those are separate things, not a picky distinction.

The tick-tock sound annoys the driver. Dated two women in a row who did this and both had “repetitive noise disorder”, misophonia. My wife has a sort of thing like that were she can’t stand the rhythm or noise of the wipers.

I completely made up “repetitive noise disorder” years ago on reddit. Now Google AI returns it as a legit result. Am I famous now?!

Let’s call it an even 200 employees. That amounts to, rounded up, .003% of Meta’s staff of 74,067. Do with that info what you will

I voted in the Florida special election for our 1st district rep, knew damned well she’d lose. But here’s the important bit, she didn’t lose as badly as expected. And the other race was a good bit closer than expected.

We can call people like MTG an idiot, but even an idiot can look at an Excel sheet and see slippage. So yes, vote, even for a certain loser. They are paying attention.

Can’t get my head around this, especially after Somali pirates became a thing, article didn’t help. If armed men are trying to board my ship, I’m shooting back. These men didn’t sign up to be soldiers, but self-defense is not only a human right, it’s common sense. You have no idea what those pirates will do to you. Couple of dudes with scoped AR-15s would make short work of these jokers, just lead 'em a little. For that matter, equip them with real hunting rifles.

Take a look at the article picture. Those guys would be lucky to hit any damned thing with that tiny boat skipping over ocean waves. Try running and gunning, even with airsoft. No matter what you have to pause to shoot and these ships can’t pause. Meanwhile, the defenders have the high ground and a perfectly stable platform. And it’s not like the pirates can get the drop on ship’s radar.

What am I missing here?

Sinners has black characters?! FFS, it’s set in 1930s Mississippi, there weren’t, and still aren’t, any black people there!

Nah, not better. You will eventually stop thinking about these things and they’ll just happen.

Meh. I turn it, pirate. Turn of off when I’m done. No issues unless I fuck up and leave the torrent running for 24-hours.

Is spinning up your own out of the question? I pay $6/mo. for a Digital Ocean droplet. Installed OpenVPN server on it and I’ve been good to go for years. Their step-by-step documentation is the best I’ve ever encountered, seriously. Only got hung up on one tiny bit.

Those don’t even come to my mind, I live them without thought.

OK, sometimes if a thing is a PITA I’ll think, “Crap, can’t make someone else do it.”