Why are religious people in charge of medical decisions?!?

Lol! Did not mean it like that…

A little thing I love is people’s houses. There are always so many details that talk about their history, the present occupants, the place. I can pass in front of the same building every day and still notice something new.

Don’t most countries have constitutions though?

I’m an optimist. Maybe they think that all others know the answers by heart and don’t need to check the options? (I know that’s probably too optimistic)

Unbelievable…

The more I see about education nowadays, the more I realize I would not survive it anymore. So many tests and assignments and whatever, students have barely any time left to think or be bored. Everything gets constantly evaluated.

And pointy arches!

Hanging is such a horrible method…

Remember when, during the pandemic, giving free school lunches to everyone in the US actually costed less than the usual system?

The US system is build around punishing the poor. In EU there is less punishment but it could still be better. I’d love a reasonable universal basic income proposal. I’m just too jaded to think it will ever happen, but I’d love it and 100% support it. Even if I don’t need it and my taxes would likely get higher.

Slightly unrelated: I love paying taxes and seeing how that improves the society as a whole. My taxes go to schools, hospitals, roads, social programs, supporting a wide variety of association… I am glad to pay for all of it.

It does feel like it, doesn’t it?

That’s a step I forget soooo often!

Yeah, I’m so confused about their planning steps. Don’t you check the map to see where it is? Book a hotel nearby? Confirm with other websites? So odd to just roll with whatever the AI spouted…

Yeah, I’m so confused about their who’s planning steps. Don’t you check the map to see where it is? Book a hotel nearby? Confirm with other websites? So odd to just roll with whatever the AI spouted…

Low quality wine is much worse than its alcohol content.

Random personal anecdote: I can’t drink stout beers anymore. A single one gives me the worst hangovers. Same quantity of alcohol in other beverages doesn’t have nearly the same effects.

But by then they have school, so I can as well have my own job.

Sure, I wouldn’t want anymore an all-encompassing job as I had before, but a 9-5 is perfect.

Counterpoint: I took some months off work when my first one was born. And I hated it. I felt that all my value was as “baby-sustaining-machine”, the highest mental skill requested any given day was loading a laundry load and it was very socially isolating (not many people available during working hours for socializing). At the same time, it was stressful being constantly the only one in charge. I was relieved to drop them at daycare and get back to work.

Now that they are of early school age, I enjoy spending time with them, but I also find it taxing. I know I wouldn’t be a good parent if I were to do it 24/7. But I am glad to spend every non-school moments together.

That’s rage inducing!

How can you design a system and think that not allowing any maintenance of this section is a good idea?!

Alimony: support for a spouse that sacrificed their career to further yours during the course of the relationship

Child support: support for the child, given to the parent that incurs in the costs for the child

What the novel talks about is child support.

I still don’t get the black humor and I will pretend to believe it’s because of the translation.

“And the rest of her body?” She skinny!