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  • it's getting hot in here

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  • Please. Recording in color.

    We just managed to get my wife's mother to use "people of color". Don't give her an excuse to backslide!

  • What mistakes did your parents make while raising you that you will be careful to avoid in your own parenting?

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  • I think when people think in terms of "my dad did this, I won't do that", they often miss what the real issue was. They end up being bad parents, just in a different way.

    My wife and I raised three kids, and I fucked them up in my own special way. Not anything like how my parents did me.

    If I were to look back over my life and offer advice, the advice I'd offer is: get some therapy. Have a disinterested, professional person to talk to every, single, damn week for the rest of your life. Being a parent will fuck you up.

    And that's coming from someone who doesn't regret having kids.

    When I was first thinking about having kids, I was thinking I didn't have the right personality. I spoke to my brother who had one child at the time, and he explained that when you have a kid you're so filled with love for them that nothing they do bothers you.

    I had a kid. From birth to about 18 months, he screamed. He screamed for everything. He would scream for hours about anything that bothered him. My mom worked as a nurse in a hospital nursery. She cared for her kids, friends kids, family's kids. She said that in her entire life she never heard a baby scream so loud. My MIL was also a nurse and worked in maternity. Same deal. She was amazed at how loud he was.

    I called my brother up to yell at him. He said I was right and he got it wrong. His first kid was easy. His second kid would get him so tight he'd have to leave the house to get away from her.

    Back to my kid: Everyone asks, "oh, was it colic?" No. Not colic. The instant he started talking, he stopped screaming. The screaming was just what he did to communicate before he could talk.

    I mention the story about the screaming because that was the easy part of parenting.

  • What are your favorite healthy snacks?

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  • No one mentioned it, so I'll throw it out here:

    Popcorn.

    I'm not particularly concerned about avoiding fat or salt, so I drown it in butter, but you do you.

    After one of my kids killed our microwave by putting a package of popcorn in it and turning it on for way too long and forgetting it, I banned microwave popcorn from the house and got an air-popper. The thing is awesome. I never liked the microwave popcorn, but the air-popped popcorn became my snack of choice.

  • Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead

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  • Are the posts false?

  • Machado presented Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting

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  • I'm not going to suggest that they'd be better off with Maduro, but surely they could come up with someone better than Trump's asshole licker.

  • Republicans vow to block Trump from seizing Greenland by force

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  • That only works if he's so incapacitated that he can't speak or post.

  • Denmark’s Army Chief Says He’s Ready to Defend Greenland | Danish forces are moving to the island to show NATO—and Trump—that they’re serious about security.

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  • I've been wondering how long it would take for the "lie to the pedophile and tell him we're ready because he says we are" to get us to the same level of preparedness as Russia attacking Ukraine.

  • Trump wants to slash funding for federal climate and weather research. Congress is about to tell him ‘No’

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  • I've decided not to hold my breath waiting for Congress to defy Trump.

  • An open letter to the nasty motherfucker who shits with the aim of a stormtrooper:

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  • I'm thinking you meant "wiping thoroughly" and not "widening thoroughly", but I'm not sure.

  • What is your favorite thing about being a parent?

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  • What is your favorite thing about being a parent?

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  • Studies have down that people with adult children tend to be happier than older, childless people. Unless you're a total piece of shit, children give you social contact after all your friends are dead and gone.

    My three kids are adult and living on their own.

    My wife mentioned that she'd like to see them for her birthday. I texted them and they are all coming to visit the day before.

    They still care about us, even though I am a piece of shit. Just not total I guess. Or maybe they tolerate me for their mom.

    Could also be the free food, but whatever, I'll take it.

    I'll add that raising kids is a strange experience. The things that are easy to quantify tend to be bad. Those are the things that you can describe easily in a way that someone without kids can understand.

    The good things about raising kids are mostly just feelings. They are harder to explain, and they don't tend to make his stories.

    On the one hand, you're paying a $500 insurance deductible because your kid misjudged the distance to a bollard during a driving lesson. On the other hand, you're hanging out watching a movie together that you watched as a kid.

    It's hard to explain how hanging out outweighs the cost of the repairs to someone who doesn't have kids. It's even harder to explain that the comparison isn't even close.

  • FtM

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  • toxic cultural expectations

    FTFY

  • The more you learn about human biology and childbirths, the more you'd realize how shitty and inferior this form of existence is...

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  • Natural Selection doesn't care if any individual is happy with its situation. All that matters is if the individual manages to reproduce successfully.

    Miserable people having miserable children who go on to produce more miserable children. As long as you don't get so miserable that there isn't some miserable person out there willing to bang you and create more miserable people despite the misery, your suffering doesn't rate a second glance.

    Evolution gets it right enough. It's the universe saying, "Meh", and going back to bed.

  • Egomaniac Trump, 79, Gives Himself a Deranged New Job Title

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  • The irony is if Fred had given Donny that shirt, we probably wouldn't be dealing with the shitstain today.

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  • Best is a tough one. There are so many great movies in every decade. Narrowing it down to just one would be impossible.

    To add to the post that others have supplied:

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    An Affair to Remember

    Roman Holiday

    If you want to include animation,

    Cinderella

    Peter Pan

    Lady and the Tramp

    Sleeping Beauty

    Sleeping Beauty in particular has some absolutely fantastic backgrounds created by Eyvind Earle.

  • Learning Linux can be difficult but fuck is it satisfying when you figure something out!

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  • I've been using Linux for a long time. I started with SLS Linux.

    It's a lot easier now than it was then, but it's still a lot of fun.

  • Vance Announces New Justice Dept. Fraud Post to Be ‘Run Out of the White House’

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  • Efficient. Keep the fraud post where the fraud originates.

  • Trump seeks $100bn for Venezuela oil, but Exxon boss says country 'uninvestable'

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  • Orange Pedo-pirate

  • Park Service says passes are void if Trump's photo is covered : NPR

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  • As intended.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Just say what you want!

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's an uplifting fact that might counter the doom of our current reality?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Serious

    What is the greatest tragedy a person could experience in their life?

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Fetterman says Democrats have ‘forgotten why we lost’ and Trump is ‘not an autocrat’

    www.cnn.com /2025/09/14/politics/fetterman-democrats-trump
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What is the best shampoo and conditioner for a poodle?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are good final words?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Locked

    Lemmings who have personal experience with bipolar disorder (self, family, or friends), how hopeless is the situation, really?

  • Knitting @lemmy.world
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    Doctor Who scarf survived washing!

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Baby kangaroo