¿Porque no los dos?

Let’s not forget that it’s also increasingly expensive to raise kids, so that deliberate choice gets kicked down the road. Later first kid necessarily means less time for more.

Top of the list. No chance for change with this regressive anchor around the neck of this country

It’s always projection

No I mean heat is the effect of moving atoms bumping into things

Heat is motion…

Without the super toughness, I have some bad news for you

I’m just glad I didn’t get banned for answering a question with references

It’s not removed from my post. Seems like some of your readers or federated instances are filtering that word out for you.

English history is full of “that foreign word sounds sexy so let’s make a version of it”

Me reading this in the bathroom on Thanksgiving

Back from this rabbit hole and brought gifts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger

It’s been in use since the 16th century by English speakers. Basically it was just an anglicization of the Spanish or Portuguese negro. At the time it was seen as neutral by white folk, but it’s also always been tied to slavery, so definitely not neutral from the pov of the slaves.

So did its use imply a power imbalance? Yes. Did the white folk who used it early on know? Maybe…?

I guess it’s similar to using “Indian” to describe New World Native peoples. It’s always been tied to expansionism and genocide, but from the pov of the oppressor that connotation isn’t readily recognized.

It’s only ever you in there. They just put away the props, take off the makeup, and get ready to argue about which color of pants should go with those shoes your spouse hates but you like so much.

And pin it to an inflation index maybe?

Fair point

Don’t you basically only need to change the pronouns you use to ask about their Significant Other, and maybe change the “when are you going to have kids?” to “when are you going to adopt a kid?”.

Starts with a “oh shit these old people have expensive healthcare needs!”, proceeds to “how the hell are we going to pay for their elder benefits?” (Social Security in the US), and eventually to “even their houses got gobbled up by the banks and private capital when they had to reverse mortgage their homes to pay off their medical bills and live out their final days…”

• the wall shakes excitedly

I’m so proud of you lot for even knowing what Death To Smoochy is. My fav movie of all time.

Can we get these so big they’re meaningless costs in terms of something understandable, like years of free lunches for all elementary school students? Housing all currently unhoused people? (Not medical, those costs make no sense)

“Trump Has Already Spent The Equivalent Of Feeding All Elementary School Students For A Quarter Attacking Latin America”