“This is too hard. I quit!”

Fucking loser bitch.

If you think that’s bad, just envision all the physiological and existential issues you’re instilling in them! ( /s!)

On a serious note I have thought the same thoughts after my interactions with my children.

In my opinion, the biggest indicators of a good parent to me are: to be present, to always act in your child’s best interests, to always enable your child’s curiosity and wonder, and to know the difference and when to be a parent and when to be a friend them. None are easy.

I only know you from this post, but if you’re self-aware enough to worry about if you’re supporting your child (or any child, for that matter) and consciously reviewing your decisions to learn how to be better, you’re probably a pretty good parent.

You got this!

Good luck, friend.

Look, isn’t there something you can do?

Still time to go get another.

“We’ve found a lot of videos online, and we’re going to keep watching until you stop making them!”

You’re talking about China, right?

Well that’s a confusing headline. Took me a few tries to parse it.

Too late, fuckers. Subscription is staying cancelled and I’m not coming back.

Well people can be in the designated area, and you’re right I can avoid that, but it’s not like the smoke magically stays in that area, too. It’s much easier, cheaper, cleaner, and generally more profitable for the business to just ask you to go out to the sidewalk or whatever.

I had the same reaction as a smoker. It’s really not all bad, and as a now non-smoker, it’s great to not wake up the next day to the clothes I wore to the bar smelling like an ashtray, so I now understand the complaints.

And it saves you, the smoker, money because you’re not chain smoking sitting at the bar anymore.

At the end of the day, though, a beer drinker sitting next to a wine drinker is a bit different than a smoker sitting next to a non-smoker, so the whole “you’re already at a bar!” argument is pretty disingenuous and doesn’t really go far with me.

I don’t smoke anymore, but when I did a lot of these types of bans came into effect, and even as a smoker I really came to appreciate it. When I did finally quit, it was nice to not have to deal with smoke everywhere.

You didn’t need to include the quote for your point to stand.

Ok, Millennial. ;)

Snark aside, my local library actually does offer digital access for those that want to use a phone or eReader as their primary consumption method. You should check if yours offers the same! Any effort that gets people reading and thinking is a good thing, in my mind.

Yep. Rejoin and the British Pound dies. No special deals this time.

That was the striking thing to me as well. One cable with no backup safety mechanisms. Unbelievable.

To a certain extent, I agree with you. It is even in their own book— turning the other cheek. And despite everything, I think kindness always counts.

That said, there comes a point where I feel I need to see if I can drag the horse to the water rather than hoping it will follow me there. If it doesn’t, perhaps it is a lost cause and I should go find another horse. Know what I mean?

It’s just hard to find where that moment is, especially if it is family.

We saw what happened with toilet paper in 2020 and said “wouldn’t it be great if everything could be like this? At least we wouldn’t have a black lady as President!”.

So long as they’re not moving on to a new one, good. Religion is a plague on human society. We don’t need it holding us back.

But at least they were born, and isn’t that all that counts?

/s++

If history has taught us anything, it is that the Ukrainian people are smart, creative, inventive, tenacious, and determined. I have no doubt they will excel in this and in everything else thereafter.