I just bought this for the first time last week. It’s now done. Toum is like a spiritual awakening

Gambling.

It’s disgusting but not necessarily illegal.

Oh no! I’m -7 in made up points!

She finna peg his ass in that power imbalance 🤣🤣🤣

You do realize that upvotes/downvotes are just populism in action and time and time again people have been proven to be dumb? I mean look at America.

As someone who has reached various stages of self-congruence in their life (most recently this month) more people would benefit from understanding that deep down we are all hypocrits in some way or another. That does not make us bad people, but ignoring it prevents us from growing.

Friendly reminder that despite the flaws this is the best system we have the issue isn’t the system it’s human nature. We (collective) need to grow up.

The older I get the more I wonder if the drive for more power, more money, more control… It’s all just mental illness. We should not be applying laurels to the likes of Musk or Bezos. We should be addressing the underlying mental issue that has made an unhealthy disconnect from humanity.

Anecdotally but you’re not wrong. Everyone talks a talk not many do. That’s irrespective of political beliefs.

It shows you lack wisdom and maturity.

Assuming that kids living in poorer parts of the world are neglected. Spoken like someone who has never once faced adversity in life.

So myopic.

The state isn’t going to be there for you either and your parents will be long dead and your siblings if you have them? Grab bag of maybe.

You are sooooo limited in your thinking it’s really a shame. You don’t even know the conditions some people live in even in dense urban areas like Toronto while still having kids.

Go into any rural and/or poor area in America or Canada and you’ll find poor uneducated people and they’re having kids just fine even in wealthy countries with a lot of environmental factors pushing against it.

It’s a matter of want. Own your decision don’t blame it on external factors. If you want to blame external factors for your not having kids you’re weak. My girlfriend is Kenyan. She has a 11 year old son back home she hasn’t seen in a year. She had a kid in a small rural town halfway around the world and moved to Canada to make a better life for her and her family. You know what she’s never done? Push blame outwards.

Yes, structurally we can be doing a lot better to make it easier and more attractive for people to have kids but that was and is not my point. My point is if you want kids just fucking do it. The reward far outweighs the risk and long term you’re going to be much, much better off because you’ve just grown your team.

The world has always been fucked. The question is do you bend over and take it or do you fight for positive change?

GenX actually (48) and I have 3 kids I tell them I love them daily. 2 are on the spectrum and 1 realistically will never become an independent adult.

Your comment reeks of someone who grew up entitled and has never learned how to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.

Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

Lol uneducated does not mean dumb.

I stand by what I said.

The future lies in those “uneducated” people.

Everything about this whole thread screams privileged white people who haven’t known an ounce of struggle in their lives and all of a sudden things get a little tight that they can’t buy butter instead of margarine and holy hell the sky is falling!

This is why all my friends now are immigrants lol.

And we are allowed to disagree. That doesn’t however make your opinion any more valid. You can’t hold hands when you make fists.

Yes.

I was watching a YouTube video yesterday with Jimmy Carr and I think he summarized it perfectly.

As humans we are amazing at quantifying all the negatives around having kids (costs, time constraints, behaviour changes) but we struggle at quantifying the positives (purpose, accountability, pride, humility).

My regret is having kids later in life and not in my early 20’s. The little secret we all know is you’re never ready for kids. You either dive in or you don’t. After that? In for a penny, in for a pound.

Yes you can. People do it all over the world.