u/thejml

It should never be just “we want to have a child so we will”. That’s self centered, short sighted and irresponsible.

Anyone looking to have children should think through **at the minimum**:

- do we have the money to raise a child?

- who will be able to raise and care for them

- will the child have the ability to grow and succeed in the environment we’re bringing them into?

- will the above to be to the standard we would want for the child?

To bring a child into a bad environment, with no time or money to spend on the child, is to bring the child into this world setup for failure and would only put a drain on the system, the resources, the climate, the relatives, etc.

People are choosing (in Japan and elsewhere around the world) to not have children because of the less than favorable conditions outlined above, and many others.

I feel like it depends on the beach. Haven’t been to French one’s, but I’d bet there were some touristy ones that get slammed with people. Those make sense for this. Now, some of the quieter more locals only kinda beaches that people are able to spread out more, that’s probably fine to keep… but that’s going to be a hard distinction to make clear rules on.

We don’t even get the laugh track!

It’s going to take years if not decades to setup the full supply chain off that deal, he’ll likely be dead by then and China will be laughing the whole time.

Probably a good thing, the US sucked at it anyway. Ukraine was going to be forced to concede so much… Art of the Deal strikes again.

“Art of the Deal”… <eye-roll>

As someone who lives in America, I don’t understand how anyone DOES NOT think it’s offensive and threatening and a horrible stance for a president to have. But the ones that don’t think it’s a big deal is how we got where we are and I’m disappointed in my country… again.

Remember, If you hide it in your toilet tank, it’ll help you save water per flush as well!

You could still put them in a stall though.

I’ve often wondered this very thing. Minus Urinals (which, do we really need them?), a toilet is pretty standard, they’re all in individual closets with doors, and no one is swinging their tits or cock around outside the stall…

That said I’m not sure what they’re thinking here anyway… they want a biological male, but post-op trans woman on HRT hanging out in the men’s room. How’s that gonna work out any different than just having ungendered rooms in the first place? What is even the goal besides “shaming” the trans person? How does that help ANYONE? They’re not going to stop being trans because of it. And who is going to check or care?

As a dude in a bathroom stall, I don’t care who’s shitting next to me as long as the door is closed and they clean up after themselves.

I’m shocked, SHOCKED! … well not that shocked.

They might be cheap, but I’d worry Musk would deactivate them remotely at any time.

Looking at the stock markets, I feel like the cost of him vacationing (and taking Vance with him) cost would be cheaper on the avg American tax payer’s retirement account than another round of tariffs.

I guess he bought enough shares of Apple now that he drove the stock price down. Way to manipulate the market for your buddies.

A lot of people’s lives are about to get more expensive… again.

<butterfly meme> Is this winning?

To be fair, the last time I was there, the beer was cold and refreshing, the tits were adequately plump and on display, the waitress owning them was punctual and friendly, the order was accurate and the wings were pretty darn tasty.

But I’d much rather go to my local brewery or small restaurant down the street, support local and small business owners, and enjoy a smaller and cozier setting. There’s just so many other options, picking a chain like Hooters isn’t really something that happens often.

So far I’ve seen/heard Elon:

- Start shitty arguments

- Be a fascist

- Fire people they probably needed

- Cut funding or drop useful projects

- Spew senseless, poorly thought out catch phases

- Censor people that were right but didn’t align with his narrative

- Take credit for other people’s work

- Pass the blame for failures

Have yet to see him sign a check… it’s why they lost their boulder office, for instance.

They’re all going to keep voting red next time, right? It’ll all just figure itself out if we keep going far enough?

I feel like Trump’s entire point to this is literally to make the US more isolated and self-sufficient. While I get the point of the latter, this whole charade is making it very clear that the US should NEVER be trusted going forward. If such sweeping changes can be made by one deranged man’s pen, every 4 years the US could instantly change all posture and break every agreement on a whim. The US multi-tiered “checks and balances” do not work and no one will know what the US will do, near term or long term. This sends a clear message of “don’t do any deals with us”. Stability is NOT the US way in the slightest.

No one understands how he thinks… or if he thinks.