As a dad weighing in, have kids if you want to. Don’t have kids if you don’t want to.
Children will change 100% of your life’s activities. I can’t think of any aspect of life that is not drastically changed by having kids.
It is the most consequential decision you’ll make. It is a lifelong labor of love. It’s not trivial.
“Jesus wants you to have kids.”
- Jesus didn’t even have kids
“Social security will go insolvent”
- Govt’s problem, not yours
“Your ancestors are counting on you”
- No they’re not. They’re dead.
“Bloodlines!”
- Only relevant if you are a monarch
All of these arguments are fake and dumb. Have kids if you want them, and don’t have kids if you don’t. You owe no one an explanation.
22 yrs ago today, after a long zoning dispute with local officials that ruined his business, welder Marvin Heemeyer had enough & created the Killdozer.
He destroyed the mayor’s house, the judge’s house, town hall, the police station, & the bank - while avoiding hurting civilians or their property.
Happy Killdozer Day to those who celebrate 🎊
@mutange_vin Ppl who want to run are rare but people who really want to be politicians make terrible public servants. And there are glorified parts of farm life, but the vital harvesters, packagers, deliverers, slaughterhouse workers etc. are not well paid or thought of highly by society.
@SocialistMMA@insidioussamg As someone who has organized volunteers, people like Smalls deserve so much more credit for sticking his neck out. The negative consequences of doing something about a situation that doesn't have high rewards makes it really tough to get others to join
@IvarAndersen_7 This little guy looks to young to remember, but it doesn't lessen the importance of bonding with dad and practicing an important skill he will say he's been doing since before he can remember.
Imagine how privileged you have to be to liken a member of the public brushing your sleeve while walking next to you to assault. Such a person should never be a public servant.
Most butterfly gardens are built to feed butterflies. The good ones are designed to make more butterflies.
A yard full of nectar flowers is a snack bar for the adults, and that's a fine thing to offer. But flowers alone make a rest stop, not a home. A few other pieces turn it into the real thing.
The big one is host plants. Caterpillars don't drink nectar, and most won't eat just any leaf. Monarch caterpillars need milkweed; black swallowtails want dill, parsley, or fennel. Without the specific plant a species lays its eggs on, your garden raises no butterflies of its own.
Then the small stuff. A flat rock or two in full sun gives them somewhere to bask, since a butterfly can't fly until the sun has warmed its wings. A shallow dish of wet sand lets them "puddle," pulling up the salts and minerals nectar doesn't provide. A wind-sheltered corner, with a few stems and leaves left standing through winter, gives them places to rest and overwinter.
And no spray, not even the organic kind, since most of it kills caterpillars just as readily as the pests.
This is how your butterfly garden stops being a place they pass through and starts being a place they come from.
Today, a congresswoman lied to have me detained by Capitol Police.
Why? To try to silence our work against U.S. wars in the Middle East and sanctions on Cuba.
Instead of defending these wildly unpopular policies, members of Congress target the activists working to stop them.
Thankfully, I was released without charges.
No amount of intimidation will change that the majority of people in the U.S. want to stop U.S. wars and aggression. We won't be silenced.
🚨 Section 8 of Flock Safety’s contract caps liability at just $100.
100,000+ cameras. 49 states. 20B license plates scanned every month. $8.4B valuation. If your data is leaked, lost, or misused: max payout is $100.
Billions for them. $100 for you.
Y'all okay with this?
@Robles_writes@UnholyRome6 The democrats and republicans need as much fracturing as possible. There are other parties, many other better ways to engage in public life than vote for a party that funds the police state at home and genocide abroad.
@SocialistMMA Pretty sure that if we try the mass murderers, torturers and rapists only one state would remain standing and it doesn't begin with I.😬😬😬