Remember that? 2009, “Obamacare has death panels!” Now look at us. Trump is the two time, citizenship is no longer safe, the law doesn’t matter. MAGA is being loyalty tested with Epstein. We got pickleball & robotheism. Alex Jones basically covers for the CIA & FBI now. Putin still in power.

Such a great time! Oh, and genocide daily!

#voidposting

Y’all both got a lot going on, and yes, should have worked on it before kids, but here y’all are.

1. When we had our first kid (12 now), I really struggled with the emotional connection piece for weeks. It’s common. I don’t think I had a strong emotional connection until she was like 2 or something. I had bad anger issues, dealing with my own depression & BS. But, she’s 12 now.
2. With our second, the emotions for her came faster. I was in less stress, more established career wise, but my wife struggled more with postpartum. She never struggled with depression and finally found herself going through feelings of inadequacy & feeling like a failure. She got on meds, made a big difference, and it eventually worked out with her getting off of them.
3. Our third kid was significantly easier for both of us. We had different struggles, but it wasn’t kid related.

I know where you are mentally. You need to find a healthy outlet for the resentment and then come back to what you have now, someone dependent on you.

You can/could be a deadbeat or absent, but you may be a better parent for a different age. My wife was great with little ones (0-2). I did much better with toddlers and young kids (3-8). We’re both getting used to tweens.

I know it might be a financial strain, but you should both seek therapy. This isn’t a pejorative (as is “You’re so messed up!”), but therapy can help significantly, especially your partner. She may want to consider a psych.

Good luck. For me, the first few weeks were the worst. No sleep, just doing shit on auto-pilot like “why the f*ck did we do this…?” But my kids have brought incredible joy in my life. I wouldn’t want them to disappear now, no matter how much work it is some days.

“It’s a diamond now, the Oval Office! Look what I’ve done to it! Most respectful EVER!” /s

“That’s a great idea! Who is this guy? Can we get him on staff? I love this guy!”

“We’ll make them in America, I think? We’ll look at the numbers and see, but I think it’s going to be a great time. Maybe we’ll get WWE here next? Linda knows something about that. I’m in the Hall of Fame-“

“Think of this: blood sports. Just like Teddy used to do. Remember Teddy? They called the teddy bears after him, can you believe it? Maybe we’ll make some, Trump Teddies-“

Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria was my first thought as well.

https://youtu.be/UsDtmdWFBxU

https://youtu.be/UUcDKXjR2-8

Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.

You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.

That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”

This feels like a grave mischaracterization of what I wrote. I don’t think you’re a good faith actor. Have a good one.

https://www.definefinancial.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/giving-by-income-group.png

The pattern is poorer & richer people give more. The poorer people understand hardship & help one another. The richer people have more to give (and financial incentives to do so, such as tax write-offs).

The middle class gives the least, likely because they feel the most pinched on maintaining a quality of life that’s often becoming more expensive.

The poor, In my opinion, have the MOST empathy. They give a lot as a percentage of income & have the most to lose.

Your intuition is pretty much the opposite of the statistics.

His website has issues, so I remade it in slides. Feel free to share.

Out of the games I’ve been fortunate to work on, 1/7 require internet, and the 1 was my first industry job as QA. Everything else has been mobile, online required. 5/7 are no longer playable / removed from the internet.

It makes me sad because my kids will never play a bunch of things I made. I can’t revisit them nostalgically. If I had made something in the 90s, it would be preserved still.

I played the cards dealt to me to follow a dream and make a living, but I wish the industry wasn’t like this. The money has always been a role, but nowadays, it’s distorted so badly.

His “Wellness” farms in the distant future:

• Eroded safety nets
• Vilify mental health
• Revert to misguided mental health past, asylums as the solution
• Send people there for believing “alternative liberal fictions” (a.k.a. basic facts)
• ???
• All that’s left is hope

I am not a fan of her or the company she keeps.

Having said that, people keep misunderstanding that photo. I thought the same thing, “Completely obvious it’s photoshopped.” But that’s been a miscommunication. Trump thinks it’s actually on his knuckles. Someone was trying to decode the symbols (Marijuana Leaf = M, Smile = S, Cross = 1, I don’t remember the 3).

I don’t want these people to have any inch. I think that man is innocent and should return. But I can see what argument they were trying to make, in all fairness to generally incompetent people.

Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.

You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.

That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”

So this is stable coin now?

I mean, Harvard is in some legal battle with the admin. I guess they can plant this dude and hope someone in Trump’s orbit reads it. 🤷

Storytelling & oral sex.

I personally find the Leviticus 16:10 scapegoat quote to be more appropriate:

Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord and offer it as a purification offering, but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel.

It makes me sad growing up in public school and learning about these atrocities only to see so much repeat. It’s horrible.