How is it that billionaires have such shitty haircuts? You could literally hire someone to live in your closet and give you a fresh trim every morning, yet you look you went to Great Clips and the trainee guy fresh out of cosmetology school fucked up your head with a 5 guard.
Turns out being the sort of person who -specifically- doesn’t want to deal with any of the responsibility even tangentially related to kids also isn’t well suited for the responsibilities of a regular 40hr/wk year round job… or being an independent adult at all really.
(It’s me and literally nobody else I’m speaking about above, just for the record)
It’s sobering to think that those of us with this mindset would have had kids anyway if we were born a few decades earlier. Society all but coerced everyone to marry someone of the opposite sex and reproduce regardless of their wishes.
I mean education does wonders for getting people to realize this about themselves, which is why educated women tend to have fewer children, and why a lot of cultures (globally, including many cultures in the US) discourage education either specifically for women or for people in general.
The next generation of broken people, raised by broken parents, are great wage slaves. Always have been, which is why we have child labor laws. But it happens even now, globally. Hell the US recently lost abortion rights federally, and many states are rolling back child labor laws as much as they can.
Personally I probably wouldn’t have had kids anyway because it’s a fucking chore to be intimate with another human I’d rather not touch (I’d 100% be an herbalist or spinster. The two major money-making professions allowed to unwed childless women in history other than prostitution, which… I would just be bad at because I don’t like physical contact with other humans).
Buuuuuut.
Also no. Herbalists were providing abortive herbal mixes for centuries. Babies that were disabled or deformed were often killed or left to die. Contraceptives, even when likely to cause infection or death, were attempted. Women have been trying like hell to manage their family size for all of human history. We have records from. iirc, Mesopotamia about it. Like it’s always been a thing.
It didn’t always work, but it also, importantly, wasn’t socially frowned upon in the same way it is now for your baby to just die. It happened all the time.
Not really, no. Frankly the whole thing is a major point of frustration for me and nothing but fixing it is going to make it better. I don’t have the power to do that myself, but I am obnoxiously loud. That’s what I can do.
That’s a stretch, and maybe true for you, but the world is full of people, such as you described, that haven’t got that issue. Not wanting kids doesn’t automatically make you bad with responsibilities.
It only makes you a person that doesn’t want kids.
Literally said in the comment you replied to that I was talking about myself and nobody else (and it was never edited) so not sure why you responded with this.
Righteous indignation a fit of pique will do that, and I’ve been guilty in the past of the same.
No worries. I’m not painting with a broad brush, I’m recognizing myself in a way the others relate to :)
Have a great morning/day/afternoon/evening/night, depending where you are :D
Edit - I didn’t realize that righteous indignation has a specific religious meaning. I was aiming for less religious and more just sort of …defending the downtrodden. Is there a better word for that?
Edit 2: I learned strikethrough for this edit and it worked!!
“But just wait, try buying a house as a single working class person! Not fucking happening! Try again once you marry someone who also works 40 hours and you might have a chance! But you might need to rent out one of the bedrooms to some poor single sap! Hahaha!” - the system
Capitalism abhors a single man. I feel like my no kids and 3 money lifestyle is basically discriminated against nowadays.
Creativity takes inspiration. Somebody has to manifest the stepping stones on the path to a masterpiece. The magic of the internet is we get to watch it happen. We’ll rarely hear Beethoven’s garbage or see Michelangelo’s screw ups, but whoever did this…we get to see the stepping stone.
That’s so key, of course that island has it, but it’s never going to be something we could emulate or acces. Too level encryption to protect the interests of the rich
It’s more likely all the traffic from the island is routed out to many multi end nodes across the globe, the FBI would be very keen to monitor traffic coming out of the island now, so they would need to have a network of global VPNs splitting the traffic that is highly encrypted so it’s difficult to monitor the actual traffic coming out of the island once it is mixed with the heavy amount of other public traffic coming out of big datacenters in countries that aren’t directly controlled by the Five Eyes
First, lets assume they have internet there. Not satellite internet. Literally connected permanent internet connection. I don’t think this is a safe assumption because it’s a literal island. Second assumption, we’re talking about IP geolocation and only that. Not other methods of geolocation because then VPN is irrelevant.
Can you setup a VPN on Little Saint James island, connect to it, and use it? Yes.
Can you get an IP that when you geolocate, it will say: Little Saint James island? Extremely unlikely. So much so that I would say no.
Would an ISP actually assign a block and geolocate that to that specific island and nothing else? Probably not. What does that mean? It means the IP address that gets assigned to a more general purpose “Virgin Islands” kind of geolocation rather than a specific place.
Take this example. Houses with street number 1 to 100 is in queens. And 101 to 200 is in Brooklyn. And ISP decides, we have blocks of 64 IP assignments. So it gives houses 1-64 a Queens geolocated IP. Then houses 65-128 also Queens geolocated IP. And the rest is geolocated to Brooklyn. Then if you lived in #120, your IP will say Queens even though you live in Brooklyn.
That island is TINY. And it’s likely a single subscriber of internet. It’s a single owner and might get a single IP address, why would you even assign multiple? There’s no need. And there’s virtually no chance any ISP is gonna bother to geolocate a single IP. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Even my example of 64 is just an example and is incredibly high fidelity that’s rarely done.
IP geolocations could even be entirely wrong and say it’s Chicago when it’s Queens. This kind of stuff happens all the time for various reasons.
IP geolocation is not an accurate thing to begin with. ISPs will assign large blocks of IP to a specific geolocation. It will be shared and it doesn’t even technically have to do with physically same region. It doesn’t have to be correct. They just want it somewhat accurate.
Can you ask the ISP to give you a larger block of IP and have it geolocated specifically to that island and do everything OP is implying? Yes. That’s exactly what businesses like data centers do. But this is just an island. There’s really not much reason to do this.
So to answer the question more simply. Even if you set up a VPN there, it won’t say it’s there.
The grammar can be complicated, but with Russian I find the pronunciation can be particularly difficult. There’s a lot of vowel I, e, and y sounds that are subtly different. И, й, э, ы, е all sound kinda similar, with ы not having a direct equivalent in English (it’s like an “eeyeh” pronounced with the frontal palette which is weird because English doesn’t have a lot of frontal letters).
The consonant clusters are also tough because there’s so many of them and connecting vowels are absent. A classic example of this is Здравствуйте (Zdrasvuitse) with the Zdr pronounced with a rolling r as well.
I’m sure if I’m trying to say things I’ve got a heavy gringo accent.
But it’s also simpler in many ways. For example, it doesn’t use the verb “to be”. So, for example, instead of saying “I’m a boy”, you would say “I boy”.
My boyfriend is very good at picking up languages, so he’s been pretty good at picking up Russian too. But yea, he mentioned the unpredictable stress thing being a bitch and that’s something I never noticed.
Not sure if the person who made this poster was being pedantic, or if it was intended to make people think, and realize that it could happen to anyone.
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