What kind of weirdo doesn’t like celery? Next you’re going to tell me rhubarb is too tart, or you have to cook fennel.

The biggest factor is having a solid relationship. Which it sounds like you do. And trust me, that’s a far bigger hurdle than you think. All in, the woman has a lot more risks in having kids than you do. So if she’s willing to go for it, you might want to dig up some courage.

And yeah, easy for me to say, I took the plunge over a decade ago. So I have the luxury of hindsight. But I can also tell you, watching my kids discover the world, is like discovering it again myself. Sometimes even better, though often times far stickier. There’s so many sticky discoveries. Also it’s grounding for yourself. Raising your kids puts the world, and yourself, into perspective in a lot of ways that are deeply self affective.

In the end though it’s like telling someone how to drive a car, or ride a bike. I could explain it all damn day, that doesn’t mean you would learn how to ride, or drive. It’s something you have to do to actually learn. All I can say is that the scary cliff of becoming a parent, doesn’t get any less scary. It is worth it though. And I’d be willing to bet the overwhelming majority of those with kids would say the same.

I had my daughter at 40 for the same reasons you have right now. My only regret is that I didn’t have kids earlier.

Kids are the most terrible decision you won’t regret. It’s a shit ton of work, stress, and anguish. And still worth it. It’s also something that can’t really be explained, you have to experience it.

Standard idiom of comedy, always punch up, never punch down.

In other words, always speak truth to power, never kick someone that’s down.

Anyone making a bio weapon would go after a virus or fungus. Easier to cultivate, dispurse, and work with. Something that’s contagious and self replicating makes it much easier to hide the initial infection point.

Heavy clothing can essentially stop rubber bullets. Not really what you want when trying to stop someone.

A better option than any weapon is more officers. I don’t care what a cop is armed with, full military kit and they can still be taken down one on one. More guys always wins, and is so obvious in the moment that people don’t even get violent in most cases.

Just installed the Honeywell T9 yesterday. It integrates with Home assistant offline, and handles my heat pump stages. Pretty happy with it so far.

They’re supposed to disclose all the ingredients, the contents of my Olive Oil and Peanut Butter would argue they very much do NOT.

That’s why the Porshe guys in California made it a club. One guy with a 00O00O license plate is easy to track down. A few dozen variations on the same make and model car make it a lot more of a mess.

It’s been a thing for a long time, probably hasn’t been used more because masks are easier. It’s so rare though that it makes you stand out as being one of the only people using it. Which really defeats the purpose.

That’s basically all it is. Rhinoviruses don’t hang with zinc. The vitamin C is probably just to keep you from gagging on the taste.

It’s the quickest way to tell if it’s a cold or some other flu. If Zycam works, it’s some variant of a rhinovirus, and it’ll be dead in a couple days. If it doesn’t work, you’ve made some other viral friend. The other cold like strains don’t seem to give a shit about zinc, so if it’s not immediately obvious it’s working within about 30 minutes, move on to other remedies. If it is working, don’t over do it, you can fuck up your sinuses with too much zinc.

People still get a cold? I haven’t seen one since zicam became a thing. Lots of flu variations fucking people up though.

When I was doing sales, every 2 weeks. Now that I don’t ever see a client, I buzz cut once a year. Might go 2 years this time so I can be a proper Gandalf for Halloween.

I suspect they are going to fail at that illusion. And the results of that failure will be very violent.

This is assuming we still have a congress in 2030. And if we do, that electoral votes will matter, or happen.

My mother in law gets by just fine without hers. But then again, she’s in Arkansas, so I’m not sure if that counts as a modern, or developed country.

Toronto is more bound to US economics than Chinese economics. You could make the same map for every major city and probably tell which they were more influenced by.

I mean sure, if you want to make up your own meaning for right wing, then go for it.

Liberal has nothing to do with peace loving, or pacifism, that’s a right wing delusion they use to pump their courage before committing more atrocities on them. No different than ‘God forgive me for what I’m about to do’.

Right wing revolutions end with the left in political prisons and slavery. Left wing revolutions end with the aristocrats/oligarchs, and their families, in the ground. It’s really just a question of what flavor of violence is about to happen.

The nukes are recent, and probably not tactically functional. It’s purely a cost benefit analysis. As long as NK isn’t in serious motion to cause more damage outside their country, than it’s worth to stop them, no one will.