And then suddenly your kid has special needs that require constant supervision - it’ll never be safe to leave them alone. For the rest of your life, you’re now a caregiver, and you’ll have to find someone to take over when you die. And find some way to afford all that.

And what if you birthed alone, or your fellow parent bails out or dies? Who’ll take care of that child and who’ll earn money? The US is deliberately built to make this devastating for anyone who’s not already wealthy.

I have a special-needs pet who can’t be left alone for more than a few hours. I have no desire to amplify that into a full-lifetime task.

It is not necessary to have children to recognize that parenthood isn’t a cure for unhappiness.

Not all decent people have or want children.

Are you lost? This is a community for those who are childfree.

This is my favorite music from the game.

If you truly can’t move, then you need evidence (backed up somewhere, too) and competent legal advice. It’s better if this evidence-gathering is surreptitious, so they won’t perform “better” during the recording.

P.S. In your jurisdiction, is it illegal to smoke near children? If it is, a tip to child protective services might be appropriate.

I played WoW for sixteen years. Finally had enough of the subscription grind, the associated FOMO, and the constant resetting of all gear progression with each expansion. Took a year off of MMOs and then picked up GW2.

BTW, GW2 doesn’t have weekly downtime like WoW does.

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is “Nazi.” Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?”

― A.R. Moxon

Why do you say it’s not open to debate?

Do you believe that people should use job titles they no longer hold?

If you work in the US, NDAs tied to severance are generally illegal.

Even so, I gave my last employer the benefit of silence for the amount of time my severance would have covered in regular salary. That time is now past.

Do you think it’s appropriate to become pregnant before age 26?

Do you think it’s appropriate to become pregnant before age 26?

Get that OB/GYN’s statement in writing and then report him.

A Model I was the first computer I owned. I miss it, but don’t know that I’d actually use it if I still had it.

It runs about as well as it does under Windows. I’m not currently interested in paying another subscription - feels like too much pressure and the amount I spent on WoW over the years is distressing.

I’ve been playing GW2 since December and it also runs well with Wine.

My first computer had 4KB of RAM.

It’s really good for WoW and GW2.

Don’t use your hero car for that. Use one of your lookalike spares.

And he made life worse for nearly everyone.