I had this happen once when I was in jr high. Someone was teasing a girl and was like “You could go out with <me>!”. She responded with “ew”. It kind of fucked me up for a bit because I was like "yea I’m not very attractive and you don’t want to date me, sure, I understand, but am I gross too?

I just help mine with computer problems. Don’t have much else to offer. Last week one called me about an issue they were having and they had already tried all the troubleshooting I knew for the issue off the top of my head (which included some fairly technical stuff she had researched on her own). I was really proud of her.

Same. My password database never touches a server I don’t own and my keyfile is manually copied between my devices and stored separately from the database file.

Why can’t you and your kids have overlapping interests? When you’re raising the kids, it’s normal for them to be curious about the things you enjoy. Kids hobbies and interests end up overlapping or reflecting their parents more often than the other way round.

They can I suppose, but it’s certainly not guaranteed. I’ve seen enough of my friends have kids and the resulting impact to their social life and ability to do what they want to know that it isn’t for me. Yeah it got a little better for most of them when the kids got older and more self sufficient but it was still a massive trade off up til that point and I don’t see it as being worth it for me.

Then they act like I have a learning disability even though I’m acing all the tests and it’s literally just doing the bare minimum of homework that’s fucking my grades up.

I wish my teachers had that attitude. I got sent home with hours of homework almost every day. I particularly remember my raging bitch of an 8th grade math teacher who would assign 100s of problems a night and give you zero points if you didn’t do all of them. My mom even backed me up on arguing about that shit. If I couldn’t get it done during my study period and lunch hour I didn’t do it. I had better things to do with my time after school.

Are you my girlfriend?

Should have put the hats on a mannequin with snacks in the eye sockets.

No, we do. It’s why we opted not to have any. We want to do what we want to do. Not whatever our children are into.

I got a pen that fits in there.

Functional in the sense that people are able to make transactions with their credit cards. Trump would have zero hesitation to just destroying that system as part of some tantrum if he had control of it. Private companies controlling it will at least fight to keep it working as that is in their best interest. Is it the best option for consumers? No, but it’s the best option under the current administration. We have to deal with that problem before we start giving things over to government control.

No, but we shouldn’t be arguing in favor of them until we deal with the more pressing matters.

And Trump has proven that reasoning invalid. Things are never going back to the way they were before now that he’s shown just how much you can get away with. Until mechanisms are put in place to prevent such corruption and deal with his kind we can’t trust the government to handle anything.

I already said it wasn’t ideal. At least Trump had to do some shit first to fuck with tiktok. You think that wouldn’t have been immediate if tiktok was controlled by the government?

It’s not ideal but at least people aren’t getting their credit cancelled because they said something mean about Trump online.

Which is the situation we’re dealing with here.

A corrupt government can also be bought off by the companies to not fuck with things so that they at least remain functional.

In an ideal world, yes I’d rather these things be regulated in a way that the companies are accountable but that is not the world we live in. Moving this to the public sector now would just put even more power into the hands of our horrible government. Better to have everything split up so all the greedy malicious assholes are looking out for themselves than to have it all in the hands of one group who will do whatever they want with nothing to impede them. Regardless of consequences. Fix the government first , then give them control. You can’t legislate based off the idea that it will only be well intentioned responsible adults running things.

At least the private company would act in their own interest to preserve profits. Trump will gladly blow the whole thing up regardless of consequences just to feed his ego. Like with the tariffs.

So then you do understand how having our transactions controlled by the government is a bad thing?

You want trump in control of our commercial transactions?