their carless decisions,

Idk if they was a tacit reference or accidental, but…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People

shut up and be grateful is clearly the point

That wasn’t my point at all

a post explicitly about abusive parents?

It’s a post about grown ups no longer talking to their parents.

You tried to equate parental frustration and childish obliviousness with familial abuse.

Nope. That was all you

And you don’t have to beat a kid to be a shitty parent, jsyk.

This thread is so flush with anti-natalists, I don’t think it’s part of the equation.

Or we’ll be off a new peak and hear “it’s the coolest year in a decade, so climate change isn’t happening” to explain why anything sub 100⁰ is good enough.

Don’t excuse shitty parents

I don’t think I ever suggested beating a child

Never has there ever been a sport where the goal is to “injure the other player”.

Not sure if genuinely ignorant or just contrarian maxxing

FIFA tier reffing

They’re made out of straw.

Why should one’s offspring care for that?

Because they’re human

Doesn’t change the fact that procreating is a one-way-decision-street

Any expectant mother who miscarries can tell you why you’re wrong.

good, but not socialism.

Literally public ownership of means of production

There’s a big gulf between conveying the challenges of being a parent to your kid and just nagging them over bullshit.

Part of transitioning to adulthood is recognizing the struggles your parents experience, both in raising you and in taking care of themselves independent of their own parents. Then you strive for independence - at least in part - because you recognize you can’t lean on your parents forever. And, finally, you might even decide to take care of children, because you want to pay the debt of childcare forward into the next generation.

why are you taking your frustrations out on me

Turnabout is fair play. Strawkids has been straw-taking their straw-stration out on me their entire life.

Post-collapse society is going to be boring af. You better have some hobbies.

Are you suggesting swim lessons are bad, because you don’t start out knowing how to swim?

My child might get hurt playing a game!

It’s not a game when the goal is to injure the other players. It’s functionally a combat sport.

Why?

Because it’s the foundation of a functioning civilization.

Everything that follows is yours alone to deal with.

That’s demonstrably not true.

Reddit was so surprised I was back it assumed my account was compromised and permananned me.

Reddit is Ground Zero for Empty Internet Theory.

Its 6056 scans per device on average per day. Or roughly 4.2 scans per minute per camera.

Imagining a device hooked up to the on-ramp/off-ramp of the highway, and I imagine a camera could hit this easily.

Definitely seems accurate enough for a news headline.

It’s the back-end bit of “cities pushing back” that triggers my skepticism impulse. These devices are everywhere precisely because municipal leadership is so easily bought off (or outright installed) by the surveillance industry.

“you owe me for giving birth to you and putting a roof over your head” is pretty far out

Lots of parents throw this out half-joking. “I was in labor for eight hours, the least you can do is spend ten minutes cleaning your room” or some variation of it is a thing my mom would toss off on occasion.

You owe it to the kid you decided to have to care for it as best you can

We owe it to one another to be good in turn. The value of family is in building up the cycle of mutual aid. It’s never a one-way street.