IamtheMorgz

joined 2 years ago
[–] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm a childfree woman. I am being sterilized in less than 2 weeks. I have a very very long list of reasons I don't want kids. I won't bore anyone by typing them out.

What I find most interesting in this thread is how people have so much of an option on other people's choices still. It's 2025, can we just let each other live?

No, it is not immoral to have kids. The world has always been messed up and it will continue to be until we all die out. Maybe that will happen in the next generation, maybe it won't happen for another 50 generations. We cannot know either way.

No, it is not immoral to not have kids. You do not have a responsibility to continue your bloodline or some nonsense. You can still be invested in the future even if you don't personally have kids.

I wish everyone had put their gender in their replies though. As a general rule, I often see more childfree women than men. I think this is because women are often put in that caregiver role earlier than men and they see how hard it is. Also women have to do the pregnancy/birth part and that seems awful. Men think of the time they'll have to teach and play with their kids, women imagine having to cook a nutritious meal every night or get called negligent. Of course that's not always the dynamic but you have to acknowledge it swings that way.

[–] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Can't believe no one mentioned Husk from Hazbin Hotel. Set of pipes on him too!

[–] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Very technically there are two (at least down here in Dixie Alley). The two months with the most tornadoes are April and January.

[–] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've used free tax USA for years. I don't pay for filing my fed, just my state. But my taxes tend to be pretty simple, so I guess ymmv

[–] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

My dad was in the Navy (submariner) in the 80s and he loves that movie. He told me they didn't do the thing with the string like they do in the movie ... Instead they strung it up when they were at depth and took bets on when it would break on the way back up.

You couldn't pay me enough to be that far underwater.

[–] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I mean, anecdotally, I do know someone that bought a new build in mid 2008 for about 60k-ish less than what everyone else in the neighborhood bought for (earlier or later). The company building out the subdivision was pretty desperate and he had a solid stable job as a trucker. He managed to get all kinds of perks and stuff too.

[–] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I don't think that's a terrible idea for politicians. Let's see who bought them.

[–] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Ummm... Billionaires are people? Imma need a source on that.

[–] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I just got started here after days of no reddit as more mainstream media picked up the protests and mentioned the Fediverse. Honestly, I love it for the reasons you outlined. Can't imagine going back. There's still some communities I don't have here, but I imagine they will form up eventually, and if they don't there's nothing I'd really miss, or if I did I'd create it myself.

I had eyeballed joining Mastodon when he-who-sucks took over twitter but wasn't real comfortable with figuring out something new at the time (for personal reasons). Glad I've gotten the kick in the butt to join the Fediverse! It's fun here!!

 

Thought I'd share my 16ish year old with you all and give posting a try since I'm new to the fediverse thing! Isn't she the cutest?!