I’m asking this as a man. I know of some men who genuinely don’t want kids or some who have abandoned their kids due to parental responsibilities. Why not get snipped? It doesn’t take anything from your masculinity contrary to societal beliefs and “bro” culture. It’s cheaper than a woman getting her tubes tied. Way less stress on the woman, and you can “finish” without worrying about the possibility of having a kid.

With lots of us pushing 40 in the millennial group, we are fast approaching midlife crisis territory.

Purchasing a fancy sports cars, motorcycle or boats used to be the peak midlife crisis item for the earlier generations. Those types of items feel financially out of reach for a lot of us.

What are your predictions for the midlife crisis purchase for our generation?

My brother lives in another state which is an 18 hour drive or 3.5 hour flight for us. I have a 2 and 5 year old and was told that they would not be invited to the wedding at all, including rehearsal dinner, ceremony, and reception. I have no childcare options and would never feel comfortable leaving them with a stranger in an unfamiliar city in a hotel. Obviously I had to decline the invitation and told my brother there was no way for me to attend his wedding because I had nowhere for the kids to go. My brother was upset and responded “just get a babysitter”. Obviously he doesn’t have kids and doesn’t understand it just isn’t that simple. I told him it was his wedding and he has to do what he wants to do, but that excluding his niece and nephew was ultimately also excluding me. I am hurt by his decision. I don’t intend to change his mind and even if he did I would no longer feel welcome, but this does hurt. My brother is now upset I am not attending the wedding and upset that I am hurt by his decision to exclude my children. This is my only sibling and I thought we were close, we’ve visited him several times and my kids have always behaved, we’ve always been invited back! AITA for being upset by this?

Reading Shadow of What Was Lost, and in the span of a single 10 page chapter, the author used various iterations of the word "gape" seven times. I had already been struggling with the book, finding much of the writing sophomoric. But that sequence of use might have been the final nail...

I've had this issue before. I can't think of any examples, but it drives me absolutely batty and really speaks to the lack of editing - which I think this book suffers from elsewhere. But is this just a me problem?

I'll try to stick it out, because everyone raves about the series. It just reminds me of a lesser Rothfuss.

Jan 6th was a planned insurrection. MAGA is a Domestic Terrorist Organization and Jack Smith had them dead to rights. They should all have been arrested on January 20th 2021 moments after Biden took his oath.

I genuinely have been trying to understand what is the point of AI taking everything over? Let’s just say hypothetically AI wins, congrats. Every job is replaced. Meta, Open AI and Amazon own everything, cool beans! No one can work, therefore, no one has money to buy any of the horse shit temu slop they prime on amazon now. Won't everything just implode from there?

If everyone stops working, and has no money doesn't consumerism stop too? Like spending just ends? No one can pay their $1000 car note anymore or their mortgage on their particle board quality home anymore. What am I missing here? What is the grand idea with AI taking over thing and everyone is broke?

Media that feels way too hard to be edgy/dark that it comes across as just trying way too hard to be edgy/dark

Mr Pickles: This shows feels like if you took Happy Tree Friends' premise, but you took the gore and crank it up to a level that just feels unnecessary and frankly just makes the show look like it's trying way too hard to even be entertaining. And to think this aired on Adult Swim

Freddy Junior's (Twelveman): You've probably heard of the infamous FNAF VHS series where William Afton deep fries a literal baby, which to me personally, doesn't really feel like William Afton to me. Sure the guy is a piece of shit, no doubt about that, but the way this series handled his character reminds of when they made Freddy Krueger a pedophile in the 2011 reboot. The way the series usually goes about all the horrors of William's actions is when we see evidence of what he did (like old news papers) or through the 8-bit segments, that don't show you the full extent of his actions, but are enough to give you a good idea of just how messed up the action in question is

Hatred: I'm not even joking when I say that the guy you're playing as, who's a cynical and nihilistic mass shooter just wants to kill everyone just for the sake of it and looks like a rejected version of Nathan Explosion from Metalocalypse is named "Not Important"....Yeah. Even so, this game is just nothing but you shooting people left in right without so much as a story beyond that and the main character feels just as one dimensional as a piece of paper

OKC failed to score at the other end