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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Ok I get the Microsoft hate… I’m trying to introduce my daughter to Minecraft because it’s a great game to just explore adventure and creativity. I own like 5 accounts all of them were username and password, and all of them paid for. But since they didn’t have an email address I couldn’t find most of them? I managed to get one back and it required the worst Microsoft account log in experience. When I finally managed to get into the game and be able to play it there was no way for me to do split screen.

    How the hell is there no native split screen. The console versions have it. I had to spend hours finding mods and have to open 3 different programs just to get the game to open and play split screen by running 2 different Minecraft screens, and even then half the time it doesn’t even work.

    It turned me off so bad I said eff it and found some platform games for my daughter and I to play. Of which there are few, apparently Nintendo owns the best ones, Sony with their astrobots. I was left with some hat in time game which wasn’t bad. But it definitely left a lot to desire.

    I guess I’ll have to check out it takes two








  • I’d like to see more statistics so I can argue the effect of this with more conservative people in my family. Unfortunately statistics like “deaths related to abortion laws saw 56% increase from 2018 to 2022” when Dobbs decisions was made in 2021 isn’t exactly a strong argument to show that this decision is leading to deaths and not related to the effects of covid.

    And before you argue with me, trust me you can’t convince them that a fetus isn’t a life. They will treat a fetus the same as a newborn baby. So unless I can prove to them that the law hurts mothers who want the baby I won’t convince them the law is unjust, and abortion = murder.

    I need to show increase in maternity deaths, unviable births, miscarriages leading to death, forced births leading to deaths. I need to show how this law actually hurts people who want children.

    This isn’t an argument about choice. The idea that a woman can terminate an unborn baby at will cannot be used as an argument here. There is no consensus that a “collection of cells isn’t a baby”. Remember that the same people who want to ban abortions also want women to have sex with a partner that is willing to have a child, unplanned pregnancies being part of that journey.

    I just narrowly won over that contraception should be medically available.






  • I’ve heard no fault divorce, haven’t read too much into it. But rape is illegal. In the article he mentions things down to 4th degree rape being an inappropriate smack on the butt and being able to prosecute that under law is absurd.

    I live in Washington state where notoriously in a divorce the wife wins custody of the children, child support, and half of everything if there was no prenup. My friend who got divorced in 2017 had to sell his home and give half of the money made to his ex wife. She didn’t have a job during their marriage. She also filed for divorce. Not him. He didn’t just lose his wife, he lost a lot of his financial gain he believed he was building towards something in a marriage that lasted 5 years. I get that it’s both parties that need to recoup on the 5 years they believed they lost in a non working marriage.

    The idea that you can simply say “don’t like this anymore, I’m leaving and taking half your stuff if not more” is a legal nightmare for many. I get it’s there to protect women, and no one here wants to abuse their wives. The law is a double edged sword and there should be scrutiny in applying it.

    There’s a reason why “men can be victims of domestic abuse” are becoming a little more popular. They’ve been neglected, especially here in the Seattle area where men almost indefinitely lose their rights in an event of a divorce.





  • Hi. Working tradesman. I still voted blue even when the 4 years under trump were mostly better for me than under Biden. Of course most likely coasting off of Obama’s era. But I got no relief under Biden. I pay $20k a year for my Healthcare and still have to pay thousands a year out of pocket for visits. My family in Ukraine is still unsure what’s going to happen in the next year. Many of brothers in my local are unemployed now during the hardest time to pay to live. We hear the record profits the corporations made and swindled the working class dry so we can eat yet there has been no relief. How did making 6 figures for a family of 5 turn into almost living pay check to pay check.

    I’m ok with sacrifice if it means others get the help they need. But I don’t think anyone got the help they needed. We sacrificed for no benifit to anyone but the elite, and we are continuing to be ignored.

    This is what Sanders is talking about. And I’m afraid of what Trump is going to do for many Americans. For my Ukrainian family back home. For my neighbor who is Taiwanese. But recently I’m more worried to keep food on the table for my kids. I don’t even care who won anymore. I have election and political fatigue. I did what was asked. I keep doing what everyone thinks is right. But I’m burning out.