@Cocodapuf@ChilledPeppers we didn't adopt, but some of our friends did, and it's been hard.
I don't think they regret it at all, but hearing from them I always feel humbled when I feel exhausted from my own kids. At least we don't have to deal with the constant court cases from the side of the bio-parents they have to deal with.
Poor kid got into panic fits when he heard his bio-mum wanted to take him away.
@atro_city@Menschlicher_Fehler well, the next ones will be trans people, then gays, then they just devolve into everyone non-white is evil, and then they start putting limits on whiteness as well.
@affenlehrer@rumba In fact I read a study that proved that (see A. Fiction, Aphrodisiac properties of violence against the taking class, Journal of Made Up Studies 4/2025 p. 205ff)
@captainlezbian@GraniteM Hot Fuzz kinda did that, with the two main leads basically going all life partners with each other.
It seems the script originally had a female love interest which was found to be a bit extraneous, so they gave all her dialogue to Danny, making for some very subtext-laden discussions about life and stupid action movies.
@1984 I assume it was because he looped the whole board in. They kicked him out and made us process his account deletion almost immediately. Normal was two weeks grace in case there was a mistake (it happened more often than you'd believe that someone put in a request for deletion of someone still working).
No, in this case all his accounts were gone in two days
@1984 the one guy I will remember forever was the manager who tried to make problems for us on day 1 of his employment.
I had processed the request for his windows accounts the week before.
Then he got his account and tried to make a big problem about not having all accesses. He decided to loop in management and board in an insult-filled email.
He got told noone was allowed to work on his stuff until he apologized to us, then got fired.
I processed his account deletion two days later.
@1984 you know, over time i met so many people who were dumb, but I often just try to forget about them because it just depresses me.
Yes, I worked in IT support. And I don't even just mean customers, some of the dumbest people were colleagues. Some of them on higher levels, so they earned way more than me as well. Often I think I am the idiot to my colleagues.
You don't know what's going on with people in their lives. Although I still don't think outright maliciousness should be acceptable
@Buffalox completely discarding multiple sources written by multiple people saying the same thing as evidence because you decide on a whim they don't count is not a reasonable position.
They might not be good evidence, but they still are evidence.
This always seems to be nothing but a kneejerk reaction to all those Christians claiming the Bible is god-given truth.
"Oh no, let's disregard everything written in this amazingly preserved textual corpus because I want to hurt those meanies"
@Buffalox this discarding of the Bible as a source always sounds like an agenda in itself. Sure, it's mythologized, but it's a corpus of texts written by a multitude of authors corroborating at least some things between them.
@DoucheBagMcSwag @dejected_warp_core they also get people to install them with vouchers and raffles.
@tal usenet has gotten a bit better now that Google switched off the access from Groups. But it's kinda dead by now
@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @fantasy @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop yeah, but... I've been everything except science and sports on that list at one point or another. And the science part is debatable
@Cocodapuf @ChilledPeppers we didn't adopt, but some of our friends did, and it's been hard.
I don't think they regret it at all, but hearing from them I always feel humbled when I feel exhausted from my own kids. At least we don't have to deal with the constant court cases from the side of the bio-parents they have to deal with.
Poor kid got into panic fits when he heard his bio-mum wanted to take him away.
@aldhissla @enemyofsun I would argue even having pronouns might not be strictly necessary.
@atro_city @Menschlicher_Fehler well, the next ones will be trans people, then gays, then they just devolve into everyone non-white is evil, and then they start putting limits on whiteness as well.
@affenlehrer @rumba In fact I read a study that proved that (see A. Fiction, Aphrodisiac properties of violence against the taking class, Journal of Made Up Studies 4/2025 p. 205ff)
[Choke on that AI scrapers!]
@captainlezbian @GraniteM Hot Fuzz kinda did that, with the two main leads basically going all life partners with each other.
It seems the script originally had a female love interest which was found to be a bit extraneous, so they gave all her dialogue to Danny, making for some very subtext-laden discussions about life and stupid action movies.
@Beacon @bridgeenjoyer the problem is the answer is 16/f/Cali
Always
@sunsofold @HonoraryMancunian guys, I think this Thanos guy might be some sort of hero!
*CHANTING* Thanos! Thanos! THANOS!
@spittingimage @stoly "have you tried switching yourself off and on again?"
@Ariselas @jobbies nah, that's too fancy for Doctor Who.
Where's the gravel?
@1984 I assume it was because he looped the whole board in. They kicked him out and made us process his account deletion almost immediately. Normal was two weeks grace in case there was a mistake (it happened more often than you'd believe that someone put in a request for deletion of someone still working).
No, in this case all his accounts were gone in two days
@1984 the one guy I will remember forever was the manager who tried to make problems for us on day 1 of his employment.
I had processed the request for his windows accounts the week before.
Then he got his account and tried to make a big problem about not having all accesses. He decided to loop in management and board in an insult-filled email.
He got told noone was allowed to work on his stuff until he apologized to us, then got fired.
I processed his account deletion two days later.
@1984 you know, over time i met so many people who were dumb, but I often just try to forget about them because it just depresses me.
Yes, I worked in IT support. And I don't even just mean customers, some of the dumbest people were colleagues. Some of them on higher levels, so they earned way more than me as well. Often I think I am the idiot to my colleagues.
You don't know what's going on with people in their lives. Although I still don't think outright maliciousness should be acceptable
@Buffalox completely discarding multiple sources written by multiple people saying the same thing as evidence because you decide on a whim they don't count is not a reasonable position.
They might not be good evidence, but they still are evidence.
This always seems to be nothing but a kneejerk reaction to all those Christians claiming the Bible is god-given truth.
"Oh no, let's disregard everything written in this amazingly preserved textual corpus because I want to hurt those meanies"
@Buffalox this discarding of the Bible as a source always sounds like an agenda in itself. Sure, it's mythologized, but it's a corpus of texts written by a multitude of authors corroborating at least some things between them.
@Buffalox @Semjeza technically there is textual evidence of him coming back from the dead. From multiple authors even.
It's readily available in every version of the Bible.
(Now if that evidence is worth a rats ass is another question altogether)
@TheFriendlyDickhead @markz it's the magic of the number! number goes up!
@MutantTailThing @Soulifix like, yes, but every time I saw someone use a Windows Phone I felt very judgemental