Yeah, I mean, this is a sales pitch, it feels like. Are salesmen autistic? Probably some of them!

I don’t want anyone to take this the wrong way, but nearly every comment in here is from the perspective of someone who’s unsatisfied with how they were raised. What is it about Lemmy that this is the subset of the population they attract?

And I’ll just say, my parents were far from perfect, but I am also far from perfect, and I understand that we’re all just human beings out here, and that there is no guidebook on life, so we take these journeys around the sun at face value and muck along until we die.

But yeah, this thread is one of many where I’ve read similar stories from just about every comment. It’s just strange to me that you don’t get someone in here saying, yeah, good to have a mom who can help. It’s all the opposite.

That’s part of it. I tell my kids all the time, I’m just a guy. I tell them I don’t have all the answers, but I can find them if I put some effort in. I tell them I make mistakes, and that sometimes I’ll do bad dad stuff. I understand this about my parents as well. I still value their input because I’m sure they felt the same way I do, but somehow we made it out the other side, and so I’m interested in hearing their experience on the journey.

I’m fortunate to live in a fairly dense piece of suburbia, we have six or seven other families on the street with similar aged kids, and so I get to observe the rest of my peers, their strengths and their foibles, and we talk about it. It’s okay to mess up, just gotta take responsibility.

And as always, just go out there and have fun.

Yeah, I think the whole idea of the US wanting the chips produced inside its own borders makes sense in a vacuum. China fucks around (which, sure, is against their character), chips are safe.

Obviously we don’t live in a vacuum, and the US diplomatic mission is, at best, totally unreadable, and at worst, won’t help anyone but itself.

As with just about any other nation, the US is using what is ostensibly it’s only bargaining chip these days, their massive consumerism, knowing that Taiwan sells the majority of its chips to the US.

This play seems to be Trump’s only play: Demand something outrageous, with some thinly veiled threats overlaying the demand. Get rejected. Receive counterproposal that is far, far less than initial demand. Tout superiority.

My preferred beef, personally, is from local farms, and so I’m all about the idea about smaller farms. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t buy from factory farms, chicken, beef, and pork, but I try to go local when possible.

Although as I’m writing this, I’m really not sure if local meats and their prices are affected much by the factory farms.

So yeah, I guess all I mean is that I’m totally cool with an America that has fewer factory farms, the operations, from top to bottom, seem to thrive on just terrible conditions, environmentally and all. And I’m also cool with the massively wealthy families who own these farms maybe feeling a squeeze.

Listen dude, if you want to get the uparrows you gotta say how this hurts America, maybe a little #fucktrump, et cetera.