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  • This is a deeply personal question only you can answer.

    The other piece is impact on other children.

    I was privy to one situation in which the mother told the father she would divorce him if he did not agree to place their heavy needs child in a home. Why? Their two other children didn’t know their father and the entire household revolved around 1 person instead of the family unit except on private outings between the two non-special needs kids and the mom, who scrambled to give them normal kid experiences. Caring for this needs child became all the father did when at home. Sometimes caring was sitting in the room with the heavy needs child, a child content in a bed, unable to walk or communicate (congenital) to the exclusion of the other children.

    We have all probably read those Reddit threads from kids who were screaming into a thread about hating their special needs sibling as well.

    Consideration needs to be made for every member of the family unit. And healthcare being what it is lately, outside the home care options may not be as available today.

    Nothing about this is easy and there is no one right answer.


  • I haunt estate auctions wherever I go. Physical media in the form of CDs and LPs is at a prime. Unless it’s old classical or country the prices skyrocket. The LP could be scratched to hell, they only ever show the sleeves in pics, but it doesn’t matter.

    Physical media is at a premium. LPs used to be a dollar or so each 5 years ago. Sometimes even 4 for a dollar. Now, minimum $5 each to start. Unless it’s country or classical.









  • Idk that anyone working class is. Even the MAGA family members are of the opinion that Luigi is cool.

    My closest genetic link, fiscal conservative of yore + 2A, is: I don’t care what they say, I only feel bad for his kids. And then I here about the math, and our mutual love of Star Trek where they say: “the needs of the many…”

    Unifying us, through this or any other point, instead of having us rolling around in the mud arguing trans is not what corporate america wants.

    They even manage to divide working class on unions and such. But not this.




  • I like the way the Behind the Bastards podcaster explains it. Each journalistic outlet had strengths to certain things and part of learning to consume journalism is knowing what each sources’ strengths or weaknesses are. Or learning to follow specific journalists across platforms.

    And some just play to the echo chambering of political parties saying exactly what their reader base wants to hear. It’s good to learn what those are as well.





  • No. The seismic shift since Trumps first run has been felt. A bunch of, for lack of a better word, asshole world leaders running amuck: Assad, Putin, Netanyahu. Even N Korea is bolder. S Korea even tried to pull a military coup on democracy.

    Power vacuums on the world stage matter. Trump created that. And we’ve failed to mend it either election since.

    Lame duck President. Inertia. And now another run of Trump. We’re effectively done on the world stage, except for the occasional show of being a bully, probably, because it’s Trump and he wants to play with military toys.

    Here’s the bigger problem.

    China is boycotting all sales to our defense contractors. Take a minute to think about what that means. And will Trump continue to export what chips we do have to China this term as well? While distracting everyone with tariffs? There’s a modicum of security in military dominance, but it’s not us any more, it’s probably China.