I don’t know a single person who would marry for that sort of reason. But the people I know weren’t under any pressure to get married. Some of them are single, some are in long term committed relationships with kids, and some are married.

Maybe if you live in a subculture that expects people to get married by a certain age this is an OK take. But it’s so far from what I see that it seems like a really niche perspective on a complex cultural institution.

I’ve (fortunately) never seen such a story. What sorts of things are usually reported on being considered for deletion?

I was today years old when I relaised that “gag” in that phrase presumably means “make me vomit” not “silence me”. I’ve spent many decades being confused about that…

This. I don’t think children should watch porn, and tbh, I’d personally be fine if all porn was magically banned for everyone. But short of magic, that isn’t possible. Allowing a government to decide what is and isn’t banned, and justify controlling access to information while inevitably failing to actually prevent children accessing porn… is a terrible idea.

The negative costs don’t outweigh the plausible benefits. And if OP continues to claim that the debate is all porn addicts hoeny for filth then they are simply trolling and not genuinely interested in the topic.

Couples I’ve known who both had double-barrelled surnames before marriage generally combined one of the names from each of their names to create a new double-barrelled name, which is what their new family and kids use. E.g. A-B marries X-Y and they become B-Y or X-A or whatever.

Sometimes, the missing parts of the surname get given to specific children as middle names. Which is a nice way of acknowledging older family members without burdening your kid with an old or boring name.

Nov, 2006

Not only on tape, but some radio shows would transmit computer programs that you could record and use. I know of the UK and Finland, but I think other European countries did it too.

I don’t understand where everyone’s getting this 4° rise = everyone dead / no more economy / etc? Obviously it would be a fucking disaster, with rising sea levels, devastated biodiversity and general misery, but no source I’ve seen suggests that “people couldn’t survive” or even “society would collapse”. It would just be incredibly awful, and lots of people (especially folks in poorer / warmer countries) would die. Has the consensus shifted?

Maybe I’m just taking some hyperbole too seriously? But I don’t think it helps matters when people exaggerate the very real dangers of climate change because it just fuels anti-science ‘debunkers’.

I think he’s just trying to prove your point about the number of autists on lemmy…

Armadillo?

Married and swear by seperate beds. It’s amazing if you’ve got the space. But it is good to make sure you get plenty of “lying about in bed together” time. But it’s great to be able to go off to your own bed after for a peaceful, undisturbed sleep. And being able to read a night or get dressed in the morning without worrying about disturbing your partner.

Isn’t that the basic Buddhist / stoic idea? Avoiding suffering entirely isn’t possible, and obsessing about evading it is itself a heavy burden, instead choose to accept and be at peace with the suffering that is beyond your control.

Bidwell, J. (1997)

Oligarchs who own Scotland ≠ Scottish oligarchs

French people actually use MMS, which I never thought anyone would.

I thought there was going to be some punchline and I was quite confused at the end, what else would paramedics do if some kid was sick? Then I read the comments and remembered about America… I genuinely don’t know how people can live in a country that is so antagonistic to its own citizens.

Sorry to be a boomer, but in the context does horns emoji mean purple devil, brass instrument, or rock horns hand-gesture?

I’m super curious to know what contexts you send this meme. Is it just something funny that one of you remembers occasionally and sends? Or does it have a specific meaning like “sorry can’t come have to work”?

This is one of the songs I hum to myself to get rid of more annoying earworms

My mother, grandmother and great grandmother all have same name, but used different short forms to differentiate.