IamtheMorgz

Sort of. I'm a gov worker (non fed) and mine is a joke. 1% of salary per year of service. Not very significant. The old scheme was 2.5, I think, and before that it was 30 years to full salary. I still work with people on that old one, and they're about at the full 30. In a generation it's gone from a nice retirement to being more like a supplement. We do pay into SS now though so I guess that's meant to replace it.

Hahaha I grew up in a very conservative house in the South. Most of what I said before college was embarrassing.

I'm better now.

I'm in the same boat. These days I feel like it's mostly under control but occasionally a bad day happens and if I had the means ... Well, it doesn't take much effort to pull a trigger and I know it.

I've decided the best way I can support and help should violence erupt is to cultivate other skills, like learning some EMS skills or having a garden. Still learning but I think those things might ultimately be more helpful than the gun anyway.

If you're able to get sterilized (and obviously want to) please do it. It was less work than I thought it would be (with the proper planning) and it's a huge weight I don't have to worry about any more.

I think the real problem is that they're both trying to do what's best for their people, and they're both crap at being the best for their people.

Hamas and the IDF both want the other side dead dead. No matter who wins, that's a lot of dead folks. The path to a peaceful resolution has probably become some convoluted and overgrown I'm not sure possible to hack our way through. But truthfully, that takes both orgs being willing to take that path and I'm not sure that's on the table anymore.

Israel is winning and we've all got blood on our hands, btw. But if we backed Hamas and they were winning we'd have the same blood on our hands.

I mean, yes, biscuits have simple ingredients but I would say getting them right is actually pretty difficult (I'm Southern and it took me ages and the help of my elders to get a good biscuit technique down).

There are some good YouTube videos on the subject though. I find the key is COLD hands and ice water!

Must be why she's so good at it!

Oh don't feel bad for us. It's also hotter than hell with 115% humidity every day for 7-9 months!

23 miles door to door for me. Can take as little as a half hour (zero traffic)... Or as much as an hour 20. And good luck predicting exactly how bad it will be at any given day/time!

Also in the greater Atlanta and can confirm. My job thankfully has me work from home as much as I can (I also travel a lot, which requires getting a vehicle from the office). But it's still a nightmare every time I do have to go in.

Oh wow, to be jump scared by the Destiel fanfic writer I'm obsessed with (the stories not the person lol) in the wild.

Northern Sparrow is an amazing writer and talks often about bird physiology in her fics!

I'm a childfree woman. I am being sterilized in less than 2 weeks. I have a very very long list of reasons I don't want kids. I won't bore anyone by typing them out.

What I find most interesting in this thread is how people have so much of an option on other people's choices still. It's 2025, can we just let each other live?

No, it is not immoral to have kids. The world has always been messed up and it will continue to be until we all die out. Maybe that will happen in the next generation, maybe it won't happen for another 50 generations. We cannot know either way.

No, it is not immoral to not have kids. You do not have a responsibility to continue your bloodline or some nonsense. You can still be invested in the future even if you don't personally have kids.

I wish everyone had put their gender in their replies though. As a general rule, I often see more childfree women than men. I think this is because women are often put in that caregiver role earlier than men and they see how hard it is. Also women have to do the pregnancy/birth part and that seems awful. Men think of the time they'll have to teach and play with their kids, women imagine having to cook a nutritious meal every night or get called negligent. Of course that's not always the dynamic but you have to acknowledge it swings that way.