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[–] [email protected] 25 points 16 hours ago

What? You guys are all a bunch of letters on a screen, lol

[–] [email protected] 31 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Reading this post was the first time I ever considered it as a possibility.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So you’re saying there’s a chance 👉👈

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

yes, popcorn princess

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

Probably the closest I've come is recognising the same user name from one thread to the next. So I guess... not very close at all.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Same answer as everyone else: Flying Squid.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago

I came here to post that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah no, that's a young person's game.

Kinda amazing how crushes just stopped happening and healthy mutual relationships became a thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. I'm married with adult kids. All of that is work enough. I don't have enough energy left to crush on anyone. Not even like a platonic bro-crush or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Not even with kids, just wife and those in-laws and family and those out-laws, and I already feel like I'm in over my head. Kids might break me, were definitely only having 1 if any (or twins, it would be unfair to pick just one of them, and if we did we'd undoubtedly screw up and pick the evil one)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Kids are great. I mean they'll break you for sure, but in good ways. Challenge you. You've got probably 8-10 years where they adore you no matter who you are. Then a few years where they barely tolerate you no matter who you are. And then you get to find out whether you did good or fucked everything all up.

Forget raising them. They observe and mostly raise themselves other than sometimes needing some help or advice that they may or may not ask for or accept. They'll be bits of you peppered in with bits of your wife and a bit of someone you don't even recognize.

And none of them are evil, though when you're ripping up carpet because your daughter wanted to know how many gallons of water the towels in her closet could hold, or repainting because your toddler is Pablo Poopcasso, you might think so.

But there are special moments you couldn't have with anyone else in this planet. And I'm not saying they make everything else worth it — no they just give you enough sustenance to try to hold onto your sanity a bit longer. But the experience is unique and worthwhile.

Sorry, I'm not trying to talk you into kids, just got me vibing thinking about mine. I have five. Three are out of the house. And raising them has been a wonderful and humbling experience. But I don't have room left to fawn over anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

bro u okay?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

It never occurred to me before this question but Fossilesque is cool as hell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I don't think I could ever have a crush on someone without meeting them in person.

Interesting or attractive I guess it's possible, but having a crush requires direct interaction in physical reality

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

I’d say feeling admiration for others. People who are kind, patient, insightful, and critical thinkers. People who look at how political goods (including wealth) are distributed and can think critically about it. Nutomic and Dessalines for sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

None of you assholes in [email protected], I can tell ya that!

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