I didn’t think you could make this shit up, honestly

My sister works as a contractor and has run-ins with private schools occasionally and whatever you’ve heard about these parents, it’s worse than you can possibly imagine. I never would’ve thought someone would be so proud of the fact that they treat their children like pawns and clearly something to check off on a life list or some bullshit.

I am struggling to wrap my mind around it. In the year 2023, it is common to ask two dating people when they plan to get married and have kids. Which alone wouldn’t be a bad thing, but these questions are so fucking ominous now that I have this knowledge. Fuuuuuuuck me

    • Rom [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      When you make a child you have to keep track of how much money you spend on them, from conception all the way through adulthood. when they turn 18 you hand them the bill, with interest and accounting for inflation. It doesn't have to be a bad investment!

      spoiler

      what do we post to indicate sarcasm when it might not be obvious? i don't want to do /s because that's reddit shit but idk

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        we don't do that here because we're not cowards

        you indicate sarcasm by posting better sarcasm

      • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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        11 months ago

        Yea, if you're a common fool or typical rube. The more tax advantageous way is to structure all child expenses as losses.

        BTW you're supposed buy and use SarcMark™

      • KittyBobo [he/him, comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        Emojis can help express emotion or intent sometimes. And as far as Reddit shit goes I think /s is pretty good and useful.

        • Venus [she/her]
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          11 months ago

          /s is like peter griffin explaining a bad joke immediately after the joke is told

          If you need to mark your sarcasm then you have poorly structured your sarcastic remark

            • Venus [she/her]
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              11 months ago

              I'm autistic and I can't stand this argument

              • SILLY BEAN@lemmygrad.ml
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                11 months ago

                what do you mean? i have several friends that have problems with sarcasm? why is a communication aid a problem to ypu?

                • Venus [she/her]
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                  11 months ago

                  I have several friends who are shit at understanding jokes too and I'm still not going to explain every joke immediately after making it

                • Venus [she/her]
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                  11 months ago

                  What I'm saying is it doesn't matter. So what if someone misunderstands your sarcasm for 5 seconds lol

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                17 days ago

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      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        11 months ago

        i like full italics to suggest i'm putting on a voice. From there, people can work out what flavor of facetiousness i'm aiming for from word choice

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          11 months ago

          How do you do the pink text? I'm either stupid and overlooking it or it's not in the help document.

          • CommunistBear [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            If you click on the 3 vertical dots under a post you'll see a view source button at the very end. Click that and it'll give you the raw input of what was typed. For the pink text it looks like single backtick on either side `

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            11 months ago

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        17 days ago

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