Septimaeus

I fully agree with you re: most of your points, and don’t necessarily disagree otherwise, just trying to not expect the worst of people I don’t know based on a photo <3

I didn’t address the point because a lot of my family’s old photos look like this. Twins become more common later. But also i expect the actual age gaps represented in this photo might not be so close. The children on the right are likely not children at all.

Also genetics has to play some part here. Women in my family have relatively few complications in childbirth, and recover more quickly than usual along with their libido apparently, so just a few months between birth and pregnancy is common.

I’m just trying to offer a plausible alternative explanation that I can vouch for so you don’t have to imagine this nightmare.

That seems like an extreme place to go that would only seem justified if you can’t imagine wanting a seemingly ridiculous number of kids. So I’ll offer my perspective.

I grew up with an unusually large number of women in my extended family and heard them talk a lot about enjoying or wanting big families. Many of my cousins went on to have as many kids as they had hoped for originally, and they continue to have children, as if it’s a competition. I don’t get this, because I never wanted children of my own. But all I have ever heard is the woman’s side.

My impression in every case is that, if one of them is setting the agenda on the child front, it’s invariably my cousins. I’m not sure how that conversation goes, but these women are all conventionally attractive, and I would guess it doesn’t take much convincing to get unprotected sex from their guy if that’s what they want.

Long short, I’m not too worried about my cousins being tricked into pregnancy. I do sometimes worry that maybe the men (who have meek personalities by comparison, and look more tired each time I see them) might feel like they weren’t given much say, which could lead to relationship problems later, but it’s not really my business.

lol damn, flinched at both even though I was prepared

It really is a hell of a lot more sane, instantly missed once you don’t have it. And yeah Fork’s a blessing when used with care lol

Oh right, I misread. And yeah not sure (my win32 repro targets have all been locked for a while) but with all the facepalm regressions I’ve read about lately it really could be anything.

I ask no forgiveness but please accept as penance a picture of my cat

And you’d be technically correct, the best kind of correct.

Though yes, if you’re still using Windows, the learning curve may look like a wall.

I really want to know what they changed to break the clipboard service

Guessing the X11 [X]Wayland migration KDE Plasma bug report? Should be fixed in 6.5.2.

I’m specifically highlighting that there is none though I acknowledge machine ID makes it easier.

ETA: edited original comment to be more clear

Upvoting both comments for awareness, since Linux is the first of a multi-step process, not a privacy panacea.

But we must be clear that in both theory and practice there’s little comparison between systemd and modern Windows machine-user association.

Someone using Windows regularly has a gaping wound, is actively bleeding out. Switching to Linux is just a tourniquet, but every other treatment is at best no-effect until that tourniquet is applied.

E: transpose systemd/Windows for clarity

Nut butter and jelly