ValiantDust

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can turn this around as well. Their mom asking them to stop having contact with their father is her choosing to take away their father from them. If that’s what she wants to do…

  Children should not be pulled into the relationship problems of their parents. The parents are the ones who chose to have a child together, they are the ones who have to deal with the consequences of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I stop being a sucker for alcoholic stuff on sale?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in no way qualified to judge whether this classifies as being an alcoholic. But I think you certainly have an unhealthy relationship to alcohol or at least beer. It’s not really “normal” (sorry, I don’t know how to phrase it better) to think so much about a beverage.

  The same goes for food, actually. And at least there it doesn’t automatically equal excessive consumption, sometimes it’s the opposite, either anorexia or even focusing on a healthy diet. The point is that the healthy default state is to not obsess about it too much.

  Out of curiosity, have you tried alcohol-free beer? There are really good ones out there and maybe trying some could help you determine whether it’s actually the alcohol or more the “beer equals good time” aspect that drives you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definition of concurrent vs cumulative?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to start a new line, you can either type the spaces at the end of the line or a backslash. I think it should work on all clients, but I’m not sure.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you wish a Happy Mother's Day to your friends who are mothers or just to those in your own family?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even wish my mother a happy mother’s day, because whenever mother’s day is brought up she rants about how it was made big by florists and the Nazis (this is actually true for Germany). She is a great mother though and she knows I think so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be something like a flea market where hobby gardeners go to share sprouted seeds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard of several “Pflanzentauschtage” (“plant trade days”) here in Germany as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is a two-party system considered democratic?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it does make a difference. When the parties are voted for before forming the coalition, you know exactly how many people supported them and their policies. Then the coalition is negotiated based on that. If you form the coalition first, then only the majorities inside the coalition matter for who has the most say, you have no way of knowing what’s important to the voters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To all the people here arguing that it’s easier to have a family name, especially with children: It’s also possible that the husband takes the wife’s name. But from anecdotal evidence in my acquaintance, most men are very opposed to this idea. So if the woman wants a family name she has to change her name or have endless fights about it. That’s why most women I know did it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does drinking coffee reduce the amount of nutrients absorbed from prior meals?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coffee can reduce how much iron get’s absorbed. This doesn’t have anything to do with the caffeine and the resulting stimulation though, but with something in the coffee binding the receptors or something like that. Don’t know if this happens with other nutrients as well.