The problem is that the “thing” is either:

• never have I ever done this or

That’s what OP is saying. The wording could be clearer.

Essentially, if you can relate to what the comment says, then downvote.

Never have I ever heard “I’m proud of you” from my Dad :'(

Hey, what the fuck.

This was my profile picture before you posted it.

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Sweet Jesus…

DO ISAAC YOU PUSSIES. MAKE AN ELEVEN MINUTE ANIMATION ABOUT A RELIGIOUS WACKJOB HEARING GOD TELL HER TO KILL HER SON, WHO FLEES TO THE BASEMENT AND FIGHTS AN ABORTION WITH HIS TEARS

How old?

I didn’t mean OP was a single-parent. I meant I haven’t met any parents.

In any case, are you telling me you haven’t ever let your kid watch TV because you were too busy?

I’m going to assume you don’t have kids.

Unless you’ve had kids you don’t understand that it is practically impossible to complete even the most basic tasks unless your child is distracted.

Staying on top of household duties while managing a child is challenging enough, but then add on work, study, and every other responsibility.

I’ve never met a single parent who shares your opinion.

If someone is willing to do something I don’t want to do and get paid for it, yea, I think it’s work.

Steepest learning curve of any game I’ve played. So damn rewarding though.

Quick to call other people kids as an insult.

The chances of extra terrestrial life to have visited earth is very, very small.

The chances of life to occur are small enough,

The chances of evolution to pass through multiple extinction events and producing a being capable of higher intelligence is even smaller,

The chances they have done this faster than humans is smaller still,

The chances they have evolved close enough to us to have visited is near impossible.

The universe is huge, there’s almost certainly life elsewhere - but to ask whether they visited earth is like speculating on whether ghosts exist.

Also the universe is expanding at such a fast rate that unless we develop faster-than-light tech, we will never reach another solar system.

Statistically better than the choices I’ve made thus far I suppose.

Two things:

1. It sounds like you are blaming yourself, which is hard not to do when everything seems futile - but how you frame things is part of CBT.

You are responsible for the choices you make, but there’s a difference between learning, and beating yourself up.

Once you understand the underlying causes for your decisions, you become a different person, and it becomes harder to associate those old thoughts to who you are now.

2. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Be cautious of anyone who will accept the task.

I used to think my parents had shit figured out, then I realised how dumb they were.

Then I thought I had shit figured out, then I realised how dumb I was.

Then I thought I found my own guru who had shit figured out, but then I realised how dumb they were.

If you get lucky and find someone who provides valuable insights, understand this is gambling - eventually they will give bad advice.

Okay you’ve convinced me this is a good idea.

How do I give consciousness to the “antivirus” software on my parents computers, so I can digitally rape if for a thousand years?

Did you come here from Tumbler?

Good to know, though the point remains; people will readily accept claims which absolve them of guilt.

You essentially just illustrated it. Even though they aren’t screaming, it says nothing about whether they feel pain.

Thanks for taking the intuitive to flip the question.

The next question is: what metric are you using to determine that 100 cat deaths is roughly equivalent to one person having a fingernail pulled out? Why 100? Why not a million?

Do you think there is an objective formula to determine how much suffering is produced by?

Don’t worry, I haven’t made any judgements about you.

And I wasn’t implying that you were implying that I was implying genocide being comparable, I just thought it was funny that we both thought that.

In some sense the combined suffering of all people involved in a genocide is horrific. But if you were to lay out the experiences of everyone involved in a genocide end-to-end, and compare that to an equivalent length of time to ceaseless sadistic torture of one person, the torture is going to be worse.

However, there is value besides personal experience which is lost during a genocide. That’s what makes it hard to compare the two.