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I’ve got a 5 year old and 3 month old now. Working for a company that’s in the middle of a 5 year plan for PE to flip is a nightmare. Fortunately I can retire my wife although she wasn’t thrilled about it. But even still nights are a challenge becuse I need to give her some relief.

I want a third but she isn’t too keen on that idea. We will see where we are in a couple of years.
 
Yeah, when the kiddos are in the "months" phase instead of years, it's always the hardest time no matter what. I'm sure she's not very keen when you have a 3 month old and she just went through all of that again lol. She will probably soften on her stance in a couple years. My wife kind of misses having a baby around and would probably go for one more... but I had a vasectomy because I was done lol

I love kids, but I'm not a huge fan of the baby stage. Having a 12 year old boy is also starting to get to be a bit challenging... he knows more about everything than his dumb parents
 
zbhargrove said:
Yeah, when the kiddos are in the "months" phase instead of years, it's always the hardest time no matter what. I'm sure she's not very keen when you have a 3 month old and she just went through all of that again lol. She will probably soften on her stance in a couple years. My wife kind of misses having a baby around and would probably go for one more... but I had a vasectomy because I was done lol

I love kids, but I'm not a huge fan of the baby stage. Having a 12 year old boy is also starting to get to be a bit challenging... he knows more about everything than his dumb parents
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I treat debates with my 13-year-old like a game of pickup basketball that I’m trying my hardest at. Gotta reinforce my intellectual dominance over the little gremlin.
 
mqt said:
I treat debates with my 13-year-old like a game of pickup basketball that I’m trying my hardest at. Gotta reinforce my intellectual dominance over the little gremlin.
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When he hits you with the "why do you keep voting for insanity, endless fraud, and crime acceptance" just nail him back with the classic "bc i aim to protect the individual in this corporate environment" trump card
 
sturg33 said:
When he hits you with the "why do you keep voting for insanity, endless fraud, and crime acceptance" just nail him back with the classic "bc i aim to protect the individual in this corporate environment" trump card
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Joke’s on you, I’ve obviously been indoctrinating him.
 
sturg33 said:
By the way my son being born next month will be greeting us with the initials of TDS
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Congrats friend. It’s special to see your kids be siblings to one another. It’s been my favorite part of being a dad since my 2nd was born 2 years ago.
 
Love the 4k for makeup - Got to get my wife hooked up on these deals.

But honestly, people would be shocked at what people pay for makeup. Wifey makes excellent 1099 side job money for the family.
 
chop2chip said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2036222962916008338
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This isn't the actual problem

Welch, Blumenthal Release Details on DHS Secretary Noem’s Mount Rushmore Ads | Senator Welch

www.welch.senate.gov www.welch.senate.gov

Safe America Media was awarded a $143 million no-bid contract from the Department of Homeland Security in February 2025 to produce and place ad campaigns for the agency. The company was incorporated only seven days prior to receiving the award and is registered to the home address of a longtime political operative. 

The ads were filmed by The Strategy Group Company, which is led by the husband of Noem’s then-spokesperson and Assistant Secretary, Tricia McLaughlin, and who has a long association with Noem and Lewandowski.
 
https://reason.com/2026/05/11/dont-...e-surgeon-general-nominee-abolish-the-office/

President Donald Trump's most recent pick for the office of U.S. Surgeon General, Nicole Saphier, is a source of tension between the MAGA and MAHA factions of his supporters. Given that she's the president's third pick for the slot, the administration would undoubtedly just like to put disputes over this one office behind them. But there's an easy path to a conflict-free resolution: The Trump administration could leave the Office of the Surgeon General unfilled and push for its abolition.

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"The Office of the Surgeon General and the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, which the office oversees, are unnecessary relics," writesJeffrey A. Singer, an Arizona surgeon and senior fellow at the Cato Institute. "The surgeon general has drifted from an apolitical public health role into a politicized platform, weighing in on issues far beyond its proper scope—from gun control to social policy—thereby undermining trust in legitimate health functions."

The Office of the Surgeon General was originally established to oversee the Marine Health Service "to provide health care to sick and injured merchant seamen," as the office's official historyputs it. This later expanded into a national hospital system with a Commissioned Corps organized along military lines. Mission creep set in, and the medical bureaucracy was eventually renamed the Public Health Service and tasked with "preventing the spread of contagious diseases throughout the United States."

The Surgeon General lost responsibility for the Public Health Service in 1968. The office was briefly abolished and then recreated as an advisory position with authority over the uniformed Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Well, over some of members of the Corps. Many officers in the Corps "are assigned to all HHS Agencies and to a number of agencies outside of HHS, including the District of Columbia Commission on Mental Health Services, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Bureau of Prisons, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Park Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Marshals Service," and work within the chains of command in those agencies, according to the Office of the Surgeon General.

In other words, the Surgeon General doesn't really have a clearly defined role or a good reason to parade around in a quasi-naval uniform. That is, unless you like the office's transformation into a national nag that lectures Americans on whatever alleged lifestyle sins most annoy the current Surgeon General.

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acesfull86 said:
That is, unless you like the office's transformation into a national nag that lectures Americans on whatever alleged lifestyle sins most annoy the current Surgeon General.
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I'm all for streamlining and efficiency. But "nagging" people about smoking, nutrition, vaccines and exercise is good public policy. South Carolina recently got on top of its measles epidemic by nagging people about vaccines.
 
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nsacpi said:
I'm all for streamlining and efficiency. But "nagging" people about smoking, nutrition, vaccines and exercise is good public policy. South Carolina recently got on top of its measles epidemic by nagging people about vaccines.
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Government would still be filled with more than enough nags after axing this position
 
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