Yes I understand this is coming from people who feel (probably rightly) that their parents weren’t good parents and didn’t do enough for them, and which may have said the things you mention.

But even taking all of that as true, those parents, as bad as they may have been, still made sacrifices for their kids. I agree that this is a horrible thing to hang over their heads, but it doesn’t make it untrue either.

I also agree you are signing up for this usually thankless job and should be ready for that. But that also doesn’t negate the fact that you are making some sacrifices to be a parent.

It’s an expectation and a sacrifice. By having kids you made the choice to make some sacrifices.

In the definition of sacrifice there is no provision for how much you wanted to make said sacrifice or what the motivation was. Simply that you gave one thing up for another thing you found more important.

sacrifice /săk′rə-fīs″/ noun The act of giving up something highly valued for the sake of something else considered to have a greater value or claim. “Social activism often involves tremendous sacrifice.”

This is true for any sort of sacrifice. Volunteering, saving people from burning buildings, giving your last dollar to someone more in need.

To be clear, I look at my children in the way you describe. I don’t hold “my sacrifices” over their heads, it was a decision I made happily and don’t regret. Same as when I donate money, help someone on the street, etc. But IMO just because it’s a decision (even made happily) doesn’t mean it’s not a sacrifice at the same time.

Yes I suppose you could apply that to anything and say sacrifice doesn’t exist for anything. But since we are discussing it, I don’t think we are in the mindspace you are proposing.

This is a new frontier my friend, you have to carve your own path!

Being a good parent and making sacrifices are not the same. It’s impossible to be a parent without making sacrifices. It’s possible to make said sacrifices and still be a bad parent.

Try being a parent and get back to me. There isn’t a parent in the world that doesn’t make sacrifices. Even bad ones do. There’s no way to raise a kid without time and money and loss of sleep. Even if you do a bad job.

Unless they put you up for adoption or sent you to live with relatives, the fact that you are still alive disproves this point.

Yeah the obvious counter to this is AI job applicants who can play the numbers game, say what the hiring AI wants to hear and get hired enough times and long enough to grab some pay checks. This is already happening. Get the bot swarm ready.

How do you think he gets the extra propulsion to go so fast?

That’s a brutal thing to be tagged with these days.

Microsoft doesn’t expect growth in their OS offerings. These days all their focus is on AI and cloud.

Not if I have anything to say about it. I’m putting a cap at $59.99 for must have AAA titles with tons of replay value. I will wait until they meet me there. Most games don’t meet that standard for me, so most I will be waiting much longer.

Well that sucks.

Don’t know how you did that but thanks

Sorry I meant second from top (edited now).

What’s second one from top on 30?

In high school in the '90s we were pretty close. It was a handful of places but not that many, basically anywhere we could get away with sitting for hours nursing a coffee or iced tea. If they had pinball, big bonus. Maybe not every day, but certainly many days in the week.

Yeah we had our sources too ;-)

If I were a teenager again, I’d be headed straight to all the grocery stores in town.