The Dairy lobby is at it again…

You deserve that money more than anyone who parties on a yacht does.

Besides, it only seems generous because you and them live in fundamentally different financial worlds. If they were actually generous they’d pay enough taxes for you to have fully funded education with a liveable stipend.

I tried it out to see how it was coming along a year or so ago. It made Kenshi look polished.

This is really good advice for you, OP. Polyamory is potentially a very strong and fulfilling relationship structure, but it’s a lot of work and it’s not necessarily easy.

Most of the polyamorous people i know came into their relationships already down for polyamory. Opening up a monogamous relationship is risky, so it is a good idea to proceed in an informed and intentional manner.

There’s a lot of ways relationships can go. A part of polyamory means finding what works for y’all. Who knows, maybe it’ll end up as a monogamous situation where the new guy joins y’all platonically as chosen family.

To clarify, by polycule I mean the total chain of romantic relationships. Currently it’s four of us living together, and two more living together as a couple where me and my chosen family member have been dating one of them for years. For most of it, the section living together was three of us, romantically a v but more than that we think of eachother as chosen family.

It definitely helps with financial stability insofar as there’s a lot of buffer when someone is between jobs, but otherwise it’s not all that different. Housing space needs scale with number of people in the family, after all. We’re starting to look in to purchasing a house together, and to an extent the purchasing power of four working professionals helps there, but if we also want kids it means looking at big houses so again it kinda evens out. There’s also an added layer of legal complexity that becomes necessary with home ownership - we don’t have a ready made framework like marriage.

Edit: I realized I didn’t answer your first question. It depends. Not as much as a traditional monogamous married family would - we mostly have separate bank accounts. But we share most of our expenses (even split for ease) and have income-scaled split of rent.

You should look into polyamory/consensual non-monogamy. What you’re describing doesn’t have to be seen as some sort of weird perverse thing doomed to failure and return to the status quo. It is a legitimate family structure.

I’ve been in a polyamorous family for almost a decade now. Most of it was three (the sort of v shape you describe) but also with a larger (currently six total) non-domestic polycule. I’m not the tip of the v but I love my metamours (word for partners’ partners) as family.

It’s viable. The trick is a gratuitous amount of candid conversation, and a dedication to the family.

🤫 Batman and Inspector Gadget have been canoodling

I’m glad they were able to at least make it happen in places. Chow seems to be pretty good at making shit happen in spite of the suburbs.

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That is a very sad way to think of language.

Just going by memory of usage pattern:

Gadget: a small (at least usually small enough to be carried around and utilized by a single person) piece of technology for a specific, often niche use. Eg, “go go gadget shark-repelant spray gun!”

Contraption: a device, often jury rigged or prototyped, built to serve some particular purpose. Eg, “I built this here contraption to dig us a way out of here”

Doohickey: A word used refer to a contraption or other piece of technology that the speaker does not understand, or does not know the purpose of, especially to emphasise that lack of understanding. Eg, “they’re gonna ‘beam’ us out of here with that doohickey.”

Not sure about gizmos.

Edit: examples

Synonyms aren’t necessarily interchangeable. Asking about the distinctions is a good question.

Trump is shit, and he’s spewing shit, but that doesn’t make this a shitpost.

I recently started migrating my email and went with mailbox.org. I opted for it based on it having a good balance of ethical/environmental stances, support for custom email domain (so email doesn’t feel like vendor lock in in the future), and a business model focusing on paid service.

There were a lot of options but ultimately I just wanted something “good enough” rather than spending weeks on comparing. A part of that decision was realizing I didn’t care about getting something with the best possible privacy - email is predominantly an insecure medium and things with E2EE work only if the recipient is in the same ecosystem, which is rare. In practice I’m not going to trust anything sensitive to email regardless, so I might as well prioritize picking something that looks like a decent and stable balance.

Mailbox.org has calendar but I haven’t really played with it much. I’m realistically going to look in to look in to something self hosted since I will require more features than most email providers will offer, so I don’t want to tether the two services. That was a part of the reasoning for Mailbox.org over something with more services - I wanted email, not something trying to be the next ecosystem - that’s what I was trying to get away from!

The joke is it inverts the usual “what a week/but captain it’s Wednesday” meme. Wednesday (the character) calls the captain Commodore (a title for someone in command of a group of ships, but lower rank than an admiral). The captain corrects Wednesday, saying he’s just a captain.

Trains. Even if it’s a short -ish distance it’s still usually worth it to set up the input station so it’s easier to add another field later. Plus, trains are fun. Choo choo.

… In all seriousness, looks like an interesting video!

Np. Lemmy doesn’t have an active blood bowl community, so feel free to message me with any questions about getting started!

I’m not a sportsy person but the minis won me over with their silly charm.

The very core of it is moving, blocking (fighting), and ball handling (usually just roll a d6 against your agility start, less modifiers). Players exert a zone of control (“tackle zones”) in adjacent squares which apply agility penalties and provide assists in blocks. Grocking the assist rule and its implications is the hardest part of learning the game, but it’s not actually complicated. Using all of that together for good positioning has a skill ceiling akin to chess, with risk management layered on top.

More complexity is added when you factor in the various teams and skills that can be developed, but 1) you can and should just learn those as you encounter them, and 2) the complexity:depth ratio there is very favourable imo.

I’ve never played Warhammer but as I understand it, it’s Blood Bowl is quite a bit simpler. MTG is probably a fair comparison, but it’s a bit apples to oranges.

In board game terms, I’d say a learning game of 7s (the smaller and sillier quick play variant) is low-mid complexity, and full scale league games with all the bells and whistles while being a tryhard about it is less complex than say, Spirit Island at its peak.

It’s also quite telling that you can play it fast and loose as a beer and pretzels game more about “haha silly sports man tripped from running too fast and died” if you don’t want a brain burner.

edit: clarity

I wouldn’t necessarily describe blood bowl as simple, but it definitely has emergent complexity. The core rules of movement and blocking are straightforward once you wrap your head around them, but layering on team asymmetry, skills, probability, and the game state can lead to some seriously crunchy tactics.