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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • What do you mean by “marriage benefits?” Are talking about strictly legal issues or just the general benefits of being married? Because people can get pretty much all of the general, non-legal benefits of marriage just by being in a close, long-term, living-together relationship.

    Most of the men I’ve heard talking about how marriage isn’t worth it are referring to the potential of divorce and the financial fallout they’re likely to experience if that happens. It depends on where you live, but a lot of divorce laws are still pretty old and force breadwinners to largely finance their divorcee’s lifestyles after separation. I can understand why some men would feel that marriage is thus a “bad deal” in that respect.







  • This happened while I was volunteering on an inpatient ward before going to graduate school. They had just admitted this guy in a manic state, and had apparently convinced him to accept the admission by telling him the ward was “like a Best Western motel.” Every Thursday, we had a ward meeting, which includes everyone on the ward—staff and patients alike. Well, this guy had just been admitted the night before and proceeds to absolutely dominate the entire meeting, because he’d made a very long mental list of all the specific ways in which the ward was not like a Best Western. He eventually had to be escorted out of the meeting because he wouldn’t let anyone else speak.

    I couldn’t laugh at the time, but it was hysterical.



  • I strongly disagree that Kirsten Stewart has an iota of talent as an actress. She has two emotions she expresses: sulky and panicky, and she does neither well. She was no better than her baseline in Underwater and that film wasn’t very good either IMO (and I love Cthulhu stuff).

    However, I didn’t like Snow White and the Huntsman either. I saw it years ago but can’t really remember much about it, because I found rather bland. It wasn’t just Stewart’s milquetoast performance.