And if you'll permit me to be a bit mean and judgy... If all a person has to offer humanity is that they have a functioning reproductive system, that's incredibly sad.

The survival of the human species does not solely revolve around the ability to make offspring. Believe me, you'd have a *very* hard time managing if *everyone* had kids.

Who's educating them? People who don't have a gaggle of their own kids preventing them from working, either childless people or people who employ childless people to mind their kids while they work

Who's working late so you can get home in time to look after the kids after school? Childless people. Who's working school holidays so you can spend time with your kids? Childless people.

Gestation and childbirth are high risk activities. Who's going to look after all your offspring if you don't survive? That's right, the childless uncles and aunts.

Who's going to share the work of minding them so you get a break? The childless uncles and aunts.

That's just mammals, and just menopause. Nature is packed with examples of social species where non-reproducing adults are still important to the survival of the group.

1: Run as a pro-immigration, pro-benefits, pro-NHS, pro-trans anti-racist Reform candidate
2: get shot down
3: profit?

Morbid thought: address books of the dead.

Pretty address book to hold the names, numbers, birthdays, deathdays, old addresses and final resting places of our departed?

Got that heckin neurospice.

I couldn't do that. Even if I plan to do it right away, I write it down anyway because chances are I'll get distracted by another thing that needs doing while I'm on the way to do the thing.

Seconded. I'm primarily crochet and can't get my head around knitting, but I managed socks on a knitting loom.

Riiiight, they're just "really good friends". Roommates even.

Me banging the homies: it's not gay, it's just a display of affection!

ah, ADHD eating

excellent thread as always