Straight up murked.
not having kids is one of the few things i am utterly, truly grateful for.
#childfree baby! So glad I got a vasectomy.
Bro it’s 2026. Almost every woman with children in my close circle who is of my generation had their first kid in their thirties. Like raising a kid is much easier when you have a stable financial foundation.
I have a friend who had his first at 18, I had my first at 36. We honestly cant work out who had/has it easier.
He had to scrimp and stretch every penny he could get his hands on. But he was young, had energy and his parents were young enough to help alot.
I’m financially secure (enough and for now) but I’m always tired as fuck, short on time and the grandparents probably consume as much time as they save.
All the ones in my circle who had kids in their 20s are miserable. The rest are childless and much happier (at least given the times we’re living in).
Being on Twitter in 2026 is crazy. Seemingly paying for that shit even more.
Pushing 40 with no kids and couldn’t be happier about that.
I’m 39. Partner is 40. Married over 8 years.
More than once we’ve had a shit day with weather, or something breaking in the house, or dogs being sick, etc etc… And we’ll turn to each other and say “Imagine we also had kids?”
Fuck. All. Of. That.
Imagine thinking the same about all the good moments instead of only focusing on the bad stuff.
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Some people just aren’t interested in having kids. I’ve had countless great moments in my life I will always remember fondly. There isn’t a single one of those moments I think would’ve been better if I had a kid lol. I don’t think my life would be worse, just different.
Imagine thinking of all the money we need to spend on a farm through a single income household while also imagining we needed to spend it on other humans.
We’re barely getting by as is. Now add a tiny human or two to that. Everyone is miserable and nothing gets done. Two Neurodivergent humans who barely function on a good day dealing with all the chaos of modern life and financial restrictions… “but think of the good moments”.
I have that with my dog. He jumps up on me every day I come home from work.
Pushing 50 and no kids, no regrets. It randomly came up talking with friends last week and my husband literally barked with laughter “i fuckin’ sank that ship 20 years ago looool”
on the one hand, men in glass houses have no business throwing stones
what is on the other hand???
A man with a stone throwing business
A stone
And broken house glass everywhere. Now you’re homeless. Like the dude in the comment chain.
The link in the description has the full comment. OP said that they cropped the original image to keep it from being super long.
I actually thought it was just a rhetorical joke setup. Like, there is no other hand.
But no, he actually blames the woman herself.
On the one hand, men in glass houses have no business throwing stones.
He was wrong for that & should’ve known better.
On the other, he can’t post nudes online as his meal ticket the way you can.
Beauty privilege is as real as financial privilege; partly earned, mostly inherited. As an OF creator, your body is capital.
On top of that, for the past several decades, government rigged hiring & university enrollment in your favor, excluding & impoverishing heterosexual white men in particular.
You are, to some extent, to blame for his poverty, & now you’re dunking on a homeless man from a position of historically unprecedented privilege because of a mild barb. You reveal more of your inner ugliness than you likely intend.
Lmao “It’s everyone else’s fault I suck!”
You are, to some extent, to blame for his poverty,
Lol fucking what?
Dudes blaming the patriarchy in the most patriarchal way imaginable.
I honestly even forgot the “roughin’ it for clout” guy started the whole thing by saying
Pushing 30 with no kids in 2026 is Crazy
A homeless man that pays for the blue twitter checkmark, mind you
Wow. But I can almost guarantee he would unironically wax principled about the importance of personal responsibility.
Sense may be common, but self-awareness seems elusive to many.
I kinda feel she described herself as an “older woman” just for the rage bait.
It’s a joke
Once you pass 18 you’re officially old, and there’s no turning back
Not to leonardo dicaprio
You excluded the part where the guy literally said she was to blame for his poverty… Because DEI I guess. Lmfao two very deranged men.
Also funny how he assumes she’s American. Just did some research 🧐 and she’s Australian. In Australia you get into a uni based on grades, not with a dog and pony show like in the US. So DEI doesn’t even apply.
Merit is the worst kind of DEI.
Thanks for pointing this out! The full text is unhinged.
Lmfao two very deranged men.
Well the guy lives on Twitter. It’s par for the course.
My car is also a beautiful moving.
I had a beautiful moving in the bathroom this morning after a few cups of coffee
Since when was 28 “older women”?
I feel like super old and I’m only in mid-30s
The original post was a tongue in cheek joke by the girl, she does not really think 28 is an older woman.
Can people just not parse jokes or read nuance anymore?
Yeah, took me awhile to adjust from reddit where the default is sarcasm. You gotta remember where you are, neurodivergency abounds on the Fediverse.
I’m pretty new here personally and I feel way more comfortable in two weeks than I did in 12 years on Reddit.
I feel much the same way and have been here quite a while now. And just in case you haven’t read it yet: welcome to Lemmy.
Thank you! ☺️
This is the internet.
No matter how many examples you can pull to show us why we should know it’s a joke/satire, there are 10,000 examples of someone being completely serious.
You know… I was going to write a joke that ‘you can’t fool me, you all only exist on my phone.’
Then I thought there probably will be AI-run forums running just for one user, and responding to their posts and comments with positivity and praise to stroke their egos, and I made myself sigh.
And now you have to read my deluded thoughts - which is dragging me back to reality, yep… this is the internet.
this is the internet.
Don’t catch you clickin now
Ah fuck, now I want a Donald Glover/Bo Burnham collab on this.
Literacy has basically never been worse
A good number of us on the fediverse are autistic so nuance doesn’t alway get parsed properly.
They don’t know what jokes are?
Autistic people sometimes process humor differently than neurotypical people. But autism is a spectrum so to say “all autistic people don’t understand jokes” would be an overstatement.
Here is a site if you’d like to read up more on it.
Completely fair, I didn’t consider that.
Since Leonardo Decaprio
He’s dating a twenty-seven year old right now because his PR team told him to.
early 40s and I don’t feel old at all. Yet my younger zoomer coworkers behave like life is over at 24-26. Last time I asked my parents (boomers), they told me they started feeling old in their early 30s. Might be a generational thing.
I finally feel like an adult but I think that’s less to do with my age and far more to do with my family, career and financial status. Physically I’m in far better shape now than I was a decade ago, so I’ve got that going for me at least!
Eh, if I was still thinking about dating, I’d maybe date her, even if she is a bit young for an older woman.
