Question, if you never learned cursive, does that mean you cab’t read cursive, or doea it juat take a little longer? And can’t you just kinda write cursive after a while anyway? I learned cursive like a year after i learned writing, so it just went hand in hand, and i never thought about it as a skill per se.

In light of some other replies: the same could be said about having kids.

What kind of tattoos?

Oh lordy yes, tattoos … my mother drilled it into me when I was a kid that only prostitutes had tattoos, and I took that negativity on board in a weird way.

I got my first tattoo a couple of years after I’d finished doing regular sex work

Cons: you don’t know what you’re missing

Pros: you don’t know what you’re not missing

I don’t begrudge anyone not wanting kids. It’s not for everyone.

That said, my first thought when I saw the post title was “I don’t regret having kids”.

I suppose the caveat is that my twins are only 2 and a half, I may well regret having kids when they start getting pregnant, selling drugs, marrying chat bots, that sort of thing.

Edit: I just scrolled through some of the other comments and noticed that the majority of them say that they don’t regret not having kids. The fediverse is pretty homogenous I guess.

A variation of this that I realized fairly recently is that striving for excellence doesn’t mean the journey towards it is garbage. I can both feel pride in what I’ve done while also acknowledging where it could have been better with the intent to either circle back and do it better in the future (for like house projects) or avoid that mistake next time (for creations).

Like I did a cross stitch of a wolf and it skewed a bit because it had a lot of half-stitching (without going into too much detail, a full cross stitch equalizes the forces the threads put on the canvas while a half-stitch puts an uneven force on it). So for my current one, I got hoops that I previously didn’t think I needed, which hold the canvas in place outside so the threads are less likely to put a high force where they are.

And my next one will involve a better ordering strategy because my fairly random approach caused some areas of the canvas to bunch up more than others. Less noticeable than the wolf’s skew, but still a flaw I’d like to fix going forward but I’m not beating myself up about the current one.

Assuming this is even relevant to the context you mean lol.

This is the mantra of the family I married to. Sometimes a little too much.

Still love them though:)

No one has told me I would regret that but so far living like that is great.

This. 100 times this.

That’s a damn good answer.

Same here, having watched how the lives of my friends who had kids changed reaffirmed the decision of not having any for me. You basically have to be prepared to dedicate next couple of decades of our life to raising kids and not doing much of anything else. And you end up giving up the freedom to do things like move to a different town or try a new career. Your primary goal in life becomes having stable income to raise your kids.

I love kids, but I have never felt a want for them.

I’m in the same boat, except I’ve never felt any kind of remorse. How often do you feel it?

I had zero things in common with my high school classmates. Even before cell phones were ubiquitous, I saw all of them as reckless and incompetent. I identified more with the teachers. They seemed normal and level headed for the most part.

Hey if you don’t mind, roughly how old are you?

Here’s a guy who Cracks His Knuckles in Only One Hand for Over 60 Years. What you need to worry about is when they stop cracking, symptom of systemic inflammation.

I mean, the whole point is that you are going to regret it after you die so it might be a bit early to comment on that

Eh, that’s the kinda thing you don’t know what you’re missing. Contentment and Hope are a powerful life force.

When I was a kid I went through the boxes that held all the family photos and threw away the ones of me, there is now very little physical evidence I existed at all up in till the mid 90s.

Wish I could say the same, so far Linux knowledge seems to have done very little for me as far as employment goes. I have used it at work before but normally it isn’t something anyone else seems to care about. At least my limited knowledge of Windows hasn’t been too significant of a problem so far either.

Ymmv depending on where you are. I was happily employed in the Unix space until I moved to Seattle.

I’ve been running some Linux servers for fun, at my last job we also had quite a few. The only admin quit, no documentation. Guess who got a big salary increase because he was the only one with the knowledge required to keep this shitshow running? Yep, that’s me.

Thanks to past me for installing every distro under the sun and sinking years into the commandline, shell scripting, web and mail servers just for the thrill. Linux is awesome.