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We had the opposite experience:
1. My wife kept her last name.
2. When we had her firstborn daughter, my wife suggested she take her last name. I thought that was fine.
3. When we had my son, he took my last name because why not?
4. No idea what these administrative challenges are, but we never encountered them.
5. My only worry was that maybe it would be harder to take kids across international borders by myself, so my daughter has my last name as a middle name and my son has my wife's last name as a middle name. Because who cares about middle names?
6. Literally no one at a school, airport, or wherever has ever made this an issue, let alone even ask the question why the kids have different last names. And at least a dozen countries. It has literally never come up.
Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬@lymanstoneky
I think what this position misses is: 1) Kids are gonna have a surname 2) Having the whole household share a surname really is useful for a whole lot of purposes and parents who don't share surnames with their kids often face administrative challenges 3) Making up a new surname for the whole household breaks ties with *both* sides of the family and also most people see it as kinda cringe 4) So it's either his or hers or hyphens 5) Hyphens are fine, many countries do that, but they do make it literally impossible to write your full surname on many documents for many name combos, so you're back at having a name that creates recurrent administrative problems 6) So the lowest-friction solution really is his or hers 7) There's no fundamental reason it has to be his, but either way somebody is gonna give. You can argue it should be the man, but the only argument for that is matriarchy, which is no more compelling than patriarchy. 8) On the other hand the argument for "this is just the convention, don't sweat it too much" is fairly strong
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@KansasCity $5M to develop a plan. No funding yet for construction. Incredible amount of waste
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Let’s build a better US-71!
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@TheAthleticFC Should've given him a nice kick in the ribs
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What do Gary Neville, Pep Guardiola and Ben White have in common?
They were all unimpressed by Rayan Cherki’s showboating in Manchester City’s Carabao Cup win over Arsenal.
You can understand why Arsenal wouldn't have taken kindly to Cherki's keepie-uppies — particularly White, who duly left one on the Frenchman in the moments that followed.
But for the neutrals, it was just a bit of fun... right?
📝 @NickMiller79
bit.ly/4uKHo9F?utm_so…
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@The_Catechumen "catholic" should be lower case. It doesn't mean the Roman Catholic Church
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Saying, “I believe in one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church,” but redefining every word doesn’t mean you actually affirm the creed. Catholics can profess the marks specifically as they were intended to be defined - and as they were explained by the fathers/those contemporaneous to promulgation of the creed. You can’t. It’s the same thing creedal baptists do when they redefine “one baptism for the forgiveness of sins” to mean “one baptism that doesn’t forgive your sins but only symbolizes the forgiveness you’ve already received.” It’s the same problem. You aren’t really AFFIRMING the creed, because you shift the meaning away from what those words were intended to convey by the fathers. You’re misappropriating it.
Nathan Zekveld@RevZekveld
I believe "one, holy, catholic and apostolic church". That does not say I believe “the One Roman Catholic Church”.
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Galatasaray’s Noa Lang has undergone surgery in Liverpool on his right thumb after cutting it in a collision with the advertising hoardings at Anfield.
Liverpool FC plan to investigate what exactly happened during the incident which caused the injury and wish Lang a full and speedy recovery.
More from @JessMCHopkins nd @adjones_journo ⬇️
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@TyDunne The normal refs don't want to be full time is my understanding
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The NFL's resistance to full-time officials is forever the mystery of our time.
Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
The NFL is laying groundwork for hiring replacement officials this season if the league is unable to agree on a new collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Referees Association, per @SeifertESPN. espn.com/nfl/story/_/id…
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In the third of our series on World Cup venues, @HenryBushnell tells you everything you need to know about Kansas City Stadium — an old-school sporting gem in Middle America.
It will never host a Super Bowl. It has no translucent roof, no 11,000-square foot video board, pool or rooftop farm.
But for decades, and especially recently, it has been a fortress for the Kansas City Chiefs.
It also holds the record for the loudest outdoor sports crowd (142.2 decibels) in recorded history, from a September 2014 NFL game.
What will it look like for the World Cup?
🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/71256…
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Probably the worst ref of the season this. Total shit all game for both teams
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This is very interesting.
I'm genuinely curious if the Chiefs think they can get back to orienting the offense completely around him.
Alexis@TravisKEdits
At least they are self aware now let’s not make the same mistake twice this season ! Utilize him properly and set him and the team up for success!
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Antoine Semenyo: €72.00m
Tijjani Reijnders: €54.90m
Rayan Aït-Nouri: €36.80m
Rayan Cherki: €36.50m
James Trafford: €31.20m
Gianluigi Donnarumma: €30.00m
Marc Guéhi: €23.00m
Sverre Nypan: €15.00m
Marcus Bettinelli: €2.40m
That's all our summer and January transfers combined, total Cost = €301.80M.
Wirtz + Isak alone = €281.30M 😂
Tony@Oghener0
GUYS I JUST CLOCKED A CRAZY FACT 😭
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@philipaklein National Review is so pathetic these days. Constantly carrying water for this administration. Even Charles Cooke doesn't care about the Constitution anymore
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If you look past the tweets and listen to what Marco Rubio has been saying consistently it's that destroying Navy/drones/missiles is necessary to prevent them from creating a shield that would make them immune to any future military action against its nuclear program. One can agree or disagree with this justification, but mentioning the need to eliminate these capabilities is not a separate issue from the nuclear question, as far as Rubio has communicated it.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yashar
All of a sudden, the Islamic Republic of Iran nuclear issue has disappeared. And to be clear, no other tweet from the State Department regarding this speech mentions the nuclear issue.
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@geoffschwartz Chris Collinsworth ruined his career
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No surprise here.
Taylor played far better than people want to credit him for.
Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
Chiefs have informed OT Jawaan Taylor that he will be released before the start of the league year barring a trade, per sources. Taylor’s release will save the Chiefs $20 million under the cap.
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@KieranMaguire Arsenal don't even appear until 51
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Is there really a 'Big Six' in the Premier League, or is it a modern myth? Calculated the wages of all clubs for all years and adjusted for football inflation (current purchasing power). The top 114 adjusted wages paid since 1992/93 only involve five clubs, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool. Spurs do not appear until 119th.
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@FeserEdward His hypocrisy on this is astounding. He was saying the exact opposite with Venezuela. Hopefully he's changed his mind.
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I've disagreed with Matt sharply over a couple of things recently, and some have accused him of tailoring his views to political expediency. But one can only admire his refusal to join in the self-deception and groupthink and straight up lies being peddled over the last couple of days. Good for him.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
So far we’ve heard that although we killed the whole Iranian regime, this was not a regime change war. And although we obliterated their nuclear program, we had to do this because of their nuclear program. And although Iran was not planning any attacks on the US, they also might have been, depending on who you ask. And although we are not fighting this war to free the Iranian people, they are now free, or might be, depending on who seizes power, and we have no idea who that will be. The messaging on this thing is, to put it mildly, confused.
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@MattWalshBlog Again. How does this logic not apply to Venezuela which you were in full support of?
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I can't take the gaslighting, guys. I really can't. Conservatives are now running around saying "Iran has been waging war on us for 47 years." Okay then why didn't any of you call for an attack on Iran at any point until now? Why didn't you make a case for Trump "ending the war, not starting it" until precisely the moment when Trump did it? You and I both know that you are latching onto a talking point you never used until 45 seconds ago. You and I both know that almost every conservative influencer in the business was opposed to war with Iran until just now. And now you're trying to use justifications that stretch back decades. It doesn't make any sense. If you changed your mind, fine. Say so. Explain why. You're allowed to change your mind. I've changed my mind about things. But don't try to rewrite history. Be honest about it. There's too much at stake to play these games.
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How does Thomas Muller see football in North America? 🤔
"Football here still has no big significance in the life of the general population. It’s not spoken about in the office on a Monday morning," he told @kicker (translation via @RaeComm). "But the football bubble is not in fact so small. In the stadia there’s euphoric atmosphere. The people are interested in the game."
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You wouldn't know it based on what you see on this site, but there is actually a lane for people who are skeptical of military intervention and regime change wars but also aren't weeping for the Iranian regime and actively rooting for America to fail. Not only does the lane exist in real life but it's where like 90 percent of real people live.
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@MattWalshBlog Why didn't you have any of these questions in Venezuela?
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What exactly is the end game? "The Iranian people rise up and take control of their government"? Okay what does that mean exactly? Which people? How are they taking control? What happens after they do take control? Are we sure the new people, whoever they are, will be better than the old people? How are we going to make sure of that? How are we going to make sure of it while also not putting boots on the ground? This has not been explained. It needs to be.
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