Joyful
1yr ago
For example I don't know if we've ever won before, and I don't care. Also true of mens soccer. I generally know who won the super bowl and have watched it a few times. It also makes the news when the baseball and hockey stuff (stanley cup and... ok don't know the name of the baseball.... world series?)
Joyful
1yr ago
Yes, but if we are going to have transnational thursdays, each country a person posts about should be their own reply not in the top level or mushed together in one comment.
Joyful
2yr ago
I don't think many people are meaningfully able to notice a benefit that won't exist for 50 years, nor are willing to put up with repercussions (severe ones) that will last for 49, so I think 50 is a good line there.
I definitely believe in adverse possession for lands held that long.
Joyful
2yr ago
Should I text back at like 9PM to reschedule and then add something cheeky like “you owe me the entire Stairway to Heaven solo now btw”?
This would put my back up, as a woman. If she cancelled because she doesn't want to go out with you, then nothing you say matters. If she was genuinely busy and does want to go again, the word "owe" is going to strike a sour note.
Joyful
2yr ago
I take the burns depression index and log the score every month, that might be a good addition to your metrics:
I'd also agree to just do it in a spreadsheet. Apps get too annoying as health trackers because they all want to push coaching and subscriptions over data entry and display.
Joyful
2yr ago
I can't stress how little importance the exact way you ask someone out has.
As a girl, this. She knows you. Either she would like to see more of you or she wouldn't so the wording won't really matter. If you have her number feel free to just text her if you don't want to do it in person.
Joyful
2yr ago
My guess is that it is a way to notice there might be a problem. As a teenage girl it would never have occurred to me to tell anyone if my period became irregular. How horrifying to raise the topic! Most teenage girls have not yet seen a gynecologist (btw, who ask on their intake forms the date of your last period, for this very reason.) Their individual coaches should be aware of this but I can see how specifically asking would seem intrusive and weird.
Joyful
2yr ago
I hate that Lindsey Ellis gave up on her interesting public work (making youtube videos) because of stupidity on twitter. Just leave twitter!
Joyful
2yr ago
I'd practice concentration by 1) mindfullness meditation and 2) reading things you enjoy. When you can read a book you enjoy for 3 or 4 hours at a stretch, you'll find it a lot easier to focus on work for an hour at a time.
Joyful
2yr ago
Mike is small and unthreatening. No one looks to "clock" a transman because he's not winning Man of the Year Awards, male olympic medals, or scaring anyone with his genitals in a bathroom. It's not that somehow Mike just is a man, its mostly that people don't care because his identity doesn't revolve around forcing other people to acknowledge and validate his fetish.
Until it is, and then people are just as angry at Mike as Dylan. When Mike yells at gay men on twitter or tries to cancel them because they say no to vaginas, or where Mike's family finds the idea of calling their daughter "he" ridiculous, the screeching is just as loud.
Joyful
9mo ago
I made a few jokes about how she will be sucking me off too at which point she stopped and told me that this is not happening. I left and later told her to fuck herself when I saw her again.
This is... not how to talk to women. Not ever. Not women that tease you, not women that frustrate you, not anyone. You'll give every woman the ick.
Joyful
1mo ago
They made us add the feminine version to every job description,
If anything "they" have been trying to strip out the gender entirely from job descriptions. Postal worker instead of mailman, calling all actresses actors, stewardess to flight attendant. Etc.
Joyful
2mo ago
Furries annoying everyone as usual: https://www.loweringthebar.net/2025/04/dragon-lawyer-files-complaint-with-cartoon-dragon.html
Joyful
2yr ago
I really wish Lindsay Ellis had quit twitter rather than youtube over that idiocy.
Joyful
2yr ago
Yep. One of my friends was a standard fat gamer programming nerd until the pandemic. Funny, if a bit incel-y in personality (he made some occasional sexist comments that were annoying but not fatal to our friendship). During the pandemic he finally lost the weight and I was thinking "Hey, maybe we can finally get this guy a date. Funny, decent job, tall enough, starting to look like a viking" I wouldn't date him myself for a couple of reasons, but get some good pictures for an online dating profile and we can improve his quality of life a lot (he's prone to depressive episodes and loneliness).
I brought up the topic and he said "actually, I'm not thinking about dating at all right now because I've been seeing a gender therapist for a year." We've hung out five or six times since then (over two years), with each hang out getting more uncomfortable and creepy, and now I'm dodging his calls (I'm not misgendering btw, he's never formally asked me to change names or pronouns). Somehow "man wearing a dress" freaks me out less than "man wearing a dress and boobs." It's much more 'it rubs the lotion on its skin'. He did finally (briefly) date someone (an older woman) during this process, but broke up with her because she obviously saw him as a man.
So yes. We're not close enough for me to suck it up and lie and not distant enough for me to just be polite. Hence the avoiding.
Joyful
2yr ago
I question whether obscure Canadian sitcom counts as mainstream (although I enjoy it).
Joyful
2yr ago
Not a lot outside of reality tv which is about their weight but This is Us comes to mind (just to give an example because you didn't, not disagreeing).
Joyful
4mo ago
Many animations of animal art basically apply dog animations and gesticulation to other animals (not just in a furry context).
This is especially annoying in animated movies where horses act and move like dogs.
Joyful
5mo ago
Healing parses are different from damage though, because you get your best healing parses on the first kill or two, the other players take less damage on later kills and you are also capped by the skill, classes and quantities of the other healers around you.
<-- World top ten Disc priest on one kill one time 15 years ago in "Heroic" SOO (would be called mythic now).
Beyond some necessary amount of time to learn a game well, people just kind of get capped out on their skills and stop improving.
I definitely agree with this. And there are (were) a lot of personality hires in any raid group.
If the point is that they're making incredibly basic mistakes... yeah, the above still applies. You could look at damage logs after and see highly geared players doing things like failing to keep DoTs on targets, letting their own buffs fall off for significant chunks of fights, and other egregiously incompetent play.
This kind of analysis was my favorite thing about raid leading. Making me nostalgic (I haven't played a video game with others in 8 years).
Joyful
1yr ago
This comment made me think some about how I specifically see the civilizations/countries of the world.
I probably would say 1st world (anglosphere, rich europe), 2nd world (poor europe), developing, won't develop.
For many contexts thinking of the islamic countries as a group also occurs. I'd say to me China counts as the most important developing country (although with their current problems that economic position could easily backslide for the rest of my life) and india somewhere in the middle of the developing countries. Not a "can't develop" like most of SSA but not of special note. Something like indonesia.
She's getting a divorce so you might not have to settle for a lookalike.
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