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FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
20hr ago
"Are you a Catholic or a Protestant?"
"Neither. I'm Jewish."
"Sure, sure, but are you Catholic Jewish or Protestant Jewish?"
netstack
Texas is freedom land
20hr ago
Care to tell the old joke? I’m not sure how I’d google it…
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
20hr ago
Hard being an incel in this Chad only world. Can't even cope in peace without foids texting me.
pigeonburger
20hr ago
I can imagine some recalls are just about adding a redundant safety feature to address perception of a weakness even if the existing safety features already work perfectly. While this is unpleasant for engineer brains, it can be necessary as typically marketing requirements trump engineering purity.
rae
21hr ago
Not sure if this is a class or geographical thing but that does not reflect at all the reality I live in, and it still doesn't answer why Tim Cook or Sam Altman are billionaires despite having zero interest in women.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
21hr ago
Truly a tragedy, flood of nudes in your DMs. Feeling for you brother.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
21hr ago
I agree with everything you said and that's why I'm very much in favor of MAID
If we assume all of that exists (which we have to, because, in this hypothetical, we're getting married) ... then how in the hell could the sex be bad?
Because the incentive/evopsych structures still dictate that sex is a job for women and a perk for men, and marrying someone where (for you) that isn't true but (for them) it is creates some interesting consequences. It's also not necessarily apparent, since the art of picking up women is delayed gratification, shelving the naked self-interest until after the contract is signed, and in dating (as a woman) you're evaluating whether or not the terms of the contract are acceptable.
One could, in my view reasonably, make the argument that there's only one way to find that out; especially when you notice that the entire traditionalist courting/dating/marriage structure is built around "job for women, perk for men". If you want to find someone who's a little more evolved than that, well...
and one of life's most insanely pleasurable activities.
Provided you care enough to be of that mindset. Many do not, and while being eager to have sex early might not necessarily be the best proxy to evaluate that, nobody's really come up with a better answer.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
21hr ago
Jingyuan Yang (JY): 杨景媛 Mingtao Xiao (MX): 肖明韬 https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/武汉大学图书馆争议事件
I have never been on Chinese wikipedia and I must admit suddenly opening a Chinese webpage which is entirely text almost felt like something physically hit me in the face. So many boxes and sticks.
It is difficult to comment on this episode, especially since you drop the information that the guy supposedly wasn't actually touching himself but rubbing some eczema spots. In my personal experience mainland Chinese men (or at least international engineering student types I interacted with) have by far the worst personal hygiene or etiquette awareness I have ever seen in any group of people. But I also never heard or seen them act openly sexually creepy so I am struggling to even visualize this episode.
I must ask: I read about Korea (and heard about Taiwan from personal acquaintances) that in these countries there seems to exist some serious animosity between young men and women. Would you say the same applies to PRC as well?
The ICJ has a conveniently abbreviated press release that can be found on this page. tl;dr: The UK granted independence to Mauritius in 1968 only after purchasing from Mauritius indefinite ownership of the Chagos Islands and evicting those islands' inhabitants. This was not a proper execution of the UK's duty to decolonize Mauritius. The UK must give the islands back to Mauritius. (Resettlement of the former inhabitants is a separate issue.)
I was actually repeating what the little copy of the Dreaded Jim on my shoulder said (it looks like a tiny Foghorn Leghorn).
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
21hr ago
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It’s unfortunate that a majority are now meeting in situations of initial anonymity (online + bars), which makes it hard for anyone to judge safety and makes performance utterly necessary. I wonder what the percentages look like in 2025.
Every time I look at that chart, it scares me.
birb_cromble
21hr ago
I'm reading the Wikipedia on the Chagos Islands right now, and I'm a little confused as to why Mauritius wants the islands.
Does anyone here have any insight on that, or links on the history of these events where I could learn about it?
mrvanillasky
Indo Aryan Thot Leader
21hr ago
No, I didn't hook up with a very large number but I did get girls to my bed. I don't look bad, my accent isn't super thick and even if these two things were true, I'd still have gotten decent results.
Yes, I realised that true fulfillment wasn't found in trying to have sex with random girls. It was a near enemy in that it's something I like and seek but it's not fulfilling the way spiritual practice and a life of intention is. However it should not be shunned.
My very first field report where I lost my virginity was linked on the subreddit, my despair is due to factors beyond just girls. I'm not an "alpha male" or whatever that means.
You hated the man you were, so you constructed the fantasy of an alpha male, a sexually successful man, to replace him. But the neuroticism, the angst, the self-doubt, the fear of a life unlived still haunts you to no lesser degree.
When I was out, I just acted like myself, if I'm on point and things go well, I can't relate to the bad that I do, even if it still exists, I never obfuscate things in my own head.
But again, I went out a lot so that plays a significant factor.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
21hr ago
If those principles were enough to gracefully preempt censorship, we’d never have had the original Comstock Act. Puritanical book-bannings. Witch hunts for communists and anarchists. Acting as if our elders had it all figured out is the laziest sort of rose-tinted glasses.
I find myself curious. Are there any cases where your principles haven’t guided you to agree with whatever Fox News has most recently said?
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
21hr ago
Well - getting a pair of boobs in front of you while you're still secluded at home is, as they say, a coup-complete problem.
But the point I'm trying to make is - you can't appeal to the dopamine-hacked, at least not without significantly sacrificing your own preferences and incentives. They have to realize the error of their ways and make efforts to fix them.
TIRM
21hr ago
I work in an office building. There are a few open office sections with many employees in each one. At least two have pride flags. We design electronics and software for said electronics.
A local restraunt has outdoor seating with a pride banner wrapped around the barrier separating it from the public sidewalk. It must be hundreds of feet of the stuff. I met the owner and as best I can tell he isn't gay. The clientele are the regular mix of people in the area. Not a gay venue by any means. But inexplicably covered in pride.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
21hr ago
I'd assume a companionship service to go to a specific public location would be not much more expensive than a regular escort (which seems to be the original source of the euphemism). But maybe handholding is just too weird for modern whores.
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
21hr ago
Hmm.. The bidets in use in India, at least, aren't so fancy. It's basically like a hand-held shower, one where you can control the pressure/volume of the jet and target it to the right spot. I would presume that's probably more efficient than a pre-fixed jet.
Unless you're operating one in a place with very high pressure in the pipes, it shouldn't feel painful.
I say that next time you have an opportunity, look for one of those. I guess your best bet would be an Indian restaurant, probably the highest chances of having those about. Let as much drip off as it will, and if you're still not comfy, then gently dab with TP. I seem to get away without any TP at all, and trust me when I say I don't get Brazilian waxes done!
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
The world has changed:
https://www.statista.com/chart/20822/way-of-meeting-partner-heterosexual-us-couples/
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
If the slippery slope principle worked on guns, then banning military-grade weaponry would have resulted in banning all guns. But it hasn't.
They're still working on it. Maryland banned semi-automatic AR-15s, for instance, and many other states (including New Jersey of course) keep banning classes of guns.
Are you saying, "you lack empirical evidence" or "I have empirical evidence to the contrary."
There is no empirical evidence that "a gun-- and especially a small gun-- is worse that useless" in a any particular self-defense situation.
a country that only bans small, concealable weapons, most would-be robbers still have access to larger weapons and would go for those over the hassle of finding a black market and buying a perfect pistol. That would in turn shrink the size of the black market and make pistols even harder to acquire.
Or, this simply isn't true; it's a gun-banner just-so story. Or, worse, they cut down the long guns so they're concealable enough, and now you've got would-be robbers with more lethal weapons.
faceh
21hr ago
I think guys like boobs enough to put down the phone if there's a real pair in front of them, at the very least.
Southkraut
The rain fell gentlier.
21hr ago
That's quite true. And I think my pointing out that here's one for whom it's a complete dud isn't exactly a problem either.
I think the trance state is the main criterion. I doubt edging is required.
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