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- Comment on When your father is clueless 14 hours ago:
You can fuck someone aromantically, you can love someone as a very dear friend with no sexual desire toward them, platonically.
As I understand the world platonic, it essentially means “lacking a sexual and romantic component.”
I… I mean sure, there are some people who can seperate a uh, literal sexual buzz from having desirous or repulsive sexual/romantic feelings about that, but most people do not do that, many think they can, and then nope, turns out they can’t.
As to the step dad situation… uh, nope, nope thats still a hard nope from me, that’s weird.
Maybe other people disagree on that but uh nope nope nope from me.
- Comment on When your father is clueless 1 day ago:
Exactly, you detailed out exactly what I had in mind.
Though uh… I’d say maybe emphasize the idea of consent, not ‘platonic’.
Some people can seperate sex and love in their approaches to relationships, but lets be real, the vast majority of people cannot.
I would say probably don’t involve people who have uh, genealogical relationships to anyone else in the group, probably try this eith a group of explicitly consenting, open minded adults.
You’d also have to have some kind of ruleset to say like, each other person cannonly send a total of XX seconds of vibration per song, or something like that, maybe more complex rules if you want some ‘gameplay’ in that regard.
The good news though is that simple bullet/egg type wireless vibes can be pretty cheap, maybe $25 or less.
The bad news is that everyone is gonna need to be ok with potentially pissing/shitting themselves, especially if people are also drinking, and they’ve not used such vibrators before too often.
- Comment on When your father is clueless 1 day ago:
… What?
Seriously?
I don’t mean like, jam it into your neck to the point it restricts blood flow.
… Can you send me your source on this?
If what you are saying is true, than massage guns of all kinds would basically cause blood clots, and I’m pretty sure they don’t.
Like yeah you can potentially restrict blood flow if you grip or press around the wrong/right areas with enough force… but yeah, I am incredulous at the idea that vibrators being able to cause blood clots.
Maybe if you have some conditions or disorder where you have exceptionally weak capillaries, they could cause bruising, …
… but like, I’ve been using a massage gun on my neck/shoulder blade for over a year now as part of a doctor / phys therapist designed phys therapy routine for me to recover from a set of injuries, and they’ve never risen any concerns about this, and I’ve never fainted nor developed blood clots from this (get my bloodwork every couple of months).
- Comment on When your father is clueless 1 day ago:
I mean…
You can put them to your throat or neck and produce a bit of a kind of warble, sort of like yelling into certain high rpm fans.
… But uh, ‘adult’, ‘antagonistic gpod touch’ karaoke night does also sound a bit more interesting than never have I ever.
- Comment on You've all been watching the slow, downward spiral for more than 2 years now 1 day ago:
Myself, I feel I am doing reasonably ok, I am sustained by busying myself with game dev type tool/method learning/practice, and then of course an immense, immense amount of schadenfreude.
- Comment on Happy Weekend Murica 2 days ago:
The poor always get fucked, slowly or quickly, softly or vigorously.
We are now beyond the point of an economic collapse being avoidable or probably even mitigatable.
So let the rich maybe actually suffer, let the petite bourgeoisie realize they didn’t make the cut, didn’t make it into the club, and let the poor realize its do or die time.
- Comment on Happy Weekend Murica 2 days ago:
Correct, all in on oingoboingbingobongocoin, preferably take out as many new credit cards as you can, all at once, cash advance, throw it all in derpyschmerpylurkyjerkycoin.
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- Comment on Happy Weekend Murica 3 days ago:
Same, lol, fuck em, fuck your 401k, hope your homes get foreclosed on, hope you retire alone either homeless or in an understaffed old folks home.
This is the morally correct reward for chasing wealth accumulation at the cost of impoverishing the masses, of willingly participating in that system for personal profit.
Call it a karmic market correction.
- Comment on Happy Weekend Murica 3 days ago:
Guess what’s had a waaaaaay better return that the DJIA, over the last 12 months?
Oh, its gold, because a large chunk of the DJIA’s rise … has coincided with drops in the DXY, ie, the dollar is dying, and smart money is piling into gold so that it can later be deployed in… whatever global trade/monetary paradigm shakes out when this nonsense is over.
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 3 days ago:
You’re out of date,.the DSM 5 got a massive revision (TR), years ago.
- Comment on It's a miracle! 4 days ago:
A fully grown, mature, adult Labubu.
- Comment on No password, so your phone automatically connects 4 days ago:
WHO_cV19-spikeproteinVariantRNAMutant84c@-4rKr
- Comment on Sorry, guys, it's just not happening 4 days ago:
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 5 days ago:
You could just look up actual population distributions, they’re not that hard to find, and you’ve just completely rejected my sourced claims, while acknowledging that’s what you’re doing.
I didn’t say all Gen Z.
I said younger Gen Z.
You’re getting massively hung up over misunderstanding that.
You then say me repeating what my source says is “an embrassing mistake”.
You then make a bunch of anecdotal claims and just operate as if they are objective fact.
You then say you find the … very established concept of information overload to be ludicrous, because you specifically do not apparently experience this.
I guess uh, see also: choice paralysis, a very similar and also well established concept in economics and marketing.
You then pontificate about general intelligence levels… when again, you can just look these things up, you can just see that US literacy scores in schools and colleges peaked around 2010-2012 and have then rapidly declined, similar with numeracy.
And yes, I am bringing that up, because uh… yeah, most Gen Z would have graduated either high school or college after that peak.
But you’re more interested with your own internal idea of what facts may exist, as opposed actually refering to any sources.
Its extremely ironic to me, perhaps you could even say embarassing, that you Zoomer tell me Millenial that I lack the intellectual rigor to drill deep, when… you are the one who refused ro view my source, mocked it and me, and then went on to invent a scenario that makes sense based on your vague recollection of some data and also personal anecdotes.
Go on then, find the data I’ve here referenced, you will discover I am correct, and you are largely making things up and doing logic based on fuzzy data.
… you put in air quotes “mindset” as if that was something I said, a word I used in anything you are responding to.
I daresay you are overwhelmed with too much information and have been uh, fudging the details of your evaluation of it.
In other words, you’re doing the autistic version of projection, all the reasoning faults you are accusing me of doing are… thebones younsre doing, and I know what that looks like because I am also autistic and used to do that when I was younger and/or flustered, seen a lot of other autists do it too.
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 5 days ago:
A car accidentally hits you, your laundry goes flying everywhere, now you are blind and recovery steer into a kid on a bike, with your underwear over your eyes, that kid on the bike is dead now.
Oh the basket has some kind of top latch or lid or way of closing? Cool, it stays as one solid thing and hits your arm and causes the lethal counter steer.
You should not be allowed to drive a car.
You are literally a perfect example of someone who is not mentally competent to be trusted with a half ton of steel and aluminum and plastic that can reach speeds of 60+ mph.
Also, if you had something heavy on your passenger seat, which was too big to get the belt around, but was safely secured in some other way?
Just… click the belt in before you put that thing there.
People like are why I avoid driving as much as possible.
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 5 days ago:
Put the seatbelt around it, click it in.
If its that heavy, it can probably do some damage in say, a sudden stop or turn or collision… strap it in.
This really is not that complicated.
- Comment on This is real 5 days ago:
It is blunt, for people who can’t understand anything else.
I used to work for a nonprof helping the homeless, ran shelters, other programs.
Some people are traumatized, some people are a bit mentally off, some people are more so just dense, stupid, cocky assholes to whom the concepts of rules and consequences just… fundamentally do not seem to register, who also continuously and obviously lie.
Now this was more shelter oriented, but we helped move people into new housing too.
If you can’t handle shelter rules, as in, you consistently violate them, we were a lot less eager to help those people into housing, because they can’t follow rules, and part of what we are supposed to be doing on our end is sending over people who can and will.
Also, trust me, if you’ve ever been homeless, you will almost certainly develop a bit thicker skin than being offended by slightly impolite and blunt phrasing on a piece of paper, you will be dealing with a lot more serious shit than that basicslly all of the time, a lot more, extremely blunt and rude people than that, basically all the time.
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 5 days ago:
Fantastic.
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 5 days ago:
They literally make and sell just, standalone seatbelt fasteners, with no attached seatbelt, to ‘solve’ this ‘problem’.
IMO, anyone who owns one of those should have their liscense revoked, forever, full stop.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 5 days ago:
By most definitions, the oldest Gen Z would have been born in 1997 and would thus be 28, the youngest Gen Z would have been born in 2012 and would thus be 13.
So uh… yeah, yeah, younger Gen Zs are very susceptible to what I described.
And also… sure, a lot of Gen Zs are very anti-AI.
A lot of them are also the very techbro douche bag types that jump from tech scam to tech scam, tell people how AI will make it so much easier for them to do some … thing they have no idea how to do.
Its polarizing, but we have actual data.
read-vip.variety.com/html5/reader/…/default.aspx?…
The people who most often use AI tools every day are Gen Z.
Millennials may be more likely to use them in some professional work capacity, but its Gen Z and younger that… literally just do all their homework and college work with AI tools and thus never learn anything.
Millenials are, you know, too old to have been able to take that shortcut.
Now they use those tools at work, yes, but… take them away, and they will still have some of those core mental capabilities, whereas people who never learned those core abilities… won’t.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 5 days ago:
salutes sloppily, waddles back toward staging position, while holding onto sagging pants
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 5 days ago:
whoop, didn’t see your post before i made mine.
uh… more patrons for the buffet, i guess?
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 6 days ago:
RAMIREZ! SECURE THAT BURGER TOWN!
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 6 days ago:
Jesus Christ, Meal Team Six inbound, clear the approach vector!
- Comment on Anon watches Lord of the Rings 6 days ago:
Psychological warfare sure is … funny, isn’t it?
- Comment on Anon watches Lord of the Rings 6 days ago:
Superior diplomacy and/or subterfuge and intrigue.
… and/or superior magic.
The Dead Men of Dunharrow only respond to and follow Aragorn because they believe he is the heir to Isildur.
Make them doubt that.
… Or just kill Aragon, specifically, with extreme prejudice.
Or, generate a pretender heir to Isildur, mislead them.
Or… and I am… admittedly not sure if this is possible within LotR canon…
Basically, get Sauron or Saurumon to directly intervene with some kind of magic that is at least as, or more powerful than that of Isildur, such thst they can be paralyzed or rendered combat ineffective in some way.
In more modern military lingo: Re evaluate your enemy threat profiles and re allocate resources and attention accordingly.
- Comment on What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage? 6 days ago:
… Drunken Tiger Paw?
- Comment on Obsidian Temporarily Removes Games From Sale Due to Unity Exploit 1 week ago:
This is the serious and informative version of my incredulous quip, thank you.
- Comment on It's about time we showed concern for the men 1 week ago:
… do we have a ‘brand new sentence’ lemmy comm somewhere?
Because… damn.
