HalfSalesman
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- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 6 days ago:
Only problem is every time I’ve been open about my autism with a person I was attracted to immediately up front their interest starts to slowly fade. Its not immediate, but I suspect they start framing everything I say or do as part of my autism and I think they lose interest because of that. Though its impossible to know, and it might be coincidence or I’m seeing patterns where there are none. So I tend to keep it to myself with in person interactions more these days.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 6 days ago:
I almost was in the 3.3%… dodged it by only a few years.
Then I went without for a long while after though because I mistakenly thought any sex I’d have after that would probably be equally mediocre and it wasn’t worth the effort. Realized that was stupid and I was missing out. Now I’m trying hard to get into a sexual relationship of some kind again with some minor success in the form of occasional one night stands. They’re OK fun. I think my autism makes it hard to maintain the relationships though beyond one or two nights. My masking inevitably slips a little and I say or do something cringe or rude.
I’m bi I’ve been contemplating getting on Grindr to explore my homo side a bit more but from what I hear that’s basically nothing but one night stands…
- Comment on Sad to hear it 1 week ago:
Pooh would be just as sad to have caused such a problem.
But yeah we need a new 3D Rayman but Ubisoft would ruin it anyway.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 week ago:
Yeah we’re going into flu season soon. And covid vaccines actually should be updated even more often than flu.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 week ago:
Just got my second HPV vax and my understanding is I have to wait at least a month before I can have a different vaccine.
That said, I intend to get the Covid and Flu vax once its been a full month. They’ve never told me I can’t do both of those at the same time.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 1 week ago:
And while none of those things are wrong per se, the general vibe of asking about all of those things was very weird and pervy.
Unshackle your mind. Reject the puritanism bonk and embrace the horniness tentacles.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 weeks ago:
Them insisting on having match making for the main modes was my red line. While not a deal breaker for me, I almost always tryhard a single multiplayer game at a time anyway if I’m playing multiplayer at all. This sounds like I’m dodging another future headache whenever the next game insists on kernel level anti-cheat though.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No, you shouldn’t be embarrassed.
I mean, it probably wont work out unless your dad has a good eye for matchmaking but it is worth a shot. Plus its like he is suggesting a chance to grow as a person.
Part of me wishes my dad had done this but I know he’d be a terrible matchmaker for me. Though again, at least I probably would have learned from it.
- Comment on Posting in honor of my nieces back to school week 😆 3 weeks ago:
They force you into a system of obedience and productivity. Subject you to petty tyrants (teachers) and peer bullies. And by default treat every student the same regardless of different neurology and personality, until they start causing ‘trouble’ at least.
Outside the early fundamentals of reading, writing, logic, and math, as well as being a beneficial vehicle to learn how to socialize with peers as mostly a side effect, school is romanticized beyond its actual positive social value. Its for babysitting while parents work and turning children into obedient worker drones, or at least identifying which ones will be obedient and which ones will end up under a bridge in adulthood.
It also serves even less purpose in terms of setting children up for a career now however. Climate change, high tech surveillance fascism, and the clear aim to replace all workers (especially educated white collar ones) with AI systems render this more cynical “positive” of career trajectory as largely moot. Even if AI systems are worse than humans and the quality of services go down with their mass adoption, the price of AI systems compared to humans is so extreme that it hardly matters to the bean counters.
It would be better at this point, after they’re taught the basics/fundamentals, to let the kids have their own self directed fun because long term careers hardly matter anymore. You could have mentors, but they kids should come to them of their own desire (and they would). The only real restrictions being that they’re kept away from dopamine hijacking online content that largely damages long term focus.
School probably has the potential to be wholly beneficial, but in its current form it is a mixed bag at best.
- Comment on Posting in honor of my nieces back to school week 😆 3 weeks ago:
That is not what people go to school for. Schools actively discourage being an autodidact by insisting you learn what they tell you to learn.
- Comment on Alpha males 3 weeks ago:
I guess. I was able to engage in real conversation on Reddit and still do here, sounds like you’ve not really trying.
- Comment on Posting in honor of my nieces back to school week 😆 3 weeks ago:
And now with no future their suffering at school is extra pointless. No longer do they work towards securing their own future, they merely toil scholastically because of a societal machine that continues running despite long past surviving its own purpose.
- Comment on Damm WaterCatholics 3 weeks ago:
That first one a real thing? Its hard to know what is real anymore.
Are they catholic converts? I bet they are.
- Comment on One Angry Man 3 weeks ago:
The Bird Monster, Inc. The Goonie Car Man in Black District 1 1 Day Later
Inverse (not as fun but still I love these movies): Fight Clubs The Signals (2007) The Matrices
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 3 weeks ago:
As a male bi who tends to sleep with women more than men and tend to favor fem guys (I’m picky), I wish I was gayer.
That said, bi and poly women are fantastic.
- Comment on Resources 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think really that a majority of the population is going to die. I do think significant numbers of deaths will happen around the equator at some point in the near future and spark a functionally unstoppable wave of immigration towards the earth’s poles. This will result in its own strife but again will only cause a small percentage of more of the population to die.
Thing’s will eventually stabilize as human civilization adapts and green energy and carbon capture take off. Most of the population will survive but almost everyone’s QoL will be NOTABLY worse by various conventional metrics. Though likely better in specific ways due to certain medical and automation advancements.
Expect birthrates to continue to drop globally however and the earth’s eco system will drastically change and become much less healthy. Most of existing humanity will cling to life though.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 5 weeks ago:
IDK, maybe. I’m no expert. I would imagine it depends on how globalized the market was during Boomer’s 20’s and 30’s.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 5 weeks ago:
Most millennials graduated shortly after the housing crisis of 2008. Its a major reason so many of us are unusually much much poorer than the average Gen Xer (who are only somewhat poorer compared to Boomers).
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 5 weeks ago:
The conversation continuing is fun. If I say something that makes them uncomfortable that tends to end the conversation. Depending on how extreme/strange the belief might even open some hostility.
That said, I agree with your sentiment anyway. Its probably worth the risk just to avoid the more “sad but safe” questions like work, weather, etc.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m the opposite. The handful of times I’ve asked when desperate for a conversation, the results were at best mixed for the conversation and most times I feel worse.
If they’re ‘above’ me that just results in me feeling small. If they’re below me it makes me feel uncomfortable or even rude, even if it was just a question. The only time it works out is if they’re roughly “on par” with me and that’s only like a third of the time the case. Not great odds.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 5 weeks ago:
Say something shocking, open up about an out-of-left field belief you hold.
I’ve done that before and even in “oddball” places and its a bit of a dice roll on how positive of an effect it’ll have on the conversation. But then I have a lot of… extreme views.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 5 weeks ago:
Its a flawed yet broadly applicable conversation starter that is statistically less depressing than talking about the weather (climate change) or politics these days.
There are better options, but its not typically about cynical “How useful are you?” probing unless its like a business coded social event.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 5 weeks ago:
I feel like that’d be a reason to not ask. But I suppose it depends on the person.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 5 weeks ago:
On one hand, I get it. I don’t really want to talk about work either. But on the other hand I can’t entirely blame some people if they work a lot that might be something that’s been floating around in their head or they’re just curious.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re 5 weeks ago:
This is just someone in the industry trying to buy time and throw gunk in the works of the initiative. Unless they are aggressively retarded they knew this challenge would fail, they just want to buy time.
- Comment on Anon is rude at work 1 month ago:
I’m torn, most of the time I’d agree and I do befriend co-workers myself most of the time. But I do kind of resent the fact that often people at work often come to dislike you if you aren’t spending time with them during breaks/lunch.
Thing is, I know why: gossip/shit-talking about you is easier when you aren’t around. I know co-workers will start shit talking other employees (or even the manager in a personal way rather than general work complaint way) and even when I myself dislike the co-worker/manager they’re shit-talking myself I tend to soft-defend them because of the discomfort over talking shit about other people.
- Comment on *Record scratch* freeze frame 1 month ago:
Imagine being scooped up by that thing, never even likely knowing previously what being that high up in the air meant. Being in awe of what you are seeing as you are carried to your doom, only to be horrifically and painfully eaten alive.
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 month ago:
I’ve never sent a dick pic and I don’t know if my anxiety/insecurity would allow me to send one even if it was requested.
I can’t fathom just anonymously sending one without being asked for it.
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 month ago:
I want my foreskin back.
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 month ago:
I say this as someone who loves sluts: Slut is technically a slur.