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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do women actually enjoy sex?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, women do enjoy sex. Pleasure and pain can be mixed in enjoyable ways during sex, but no, it is not normal to experience pain during sex, nor is it required. You have to be lubricated enough. At the doctor, they will use their own lubricant, but having a stranger examine you is one of the least sexy experiences out there, and they use a somewhat sharp, cold metal instrument to stretch and hold you open beyond what inserting a penis would do. So it is not surprising that it hurts and is uncomfortable. Sticking something inside yourself “cold” with no buildup or sexual desire will have a similar effect. It is not a pocket.

  A few things:

  Since it appears you have not had sex before and don’t use sex toys very much, you probably still have your hymen intact. This is a membrane that will eventually be torn by inserting something. Sometimes this is a bit painful, sometimes it bleeds, sometimes you don’t even notice. Once that is out of the way, you should be good to go.

  Key word being “should”. It is always possible that you have a condition such as vaginismus, which causes unusual pain. If so, there are types of physical therapy that can help or overcome it. Talk to your doctor if you are concerned. Tip: you may want to bring a man with you, even if it is your dad. Vagina stuff is often not taken seriously by doctors. It is dumb but I don’t make the rules, just stating facts.but

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite PSP games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite is when I go pspspspspsp to my dog and he comes over for cuddles.

  No but really, if we’re talking full exclusives, Ridge Racers 2 is pretty much all the good stuff about the old RR series but with better graphics and most of the content from all games. If we’re talking non exclusives (sometimes the best version though), Final Fantasy IV, Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles, Final Fantasy Tactics WoTL, and Tactics Ogre, Let US Cling Together are pretty top tier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most Japanese titles are like that. Sexy subtitle? Intriguing name? Nope, you get Gun Shooter 4. At least they’re extremely clear about what you get, like the anime I Couldn’t Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does "Woke" mean to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Originally it meant what it sounds like: to be awake and alert about what is really going in around you, and not being pulled into a false sense of security or fooled by propaganda. This is as old as the 1930s, then got repopularized by Eryka Back in the 90s. There were some minor Menes about it like “wake up sheeple!” poking fun at truthers, or “woke vs broke”. Sometimes a meme, sometimes legit messaging.

  Broke: Racism is over bro, and slavery was a million years ago.

  Woke: Racism has gotten more hidden and insidious. There have been systematic changes to keep racial minorities in the poor parts of town with lots of crime, the FBI introduced crack cocaine to inner cities in the 80s, and then fake post racism truthers glorified gangs and the drug trade and praised it as “black culture”. Then they proceed to have private prisons and have young black men perform slave labor in jail when they are inevitably arrested, as a way to get around traditional slave labor.”

  Then the state of high budget media devolved into what it now is: pandering, fake “woke” garbage with race swapping popular characters. Inevitably this rage baited a lot of people, even minorities that are supposedly being “represented” now. So “woke” became an ironic term to mean “fake woke”, rainbow capitalism as one example.

  Then this ironic use got way out of hand and just means “any positive messaging about anything remotely progressive” or “acknowledging that nonwhite males exist sometimes” or even “something that I don’t like”. In a way, this in a way is back to the original meaning. Reactionary conservatives hate anything that breaks them out of their fragile bubble and makes them consider reality for what it is.

  Both original meaning and ironic meaning is somewhat usable still, but only if I have already gotten to know someone and where they stand politically and ethically. To have someone I don’t know well bring up the term unprompted in a non joking way throws up red flags.

  Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to take this shit post seriously for some reason. Sometimes people confuse morality with practicality. Or associate ick factor with immorality, or even things associated with something gross with immorality. Yet, they are all related for a reason.

  We have an inherent revulsion to fucking dead things. This is because dead things spread diseases. Also culturally it is disrespectful and gross. Practically, it is best to decide as a society to not allow that, and shun people who do it. If you practice safe sex with the corpse, and nobody legitimately knows or is hurt by this action, is it morally acceptable? Maybe, but what are truly the chances of a freak who would fuck a corpse wearing a condom because he’s concerned for future sexual partners? If he is a necrophiliac, what are the chances that this wouldn’t extend to killing to achieve this, or stealing bodies, which would be traumatic for the people related to the people whose bodies he acquired? If he is wired differently and doesn’t get this ick factor from fucking dead things the way regular humans do, either his brain is a little messed up, he has gone through some traumatic,personality changing experiences, or he has specifically sought our to desensitize himself from shame. Do you want to trust such a person in society? Or correct deviant behaviors before they become a problem. There’s a lot more context than a specific example in a vacuum.

  Incidentally, this is what some people don’t get about pedophilia/related philias. An ex girlfriend of mine once had a discussion with me that people were obsessed with age gaps online. While true, I didn’t agree with her because she went on to say “when I was a teenager, I remember going to a concert for my favorite band and wishing I could fuck the lead singer. If that had happened, I would have been happy and still talk about it today, not gap about how it was abuse.” And yeah, maybe, in that instance, it would have been fine. Or maybe he would have pulled a Steve Tyler and became her legal guardian so he could fuck her all the time and been abusive and controlling, and derailed her future by taking her out of school and on tour with him and getting her pregnant then leaving. Is it POSSIBLE to have someone underage consent? Maybe (and a big maybe at that) but really what are the chances that it is a completely healthy and fulfilling relationship that will be positive for both people in the long run? Stigmatizing inappropriate age gap relationships only benefits society. 18 is an arbitrary line, to be sure. Is 17 or 16 OK? Multiple developed countries think so. 15? Not so sure, maybe focus on the actual size of the age gap there, which most countries do. But at some point we have to draw the line as a society to just say “no, sexual activity with this child is not allowed” to not allow for abuse of trust, because kids don’t know what is best for them and what they want yet.

  This nuance is hard for people to understand. Even in organized religion, where God presumably has all the “right” answers, there is not always an absolute answer. In Christianity, Paul for example writes to focus on doing what’s right for the most amount of people, and not flexing your “rights” on others even if it bothers others. Mysteriously, this part of the bible tends to not be remembered, and religious people instead veer towards absolutism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Entombed starts playing*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends wildly on what type of death metal you prefer. There are some more classic death recs from Sweden, particularly Entombed, but Sweden is most popular for developing melodic death. At The Gates and In Flames are the one-two punch for getting into the melodic death sub genre. Soilwork is even more approachable, sort of the bridge to death core in some ways.

  Amon Amarth is a little bit of classic, a little melodic, a little black metal, and a little symphonic.

  People will argue with me that Opeth is melodic, but they basically are in a different way, and more progressive than anything, especially these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m going to avoid paying the devs directly what they are worth, I’ll just pirate. Paying for keys just wastes money and risks getting your account banned. There are a few multiplayer exceptions but again, I’ll just pay the devs then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Google Translate good for (non-basic) Spanish regaridng in-depth dialog?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used it extensively while flirting with a Mexican girl who eventually became my wife :) I understand Spanish a lot better now though I sometimes use a translator if she sends a wall of text because I’m lazy.

  It’s not perfect, nothing really can be, particularly slang/idioms. It translates pretty literally, it’s a machine. Puns you’d have to pay attention to yourself, thr translator is not going to go “BTW did you notice she said x and then x? Clever!”

  In your example it is up to you to interpret the meaning of an exaggeration. That’s pretty much exactly how you’d say it in English or Spanish in that situation.

  Lastly I recommend Offline Translator by David Ventura these days. It is based on Mozilla Firefox’s tech, FOSS, no trackers, and is on F-Droid. It doesn’t take up too much space and is faster since it does it offline instead of sending to Google’s servers. I am trying to De-Google my life due to privacy concerns. Some people on this thread recommended DeepL, which I do not. The accuracy is pretty top tier, but it has an even worse privacy policy than Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bring back physical media on PC?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it pretty hard to believe that you couldn’t find a major game on Epic or the Microsoft store. An indie title? Sure, a lot of those are limited to Steam, because the devs prefer it.

  No idea what you’re on about with not being able to price below Steam. That is not a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bring back physical media on PC?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are also multiple places to buy from. Steam is pretty dominant, but only because they’re the best option. You can buy from Sony on PlayStation, that’s it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyber Hook. 1st person grappling hook 3D platforming speed runner with an 80s retro futurism aesthetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe they are drawn towards the confidence this process makes them feel?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You should watch it, it is pretty funny. It’s kind of like the Lego movie, where it is surprisingly good at capturing the ethos of why people like the product instead of just being corporate slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email came out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is debatable. But when you’re using them all together though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really liked Cuphead and beat it. But I just cannot do that again unless it is a bit easier. It took years off my life, harder than any Souls game and harder than most Nintendo hard 2D games from back in the day too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellar Blade: BLOOD RAIN | Official Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is my main thing. I miss it being an OPTION when I’m in that type of mood. I don’t need it to be industry standard. Could you imagine that for something like The Last of Us?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it bad if I say I don’t remember?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PC with mods I’d say. i think they are doing a remake with both games but it’s been quiet on news for a while

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The fun is the important part, so it is better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with Pop OS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say it gets more praise than hate. It is often recommended as a beginner friendly distro, which is why you get the backlash, because it hasn’t been in a rock solid position for a long time. It started off pretty promising, using a much more end user centric version of GNOME, which morphed into their own DE, Cosmic. But Cosmic took forever to come out, so GNOME nor the base version of Ubuntu Pop is based on were updated for multiple years. The Pop Shop was kind of garbage, though Cosmic shop is much better. Nowadays, Cosmic the DE is shipped by default but is barely out of alpha and thus has glitches. I do think Linus is a lying asshole who specifically planned to break the OS for more views, but it does have problems. Also it uses systemd-boot so you can’t dual boot from separate drives easily or have GRUB themes and stuff like that. They don’t have Secure Boot either. As much as that isn’t a HUGE issue, it seems like a significant oversight for such a popular distro.

  Ultimately, Pop does a lot right by having a version bundled with Nvidia drivers, having macOS-like desktop that is intuitive by default, GUI focused with an app store, a good tiling manager, and possibility for customization. But it is a little bit frustrating to some people that it is so heavily recommended because it isn’t as stable as stable distros, and not as updated as rolling distros or just more modern distros like Fedora. A lot of distros do what Pop does but better, so why recommend it? Even with the extra features you get on a System76 machine and ease of use for non tech people having it preinstalled, Tuxedo does that better and cheaper even with import taxes being higher. Combined with the video glitching, selling this as one of the best new user friendly distro when it isn’t particularly true could cause people to bounce off Linux.

  I don’t hate Pop or System76. I WANT to like and enjoy it because I respect their ethos behind the project and like the look and features. I just wish it was faster at fixing some of their issues. People have been saying “Pop is going to be the next big thing once they do xyz” for 5-6 years ATP. They really need to hire more devs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tech never works for long⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a desktop PC with Linux on it, wired Ethernet only that I can unplug, and a gun in my night stand in case it makes a noise I don’t recognize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you take a look at the username, it is usually just OP 90% of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For people who distrust police / the legal system: If you ran a small bussiness and need to hire people, and someone has a conviction but they claim innocence, do you hire them?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the business I am running, how otherwise qualified they are, what their supposed crime actually was, their side of the story, and general demeanor. I’m going to be honest though, it’s mostly the last one. You can usually tell real fast by how someone acts if they had trouble with the law because they’re an uneducated degenerate or a con man. It’s not impossible to manipulate me, but most criminals are not geniuses. If it really seems like they were in the wrong place at the wrong time, or they have learned from their mistakes if they admit to it, that’s a different story.

  i was friends with a murderer for a long time actually. Woke up, dude was dead. He used to have a drinking problem. Doesn’t remember it, but is positive it was him. Was in jail a long time, used the time to read a lot. He was significantly older than me and would give me and others advice on how to not be an idiot like he was. His words. I doubt the family would forgive him but shit happens. I’d still be friends with him if he didn’t become annoying and stubborn over the years. He wasn’t always wrong, just mildly an asshole sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Controlling your emotions simply means that you do not immediately react the way your emotions would take you, and that instead you act appropriately to the situation. It doesn’t mean that you don’t have emotions, or that those emotions cannotir should not influence your resolve towards the line of action you decide to take.

  I also don’t see how it is related to the rock question (or my favorite alternate, could God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it). There is not a paradox between being powerful and having emotions.

  Just for fun, as a stab at the paradox: yes, God can limit his own power or prevent himself from doing stuff because he said he would. Like for example in the Christian religion Jesus came as a human and that severely limited himself. At one point he really wanted to not die but couldn’t do anything about it because that was the path he set for himself and he can’t lie. Same principle applies even if Christianity isn’t “the one”.

  I think where people tend to get tripped up with this paradox is that things cannot be simultaneously true. God could make the sky totally purple, but he didn’t, so we’re here with the sky being totally blue during the day. He could make it half purple and half blue, but didn’t do that either. That’s not proof of a lack of power. He could make the rock too heavy, and then he could make the rock not too heavy later, kr himself stronger. This doesn’t disprove anything about theoretical omnipotence. And lastly, presumably things are explained to us in a way we understand. Perhaps God does have some sort of hard limits to power, but as far as we are concerned it may as well be infinite. There’s not much of a point in semantics. The very question betrays our human way of seeing things, God probably does not usually have a body to lift things. Does levitating it “count”? Does moving the earth down count? Does asking someone or something else to do it count? It’s an interesting question that has persisted for a long time, I just don’t think it ultimately means much once you break it down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having power over somebody does not exclude you from having emotions. Superman is nearly invincible and a great guy who always does the right thing; but his feelings can still get hurt if people are mean to him, and he still gets angry when people are cruel to each other, such as a human murdering another human. God would be above a superhero, but the same principle applies.

  If you are God, the point of creating humanity is because you’re alone, and want to love and be loved. If you spent a lot of time and effort to raise your kids and they grew up to hate you for no discernible reason and did terrible things just to act the opposite of how you raised them to be, you’d be pissed too. Do I have “power” over my kids? I guess. I’m bigger than them and even if they’re adults, you can always pull out a .22 and shoot them if they don’t obey. But that doesn’t solve anything and it’s not very loving is it? I want to raise my kids to do the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do, but also because it benefits us all to act that way reliably, and makes us all happier.

  If everyone obeys God just because they have to fall in line or die/be directly punished every time, that defeats the point of making humanity because they won’t love you. Yet maybe it would be necessary to step in if they’re harmful enough to the rest of humanity, hence the smiting. But most religions have an idea that God is trying to move us past the point where he has to step in, or has already stepped back permanently. Maybe God punishes evil after death to facilitate us getting our act together. Or perhaps he simply rewards the good and doesn’t reward the evil. Maybe he experimented a little in the past as to what actually works. Maybe he knew he was justified to punish evil, but didn’t realize the toll it would take on him by hurting your own children until it happened, and that’s why he doesn’t do it anymore.

  Don’t @ me in the comments criticizing some specific version of God you have in your head. There’s a million different religions that say a million different things. This is theoretical, answering OP’s question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big if true 🚨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ned Leeds from Spider-Man Brand New Day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MAGA Starter Pack™️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which Pipes to choose (Newpipe, Pipepipe, Piped Invidious...etc)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NewPipe: original. no sponsor block or dislikes

  Tubular: NewPipe but with sponsor block, dislikes. Relies on upstream updates from NewPipe, so takes slightly longer to fix whenever Google routinely breaks something.

  PipePipe: same features as Tubular, and additional accounts/sources such as PeerTube. it is also a harder fork from NewPipe that doesn’t rely on upstream updates as much and will likely change more over time. also that bug where it stops playback due tk an error and you have to close the video and reopen it happens less often on PipePipe, and can sometimes be fixed just by pressing at again. I use this one as of right now.

  Invidious and Piped are both websites that proxy YouTube traffic. they aren’t separate apps, but some apps can use them as a source instead of scraping YouTube directly. Materialous is one that uses Invidious.

  There are other apps in FDroid tk choose from too. I also use Metro List for YouTube Music specifically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you often get charged per call in Europe still? If so that’s really too bad. Most of the VoIP services I’m familiar with is NA only but I know others exist, you’ll just have to do your own vetting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody said you shouldn’t use SMS ever. When you can avoid it though, do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RCS and iMessage are essentially just separate internet based messaging apps like Signal or WhatsApp. iMessage doesn’t even require a phone number if you’re only messaging other iMessage users. The only difference being, they CAN message phone numbers, but if it isn’t “their” app, they’ll fall back to using SMS. iMessage has implemented RCS if messaging someone using Google Messages, but it is not encrypted, so essentially the same thing as SMS from a privacy and security perspective.

  As far as understanding it, both carriers and Google/Apple need to pay for infrastructure. For carriers it is cell towers, for internet based stuff it is servers. Carriers need you to pay for the infrastructure because they offer a single service (kind of, all 3 sell your data). Google & Apple make all kinds of money off of you in many ways, and getting high adoption for their apps makes them more powerful.