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- Comment on Anon has regrets 2 days ago:
Preventing pregnancy is the most replicable effect of condoms. I’d be much more worried about gonorrhea, HIV, even syphilis.
- Comment on You are beautiful 2 days ago:
What does his forearm tattoo say?
- Comment on My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate. 6 days ago:
I think it’s just a bowl currently full of ravioli
- Comment on Anon gets outed 6 days ago:
Banned from 4chan for underage shit? I can’t imagine this would be the thing they finally crack down on
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 6 days ago:
That Canadian actress was white and attractive. The German held for several days without sleep was also white and attractive (also a man in a relationship with a man, but I don’t know how likely it is that CBP could have known that).
It’s probably protective, but it’s not sufficient
- Comment on Remember when she fucked up the economy 6 days ago:
That’s the value of charisma. I can’t not seethe while listening to Reagan shucks his way to destroying the welfare state, but he was an actor, I’ve got to assume he was good at striking the right note for people who didn’t have the consequences of his policies right at hand.
I wish charisma were less effective, but unfortunately this is the world we live in. Even worse, the only Kennedy we have on the national scene is RFK Jr.
- Comment on Genius 1 week ago:
Baltimore blast sounds like a designer version of naloxone
- Comment on AIRBUD 1 week ago:
Laika boss
- Comment on Anon meets pearl jam man 1 week ago:
Thematically, perhaps it should have been last kiss, but I appreciate that the OOP wanted it to seem more believable. Plus there was no girlfriend in his car…
- Comment on Anon orders food 1 week ago:
I try not to compliment men’s physical attributes. Given that around a quarter of them still react like I’m flirting when I compliment the pattern they have on while I’m wearing a wedding ring, I don’t want to go any further, lol. Maybe I should have said non-flirty instead of nonsexual though, because I agree, that’s not a sexual comment.
- Comment on Anon orders food 1 week ago:
That’s an example of a compliment I don’t give. I’m not trying to start something I don’t want to finish and I don’t want to finish anything.
- Comment on Anon orders food 2 weeks ago:
I (afab) intentionally give my male friends and coworkers lots of non sexual compliments, and it’s been a mixed bag for people I don’t know well. I genuinely love men’s business wear, so I frequently go for a comment about what they’re wearing (think “I like your shirt” or “that’s a cool pattern,” not “that shirt makes your eyes pop” or “you look sexy in that shirt”), and about a third of the time, they still seem to think I’m coming on to them. Since I got married and wear my wedding ring, that’s down to about a quarter.
- Comment on Always explains so much 2 weeks ago:
It’s also not an exact science, especially if you’re not on hormonal birth control. My cycle is 27-29 days, unless I’m stressed, in which case it can be up to 40 days. My period then lasts 3-4 days, but every 7-8 months, it instead lasts a full week and is way, way heavier and more painful than normal. No medical issues that my doctor can tell, sometimes it just be like that. So I will know that I should be getting my period in the next couple of days, but it’s never exact.
I used to be better about tracking it, but I realized I could feel a twinge about 20 minutes before the bleeding starts. Now I’ll even wake up to it, so there’s really not a downside to not tracking my period. (Except unforeseen medical issues, bc failures, and general bodily awareness)
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree with you that society does think that way, but I disagree with the sentiment so much.
I’m 33 and afab. I accepted being called a “girl” until I was about 23 (probably not a coincidence that that was the age at which I graduated college), but it started chafing at like 16, even though I didn’t have a good alternative at the time (because I agree that “female” as a noun feels gross). If someone called me a girl now I would correct them without hesitation in basically every scenario outside of a eulogy or wedding speech.
I really wish there was a better option. I don’t really like “woman,” but it’s better than gal, lady, dudette, chick, or girl imo. I’m perfectly fine with guy or dude, especially in plural, but I’m probably an egg, so that colors my perspective for the singular use a little.
- Comment on START STOCKPILING 2 weeks ago:
That preface though:
AT a moment when Europe is in danger of a catastrophe worse than that of 1914 a book like this may be condemned as a distraction from the desperately urgent defence of civilization against modern barbarism.
Year by year, month by month, the plight of our fragmentary and precarious civilization becomes more serious. Fascism abroad grows more bold and ruthless in its foreign ventures, more tyrannical toward its own citizens, more barbarian in its contempt for the life of the mind. Even in our own country we have reason to fear a tendency toward militarization and the curtailment of civil liberty. Moreover, while the decades pass, no resolute step is taken to alleviate the injustice of our social order. Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.
- Comment on Why women live longer then men 2 weeks ago:
Sorry for the TMI
That video helped me understand my own mortality. I recognized that “huh, I guess I’m fucked” look from how my mom reacted when her cancer came back and it suddenly clicked that anything can happen to anyone at any time. This was several years after she died, but somehow it still hadn’t occurred to me.
- Comment on Why women live longer then men 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been reading too much fanfiction about cardassians lately for this not to resonate
- Comment on Disappointing coyote attack 3 weeks ago:
I know coyotes aren’t exactly massive, but the six year old is fine?? Good news, but that coyote must be embarrassed as hell.
- Comment on 🐙🐙🐙 3 weeks ago:
Its origin is Greek, but it comes to us through Latin, so fuck it. Plus it’s language, and octopi is understood by fluent speakers
- Comment on Bravery 4 weeks ago:
I started saying dawg ironically…
- Comment on Pineapple was never the problem 4 weeks ago:
It’s definitely not for everyone, but the only thing stopping me from making a mac and cheese sandwich is shame.
I will say, most of the mac and cheese pizzas I’ve had were more enjoyable(for me) than good and the texture is the reason. To do it well, you basically just need a good thick cheese sauce that coats the noodles well enough to insulate them from getting simultaneously soggy and burnt, but the best sauce for that is not the best sauce for standard mac and cheese
- Comment on Pineapple was never the problem 4 weeks ago:
When I clean the fermentation cabinet at my bakery, I start craving subway because of the smell. It was annoying until I actually realized what caused it, and since then it’s just gross.
- Comment on Pineapple was never the problem 4 weeks ago:
I know, I know. But have you had it?
I was the kid who used to make mashed potato and stuffing sandwiches after thanksgiving, if that’s relevant.
- Comment on Anon's friend is Buddhist 4 weeks ago:
It’s a partner exercise
- Comment on Why is Jury Nullification a Thing, But You Can’t Talk About It in Court? 5 weeks ago:
It can, but I’d still rather criminals walk free than people who didn’t do anything wrong be punished.
I guess it comes down to this: I think twelve randos are less likely to be racist than our legal system.
- Comment on Why is Jury Nullification a Thing, But You Can’t Talk About It in Court? 5 weeks ago:
I mean more people generally walk away. When designing a legal system, you have to decide whether it’s better that guilty people go free or that innocent people are punished. I’m fully on the side of the former, and jury nullification is basically an extra release valve.
Luigi’s obviously a sensation right now, but jn is imo even better for situations like those sisters who lit their father on fire after he raped them for years (I don’t want to dig too deep because it’s depressing, so I don’t have a source, but this could just as easily be hypothetical). The legal system is not going to codify how much the victim must abuse you before your snapping is justified, because that’s impossible. The jury gets to decide on a case by case basis, whether the immolation was a crime or not.
In a perfect legal system, we might not need it, but not only is that impossible, the US has in some respects the farthest from a perfect system currently in place.
- Comment on Anon's friend is Buddhist 5 weeks ago:
That square is my bed and my therapist was concerned when I said I didn’t leave it.
- Comment on Why is Jury Nullification a Thing, But You Can’t Talk About It in Court? 5 weeks ago:
The common rebuttal to what I’ve said is that the justice system is rarely just. That may be the case but justice is not going to be improved by moving to a kangaroo court. We may as well throw defendants in the river and pronounce those who do not drown to be guilty.
I would agree with you if it worked the other way. If jurors could say: okay, he didn’t do the arson, but something’s off and he should go to jail anyway, that would not be a functional justice system. As it is, having jury nullification just makes it a looser system, nowhere near kangaroo court.
- Comment on Do they get the urge to get something to eat at the 'Fly Thru'? 5 weeks ago:
Assmosphere
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 5 weeks ago:
I work at a bakery (we’ve got snacks, coffee, cake, and danishes in addition to bread), and every once in a while I see two people come in and it’s not clear if they’re on a date until they disagree about whether it’s for here or to go. Then I realize that only one of them thought it was a date. It’s especially awkward if the one who did has already offered to pay for everything.
Doing that for a job instead of a date is brutal