deathbird
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- Comment on Sounds logical to me 1 week ago:
Gay people often have straight sex when they are unsure about their sexuality. As society becomes less homophobic I’d expect more straight guys to experiment with other guys.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 4 weeks ago:
All valid points. Except for the one about not having to be treated like you’re poor, but I think that one was made in jest.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s uncontroversial to say that porn is bad for children, and I would say that social media is bad for children as well. I think as one matures and becomes an adult both become less bad, less fraught, but the difference between the two of Is that one with one of them you sometimes want to be anonymous, and the other one you almost always want to be anonymous.
I mean I’m against requiring affirmative identity verification online anyway, even as a solution to keeping children away from things that are unhealthy for them. You can’t sacrifice the freedom of adults on the altar of protecting children.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, at this late date, the tubes analogy isn’t that bad. I forget what point he was trying to make though.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 4 weeks ago:
Every YouTuber sponsored by nordvpn: 🤑🤑🤑
- Comment on Anon visits a bookstore 1 month ago:
Then the books are like: 👆
- Comment on Anon's lacking pissing habits 2 months ago:
Someone doesn’t just get followed into the bathroom I see.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 2 months ago:
It’s really good actually, unless you were looking for a different kind of game.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Depends a little on the type of work (contract work is different), but generally disagree. Just because you can do the work in less time doesn’t mean everyone can. You can use your spare time to do other things, but if you’re only showing up 20h/week for a full time job, there’s no reason to pay you full time wages.
There’s something off kilter with the labor system when some people are doing the work of several workers while others are doing the work of half.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
In my experience at the lower rungs of retail, the bosses will assign 100% of your non-break time to 80% of the work that needs to be done. I have far more experience with understaffing than busy-work.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Survivorship bias applies to memory as much as anything else.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sometimes the job is being available, being a body in a seat.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s crazy. Anyone who is against documentation should not have a job that requires literacy.
- Comment on Anon tries to help 2 months ago:
Awkward teens trying to flirt with each other, who get mad when their oblivious friend tries to get in between, are worthless?
- Comment on Anon shares his dating preferences 5 months ago:
Or…you tend to be negative.
- Comment on Sorry to be a bother... 5 months ago:
I feel bad for folks who are introverted and not particularly strong. Almost every job with a low barrier to entry demands a lot of physical or emotional labour.
- Comment on Sorry to be a bother... 5 months ago:
Imagine a barista with a pin that says “Here are some of the soft skills that this job demands and which I lack.”
- Comment on Anon has a lucid dream 5 months ago:
When I have romantic feelings it doesn’t make me want to sleep with the person they’re directed towards.
It doesn’t make me want to necessarily sleep with them either, but rather stay up late having sex with them. And maybe after sleep.
But this idea of asexual romantic attraction makes about as much sense to me as saying “When I am hungry it doesn’t make me want to eat food.”
When I say I have “romantic feelings” for someone, the feeling I’m referring to is a combination of love and sexual desire. Even when I was a kid and would sort of push down or repress sexual thoughts because in my head it felt wrong or inappropriate, what I was feeling was sexual desire and love.
My understanding of the term “romantic” has always been euphemistic, based in an understanding that it would be weird and rude to just tell someone you’re crushing on that you love them and you want them to love you too and you want to put your mouth on their genitals because you think you could make them feel really good and you want to physically intimate to be vulnerable with them because vulnerability is a part of of not just physical but emotional intimacy and you want them to share their feelings and feel open to you and so on and so on you get the idea.
- Comment on Anon has a lucid dream 5 months ago:
Do people seriously conciously fantasize about taking part in erotic acts with real people (especially ones they have feelings for)?
Yes.
I kinda get the disrespect perspective, maybe. I felt that a little as a teen. But then I thought it probably wasn’t respectful treating my crush in my mind like a sort of sexless statue or object rather than a real human being that I was in love with and wanted to have sex with.
- Comment on My new company let me join the union on my first day, within their onboarding app 7 months ago:
It’s more likely there not because the employer wanted it, but because the union demanded it.
- Comment on What a feeling that was 1 year ago:
Actually true. The number of (S)NES games with game-breaking bugs was near-zero. Probably because they couldn’t just patch them later.