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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I still remember my teacher bitching me out in front of the class when we were learning negative numbers because when he asked me how I figured out the correct answer I said that the positive numbers and negatives cancelled each other out. Like -4 and positive 5, the negative 4 cancels out 4 on the positive side and you are left with 1. Maybe that wasn’t the correct verbiage but it gave me the correct answer every time. He was a dick about correcting me though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because things aren’t improving. Windows 11 is a bloated buggy mess loaded with privacy issues. They change things that have been working fine for years or decades or introduce new features that no one asked for and only get in the way and they don’t even test the changes properly to get bugs out. It’s clear they do not have users interests in mind and things are only getting worse as time goes on. The ship is sinking and Linux is the only lifeboat available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a warning for incels⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, really, what should our incel friend do with their time?

  Can’t speak for every incel friend but the one in our group needs to be working on regulating his emotions and not spending so much time on incel forums. Getting comfortable with himself and the fact that not every woman who is nice to him is going to be interested him romantically. He’s in his 30s and still acts like a fucking teenager when he gets rejected. At least 3 of us at different points in time have had to pull him aside and have a talk to him about how his behavior is making the women in our group uncomfortable and explain that if he doesn’t get that shit under control he’s not going to get invited out anymore. Even when he does take up a hobby or work on himself he talks about it like he’s checking off a box so that he can finally deserve to get laid. Then, when that doesn’t work out for him because he reeks of desperation when he interacts with women, he goes back to his bad habits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not celebrating patriotism. I’m celebrating a 3 day weekend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What free healthcare?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I always assumed the “can’t find the clitoris” jokes we’re based in men ignoring the clitoris. Not that they literally could not find it. It’s like right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna have to wait a bit for those bitcoins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is sweat there different?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least I can still pay with the money I keep in my underpants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not okay.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, theres a big overgrown patch behind the house and we have them all over. It’s nice to see. I like to sit out and watch them while the sun goes down. It’s relaxing. Theres a bunch of other critters that come out around that time to so it’s interesting. I watched a couple of raccoons take apart my neighbors bird feeder last night.

  Another bug I haven’t seen in forever is grasshoppers. I used to catch buckets of those things when I was a kid and I don’t think I’ve seen more than a couple in years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  combined with refusal to have real life human contact with women,

  It’s quite possible it’s the other way around on that one. I’ve certainly had periods of my life where I had to branch out pretty far in my social circle to meet women because the things I enjoyed doing are either solo activities or of little interest to women (at least around here). Some of that has gotten better in the last decade or so as nerdy shit has become more socially acceptable and ive built up a more diverse social network for myself but it was a rocky start and if I didn’t get lucky with the people I had around me it could have turned out much worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, but you’re not going to win anyone over by calling them an asshole and progressives do need to win more people over. Or at the very least get them off their asses and I into the voting booths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes trains⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like an easy solution would be fining the shit out of them for that. Or requiring an expensive permit for overly long trains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thing makes noise wallet goes empty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Had this happen recently. Turned out to be a stick that was wedged up into the hub and rubbing on the wheel. But then in the process of removing the stick I found that the wheel was fused to the brake drum and no amount of kicking or banging on it with a sledge would knock it loose. Waiting for a dry weekend to take a more aggressive approach to dealing with that problem…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't kink shame Oklahoma City.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a stretch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's split personality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Madonna-whore complex

  I’ve been reading up on this and I’m not sure that’s exactly it. I certainly don’t despise women or want to degrade them regardless of whether I’m interested in them sexually or not and I’m really not sexually attracted to women I would think of as “whores” (that’s not really the word I would use except maybe for an actual prostitute, but I assume they mean sexually promiscuous women). I did have a cold but over-bearing mother though so maybe there is something to this. Maybe there is a spectrum and I’m on the lesser end of it.

  Thinking about it more I think it’s more due to something with the rejection aspect of it. If I spend enough time with a woman and nothing physical happens it’s like I switch into “platonic mode” even if they are physically attractive. I’ve had the same thing happen in romantic relationships where my girlfriend had a much lower libido than me and it just got to the point where we were barely physically intimate at all because they were shooting me down 90% of the time and I just stopped trying because feel like they’re not interested and it’s just making them feel pressured or annoying them, and feeling I was shitty about myself when I get shot down, so I just reject myself for them until they signal otherwise (which almost never actually happened). This also led me getting lazier with other aspects of the relationship and eventually falling apart because it’s hard to make an effort when you’re always feeling like you’re missing out on one of the best parts (IMO) of being in a relationship. Which again kind of goes against the Madonna complex (at least as I understood it) because that seems to indicate you stay with the “pure” partner you love, which in my case it was kind of the opposite. I was willing to deal with a lot more toxicity to stay with the “whore” partners because they were fulfilling me sexually.

  Anyway, thanks for the response it was an interesting rabbit-hole. My experience really isn’t that hellish (at least due to this issue) I feel like I’m coping pretty well in my social life without the romantic aspect. People like me, I like them. It’s all good. Sometimes a little lonely but that’s a pretty rare feeling honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's split personality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Testosterone is a hell of a drug. I’ve known a few guys who have had at least one gf they only stayed with for the sex and were just putting up with her the rest of the time. Those…generally aren’t very good or healthy relationships. Most of them eventually get out of that mindset and (at least try to) find someone they like being with first and also want to fuck besides.

  I’ve been guilty of that and I’ve definitely felt that “ok, I came, I’d rather be alone now.” thing described in the post. Regular sex goes a long way in keeping me interested and the most toxic women I’ve been with have always been the best at it. There are women in my life who I like spending time with but that kind of kills my desire to have sex with them. It’s like subconsciously I’m thinking “why would I want to ruin this by bringing sex into it?” or maybe it feels like I’m degrading them if I think about them sexually or I don’t want to take advantage of them. I’m not really sure what’s going on with me there. I mostly just don’t date these days because I have my single life figured out pretty well and bringing someone else into it is always so disruptive and I really don’t get enough out of it to be worth the stress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL my decision to drive a 22' full cab pickup truck and vehemently oppose urban zoning reform makes me a defender of social justice, a warrior for the downtrodden, and more progressive than 99% [cont⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how anyone can look at those prices and not immediately cancel the transaction. Also the idea of some rando handling my food unsupervised is not appealing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL my decision to drive a 22' full cab pickup truck and vehemently oppose urban zoning reform makes me a defender of social justice, a warrior for the downtrodden, and more progressive than 99% [cont⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re saying their mental illness is to blame for their addiction to having fast food delivered and if you don’t think they are entitled to these services you are a bigot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So Indians are in this case bad because they are… particularly likely to be Musk stans? Forgiving of rich people who fall from grace?

  I don’t know anything about Indian people to comment on how they are but in general, yes if you have an ounce of forgiveness for Elon or anyone like him you are a bad person. His kind should have absolutely nowhere to turn to at this point after the damage they’ve done. They’re beyond salvation, anything less than excommunicating them from society is enabling them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Existential dread⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair making cyborg cockroaches is way easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I couldn’t even tell you what my background is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes camping⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t boiling first be better so you don’t end up with a bacteria colony in your filter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is literally a trick if they’re asking how it’s possible and it’s actually not. The kid is right. If we’re just ignoring all the words to look at the numbers why even have word problems? The point is to apply math to situations and that’s what the kid did. Nothing provided in the question contradicts his answer. The teacher’s an asshole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you take a moment to think back at your High School years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what exactly two people I went to high school with are doing. One is my brother’s wife’s sister and one got stabbed to death being a violent moron. I don’t give a shit about what any of those people are up to and I’m certainly not earning a good living.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hit it and quit it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys are going in and out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruh, chill⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The nice thing about my view is that it doesn’t preclude you from adhering to yours. Everyone can go exactly as fast as they want as long as they utilize the different lanes properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruh, chill⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will hit the same red lights at the same time as others, mind you I do notice when someone flies past me on the fast lane and we reach the same exit ramp stop light.

  Maybe over a short distance you will. Even then they’d be at the front of the line instead of stuck behind who knows how many idiots that are going to be staring at their phone when the light switches and cause you to get stuck behind it for a second time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruh, chill⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tested this on my car as well. I gain about 3 MPG by using the cruise control and adhering to the speed limit vs. Just driving how I want. It’s not worth the difference. Changing to shitty tires was a bigger hit to my MPG than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fine that others don’t share the same interests as me. I don’t expect them to talk to me about them if they don’t want to. We can sit in silence. That’s nice too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK what to tell you. I don’t think of interesting conversations as small talk. That’s not what I’m complaining about when I say I don’t like small talk. What I think of as small talk is when people seem to have to run their mouths just to ruin a perfectly good silence with shit about the weather or sports or something. That’s just how it is. If the conversation isn’t going to go past small talk I’d be just as happy to not have it at all.