I’m pretty happy with libre office. Not keen on AI code

Not sure what the clichés about Fate are. I think it’s a fun light system.

Also there are dozens of us who prefer vampire: the requiem over masquerade. Dozens! I recently started a game of it. So far they killed 3 CEOs and blew up a data center (in the game).

It’s been fun seeing the DND player adapt to “wait I can just do my cool thing as much as I want?”. Like he was going to punch a dude and I was like “are you sure you don’t want to just Mesmerize him? It’s free and more likely to work, given your stats”

They probably assume a good chunk of their audience is people not really paying attention, or who tuned in halfway. For someone watching all day it’s repetitive, but for someone who just showed up it’s fresh. If they did something deep that needs context, the people who arrive 35% of the way through are going to be lost.

I have thought about writing a story about someone who kills all the leadership ghouls who force return to office, no holiday pay, and so on. Not sure what I could do to raise it from revenge porn to something deep.

I recently read “People’s History of the United States” and it paints a much grimmer picture of the early US. It didn’t take long for the alien and sedition acts to be written, despite the grand language about freedom. There’s also many, many, years of labor asking for more than dirt and being violently suppressed.

Renting would almost make sense if it was dirt fucking cheap. The reality is it often costs an amount comparable to a mortgage, but without any of the benefits.

Personally I think housing should be a right and everyone entitled to it, and should not be used as an investment or vector for wealth.

Woman friend 1 said that it’s personal and for some people it’s a big deal, and not for others. Sex is unique in a lot of ways. She didn’t outright reject the karaoke comparison, but did emphasize that different people have different experiences and attach different meaning to it. She didn’t reject the comparison, but didn’t especially love it. Treating sex as meaningless has its own perils, she said n

Woman friend 2 reached for “like doing LSD or mushrooms for the first time” rather than karaoke, but didn’t reject the comparison.

Both reject purity culture and the idea of virginity as something you lose, and rejected your take from your top post.

I’m not going to post screenshots because the conversations had a lot of personal details.

You’re doing a bad job of arguing. You made a claim. I offered a trivial counter. You’re not updating your claim. You’re just saying “nuh-uh”.

You could try arguing that the degree is different, but as someone said that’s not true for everyone. Some people are really casual about sex! From the start! And some people would never, ever, do karaoke.

Even if you were factually correct (you are not) your argument is structurally unsound.

I’ll see what my friends say in the morning

Seems like it has been compared just fine!

Similar in that they can both be, your words, “intense, intimiate and potentially painful and overwhelming.”.

I’m going to argue that the “normal” point of view that holds losing your virginity as a big fucking deal (pun intended) is in fact unhealthy. It’s often bundled up with patriarchy. It really doesn’t need to have all the brouhaha. That creates a lot of misery and hangups.

You’re not proving that it should be a special case. You’re just acting like it’s self evident.

Incidentally,

You need it to be with someone who cares about you so they can make it a good experience

Also applies to karaoke.

So I don’t believe you when you say

It’s not some victorian-purity BS,

So? Why should sex be special cased?

Clearly not because

it’s your first time doing something very intense, intimiate and potentially painful and overwhelming.

because then we’d have karaoke virginity too. And many other things.

Virginity is special because it’s your first time doing something very intense, intimiate and potentially painful and overwhelming.

Why doesn’t karaoke get the same special category?

You need it to be with someone who cares about you so they can make it a good experience

Nah. Can help. Can hurt. Not a requirement.

Computers often do what you said, not what you meant.

Honestly more experience with that might help some people who are habitually unclear in their thinking and communication

I’ve said basically to my boss at the shitty megacorp like “if I go out of my way to fix things and do more work, I get the same outcome as not doing any of that. You don’t give me paid holidays. You pay entry level wages. We both know I’m going to be laid off in December. So why would I?”

Capitalist hell-scape. Working to make some unseen ghouls rich.

I read enough French that I didn’t notice at first, but then I was like “wait that said ride for 2 arrêtes…”, and chuckled.

Interesting. I really need one that does public transit.

Funny how this one has random snippets of French in the UI.

I’m glad my favorite bands sell tickets in the $20-50 range. Though I almost always get a T-shirt or something, and maybe a drink, the total night out is under $200. I just couldn’t justify spending more than that.

Metaphorically paying in some other way - skip the party, but spend time together in some other way - can sustain the relationship.

I don’t think the reasons why matter all that much. If someone’s not coming to the shared experiences (a party, a get together, a nice chat, whatever) then they’re not paying into the relationship.

Go on? Are you splitting the hair on not owning the music, since the artist retains copyright? Please elaborate.