Male born in '86 here. Started in high school (2002), it was young love, fiery, passionate, everything was the most important thing, end of the world, high stakes. Silly times, but formative and important to me.

Regarding your peers, don’t feel like it’s a competition and you need to rack up body count like a score. Men and women tend to care about and value different things, so just be mindful about how your choices shape your values and how your values shape your choices.

The factory must grow.

But if it were an NVMe slot… That’d be juicy.

That’s like saying it’s just as easy to wash your hands regardless of how filthy they are. The more grime, the more scrubbing, due to layering.

Regardless of immune system integrity, the area around the toilet is objectively easier to clean with lid down flushing; cuts down on micro droplets.

Do you consider your life difficult because cleaning your bathroom is part of life?

Beef broth, mmmm savory!

I remember the Dyson my mom gifted me as a housewarming present died (sheetrock dust is deadly to vacuums motors, it’s finer particles than I realized. ) And I went researching vacuums and found what the vacuum repair guys on Reddit thought about best vacuums. I felt so savvy buying the one I chose in the end. Yay adulting!

I just realized the other day that one sure fire mark of adulthood is buying a vacuum. Nobody makes you buy a vacuum and you’re not going to die without one. Nobody really wants to buy a vacuum. It’s just something you have to do at some point. It’s a willful decision to spend your hard earned money on something that’s essentially a chore. Because that’s what a responsible adult does.

Ohh! Sorry for projecting! I gotcha now.

I like all sorts of escapism. TV, Movies, Games, Books are all doorways to me.

I’d consider watching TV shows on a personal server watching TV. TV doesn’t need to be live airing. I just saying cuz I too mostly self host, but wouldn’t tell people I don’t watch TV. I think it’s more whether you’re consuming that medium at all or not.

I recall seeing a study from a major university that basically showed how having money directly translated into political influence. We are a straight oligarchy.

We’re still overdue for a eugenics war and WW3 before Star Trek timeline.

KHAN!

Plex Server. Enough content there for lifetimes.

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Data shows that something like 80% of guys on dating apps don’t get any attention from women. I don’t remember the exact figure. But dating apps are a tough demoralizing place for most men. I’d say branch out in your hobbies and focus on self improvement and hopefully you’ll bump into the right person with some shared interest.

Are you going to therapy for your social anxiety and over thinking? Cuz even if you got a match on the apps, you’re still going to face those issues when you actually meet up.

One thing I’ve seen reported in recent times is that men hardly show up to singles events and speed dating type things anymore. But that might be a lot of pressure for your social anxiety if you showed up somewhere and you were the only guy in a room of women.

Uh yeah, I’m not going to go to jail over dishonesty. I’m not going to play martyr for some unknown mass of strangers that doesn’t care about me. And you talk about SA and those victims but prison is also a terrible fate unto itself that your argument entirely ignores. It’s like flippant to send someone to prison for years. Imagine if people were that dismissive about SA. Like prison conditions aren’t arguably worse being a risk if consistent SA and who knows how much other horrors.

Should I now counter argue that you bringing up SA without acknowledging the horrors of prison is dismissive of men’s issues because of a for profit prison industrial complex?

Everything affects everything. You bring up something, someone is always going to bring up another side. That’s how discourse works.

But yeah, at the end of the day, my answer is ya, I won’t punish the innocent in order to punish the guilty as a general rule. It may not be utilitarian, but that’s what my gut says is moral. And that’s the best I can go on.

Reminds me of the moral dilemma in the movie Unthinkable.

Questions:

1. Would you be ok with you or someone you love more than yourself being sent to prison on a false accusation as long as a larger number of guilty people also get imprisoned?

2. Do you think false accusations don’t happen?

I generally take people at their word in my day to day interactions. I’d believe you if you told me something. But I wouldn’t enforce laws on people with only eyewitness testimony. Eyewitness testimony has been proven unreliable.