I’m laic.

What beliefs a person holds to themselves is indiferent to me. And it should not matter to anyone. Relationships are a negotiated endeavour, from both parts, where everyone gives a little to reach a mutual understanding.

Unless a person subscribes views capable of leading to individual, personal and socially harmful and regressive thought and action, it does not matter.

Removing the religious view from your question: would you date a vegan, not being one? Would you date a non vegan, being yourself one?

Zealotry goes both ways. Both the believer and the non believer can entrench themselves in their views so deeply they become fanatics.

Hate eats away your soul.

I would like to use a different expression but I lack one at the moment.

Stupid, despicable, divisive, angry individuals are plentiful. Small minds that feel empowered through anonimity and the sense of security coming from attacking other from their own space.

I don’t need to tolerate them but you also don’t need to allow their vitriole to poison your mind and sap your well being. It is not worth it.

I, you, we and thou.

As in:

“What am I doing?!”

“You’re getting older, not younger.”

“Let’s not do this again.”

“Thou have lost the little bit of reasoning you had left.”

And it scares people.

Ren&Stimpy had some gruesome stuff. Courage was more on the horror side.

– Ren & Stimpy

– Ed, Edd and Eddy

– Cow & Chicken

– Courage, the Cowardly Dog

– Animaniacs

Bars, clubs and other night time entertainment venues need to be highly sound proofed where I live. Even if the venue is built on a somewhat isolated area, it’s still required for the building to be insulated to some degree.

I had a restaurant that had a longer hours permit next to my house and because they didn’t had stronger insulation, they couldn’t exceed a certain decibel level after 22h00.

And even then, every so often, a patrol car would swing by to check if everything was calm, to keep the more rowdy patrons level headed.

Let them come. We’re already here and this space is very different from Reddit.

Portugal, €5/month, 100GB of data connection, 5000 call minutes. I’m supposed to pay one cent per sms but I have yet to be charged.

Yes. And I use only rugged phones.

I work in an environment where not having one would be very unwise but even before I’ve used screen protectors. It became standard practice from the moment the usable screen area became too large to not being worthy of protecting by my own means and efforts.

I’ve used those flexible anti scratch protectors, the hard, glass like, and the new generation gel films. I personally prefer the hard, supposedly tempered, screen protectors.

It is a learned skill to apply a screen film properly, I’ll admit, as I will admit I have ruined my share of it. I used to just buy it in bulk to allow for mistakes.

There are quite affordable vaccum machines that do wonders for those who are less apt at applying those films. Only work for hard glass or flexible; the gel ones have to be precision cut.

If you wear a lot of films, it may be a reasonable expense. Applying one protecting film can cost me anywhere between €8 to €20. The machines I’ve seen cost around €60.

Person of Interest and MacGuyver

Yup, old and ancient stuff.

Too many. I can count by the fingers of my left hand how many shows I watched to the end and I still have unused fingers.

Nobody can pay me enough for me to carry their logo as free publicity.

I wear logoed clothing because the logo acts as identification and grants me special acess to fenced off areas, which I otherwise wouldn’t be able to lawfully acess. But when the clock is off, the logo is off.

You just gave me a headache.

Please explain the thought process that led to such a wondering.

I agree. It is possible to train the sense of smell. And it should be actively trained.

Ever got the “are you part dog or something”? Always makes me laugh.

Smell is undervalued in humans. I could smells if my partner was about to have her period before she started using contraception.

I don’t consider any part of my personality as a super power, although I am aware I have a few oddities on me.

• Smells play a very big part of my reality.

I can “smell” a shift in air humidity. This led to me learning I can cook by my nose, as I can smell the very onset of burning or low content of salt or spices.

Anyone else can smell crickets?

• it was always easier to maintain a memory if I translate it into an image.

I gave differents colours in my mind to the days of the week, I color coded my emotions in order to know how things are inside my head and I have a colour bar to range my dialogue intensity to other.

• noticing something is “wrong” around or out of place always seemed easy, be it because there is a sound too much or missing or something is somewhere it doesn’t belong or missing

I always thought these were normal things, growing up. Just like having a narrator voice in my head (this one comes really handy when reading a book; all character have a voice and the narrator has another).

I sometimes float the idea in my brain to learn how to code. If I ever come to it, I want to debate and discuss my work with another human. Not a machine.

Personal preference.

I won’t hold my breath on it.

Up until this minute, AI has produced plentiful examples of how it can produce anything but good code.

I’d rather have a developer writing software, slowly, because they have an intelectual itch and want to try and see the outcome of their idea than the proverbial army of monkeys furiously typing away.

I’m in a nearly twenty years long relationship and I am not married nor do I intend to.

Mind if I ask where are you from?

Yes. Definitely, yes. And I would buy the condoms.

That is trust. Asking for a safe space, under the roof of their parents, that is sign they trust their parents.