Why do I advise people seeking abortions to use end-to-end encrypted messaging with disappearing messages turned on? Because of cases like this one, where Facebook messages are being used as evidence. https://t.co/p3RCUDdKPT
— Eva (@evacide) August 9, 2022
Yet another thing that “couldn’t happen” happening.
I miss when phones had keyboards like this:
That was so vastly, vastly superior to touchscreen anything. How did we settle on such a fucking terrible default?
It's become my conclusion people work way too hard justifying their aesthetic preferences with "facts". "I like the way it makes me feel / the subjective result" is the only reason you need for liking something. That's it. Parametric obsession is a waste of time for perception. https://t.co/N1atVJcgCr
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) August 6, 2022
Yep. Too many PMC types want to quantify everything, to have an Excel-spreadsheet-based reason they like something or want to do something. That’s a terrible way to live life, though, and one that doesn’t lead to happiness or fulfillment. Glad I moved past that stage of my thinking when I was like 10. Very fucking glad.
Cloud ideas are very old — it just used to be called something else. “Cloud” became propaganda more to seize control than cheaper/more useful in many cases.
The true advantage of the Cloud is speed of deployment, and that is real. A lot of the rest is just lies or propagandistic distortions.
I matched with a kinky girl in a wheelchair. Should I go for it?
I nearly dated a woman in a wheelchair, many years ago. I say “nearly” because she flaked out on me at the last minute. I think she was more worried about me worrying about her being disabled than I was. (I didn’t care in the least.) Which, understandable, given the reactions I’m sure she’d gotten over the years.
I tend not to dwell on “what could have been” — mainly since my partner is so wonderful — but I do hope she found someone. She seemed pretty cool.
Wow
After the passage of Indiana’s total abortion ban, Eli Lilly, one of the state’s biggest employers, says they’ll be planning their growth outside the state.
Because DUH how are you going to recruit women, aka HALF the population, to a state that outlaws their health care?!? pic.twitter.com/aDBVCDKcZ2
— Kate Smith (@byKateSmith) August 6, 2022
Exactly. It’ll take a few years, but red states are going to be complete hellholes compared to blue states. That’s just what’s gonna happen.
I have 2 theories:
Either men with same-y preferences in women have a genetics based attraction towards certain features, or like in the experiment where they made female rats wear lingerie, the virgin males imprint sexually on the first sexual experience aesthetics https://t.co/b0sp2KaWNE— Weft (@WeftOfSoul) August 6, 2022
I think there is something to the imprinting idea, but I don’t think the experience has to be at all sexual. My first babysitter is the woman I 100% know that I imprinted on as being my template of female attractiveness and she was perfectly professional. But she was tall, very slim, had lots of freckles, a fairly masculine face, and was the first woman (really, girl, but she seemed like a woman to my six-year-old self) who was not a family member or a teacher to be nice to me and to concentrate on me specifically.
Even though I know all this consciously, I don’t seem to be able to do anything about the attraction to women of this type. I simply am more attracted to women on the taller side, slim, with more masculine visages, and with freckles. Not that everyone I’ve dated has checked all of these boxes, or that is all that is desirable to me. Not at all. I’ve dated short voluptuous blondes, manic slightly chubby redheads with utterly pale skin, etc. But that babysitter definitely fixed the type of woman I saw as most attractive.
This is as close as I could find, but that babysitter looked something like this (model Mariia Kyianytsia):
It’s literally a KGB op https://t.co/sIToX5IQNx
— Misha Gurevich, Amateur Futurist (@drethelin) August 6, 2022
It might be. But I do agree that it’s top-down imposed because nuclear power does not make the right people money. Costs are artificially inflated so mooks can go, “Nuclear can never work. Look how expensive it is!”
But the libs say the vaccines don’t really work. If that’s not working, I’ll take it!
Solving a bad ARP behavior on a Linux router.
LOL WTF. This is why you use VLANs if you’re trying to do something like this. This isn’t bad ARP behavior. This is ARP working like it should. It’s always funny when people find “brilliant” tweaks for a completely misdesigned network that is failing as it should fail, because it’s been put together in some ridiculous way.
Degrowthers are now just as big an enemy as fossil fuel companies and other evil entities. Both will destroy us all, given the chance, just for different reasons.
As someone who treated themselves awful in their 20s I cannot understand all these young people posting feeling awful and in constant pain post 25 like, what are you doing are you undiagnosed I spent a solid three years drunk and don’t recall the kind of pain they talk about
— John Leavitt 🌹 (@LeavittAlone) August 6, 2022
It’s obesity. Mostly.
We must kill the children to save the children.
Despite the hyperbole and apocalyptic predictions based on a single laboratory study, it turns out everyone was completely wrong about Omicron and reinfections
Prior infection with Omicron provides robust protection against reinfectionhttps://t.co/XRPmvnGeOW
— Alasdair Munro (@apsmunro) August 2, 2022
Huh.
SHOCKED. Ok, not really.
For two decades that I've covered the religious right, for instance, they've clung to the notion that sexual desire only develops in teenagers because adults let them know sex exists. And so long as we just veiled it in mystery and said "wait for marriage," they'd never want it.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) August 4, 2022
To be fair, a whole heap of liberals believe this too. And it seems like these idjits are increasing in number all the time.