45% of men 18 to 25 have never asked out a woman in person

I can’t speak for the whole 45% but some of us have heard stories from women about how that other 55% can behave. I think I’d rather wait for a lady to (never) ask me out then put someone in the position of thinking “Oh, is he gonna take it bad if I say no?”

isn’t it a combination of younger developers not learning to programme under the restrictions of limited memory and cpu speed, on top of employers demanding code as soon as possible rather than code that is elegant or resource efficient or even slightly planned out

Gen-X is based? Really?

rebellion is when you listen to music your mom doesn’t like and also caring about things is gay

the people who cause problems in retail environments are not the people who would think to mask the intentions their body language communicate

that being said, people will still surprise you and it’s usually right when you stop expecting them to have any capacity to surprise you

Ok, but that’s a select group of people who choose to spend their free time typing about politics online. If you look at the actual election results, it would appear to back up the claim you’re quoting.

Nothing wrong with meditating on a stone all your life, but where does a monk’s meal come from? Who grows the food? Who weaves the cloth? If it were all just charity, that would be one thing…

Before China, Tibet was a feudal society, with the monastery at the top of the hierarchy. They wielded power; religious, political, and physical. The punishment for disobeying a monk was to have your hands cut off. And this wasn’t just some ancient state of affairs, it was happening in the 20th century.

tying it to income means in a few decades inflation just shrinks the number of people who can actually benefit

If you own one residential property and also live in it, no taxes on that. Multiple properties? That’s taxes. Unfortunately, most primary education is funded by property tax, so you’d have to change how that works (and maybe actually pay teachers while your at it). Fortunately, none of this has any chance of ever getting implemented.

also you can walk into basically any bank and ask for a roll of quaters

Woo! Let’s make this artificial biome that much more inhospitable for the very creatures that build and live in it!

We must imagine Sisyphus fucking miserable! Ants in an anthill made of broken glass and depleted lion batteries!

Same as well with using the state apparatus, taxpayer money, or use public schools to push your views.

Yeah these same conservatives are trying to editorialize what books are available in libraries, I don’t really think they have personal freedoms at heart.

this comment makes me wish for a Carrington Event in the 21st century

don’t you guys have better consumer protections?

eh, kinda think strapping a monitor to your face just isn’t the future movies seem to think it should be

you know they developed the iPod touch in secrete because they feared that if Steve saw the ugly prototype, he’d shitcan the project?

OK, but trying would have let them know where the weak links are, where to put pressure in the future. Same goes for Dobbs. Even if they failed to secure a federal right to abortion in the legislature, having the voting record would have been a powerful tool to use against DINOs – “Shape up, or loose your funding”

That they never even tried means Democrats are just not interested in strategically working towards success.

The people who are getting real mad over Republican voters don’t really care that Rs and Ds have the same foreign policy. The frontier of empire is coming home, but acknowledging that would mean acknowledging we export suffering.

that’s what Archive Of Our Own is for

I dunno, Trump seems capable of recognizing when something doesn’t play well in front of an audience. Like, the one skill he actually has is working a crowd.

Musk insists he was always right and doubles down.

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random people who happen to vote for a Republican or a Democrat aren’t to blame, sure

but the actual Republicans and Democrats; the representatives, the party functionaries, the people who’s checks are signed by the RNC or the DNC? Those people certainly deserve some blame.