What are your thoughts on polyamory?
If they are polyamorous, it’s a no. If they have been polyamorous before but say they’re looking for a monogamous relationship this time, also no. If they use the term “ethical non-monogamy” in a positive way, even if they claim they’re monogamous, straight in the fucking bin.
I have used a check. I’m more likely to be able to get a mortgage and buy a house than to be accepted for a rental again, though I’ll likely die before paying it off. I still keep a fair amount of actual cash at home “just in case”.
Will be interested to hear your guesses.
Imagine a time before instant communications, where you have no idea how life has treated the recipient since you last saw them and it might take months for your letter to arrive. It is a sincere hope that they are well and that tradgedy has not befallen them.
It would be neurotic and unreasonable if your last update on their life was only days or even hours before, but in the days of letters hope is really all you had. It’s just honest.
To be fair, I’m certain that someone has written it with that as the intended meaning. It seems like the kind of passive aggressive thing some mannered British aristocrat would do.
It has it’s roots in actual letter writing, as in “I hope this letter finds you well”.
I can’t remember the last time I got a spam email honestly. I changed my address like 5+ years ago and it just stopped and never resumed. It’s not the email provider filtering them either, the only thing it catches are legitimate but automated messages.
Starship Troopers is Heinlein not Dick, and it’s fascist nonsense. Verhoeven was right to throw the book in the bin after two chapters and the movie rules.
I literally never have. Same prepaid thing for like 15-20 years. The terms have changed a fair bit over the years but I still only dump the bare minimum for long/no-expiry from the same provider. Averaged out it’s only a few dollars a month.
It has some data now but I still just Wi-Fi hop in the rare situations I need internet.
$200,000 for a 1 Bed 1 Bath with an hour and a half commute to the city. It’s a unit, so probably has a bunch of other fees attached for upkeep but they aren’t listed. Area is far away from necessary services, highly car dependent and notoriously crime ridden. The unit is run down and requires renovations.
Double that for a 2 Bed 1 Bath in a similar area.
One, that’s the kind of thin you get from it being cheap and way past the point you’re supposed to throw it out. Perfection.
Can an object be on both sides of the portal at once? Like if I ran a cable from the inside to the outside. I’m trying to work out how to handle water and sewage, because like everyone else I’ve concluded this is obviously a living space.
I’ve never done it in my own home, but I had a coworker I’d text with even though his desk was an arms length away from mine. Mostly because it could be hard to tell when either of us was on or about to make a call.
The Inner Light was what finally got me into Star Trek.
It’s not like I had never seen an episode, in fact I’d seen lots, but it was comfortable background noise I’d change the channel too as yet another repeat I had no context for aired. Always somehow a filler episode or the second part of a multi-episode arc. I’d written off Trek as pleasantly mediocre and wholly dependent on technobabble despite otherwise being an extremely keen sci-fi fan.
Luckily, on some long forgotten forum, someone described an episode which sounded nothing like the Trek I had seen. As you said, the emotional weight got me good.
I was going to post the same thing.
I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would.
Just… god damn it hits hard. Also Sisko’s change in tone turning the final “I can live with it” into a question.
Most people could cheap out on tools and they’d still last. The average person just doesn’t use the ones they own very often or work them particularly hard. Really, you’re going to know if your usage will require higher quality tools and it’s not the average techbro posting on /r/buyitforlife.
Backpacks are similar. If you’re just using one lightly loaded for an urban commute there is nothing wrong with cheaping out. Spending more is really for people who are wearing them hard and filling them to capacity.
That’s a really abnormal reaction. You sure everything is alright?
I went to the doctor because I was having panic attacks. I already knew I had an anxiety disorder, I have since I was a kid, so I assumed I was only going to resume treatment. The doctor just started me back on some meds like usual, but sent me off for some blood tests out of routine.
I don’t want to get specific but, as it turns out, there was a lot more going on. I’d been feeling sick for a long time. It seems ridiculous looking back just how sick I let myself become but never even considered seeing a doctor about it. I had a thousand excuses for why it might be happening but not a big deal, and a thousand more lying to myself that it was normal and I wasn’t sick at all.
I spent the next two years with medical appointments at least twice a week and referred to various specialists. My inner elbow looks like a junkie’s from all the tests. I am still not close to where I used to be, but I’m feeling a lot better these days.
I’ve dabbled in Linux since about 2008. I’ve tried multiple distros and give it another go every few years, the last being around 2020. I’ve had to use it professionally, I’ve got Linux certifications and I have a background in IT - not just Level 1 call center stuff either.
Linux is still too much of a pain in the ass for me. Jesus christ.
Last time I figured I’d swap my laptop over to Linux because it wasn’t like I was gaming or doing anything that Linux is supposed to be bad at. I’m not sure if this is still a thing, but back in the day Linux evangelists used to push how great it was on a machine you just used for your average office stuff.
Instead I got trapped for days trying to work out why the hell it was performing so badly when using multiple applications. Just basic stuff - word processor, browser and so on. Nothing intensive. It was so much worse than the previous Windows installation on the same Laptop. I spent so much of a long weekend just in stack exchange threads and trying different distros.
My problems didn’t end there either. Support for various peripherals was terrible. Getting my trackpad to work was a nightmare and I never got full functionality back. There were so many weird bugs - audio, display, you name it. It locked up irrecoverably more than once.
I never did work out why performance was so terrible. I gave up. There was almost certainly a solution but why on Earth would I waste any more time on it. This was hardly the first time I tried Linux only to suffer. I know Linux can run stable and well but the chance it wont is so much higher. When you do have problems, it’s so much fucking harder to fix.
Plenty of Linux evangelists like to pretend this is ready for your average user. Delusional.
I’d love to see what the Steam Deck experience is like but I think I wont ever touch Linux again on a machine that was not sold with it.
I think the Game Boy Color is my favourite. It just fit it’s purpose so well. Simple, rugged, compact, reasonably priced and looked great. The cartridge system was perfect for kids.
The original Game Boy just missed the sweet spot and the DS is when they start getting more fragile, more expensive and the game cards were a lot less kid friendly than the cartridges were. They were all good in their own right still but didn’t quite hit the mark as well. The non-SP advance was pretty close though.
lmao that’s cool as hell