It was at a kink convention. We got a round of applause from a man in the Sex Room, and we embraced him. Then as we smoked outside an old lady said “Oh, aren’t you a cute couple” and we had to explain that we’d just met.

“Polite” implies that if you’re agreeable and friendly women will understand that you’re interested in them and not just being agreeable and friendly.

I think part of the problem is that what we’re all really after is fucking, which isn’t polite at all. Being polite about it just makes you look weak and ineffective at the thing that we all say we want but can’t mention.

If any mention of sex by a man is considered inappropriate, how is a man supposed to negotiate sex?

This is a big reason why I’m engaged: We got the impolite part out of the way first.

at house parties

Try this not at a house party.*

I’m lucky that I met my fiance after being loaned to her as a sex toy by someone I met on OKC

* What I mean here is that there aren’t many “third-spaces” as the neo-urbanists call them, where it is assumed to be appropriate to approach anyone romantically. Workplaces have HR, and contrary to Pornhub there aren’t many chances for romantic connection in your home.

My hypothesis is that having a place where people go to see and be seen is essential to the human mating process.

This is ancillary but perhaps contributing to it due to a lack of shared context. (For example, if someone asks me about a funny commercial I won’t have seen it and can’t relate.)

I’m thinking more like the zeitgeist has fractured.

If you’re lucky it might be cut with something cheaper like pure cocaine

No, we sell water usage data to water companies, so they know when to put water in the pipes!

That printer is a 2000’s HP LaserJet

One could argue that the lack of a shared, verifiable experience like radio or live TV has contributed to the breakdown of social cohesion. Everyone can see what they want, whenever they want, instead of seeing what everyone else sees.

Or we could blame it on a food industry that soaked up all the researchers and marketers who got unemployed when we cracked down on cigarette advertising

I learned more about how computers work from them than I did in all my schooling.

Most of the best QA folks I’ve worked with had teenage children.

I imagine dealing with developers is similar.

The voters have enough guns to challenge their authority.

Pirate ships were anarchist combat collectives. They’d probably work like that.

This is not unlike how pirate ships worked

He has long hair and a beard

*glances around nervously*

At 4:30 pm on my last day at my previous job my boss asked me to email a customer something.

I left that shit on read

I used the same trick to get around time limits on shareware games back in the day

As someone who supports vaccines but opposes adulthood I’m torn on this

Trump only got three million more votes in 2024. Harris got six million fewer votes than Biden.

Democrats and independents sat at home because of the lack of a plan to improve things from the Dems.

In that case none of them work