You’re not wrong, but I would call out a point of clarity, that youth is far more fetishized for women.

I’m a dude, but as far as I can tell, guys need a bit of luck in the looks category (not the most important thing, but not looking disfigured generally helps), ambition, and success (mainly money). I had terrible luck with women. I’m not the best looking guy out there but I’m certainly not the worst either… And I could find relationships, but it always quickly fell apart. Once I decided to improve upon myself, and go to college in the pursuit of a well paying job, I found that my ambition was generally enough to keep people’s attention, romantically.

I accidentally ended up with a very young lady. I know how this will sound, and all I can do is assure everyone that, at least for my part, everything I say is the absolute truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

I went to college late, I was 23 by the time I applied to college, and turned 24 shortly after starting classes. My birthday is in the first quarter, or so, of the year.

Anyways. I think I was in my second year of college when I met this girl, I don’t even remember how I met her honestly; it wasn’t a dating app, those things barely existed at the time and I haven’t ever used one; I just haven’t seen the need… Anyways, everything seems cool, she’s telling me she’s 17 and has a bday coming up. At this point I’m 24/25, and I’m thinking that’s a bit young, but since she’s basically 18 at this point, I don’t really see a problem with it… Anyways, birthday happens, Yay, and life goes on. After a few months as things get more and more complicated, as happens in most relationships, I come to find out that her birthday, was her 17th birthday, she was 16 when we met. I’m suddenly very not ok with everything.

It didn’t last super long after that. She was also preggo with her exes kid and never told me. The relationship was only like 5-6 months long. She lost the kid, I believe it was a miscarriage, and I’m sad for her that happened, but too much weird bullshit and deception was happening so I called it off.

She wasn’t a good person. She’s on a short list of exes I don’t talk to anymore. Most of my exes I still consider good friends, even if I haven’t seen them in a long time. I’m in a stable, long term relationship with a more age appropriate partner, for… Gosh, it has to be 10 years now? Time flies. There’s… 6? ish years between our ages, and we met when I was 30-something… I’m much happier now. Heh.

What an idiot.

Has he put himself on the poor house yet by spending all of his money to appease the young women he wanted a booty call from?

Because that kind of behavior seems to be rather expensive.

I want my mortgage to be paid off.

My SO put it perfectly when I apologized for talking too much, she said “it’s ok, I know you like to listen to yourself”

And honestly, I do talk to myself when nobody’s around and there isn’t a huge difference in what I’m saying in either context.

I’m not having a conversation with myself, I’m just kind of thinking out loud.

According to xitter, if the woman is very muscular, then yes.

I don’t quite understand why though.

Chaos.

They were mostly threatening. For me the peace of mind of knowing that they can’t really track what’s being downloaded to my ISP/my account/me, is enough.

I don’t know if the MPAA is going to lose its mind like the RIAA did with the whole Napster thing. I don’t want to get caught up in it if they do.

For that peace of mind, I pay for my VPN.

If that’s not valuable to you, then you’ll make different choices. I’m not here to tell anyone what to do, I’m just giving my experience and opinion.

Good luck out there.

And no, I wasn’t charged either for the notice, nor legally charged as the result of a notice.

Looks like I got modded. I’m having such a fun time on Lemmy.

The speech here is so free.

In this example image, those be some “earth” colors. Used to be a big thing. Lots of dark green, dark yellows, oranges and browns.

And they liked that.

It’s a whole vibe. I don’t know who vibes with that, but it definitely has a vibe.

I’m half on one side, half on the other.

The line I draw is between safety and convenience. On the safety side, I want things to be very manual. I don’t want some app or external system managing whether or not the lights stay on, or whatever, on the convenience side, I 1000% want a way to manage things like the lighting from an app.

So anywhere that safety is a concern, like the kitchen, bathroom, a handful of other places… There’s zero “smart” anything. Everywhere else, yeah, I can turn off my lights from an app.

When I’m in my office/living room, where safety isn’t really a concern, I don’t have to get up to turn on the lights, I can yell at my Google home to do it for me, or use an app. If I want the lights to be some shade of turquoise, I use the app…

In the kitchen, as an example, no such control exists. You have to push the light switch, and you get basic bitch white light. You don’t get an option. You want the light off? Take your fingers and do the thing that makes the light switch go click and turn off the lights.

The decision to make anything smart relies on whether or not I’m going to be in danger if the lights go out and there’s no way to turn them on again because the Internet is down.

We need a few more Luigi’s in the world.

I’m a cis male and I have so little interest in my looks that the only looks related thing that I even think about, is my weight, mainly because I don’t want to be unhealthy. If I’m “overweight” or “obese” and healthy, I couldn’t give a fuck about being whatever weight I am. I just know that being overweight is frequently a sign of being unhealthy, or can cause health complications like T2 diabetes.

I typically wear black 90% of the time or more, because I don’t have to think about matching colors or standing out or being stylish or whatever.

For fashion, all black, uninteresting clothes, are generally neither hated, nor loved by people. It’s very meh, bland, uninteresting, not notable, and generally very meh. I’m good with that. I may never be “en vogue” or whatever the fuck, but I’ll never have someone looking at me like “you’re wearing that shirt with those pants?” They’re all black. I’m wearing black jeans with a black T-shirt.

Yes, we are pack mules.

I just want to point out that they are, including and especially the current pos, I mean Pota, business people, and businesses are, with one exception, authoritarian in nature. The exception? A co-op.

Orders are barked from the top, and that shit rolls down hill until it lands on someone with the skills necessary to execute on those orders.

Now take that, and build an entire political party on it, and for the likes and subscribes, throw in a religious element because the religious books can be “interpreted” whatever way we want to justify whatever we want to do, and that will garner some extra votes.

Yay!

All I’m going to say is that my ISP used to send me notices from the MPAA about what I was downloading and that I should:

1. Cease and desist
2. Remove the content I downloaded.

Since I setup a VPN, I do not get those notices.

Do I need to say more?

Can you blame him?

Thanks, I hate it.

Yes and no.

Yes because these people are at work; if they’re not using a bathroom, having cameras recording them while they perform their job is within their employers purview to do.

The can object all they want, but it’s something that is, and can be done for pretty much everyone working. Think about cashier’s at grocery stores and convenience stores… They’re almost always on camera all the time. I can hear someone saying “but that’s different, it’s for security”… Is it?

Having a flight recording of what the cockpit is doing during the flight, seems like something you would want when you are entrusting them with a multimillion dollar piece of machinery and hundreds of people’s lives.

On the other hand, where the hell is that information going to go? The black box? Doubtful, that shit is already cram packed with stuff they need to record. On a device in the cockpit? Sure, you’ll never find it in a crash, but you do you, I guess.

So I’m on the no side because unless you’re putting it in the flight recorder, it’s borderline useless for anything beyond scrutinizing someone doing their job. If you are putting it in the flight recorder, is there any information that’s going to get left out to make space for the video of pilots picking their noses at 30,000 ft?

Uploading her porn? Gross! To where though? There’s so many places she could upload to, which one? So disgusting!