You’d be astounded at the places you’ll run into the idea that foreskin is gross. I was at a burlesque show - very left-leaning crowd - and the MC asked for “what ruins a bedroom experience for you”. “Uncut cock” was like the second answer and everyone hooted and hollered (though props to the MC, they managed to seem real uncomfortable while playing it off well). I’ve never had it directed at me thankfully, though I have had some surprise from one or two partner that I’m not cut.

I’ll say it til the day I die, I owe my mum a debt I can never repay for not letting my dad do that to me. Just one of the multitude of ways she protected me.

Well if someone doesn’t go vote, you don’t send the police to arrest them and make them vote; you fine them for not voting. At least, that’s how it works in Australia.

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I got Control: Ultimate Edition for $4 on sale recently and was really surprised by how good it is. One of the few games I’ve stuck with right through to beating it, and the DLC too. I’ve been considering Firebreak but the backlog is long and money is a little tight for frivolous promises right now. Sounds like I should play Alan Wake, though!

Found the Kerbal.

I’ve done it. Circumstances sometimes demand, what are you gonna do? 🤷 But also, I always clean up after myself - wipe down around the sink if I splashed, and rinse the toothpaste out of the sink itself. That’s just courtesy, professional and general.

Man, fuck Alex Villanueva. That piece of shit brought the LAPD and public safety in SoCal back decades.

Just block and move on, I think 🤷 If they ban you, so what? I doubt any single instance forms a huge percentage of your experience here, and that goes double for some knob’s shite little personal instance. Put another way, that kind of moderation is never going to grow a large community; maybe they want it that way, but it does mean they’ll stay irrelevant to the majority of users. And the reasonable ones that person bans will make their own instance; the instance with the most reasonable moderation will end up with the most users.

At least, this is how I’ve been using it. Just firehose the lot at first and filter down the noise over time. My block list is long, communities and users. Hell, I’ll block a whole community if I see the admin or a mod being a dick. I feel this has only improved my experience.

You don’t hate our country, you said so yourself - you hate what it is right now, because you know it can be better. You want it to be better. That’s not hate, that’s love.

I’m quite certain these are completely separate times and places, how the hell has someone tried this more than once?

There are vanishingly few generalisations a person can make on the internet and have any chance of being correct. This one, though, you’re bang-on right every time.

Just here to echo the sentiment that you’re still pretty young, so if you decide that’s what you want then absolutely go for it. But also I’d like to ask: I know you said the relationship cooled off, but how do you actually feel about her? Would you lose her entirely in the divorce, and would that make you sad/does that really matter (maybe not)? Just trying to get a better picture of your feelings for her and if that’s shifted.

It’s pretty telling that she’s okay with you having “a woman on the side”, that’s a pretty big change if it wasn’t okay before, and I wonder why that changed. Did you get any clarification on how exactly her “outlook on life has changed”?

“Better living through chemistry!”, I call it.

Framework are standouts in customer service and warranty; I recommend them because their ethos is repairability and re-use. They design their products for maximum interoperability of parts - so for example of you got one of the original laptops, you could upgrade the internals to new framework parts and buy (or build, or 3d-print) an enclosure for the original parts that still work, and turn it into a file server or whatever. You won’t run into this situation you have now, where you can’t get a part a few years later because the company themselves can’t get one. And, it’s all open source, so you can build and modify as you like… and equally if not more importantly, so can everyone else. Robust ecosystems are nice to have!

If it’s a Razer, it was probably pretty expensive. Is a Framework (https://frame.work/) in the budget? If so, he’ll have a great work machine capable of gaming, and upgradeable too.

Another option is a lower-spec laptop supplemented with a GeForce Now subscription for demanding games. If you have a decent internet connection, the service actually works really well - far better than earlier services which tried to sell gaming on the cloud. You can try it for a day for $4 (or $8, for the top-tier hardware) to see how you go with it on your home connection.

I agree, but for sightly different reasons. Life is collecting permanent injuries. No matter how good your diet, no matter how much you exercise, no matter how advanced medical technology gets, nothing that breaks will ever be quite the same.

First of all, I agree entirely. Now: Pounds, so you’re in the UK. Have a read about your options with the ombudsman service: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/get-more-help/how-to-use-an-ombudsman-in-england/

the Financial Ombudsman Service sorts out problems with banks, insurance, PPI, loans, mortgages, pensions and deals with other money and financial complaints - read our advice about getting your money back if you paid by card or PayPal

If nothing else you’re putting them on blast with the government, and that contributes to the paper trail for eventual action. In the meantime it might get your complaint resolved. Did you try tweeting at their official account too? Sometimes that can help get things moving.

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Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament (the originals) 😋

Legitimately, yes, when it’s not being hamstrung by anticompetitive lawsuits from Telco lobbyists.