So… US History, I’ve got you:

Okay, in 1607 we started a colony in a place that would later be famous for having a lot of racists. For about a hundred years we were happy fucking over Native Americans, then people wanted to stop paying taxes, so we had a war with England. We won, with a lot of help from the French, but we don’t give them much credit. We spent another 3/4 of a century fucking over Native Americans, building shit, and importing slaves, mostly from Africa. Then we had a Civil War about the slaves, killed each other a bunch, and in a huge surprise that no one saw coming, the part of the country that had all the industry won. We set the slaves free, so we could continue to treat them like crap. Then we went back to fucking over Native Americans, built a bunch of stuff (some of it was pretty cool), and started fucking around with the rest of the world. We started bringing in immigrants when things got shitty in other parts of the world, because we needed people to expand and someone else to be prejudiced against. We had some economic issues because some people wanted to be really rich, I’m sure taxes factored in there somewhere, but we pulled ourselves out of that with a couple of big wars and then we sorta took over half the world. We went to the moon, and appointed ourselves as “all around cool guys”, although there were still a lot of issues with minorities and a big fracas about civil rights that some folks still haven’t gotten over. But we thought we had to be tough guys to keep the USSR from making communism a thing, so we kinda ignored all that and started spending money on nukes and proxy wars instead of going to the moon. Rich people decided they didn’t want to pay taxes again, and Reganomics mindfucked a generation of people into thinking you can run a country anywhere other than right into the fucking ground that way. After the Soviets made a mess of their half of the world and fucked off, we decided that things were too quiet and really started fucking stuff up in earnest. We pissed off a fresh batch of people in the middle east, because oil, and just kinda stirred the shit pot everywhere else because we were the biggest kid on the block. We also started the habit of surveilling everyone after some terrorists attacked us. Some of what we did might have been helpful, but there’s so much chaos and so many pissed off people now it’s hard to tell. Fast forward and some of us have figured out that we’re causing problems, but we’re neck deep in the sunk cost fallacy and busy letting people continue to promise us they can run the country better if rich folks pay less taxes.

TL;DR: It’s taxes all the way down.

Ah, yeah, it was just my SO and I. But most of the videos are gangbang scenes.

I don’t follow…

You know those crazy Japanese videos where they cover a woman in gallons of lube, ruin her nice outfit, and go to town while everyone is all slimy?

So, sure it’s fun. Like stupid, giggly fun, but it’s also hard to get any traction, it’s distracting when it gets in your ears and nose, and it’s super, super hard to clean up. Like two showers just to get it all out of her hair.

We tried it a few times. The fantasy was fun to fulfill, but the sex was kinda meh, so not really worth the effort to make it a regular thing.

It’ll give you what you want, but not what you need. Sorry if that seems obtuse.

It’s an artificial parasocial relationship. Imagine falling in love with an Onlyfans performer, yet even that astronomically slim chance of being the one out of their thousands of subscribers who is unique enough to win their love isn’t even there, it isn’t even possible.

At its best, it can give you some small validation that you’re too embarrassed to get elsewhere. Sort of a “things you already knew but needed to hear from someone else” vibe, but it can’t give any real insight, and real love, or any real connection. It’s the participation trophy of relationships.

It’s hollow and empty, with simulated complexity and depth.

What AI is kinda good at is creating absurdly specific interactive erotica based around your particular fetishes. But even then, it can’t produce anything truly unique or innovative, so it’s sort of the same old sexytimes wearing new clothes. It’s probably a decent form of porn if you don’t mind the ethical concerns, but it’s not a real relationship.

It kinda looks like tennis for the unathletic, which means I should fit right in, but I have zero interest.

An optimist invents the airplane. A pessimist invents the parachute.

This weekend I built a shed in my back yard, which was a nice bit of father-son bonding, and stockpiled ammo in case civil unrest causes widespread violence to break out in our neighborhood.

Definitely a strange vibe.

I like to point with both hands, and with my feet if I’m in a good mood.

Cut off internet for people who pirate… Those people are now unable to stream anything… Sacrifice thousands in potential revenue over an infringement that maybe cost them a few dollars, if that… Deter no one because everyone thinks they won’t get caught.

Good move. Smart guys.

I like Focuswriter, it’s a little more feature rich than Notepad, but it stays out of your way and has that same “Just me and a blank page” vibe.

That’s the only possible upside to the nation sinking into a dictatorship, at least we’ll never have a duly elected President Beast… Silver linings and whatnot.

If course it’s unsurprising. The man has a very clear pattern of surrounding himself with people who he believes will do and think exactly the way he wants, and then cutting ties with them anytime they deviate from his expectations.

True, and I’m definitely in more of a “let the bridges I burn light the way” mood these days. I think part of me still wants to reach people, especially those I have to interact with on a daily basis, but as others said, it just may not be possible. Thanks for the reply. =)

It’s all concern trolling on their part, and your point about “biological advantage” is exactly why it’s a bullshit argument. But I’ve made no secret that I think a lot of people take sports far to seriously, so I can always use this.

Thanks for the reply. And I appreciate the reminder, because if there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that these guys will always impress you with their ability to not own up to their failings.

Thank you. This is getting increasingly harder to do in these parts, but I’ll do my best. 🫡

I 100% guarantee that a majority of tradwife influencers do none of that bullshit off camera. Just another rightwing scam.

Federal employee unions are well connected, have good lawyers and already fucking pissed. This is gonna be a fight.

They can’t even look him in the eye. They know he’s telling the truth and they’re full of shit.