I’m also going to think the absinence-only education plays a role. I know people in their 20s today who didn’t understand: lube, protection, HIV, pregnancy. Some of them were HIV+ before they knew what happened. People are confused and uneducated. Thanks Christians!

No, you can’t blame consumers for corporations bad behavior, consumers act in their own self interest, not a collective self interest. This is precisely why we have regulations.

One of the first things I did with my 3D printer was create wood screws - as in, screw made out of wood plastic. Fun pocket giveaway.

This is interesting. I’ve been setting up our non-profit’s new grant-funded Azure VM, then Wordpress site, then CiviCRM, then hardening it all, and I’m hoping to offer this as a (volunteer) turnkey service to a few other nonprofits in town. And it’s amazing to me how many hours this still takes, and how out of reach it is for the average nonprofit.

I am the donor for a lesbian couple. I’m pretty involved in my son’s life. I took him for his third haircut. Midway through, he was bored, and shooting me one of the angriest looks I’ve ever gotten from him. I took a pic and sent it to his mom.

“Oh god look how mad he is, give him your phone!”

What? He’s being quiet and learning how to be patient while a haircut happens. Some parents think reality is a BAD substitute for devices, it seems.

At least one night a week, he comes to my house and plays without any screens. We talk and explore the world.

Oh my God trump thinks he’s trading Alaska for Greenland. It just clicked.

Gay dude here, it seems to be. We have the loneliness epidemic here too, but we’re actually organizing and fighting it, because we’re used to do that. Our cishet counterparts are definitely not equipped to do that. Women are socalized much earlier than boys, and they’re taught that the social order is theirs for keeping. Girls are simply raised to be better at this. By the time men realize what’s happened with the natural funneling of friends through the parenting years - usually those late 20s and early 30s where it suddenly starts to become really difficult to overcome the friendship hump.

I can’t comment on the whole incels taking hold of this concept, because it’s something I’ve just had explained to me in the past week. I can definitely see the gender/sexuality lines on this in real life tho (I started and run a nonprofit to create community for GBT+ men in my state).

Everyone should be forming real-life groups on discord, be in cells, be part of several, everyone should be linked like chain mesh.

B/W film was still cheaper through the 80s and so color photography was very much optional.

Go home, Germany, you’re early

But instead states are rushing to ban lab meat.

That’s what he said

Yeah but now they can capitulate to the “bullying” and let the GOP do whatever as usual.

Well maybe someone will issue a strongly worded press release.

Man I got permabanned sitewide for suggesting people show up and draw chalk symbols on the (very public) street in front of the Governor’s Mansion, after Sarah Sanders had some Christian chalk artist come and draw a giant Jesus on the (very publicly owned) governor’s mansion driveway.

This, you see, is a call for political violence. 🙄

“Then later, out come the intestines”

What good is it when your party loses, or just has elections outright stolen, because they’re so busy taking the high road and congratulating each other on it.

Mmm no the character was actually based on his father, Shyguy Boo Bowser

You’re talking about all the megachurches in my city

Yeah I loved on capitol hill a dozen years ago and even then, all the hardcore hippies and weirdos were being wrung out of the neighborhood by developers and the bubble they bring. All of Seattle is totally different from 10, 20 years ago, which is totally different from 30, 40 years ago. None of it is for the better.

Oh for sure. Look at the Huckabees, dog torturing/killing family, much beloved by Trump. I’m Sarah Huckabee’s neighbor and her dog Traveler is a total asshole, my dog hates him, but I also feel bad for whatever might happen to him.