Bisexual people: Is it okay for me to have friends?

Not everybody is a potential sexual partner. Having friends of any gender is fine. If you start getting any non-platonic feelings, take a step back. If your friend starts getting (or demonstrating) non-platonic feelings, take a step back.

I feel like the middle-aged guy that I am, because it keeps suggesting lawncare, forging (“can I melt and cast himilayan salt rocks?” He did, it was fantastic), silly engineering (“I’m going to see if I can 3d print a rifle that will make a nerf dart break the speed of sound…”), dnd (I don’t even play dnd, and i still enjoy the videos), and Jon Stewart. And… a weird mix of civil rights people showing bad behavior of police, and police supporter showing bad behavior of people (honestly both are entertaining, because police are awful and so are people).

But it doesn’t even try for that right-wing bullshit.

If I had the choice of the Yaris or another car, I would choose the other car. Because driving that car would make me at least low-level angry for the time I had it.

My mom sold the house.

I was the youngest of three, and my parents told us all that as long as we were in school (including college), we could stay and they would pay for college. My brothers both got the benefit of this (oldest ended up staying outside of that for a couple years, but whatever).

My dad died in August after my graduation. My mom and aunt had inherited some money from my great-aunt and bought a house together near a college my mom wanted to go to, so she sold the childhood home (that I’d lived in my entire life) and said “good luck.”

Completely understandable, and I’m glad she got to live the life she wanted. She’s a nurse now (mostly retired, can’t seem to make it stick), remarried, and they’re building their own house. And my aunt now lives in the house they bought.

And I’m doing awesome (40s, two kids, wife of 16 years, set to retire in a town in Alaska we love, own our own house), honestly a lot better off than either of my brothers, so I can’t complain about how anything happened, other than wishing my dad was around longer.

The Yaris ads did this to me. I got so pissed off by their “It’s a car” commercials that I absolutely despised the product.

Only use-case I’ve had for rental was when I was at a military school for five months. My roommate and I needed a TV in our barracks room, but there wasn’t much point in buying a TV (each of us had TVs back home), so we rented one for five months. It was great. One of us also bought a Wii (dating myself here), so it was a great time.

That’s about the only case I can think of renting furniture/appliances. If you are temporarily someplace and can’t thrift an item at a reasonable price.

I want this product (not the 3d printed parts) with a bluetooth connection to build into my retired flight helmet (I have flown in military helicopters most of my career, but am old and grounded now).

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The local bars near me have that, and I can reach them from my house.

My playlists always begin and end with Photograph by Nickleback, and in between is… interesting. I like to ease in with a few weird-for-a-bar but not bad (My Heart Will Go On, some Babymetal, etc) and work my way toward the really weird (showtunes, especially from Avenue Q), ending with the bad (like the 30 minute Sufjan Stevens song). Then Nickleback again, and back to your country music.

Yeah, but it would be disappointing. Still plenty I’d like to do, and I’m only a handful of years from retirement, so I would be just shy of some well-earned down time.

As far as fear? I’ve never been afraid of dying. The time immediately prior to dying, yes, that is potentially scary. Being dead isn’t something you experience, though, so what is there to fear?

Oh, yeah, I loved ToTK even more. It was an engineering game cosplaying as an RPG and I was loving it.

I realized how overpowered i was when I was launching laser/cannon drone strikes on lines of Bokoblin, but I definitely felt how weak I was getting through the underworld area without a fan scooter.

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

But not like you think. I was fairly early in the game, and I was just treasure hunting in the castle to get some good gear before I continued on (good swords and bows that respawn regularly but break over time). Also, if you’ve never played it, the game is not entirely linear, you have four main powers you can gain from fighting and freeing four spirits in different zones, as well as shrines for additional powers and health. But you could spawn at the beginning of the game, do the initial questline to get the paraglider, and then go straight to the castle to fight the BBEG. And you’d die, but you could try!

So I was treasure hunting and I accidentally fell down a hole and ended up fighting the final boss. And then won. And then had to reset to the previous save before falling in. I spent the rest of the game thinking “I don’t actually need this to win, it’s all for overkill.” And it was. So much overkill. It really wasn’t fair at all. The separate storylines were really good and worth doing anyway, though. Beating the game was just kind of a fight tacked on to the end of a fantastic story.

A significant concern 80k years ago (though with lack of communication, few would know that the disembodied hand represented), not even a consideration now. 1 person dies from The Hand in the world each day? More people die of aneurysms each day, I would imagine, and it’s effectively the same thing.

Also, does it stop following a given person if they escape it by the end of the day? If you could hop in a car and just drive until the day is over to escape it, it would be more of a “hey, watch out for the hand” kind of thing. But it would be so rare I don’t even think it would be on anybody’s mind.

congratulations you are in the top 0.1% of parents/dads

This right here is what this whole question is directed at.

No, doing the basics does not put them in the “top 0.1% of dads,” like it’s some sort of anomaly (they might be, but it’s not because they changed diapers). Almost every dad I know is heavily involved in their kids lives, including when they are babies. I’m never the only dad at the park or the birthday party, and everything else. I have had many discussions with other guys about taking care of our babies, and it is very clear that it is a shared responsibility.

Do more men bail on their kids or dump responsibility on their spouse than women? Sure. Is that currently the common thing, or what 99.9% of men do? Absolutely not.

Stop perpetuating this stereotype, especially in a post about negative stereotypes.

I didn’t watch it specifically because of Leto. I was absolutely stoked each time I saw an ad for it (forgetting that Leto was in it) right up until his stupid face popped up in the trailer.

If they had somebody else, even a complete no-name actor, I would have watched it. It is impressive how effectively they pushed away their audience.

I have made the argument to the “think of the economy” Republicans I have known for years, and come at it from a relatively heartless angle:

With automation (and now AI), it takes less and less humans to do the work. Not everybody can “start their own business,” obviously, and when self-driving vehicles that don’t require a human driver become effective and accepted, about 70 million jobs will disappear in a blink. And those won’t be shifted to another industry, because it doesn’t take 70 million people to code and maintain self-driving vehicles. And that is just the people who drive for a living. So either a significant chunk of the population is unemployed and can’t buy things or live anymore without significant help from the government anyway, or everybody works less hours (and still paid a living wage) to spread out the available work hours.

If there is a UBI that effectively covers shelter and food, then people would need to work less to pay for other necessities and what luxuries they can afford. If everybody gets it, it is completely fair.

And you do this by taxing the shit out any automation (enough that the business still gets a benefit, but so does the society they are taking jobs from), and taxing billionaires.

This isn’t about taking care of the sick or poor, or providing handouts, it’s about maintaining society with the rise of automation, and it not being possible without it.

Those I spoke to were remarkably receptive to that argument.

That’s hilarious, I worked with the guy in the video who bro-ed out with a wrench in his pocket.

Edit: watched more of the video, I worked with the guy doing the rap at the beginning as well. Small world.

I work in helicopter maintenance, so reading this I was thinking, “yeah, and?”

It makes any task so much faster when you know exactly where the thing you need is.

The metallurgy is important, too, because different things corrode at different rates, and in contact with different metals.

Incidentally, that part in Big Hero 6 when Wasabi has his tools lined out, with every part and tool accounted for, I thought his shop area was well maintained and appropriate, especially working with such dangerous technology. Then they tried to portray him as mildly OCD or something, and I just thought everyone else was wrong. And Go-Go just grabbing a tool without checking it out was completely inappropriate and poor tool control.

I’ll do a lot, but I’ll often start with Wagon Wheel, because it gets people singing along, and once they’re singing, they’re signing up to sing.

Sometimes people need encouragement.

That sounds excellent… i might pitch that to my wife for next year.