As an adult, you should be able to have this very normal conversation up front with people you are interested in meeting.

If it doesn’t come up in the normal introductory Q&A sessions that are typical of first dates, be sure to bring it up that you are still figuring out what your preference is.

For hookup apps, it’s even easier. Just explain the situation. People are generally understanding.

We’ll move on to the next step once he figures out who to pin the blame on for this. I am guessing he can’t throw Vance under the bus for it since he’s probably on record for saying it was a bad idea. Miller or Hegseth maybe?

I also don’t see a drawdown happening any time soon, but the market manipulation will continue to work for as long as wall street is willing to kick the football. Not that I care what happens to the fat cats, but my 401k portfolio is not looking great right now either.

Heh, I was also banned for the same reason as you - quoting the exact text of the constitution to say what should happen to insurrectionists. My appeal was denied in seconds.

The time before that it was during the presidential debate live watch threads, and there was a portion of the broadcast where the camera dipped away from the speaker, so I wrote “kill the cameraman!”, an obviously non-serious statement in reference to the subreddit /r/killthecameraman, and got banned for that. That was only a three week suspension I think. The mod who banned me also handled my appeal as well, promptly ignored.

This is pretty uncontroversial as far as reddit announcements go. They aren’t requiring identity verification.

This is coming from the same administration who gave us the ill-fated plan to exit Afghanistan that ended in absolute disaster under Biden. You don’t just get to start a war and then leave whenever you want - the Iranians will take full advantage of a drawdown by striking military installations in the region and seizing equipment.

This guy is an absolute moron.

“obliterate”, like how he “obliterated” the Iranian’s nuclear capabilities last June?

So I should expect they’ll be producing at full capacity again in 8 months then? Is that how this works?

I do this every time I see one of those dorks driving one around.

Slippery Slope Fallacy. It’s the same thing as saying Doom and Grand Theft Auto train school shooters, or marijuana is a gateway drug to hard substances.

This is not me defending paedophiles, I’m just pointing out the flaw in the logic here. Nothing says that having access to these dolls increases the likelihood of them carrying out their desires on a real child, or that by not having access they would never take that step regardless.

Are you telling me my virtual real estate is worthless?!

In a couple of years, the bubble may have already burst.

Also, the robot is not just an employee, it’s an asset that can be sold off to pay debts in the event of bankruptcy.

The U.S. Constitution is total shit and should be completely scrapped and re-written. The problem is I don’t trust any of these partisan fools in congress to be educated enough to draft a new one.

The fervent worship of the founding fathers and the document itself as a holy-adjacent collective/artifact is absolutely why we have problems adapting our laws to the 21st century.

You can’t have your Canada until you finish your other wars of aggression, young man!

I had an idea pop in my head and I don’t know if it’s feasible or not, but maybe the next nascent social media network can try it out, who knows.

Private trackers for torrenting are notoriously hard to get invitations to, specifically because the only way to get in is through joining the community early, limited time windows to register, or some sort of lottery system, but most people get in when one of their friends sends them one of their limited number of invitations - which they don’t do lightly because if you invite a leecher it harms your reputation and both you and the person you invited can get banned even if you are still maintaining a positive ratio.

So what if we implemented a similar kind of system? Bots can’t flood a system if the registration is closed access, but regular people can still get invitations from friends and family. But if you invite a bot, that bot account and the account that invited it get terminated simultaneously, taking out two bad actors for the price of just one. Heck, if you really wanted to go scorched earth, every account that was registered via an invitation from the person who initial invited the bot should also get terminated. Know who you are inviting and you won’t have any problems, but if you use your ability to invite people recklessly, your entire social network gets kicked off the platform.

This would probably never get implemented in a serious social media platform because those spaces rely on explosive growth to compete with other more established networks, and limiting the number of users is counterproductive - I think at some point investors would just start telling management to open the floodgates and let the bots in already.

AI wasn’t the NFT killer, right click > saveas killed it at the very moment of conception.

Digital scarcity is a complete joke.

They don’t just want the machines to create the art and music for us, they want them to consume it for us too, so that we’ll have more time to slave away at our jobs.

Oh, I’ve seen this one before!

The In’juns could attack at any moment!

They won’t.

This is the second time they’ve bombed Iran during peace talks. I know it feels like a million years, but it only happened last June.

US: “You can’t enrich uranium!”

Iran: “We reluctantly agree to this term.”

US: Bombs Iran anyway

We live in a clown country 🤡