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Just texted the guy. Nah. He just jumped in a game with some people. See what I mean?! He’s getting fatter and more antisocial by day by day. He’s in his comfort zone, totally unbothered. I’m not baggin’ on gaming, but outside a part-time jobs, that’s all he does!

Good lord are you worked up with assumptions! I say again, young men need to get off the coach and get out their comfort zones. This is a thing anyone can do. You don’t need 2 acres of swamp, you can go walk till you drop, talk to a girl, go somewhere you’re leery of, anything that scares you will do. We can’t experience bravery without fear, and we can’t live a full life without bravery. Anything less is merely waiting to die, and no one deserves that.

I’m not blaming these men, and if we’re making assumptions, that smells like victim mentality. Fuck all that. As I said:

these boys need to be told

How to encourage them to get out and purposefully be uncomfortable? I have no ideas. But it has to happen or we lose a generation to ennui, depression and reclusive dweebs. Again, downward spiral. That’s a hella gravity well to escape.

As active as I am, been fighting it for a year since I lost my job. Young guy across the street and I were tight a couple of years back. Now he sits and plays video games all day, growing fatter every time I see him, zero social life. What am I doing? Chatting with you people. I’m certainly not helping him. Best get off my ass and eat my own dog food. Charity starts at home they say! :)

And don’t for one fucking second lecture me on privilege. I understood and internalized the fact of my luck and status since the 90s, since long before society at large started talking about the concept. You been alive that long? How many stories you want where I felt my privileges in my very guts? I am well fucking aware, thank you for your concern.

You are way out of line and owe me an apology. That’s not a thing I say online, but you have wronged me, put me in boxes I don’t fit in or deserve.

I have a ruler in my desk partially to train my brain in centimeters. Whipped it out just now.

40cm?!

Wonder how many scraper blades that took.

Um.

5 legs would be some weird Cambrian Explosion experiment. They got buck wild back then!

Know why we quit building plants in the 70s? I wish this was a joke.

The China Syndrome, a movie about a core meltdown at a nuclear power plant, came out about 2 weeks before the Three Mile Island incident.

You need to double employee pay to focus on this. If a person takes home $30K gross, the employer’s likely paying double that.

Your pay is not what the employer pays for your labor. At the low end of the pay scale, it’s closer to double. Worker’s comp insurance, unemployment taxes, HR costs, shitloads of things add up. With AI, they’re gambling on deleting all that overhead.

Can’t see why the upcoming price hikes aren’t obvious. Think these AI companies are going to eat shit forever?

You’d go apeshit in my house. My wife is constantly talking to her friends and family, or listening to the news, in Tagalog (Filipino).

Only thing that bothers me is that she can’t teach me, and she’s an educated teacher! I rock at languages, but she’s so critical I can’t get started.

Hell, I liked Zima in the 90s. Low-alcohol tasteless seltzer-beer? Put me in coach! LOL, I might drink it today.

Hell, when I was an Oklahoman teen you just had to know which store to buy at. Need cigs? Hotel at 51st and Harvard got a machine.

And that’ why we were healthy! You had to ride to get your buzz on! (I’m only partially joking.)

Surfing porn on Google vs. Bing is an eye opening experience.

Google: “Fuck it all up. We don’t want to be seen as a porn engine.”

Microsoft: “How do we beat Google in search?!”

“Make porn pics and images easy?”

Worked!

But then you get weird shit. One day searching “tiny titties” gets you no NSFW results, the next it’s flooded with 9yo Russian kids. “Flat chested”? Meh, one day it’s “flats”, the shoes, the next, 9yo Russian kids again. Fuck me. I like little titties, OK?! I just want to see them on women. Preferably “asian amateur lesbian cosplay tiny titty white lingerie face sitting lesdom wedding dress” kinda women. Is that too much to ask?! I was told this was the future. :(

Nah, neither take works for 'em. Litigation? Being neutral bypasses all threats of bias. Profits? Porn is the only reason the internet took off as a profitable venture.

I’d bet some top dogs bowed to a little pressure for fear of bad publicity. That’s how these tiny religious groups threaten. That’s all the juice they got. And who’s going to stand up and say, “Nah. Fuck yourself. We want our porn.”

Well, I guess we all did stand up! (Do I still need to make calls, or is this thing done?)

Yeah, hate it, but that sort of censorship is to bypass filters. Am old, used to use pr0n.

6’7" I’m reading. Mom’s 5’11’". Damned tall mama! Hope he has normal hands and dick.

Can you imagine being this guy? Rich as balls, fascist family, can’t dare cross daddy. How will he turn out? I’d call him superhuman if he comes out even close to baseline sanity.

Man, I NAIL the interview, stick the landing every time, just can’t get that far ATM.

Guess I need to focus on beefing up my bullshit. Sad, never had to do that before.

We seemed to have it all hammered out. Love me some Cambrian explosion, wild shit! It was like the 1910-1920s for the industrial age. “Throw it at the wall and see what sticks!”

Meh, that’s pretty fucked if it’s humid. I’d do 50C in Death Valley before 40C in Florida.

Think the hottest I remember is 48C in Oklahoma. LOL, I was mowing lawns for a living and mom was calling to scream I should come home. At the time, I was young and used to it.

Speaking of humid. Put in a little 14’ above-ground pool. Jumped in the other day to cool off while working in the yard. For the first time I emotionally understood wet bulb temps. Soaking wet did nothing. Was fucking around at camp today, shirt instantly soaked, no wind, and no amount of water was cooling me. Scary stuff.

Meh, not like we humans aren’t buying and burning those company’s products. Maybe I’m doom and gloom, but I put the issue at our ridiculous population.

FFS, there were 3.7 billion of you apes when I was a kid. Now we’re at 8 billion with no sign of slowing soon. Is no one else shocked this happened within a human lifespan?!

Is the immigration hate any wonder? All we’ve seen is more and more people, and the immigrants are, GASP, different people. “Send 'em back!” That policy will fail on a couple of levels, but that’s where our emotions are at. Any sort of mammal population will freak out and go violent when there’s too many of 'em.

There isn’t any answer but Malthusianism. Y’all gonna have to die back until things get better. But not me and mine! :)