I have to say that, in spite of surely well earned the reputation furries have for being nice people, that is one of the weirdest suggestions I’ve ever heard.
Substitute furries for any other sexual endeavor.
Look up BDSM groups around you. No, you don’t have to be a dom/sub to go to one.
Look up gender transition groups around you. No, you don’t have to be trans to go to one.
YES, YOU FUCKING DO!
I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic
Compare it to some other public space and see how ludicrous it sounds:
You’d go to the bar to see friends? I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic.
You’d go to the coffee shop to see friends? I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic.
See? You’re used to people doing those things so it sounds normal, but exercising with your friends is just as normal as drinking with your friends.
People do all sorts of things with their friends, but the reasons they do them invariably include “I like spending time with my friends.” Hell, I help my friends do home improvement projects because it’s just nice to do something productive with my friends. I’m certainly not going to install a new door on a friend’s house if they’re going to be away at work, so clearly the real reason is that I like spending time with my friends.
The problem is the inability to be attracted to “regular looking” people.
The problem is that you’re shallow. That’s a personality problem. Improve your personality until you see the people around you as more than objects.
’ll remind you that all 3 Back to the Future movies originally were supposed to be one movie. Then they realized it was waaaaay too long, and chopped it up into 3 movies, and added some padding on the 3rd movie.
That’s retroactive marketing bullshit. “It was always envisioned as a trilogy, which is why the first one is a standalone movie and the second and third are two halves of a movie” Once you notice this talk you see it everywhere. The Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean… really any big hit that they cashed in on with two more sequels.
Just like Lucas’ nine part saga BS, when really he hadn’t thought past the end of A New Hope.
It sounds like what your friend is attracted to is attention.
Objective–C is a strict superset of C. Anything that’s valid C can be used in an Objective–C file.
I started watching Scavengers Reign recently on a suggestion from a friend. I normally don’t go for animated shows, but this one is really enjoyable for me. Calm & explorative.
The word they’re avoiding is “suppress”. It needs to be suppressed because they don’t want anymore CEOs getting what they deserve.
The subject then engaged with local law enforcement and is now deceased
It makes it sound like the cops wouldn’t have done anything if the guy hadn’t brought the fight to them.
Trump: Ok, how about Ukraine declares unconditional surrender and Zelensky is hung in Red Square.
Putin: No, not got good enough.
That was literally part of Chris Rock’s skit:
I take care of my kids.
No shit _, you’re supposed to take care of your kids!
I work for a major US bank. We use AI for a lot of stuff, but not for determining if someone should be allowed to open an account.
Banking is a heavily regulated industry and there are federal “know your customer” rules that we abide by. They exist for a variety of reasons which mostly all boil down to anti-money laundering.
I rode a two speed kickback bicycle similar (operationally) to this for about a decade. It was the lowest maintenance bike I’ve ever owned, but the gearing was inside the rear hub and it only had a single chain. I can’t imagine that the mechanism being outside improves that.
If my choices are a z-wave/zigbee thermostat that connects to my HomeAssistant instance and a Raspberry Pi that I have to maintain, I’ll pick the z-wave one (and I did, 10 years ago. It’s been rock solid.)
For my smart devices I prefer devices that can’t send information over the internet no matter what. I don’t want to worry about my thermostat mining bitcoin for some dude in China.
Biden left the three people Trump wanted to pardon on the list so he could be the good guy for all the Nazis out there. It’s a Christmas gift in the spirit of bipartisanship
The ones that support HomeKit do record to the cloud, but it’s at least encrypted. There’s failure points, so it’s not a fool-proof system, but it’s considerably better system than most cloud camera systems that will joyfully hand over your videos to the police without a warrant or store it in some S3 bucket that doesn’t even have user level access controls.
How does a company thinking it has a rush of orders it can’t fulfill due to a strike affect how they view their bargaining position in that strike? I’d say it makes them more willing to settle.
It’s not like they’d be thinking “we have 20% more orders than projected. Thank god for this strike.”
Why cancel the order when they capitulate? Because. Fuck ‘em.
Buy shit (if you’re in an area affected by the strike), cancel the order when the strike ends.
The problem with him is that he doesn’t uphold his agreements. Combine that with him thinking that the President is King and the US is an extension of himself means that you can no longer trust the US to uphold its agreements. So, no we are no longer allies in any way that you can count on. I’d suggest that Canada pay lip service to the “allies” bit, but not count on it in any way.
My dude. Things cost money. That’s a basic fact of life. A rec league needs to rent space to play in. You need gear to play. If those facts taint the activity for you I’m not sure how you can even handle the horrific crassness of paying for a place to live. You should probably live in a hovel the woods. One that you didn’t pay for.