SybilVane

Sadly, the people who support this don’t want trans people to be able to play sports, because they don’t want them to participate in society at all. They have no empathy, nor do they respect the science.

Kingdom Hearts 365/2

It may have started in Cuba but it isn’t anymore.

Even if you’re clean going in to bed, you sweat and you have natural oils from your body. Normally your clothes would absorb all of that, but over the course of a week your bedsheets will start to show the difference between the two sides.

My SO does this, I don’t. Their side of the bed is noticeably dirtier.

That’s really awesome, but concerning that someone would give it to a child.

I do this. Sometimes I read in really short bursts, like for the length of an elevator ride. I don’t mark it though, I just remember where I left off. I do this so much it’s become easy to just get right back into the story even mid paragraph.

A lot of people did, and I think that’s really interesting! There’s a lot of focus, even commercialization, around dating for men. So much is geared towards how to get a (romantic) relationship, and I think a lot of people’s self worth is tied to it. And chances are, if you’re feeling that, someone else you know is feeling it too!

I encourage everyone here to reach out to a friend today and see how they’re doing. I’m not going to pretend that’s going to solve the loneliness issue. That’s clearly systemic. But reaching out is something most of us can do.

While I agree about third places, I think it’s interesting that you then focused on dating.

Loneliness means lack of friendships and family ties as well. I think a lot of men are focused on dating, and even when they are in a relationship, they use that as their only source of socialization outside the workplace. A lot of the barriers that exist for one are true for the rest as well, it is hard to make friends nowadays as an adult! There are so many people that stop trying, and it isn’t surprising.

What is special about Zalando compared to other online stores?

You should have probably gone to HR about that. Without an explanation, the behaviour reflects poorly on you for something your coworker did which was not only illegal, but extremely immoral. You do not give someone drugs without their knowledge or consent! Wtf! You know he only took you to the hospital to protect himself. I would not feel safe working in the same space as him.

But first, the person banning water would become the ultimate serial killer.

I have aphantasia and can’t remember people’s faces at all. Reservoir dogs was a bunch of similar looking dudes dressed almost identically, talking to each other in similar tones with similar vocabulary, and the story is non-linear (which I didn’t realize). I have never been so confused seeing a movie before. I’m sure it’s a wonderful movie, but I have no hope of ever understanding it.

Why the guilt?

Sometimes characters in my games have pronouns and I still play those games, but I’m always weirded out by it. Why do people need to talk about them and not use only their name?

Oh no, now I am using pronouns! The woke people have corrupted my mind!

Have a child / children. Invest in my community. Help my parents retire. Get another dog. Buy the fancy chocolates. Probably join some sort of workout class for my own health.

Life expectancy is longer for women, so I think it’s just countries with nothing weird going on, but they’ll still have significantly more older women than older men.

Nothing too complex. I come from a culture where you take one last name from each parent. No hyphen. Just FirstName LastName1 LastName2.

Some systems put LastName1 as my middle name and shortened it to one letter. Some excluded LastName2. Some squished both last names into one name, sometimes with a hyphen, sometimes not.

But because every system did its own thing, no one could ever find me. I had 2 different credit scores at one point. I received 3 voting cards every election, all of them wrong, despite the fact that every election cycle I would take the hours it takes to report the errors and get them to “fix” it. I was enrolled twice in one class in grade 4 under two separate wrong names. And whatever name my high school used on their system, I wasn’t showing up when universities searched for my records, so I kept getting rejection letter after rejection letter with no explanation and it took me months to track down the cause and have it fixed, by which point it was too late to get into several schools. I also couldn’t buy certain things online because some stores’ paymentet methods wouldn’t let me put in the name of my credit card as it was written. Oh, and the government couldn’t get the name on my social insurance card and the name on my taxes to match. This affected my online logins, so I would need to call on the phone to verify myself for each tax-related transaction, including simple address changes.

I’m from a different culture than my husband and my last name was a bureaucratic nightmare. Almost didn’t make it into university because of computer mix ups, have had issues filing taxes, voting, getting a passport, settings basic IDs, getting insurance… It’s endless. Changed my name as soon as I could, and even THAT process was hindered by my original name.

Bonuses: Distance myself from social media I had as a child. Harder for former stalkers to locate me if they decide to rekindle their previous obsessions. Don’t need to upset one set of grandparents when you name your children one parent’s last name and not the other. People stop asking me where I’m from and making racist assumptions about me. Everyone seems a lot friendlier now that they assume I’m [insert European white race here] instead of [insert non-white race here] and that’s despite the fact that I’m clearly white. Racism is wild. My signature is way shorter.

Not saying this should be the norm, but I was happy it was a socially acceptable option for me.

Becoming Russia’s toy won’t exactly help matters along in that regard. Plus then there’s the tariffs which he has no idea how they work.