I think we are not fundamentally disagreeing. Condoms alone are not a protection against all the bad things that could occur while sexually experimenting.

My initial point was that if one is going to experiment, there are ways to mitigate risks. Condoms are one such measure, and they are ridiculously effective compared to the effort they require.

Being sexually uneducated will still make things risky, but if I’m faced with someone who has decided to fuck their way through Europe, you bet the very least I would tell them is to always have a condom with them.

Sortez couverts !

I don’t think your grasp of statistics and logic is quite there yet.
Because something may fail doesn’t mean it is useless. Because something may happen doesn’t mean it will.

I am still annoyed that we let the damn Argentinian beef get through, but I think it’s comparatively hilarious that we still won’t budge on US “food”.

Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!

I’m guessing that one is toward the EU?

And fucking your wife every single day is no guarantee she will get pregnant. What’s your point?

They are more effective at stopping STDs, STIs, and unwanted pregnancies than thoughts and prayers though.

You might not be aware but condoms are a thing.

That reminds me of SEO shite introduced into HTML invisibly for the readers.

Disparaître du jour au lendemain ? Oh non les pauvres choux, c’est des emplois précaires en fait! Quel stress. On se rend pas compte.

And it was great!

I mean, that’s all skins have been anyway. Originally you’d just upload a texture and do whatever you wanted. Then you could do the same with the models.
Then someone got the genius idea to make you pay for the privilege…

I bring swag from my previous employers to whatever employer I am currently at :)
Let them know how much I care about company spirit.

Could probably use a Bible from the way things are. Doubt they actually ever open those.

But can you shoot it down?

I meant the photo where he’s sitting at his desk. I don’t think he knows it’s not supposed to be a throne.

Haha you’re right, sorry!

In France it’s a préfecture, and the biggest town in the department. But it’s still a small town, really, with mostly old people (avg age is 46) while the young flee to bigger cities.

In Ireland I was living in a town the same size (60k) and it was the most important town in the county, and felt a lot more “important” with a lot more business, more youth, more work… Basically if you needed more, you went to Dublin or Belfast. Or abroad, like many of my mates did.

But yeah, 60k is nothing when you live in a megapolis like Wuhan.

It’s all so relative, it’s a bit crazy.

Can someone explain a non-US reader why she was at Trump’s throne? I don’t get it.

Yeah, it’s a scale thing. In Lyon centre-ville, you’ll see X over 1 along big avenues and boulevards. But I lived in the suburbs where it was tower after tower after tower, with all the shops only in the historic town center, which were just villages that had 100% residential areas tacked onto them. Sometimes you will have like a park or a commercial hub in bigger suburbs, but it’s all segregated. Very different from what I experienced in China.

The thing with that system is that all the people living in those areas don’t need to go anywhere to get their daily needs, they can just walk down and around the block. Food, deliveries, house services and utilities, it was all there. And these are small shops so people from outside wouldn’t really bother to come since they’d have their own where they live.

And whatever isn’t there locally, you can just get delivered from across town by the army of electric scooters. And of course the public transit system is crazy good so I can just grab a cab, take a bus or the metro. I never missed my car, is what I’m saying.

But of course that’s a giant city thing. The smaller the city, the less and less this is possible and the more people will use their car. I’m back in France now in a tiny town in the countryside (60k ppl) , and I couldn’t function without a car.