Everything you said is spot on.

I had kids older. I don’t agree with OPs advice for not having kids in your twenties. I’d argue a planned pregnancy in your twenties is the way to go.

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lol

I generally listen and compare it to what I do.

If it’s useless, I silently feel smug and superior. If there’s something good, then I try to take it onboard.

Will it be bad? Yes.

Will I watch it? Probably not.

But I might watch it when it comes to streaming services.

Sorry - I don’t think I worded that well. I’d try dates with folks who I didn’t feel chemistry. When I say chemistry, I mean social - not sexual. There are a handful of people that I click with socially, and then the vast majority that I don’t.

I ended up marrying one of the few people I do click with socially.

I’ve never really considered sexual chemistry before. In my experience, sex is an activity like many others: you need to practice to make it work; when you’re doing it with someone else, there’s a learning curve to get it right for both of you; and sometimes one or both of you don’t get it right, so it kinda sucks.

Asexual is a tag that came around long after I’d left the dating pool. I’m not really familiar with what it means.

Nope. I thought maybe I could find chemistry with people if I got to know them better, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. At least for me.

Going out to bars when I was a student. I wanted to spend time with people, not spend money on the outing.

Not pretended, but when I was dating, I’d say yes to a first date with anyone who seemed vaguely compatible. I’d try to make some chemistry happen. It didn’t.

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I need content

This post has a lot of serious answers to what is essentially a “no”:

In the UK, there is a non-virtual contingency plan, or at least there was. If the internet shuts down, the people who know how it works will meet up in a pub outside London and decide what to do, says Murdoch.

“I don’t know if this is still the case. It was quite a few years ago and I was never told which pub it was.”

Your nose yearns for the mines.

Your question seems pretty innocent. I didn’t get it either until I read the responses to your comment. Your comment is getting a weird number of downvotes.

I feel a little relieved to stop using it, tbh. Every time I read the label, I couldn’t help but think it must be bad. I’ve found that Head and Shoulders is enough to keep flakes in check (it wasn’t before the T-Gel), so I’m just worrying about that now. 😂

T-Gel is no longer available in Canada possibly elsewhere. Apparently there’s a lawsuit.

Denmark is densely populated. Most rounds fired at a drone won’t hit, and will come down somewhere. Rounds designed to explode in the air occasionally don’t.

The Wired story says the same thing but with more context and less “trust me, bro”.

They are both interesting reads.

Everything that dude says passes the sniff test: it seems like it could be explained as a run of the mill criminal spamming operation. The Secret Service story doesn’t offer evidence that there’s anyone extraordinary about it.

FWIW the dude also makes a number of unsupported statements that seem to be “trust me bro, I’m a hacker”. The statements aren’t outlandish, so maybe.

From the wikipedia link:

Marshall Rosenberg … explains that the name was chosen to connect his work to the word “nonviolence” that was used by the peace movement, thus showing the ambition to create peace on the planet. Meanwhile, Marshall did not like that name since it described what NVC is not, rather than what NVC is. In fact, this goes against an important principle in the fourth component of NVC, i.e. requests. Specifically, in an NVC request, one should ask for what one does want, not what one doesn’t want. Because of this, a number of alternative names have become common, most importantly giraffe language, compassionate communication or collaborative communication.

Ironic, indeed. It looks like it got that name from what Rosenberg was doing at the time, rather than an attribute of the system itself.

I really like the system. Knowing that it was part of a utopian counter-culture nonviolent peace movement makes it even better.

I haven’t heard it described as nonviolent communication, but yes.

I work with software development groups. It’s very helpful in stating a series of facts, separating them from the speaker, and limiting emotional involvement. When we’re requesting work from each other, it’s helpful, because it cushions demands and makes it easier to talk about what will happen if the request isn’t completed.

When stuff goes wrong, it’s even better. It makes it harder to blame. It also reduces absolute statements and hyperbole.

Generally, it reduces the emotion in a conversation and turns it into a discussion of alternatives and outcomes.

there was nothing innocent about it 😏