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Just ignore the billionaires behind the curtain applying for golden visas in New Zealand

Yeah, I wouldn’t suggest it be your only approach, but they do work in some cases. I’m poly and met one of my partners on OKCupid and another on Feeld.

Dating profiles are like work resumes. They take work and refinement. Not getting responses? Try tweaking your profile and changing your profile pics. I find apps that don’t let you put more than a few minutes into your profile are a waste of time because you simply can’t figure out which profiles are real people and which are bots/scammers. I include everything in my profile that might be a common dealbreaker (poly, not religious, child-free, etc) so that anyone who swipes on me has already already filtered into a smaller and better-matched dating pool.

The other thing that has worked for me is to not chat with a person online for longer than necessary. You need those low-stake getting-to-know-you topics to fill the awkward silences until you know you them to the point where they become companionable silences. Once I’m confident that the other person is real and that we have the potential for a connection, I ask if they want to have a quick vibe check meeting. 30-minutes to an hour max, typically over coffee, minimal pressure. Just get that first conversation over with. Let them know you’re a safe person first, then hopefully establish a connection, build up some flirty energy, and schedule a real date on the way out.

Edit: Noticed a half-finished thought and completed it.

If we’re following the spirit of the original subreddit, YSK was intended for useful, static information. Like, “YSK sucking snake venom out of a wound isn’t effective” etc. It’s not meant for topical content like this, especially news articles with editorial post titles.

Only 22% had non-violent offenses, and about a dozen face serious charges.

This makes it sound like most of them had violent offenses. To clarify from the article:

75% had no criminal record

22% had “a criminal history—mostly for non-violent offenses like theft, shoplifting, and trespassing”

3% had “unclear records”

“A dozen of the 238 migrants were accused of murder, rape, assault, and kidnapping.”

For more background, Rober gave an interview and admitted that they ran the test twice. On the first run, the wall was just fabric, which did not tear away in a manner that was visually striking. They went back three weeks later and built a styrofoam wall knowing that the Tesla would fail, and pre-cut the wall to create a more interesting impact.

It’s a far cry from this guy’s situation, but I think I had five or six bitcoin back when I was mining in the early days. I cashed out when they were maybe $40-50 each towards a new GPU.

Sure, I could go nuts thinking about what I would do with the money now, but if I hadn’t sold at that rate, I probably would have sold at $100, or $200, or…

There’s no way in hell I would have had the discipline to “hodl” to this point, so I just get on with my life.

I’m completely self-taught when it comes to Linux, so I have some obvious gaps in my knowledge. I’ve looked for good write-ups on how Linux folders are intended for use and been unable to find a good resource. Thank you for sharing the official standard name. Reading up on it now.

We don’t elect presidents anymore. We elect short(-ish) term kings

Is this some New Social Media platform problem I’m too elder millenial to understand?

Can’t comment on the rest, but the NC gubernatorial race is pretty obvious. The GOP nominated an anti-trans blowhard who turned out to also be crooked, perverted, racist, and pro-slavery. He was trailing in the polls before the CNN piece about him.

The GOP basically set out to find just how low they could go with a candidate and finally found the bar. Black Nazis are apparently that bar.

I’m sure the This you? meme is going to get plenty of play through the next administration.

Yeah, I bought mine in 2019 back when Musk just seemed like a dorky edgelord. I’m definitely not going to buy a new car just because Tesla’s CEO is a tool, though when I AM ready, it’s certainly not going to be another Tesla.

Okay, as someone who has been to a number of kink events, I’ll ask, what would you consider sexual? I’ve seen people go heavy into sub space with zero genital stimulation. The subs I see generally play naked, but it’s more about the psychological aspect of being exposed/removing barriers rather than tittilation.

Whether those subs would argue their experience was sexual or not? I think that really depends on the sub.

Those state races were the only solace I could find on election night. The GOP candidate for AG was the guy who wrote the bathroom bill that caused so much pain and pushback years ago. I was sure he would try to take a page out of Ken Paxton’s playbook and politicize the fuck out of his office.

I’m sorry that the redistricting sent Jeff Jackson (the state AG-elect) home from US Congress, but he’ll do a ton of good in his new role just from not being Dan Bishop.

Or how to identify misinformation when you’ve got two or more rival nations flooding their feeds with bullshit

I think it’s a roundabout attempt to get us to wonder what the fuck Kick is. I’m not that curious.

My dad pays for the NFL.com package and YouTubeTV (not premium, and even more expensive package than that) so he can watch all the games. I dread every season because of the inevitable bitching about one or both services.

He has an elastic band he puts up to block the score ticker on the bottom of the screen, and he’s constantly terrified that they’ll cut away from the current game for an update on another one he hasn’t watched yet.

I feel like there’s a real market for the old Red Zone channel that DirectTV used to do. No commercials, no breaks, just snap, play until the whistle, then fast forward to the next snap. It only showed gameplay when one of the teams was in the red zone(hence the name), but I bet people like my dad would pay enough to offset the lost ad revenue if they covered the whole game like that.

What, are they running down the same presidential campaign checklist as 2016 and just forgot to remove the “hush money to pornstars” line-item for this go-round? Someone call Karen MacDougal and find out if she got the same offer.

Interview starts 3 minutes in. All ads before that - including an ad for the very conversation you clicked on. Fuck iHeart.

Crazy to see the N64 so far down the list. I was a Sega-, then Sony-kid but it seemed like the N64 had a better market share than the graphic would imply. Might just be confirmation bias based on my age though.