I am an extrovert and I met my wife by approaching her. Probably puts me in the minority, but I was on vacation, she was a friend of a friend, I hit on her in a bar, it worked, we stayed in touch after my vacation ended, visited each other, went long distance, moved in together, got married. Together 11 years, married 7 years.

I’m not sure what the Faulkner is in reference to. The quote is from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, who, on realizing he has lost everything in his life, is saying that life is meaningless.

I’m already fucking here man, what I want to do is vote.

np++ isn’t on Linux I thought

The British and Americans have also committed a bunch of war crimes and exterminations of people and are not pariahs. My expectation is, sadly, that nothing will meaningfully happen if they were to “achieve their objective”.

I mean I was trying to solve a problem t’other day (hobbyist) - it told me to create a

function foo(bar): await object.foo(bar)

then in object

function foo(bar): _foo(bar)

function _foo(bar): original_object.foo(bar)

like literally passing a variable between three wrapper functions in two objects that did nothing except pass the variable back to the original function in an infinite loop

add some layers and complexity and it’d be very easy to get lost

so like voting for the other guy?

backtick is on my keyboard and used in Markdown

SEO isn’t good for SEO since AI. We might be in the death of the search engine.

we are so far from a one world government that this is a very silly concern. Even if every country between the US, Russia and Egypt joined.

There are so many exceptions, exclusions, considerations that its not even equal to a one-European-Government.

“never worked so hard in my life” probably equates to roughly half as hard I worked on my paper round at 13

but there’s no long-term plan. What do you do when the majority of the people you represent hate your policy? Well there’s reckonings of increasing severity.

Voting is the condom that protects the powerful from the many. If you fuck everyone and raw dog the will of the masses you’re going to get a Society Transmitted Infection

“in my day throwing didn’t consume the item!”

I’m not even shy. I go to parties where I don’t know anyone, on my own, and have a good time.

I still don’t particularly network, mostly because there’s not really opportunity to. I have clients, which means I have about 20ish people who I work with outside my org, but it’s unlikely they’ll ever offer me a job.

because I think everyone on both sides know that he’s just a figurehead that represents permission to act in a certain way, without embodying

because I can order it through the mail in Georgia without having to fly to New York every couple of months.

Point taken but I’d argue there’s a useful and significant difference between “capitalism”, “fascism”, “anti-LGBTQ+ rights”, and “(anti-)natalism”, despite overlaps.

he looks at

well I think you lost me there. I doubt he looks at fucking anything

The same can be said of capitalism with the purpose being to build capital, yet its not illegal to not have kids

Well if you have romantic inclinations and no reason not to pursue (one or both of you is in a relationship or youve been told no before)- you ask them out.

Otherwise you say nothing. If there’s no path romantically forward, what benefit would it serve?

Do you care that I saw someone attractive the other day? If so, why didn’t you ask me yet? Well, i’l wager you don’t really care, and if there’s no path forward for either of you here, this person cares as much about whether you like them as you care how much I like someone - which is not at all.