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11 years in, 7 years married here. Cant hold a candle to the 20+s that have already posted but this phrase struck home for me. I'm convinced this is one factor. I know a lot of serially divorced people who have openly said they stay married til it doesnt "feel right" anymore, as if feelings...

Yes, every man. Nothing to be offended over unless he gives in. Women should be happy about this. He interacted with a dozen women today that he wanted to fuck, but didnt actually do it. That means a lot more than if he just never encountered any women he wanted to fuck and thats the only...

No, that is literally the healthiest level of drinking you can possibly do. Far better than binge drinking and even significantly healthier than completely abstaining. Carry on.

Im confused; isnt smelling your own farts (in the South Park sense) exactly the kind of 'absorbed in your own self promotion and tribal signalling' that I'm complaining about?

It may be, I can be antisocial, but I think youre wrong to attribute it entirely to that. Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about people. The least interesting minds of all talk about themselves. And thats what Facebook explicitly and all social implicitly is: talking about...

Youre obviously free to think I'm an idiot for not using Facebook among various other assorted reasons. But lets make the objections clear -- its not that Facebook is uniquely terrible. Social media is completely gay. Facebook just happens to be the most widely used platform. in 1998 if you...

If you like condoms youre gonna absolutely LOVE this new thing called "not having sex". It feels exactly the same but much less work. In fact, you can even do this in public. I'm actually not having sex right now. You gotta try this.

It is amazing what a positive impact this tiny little step has on your life. I deleted mine about 3-4 years ago. Its probably the best decision I've made in the last 4 years. All of a sudden, you're just completely free from the facebook idiocy. It disappears and never bothers you again. If...

I could be wrong but isnt it already the law that you have to come to a full stop when turning right on red? (I know its silly to talk about following traffic laws in the bike thread, but cant help it)

Exactly. It blows my mind people use condoms for more than random one night stands. Sex with a condom is like watching porn without touching yourself.

Its funny that whenever someone tries to make real world analogies to digital "theft" they're immediately self defeating. If you're able to make a perfect digital copy of my wife such that your interactions with the copy have no impact on the original, knock yourself out (within the obvious...

Exactly correct. There are valid arguments to be made about copyright infringements. But thats nothing whatsoever related to theft. Theft involves a loss and there is no loss here. (Copyright laws are bullshit as written but at least they are technically applicable bullshit)

No, thats a stupid position to take. When you steal something, the person you stole it from no longer has it. Thats the entire reason why stealing is wrong in the first place. Downloading movies is sharing, and sharing is a Positive Good. No one loses anything in the process. (No, "lost...

Speaking only for myself, its not that I dont trust the robots. I dont trust the unholy alliance of DMV and TSA that will be in charge of making the rules that programmers have to implement in those robots. I also fundamentally cant wrap my head around people not liking to drive and prefering...

Agreed 100%. Thank God my wife doesnt pull this shit. On the subject of sleep though, how about this -- sleep too fucking much. For myself, anything beyond 6 hours is wasted and I'd have to be drunk as fuck to sleep longer than that. I do understand some people need a little more. But my wife...

There are a lot of really nice places in Oregon, where you can park for free, public schools are good, and you can afford for your kids to have their own room. Probably within 30 minutes of your current location. It doesnt have to be like this.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but its not clear how having BigBrotherCam in the cabin makes it any less of an intrusion on personal liberties when the insurance company and federal government collude to tell me I'm not allowed to drive my own car.

You fuckers are deeply concerned about the privacy of digital info on your cell phones -- something I've come to accept but still cant begin to relate to -- but youre all ready to hand over control of your cars themselves to networked computers. Which would be fine of course except when they...

I have no problem with people choosing voluntarily to turn on the auto pilot. Thats awesome. I completely see the tradeoffs youre talking about. I only oppose the banning of human drivers that will follow. Thats all.

No, I'm not doubting your predictions about the pace and constraints. Sounds like you have some experience in this area. Actually I take great comfort in your predictions of those limitations. I dispute the notion that the American people will fight for their right to drive, when legislators...

Lets be clear that I'm not saying 100% of the population will be in favor of it. But I am saying 100% if robot cars enter the private market, there are enough Astros in this country that human drivers *will* be banned. I'll refrain from using the phrase "of course" if you prefer. But it will...

For a certain segment of society, walking and chewing gum at the same time presents a safety hazard. We must immediately ban walking while chewing gum, for the childrenz

See? The American people have lost their taste for freedom and happily sacrifice it for a tiny reduction in perceived risk. There is zero question that self driving will be banned. And when it is, Astro will immediately post saying "yeah self driving is fucking dangerous"

Of course human drivers will be banned if robot cars become feasible and reasonably safe. Its like some of you have just arrived in the US and think its still 1940 where the American population values liberty and independence. Its not. You're in the country thats banning large sodas and talking...

This wont happen in my lifetime, so its an academic debate, but an interesting one. When it does become a reality, half the country is going to be totally happy to sign over all their independence to the DMV and will push for outlawing manual driving. And the other half of us arent going to be...

This is a good example of the universal flaw we're all facing in our women: they treat emotions as if they were a real thing that should be included in cost benefit analysis, instead of made up bullshit that is literally 100% fictional and only exists inside their own heads.

This is a couple years old I guess ArcheAge | The ultimate fantasy sandbox MMORPG from Trion and XLGames I've been playing with this recently and finding a lot to like at low levels. 1. Free to play 2. Reasonably good art style on character graphics 3. Great environmental graphics 4. Huge class...

Spandex looks silly on superheroes, and they can fucking fly and lift buildings and shit.

How about shit she doesnt do? Like the dishes, laundry, cleaning up after the kids. (No shortage of time for Facebook and Pinterest!) You had one job...

My only quibble is why remove the Australians first. Have you met many Australians?

As someone who apparently wants to end funding for research, explain to me why we cant afford to decrease SS, Medicare, and Defense each by 1% in order to DOUBLE the research budget. We dont have to eliminate any programs, just tinker around the edges of budgets, to turn the US into a global...

We seem to be talking about different things. Most of the research budget goes to NIH, and a little to DOE. Neither does military research. Thats DOD -- defense spending.

Its not that politicized. 100% of "social science" is bullshit, and studies of gender theory as it relates to glacier movements are bullshit, but that stuffs a tiny fraction of the total. Most of the federal research funding -- like essentially all of it -- goes to actual, valid research...

We can do it even more easily. Literally shave exactly 1% off medicare, social security, and defense, then allocate those savings to research. Voila, youve just doubled the research budget, growing the research budget in one step more than its increased since the Federal government started...

Titan, putting aside your direct logical contradictions, the basic problem you seem to have is you see to think separation of church and state goes one way. Separation of church and state means the state cant tell the church what to do and the church cant tell the state what to do. You seem to...

Religious centers owned by the government and with rules mandated by the government? Yeah, thats 180° the polar opposite of separation of church and state. This is self evident.

I dont think you understand this phrase you're using.

OK, sorry for double posts, but Fuck Google. Backspace has navigated to the previous page in all browsers since what, 1990? Then one day Google decides to remove this from Chrome without providing any way to revert. They had the time to write a little popup box that says "Try alt-left arrow"...

Exactly. The worst part about it is the Stockholm Syndrome it leads to. I literally sat in a hiring committee where one of the committee members pointed out that while this applicant had uploaded all the correct files, and had a strong record, they'd uploaded file A as file B and file B as...

My job requires regular interaction with Federal agencies, and the administrators who run these things are a special kind of fucked up. I'll give one example but the same principle is repeated over and fucking over. I wrote a 15 page research proposal, and in the eyes of the federal government...