It took them this long to figure that out?

Not creative enough to incorporate a doorknob into dat ass?

It’s not that bad. If an electric kettle runs on 500 watts, and you run it for one hour, then it consumed 500 watt-hours. What’s the big deal?

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I wonder if so many using it almost as the default way of dating makes it harder to find someone for those who want to avoid it.

That absolutely does happen. They’ve done a lot of astroturfing on social media to discredit the idea of meeting someone in person organically. They created this stigma that people who try to do that are “creeps”, when that’s how nearly everyone found their partners until about twenty years ago…

Yeah, can’t help but notice how a lot of their subsidiaries try to pigeonhole people into racial categories…

The article doesn’t say what you’re claiming it says.

While it is not ditching the requirement for women to make the first move, its female users can now send a template question such as “What book or film changed the way you think?”, using the site’s Opening Moves feature.

I’m going to ignore all the problems in the article, like how it pretends that putting in effort to message someone first and not getting a sufficient reply is some new phenomenon that uniquely affects women 🙄 holy shit

Except third spaces have been systematically dismantled by capitalist interests, and the dating app industry’s astroturfing on social media has done a lot of damage to the perceived validity of meeting someone in person organically.

You can’t just say dating apps are necessary because there’s nowhere else to meet people and ignore the fact that that very problem is socially engineered. It’s manufactured scarcity.

Like if nestle were to poison a town’s water supply so that they could sell more water bottles. After buying out deer park, dasani, and aquafina. And patenting the idea of selling water in bottles. You wouldn’t say “actually it’s necessary to buy their water bottles,” you would say “that’s fucked up and should be illegal.”

Someone needs to patch that hole but we know the current government won’t…

People would be so fucked.

That would be a good premise for a movie though.

They say you shouldn’t give in to peer pressure, but people who don’t learn to conform to social pressures wind up being ostracized from the herd, unable to find work through social connections, and ultimately live in reclusion as shut-ins.

I can’t quantify the damage done to my life because so many teachers growing up said don’t give in to peer pressure, and I was seemingly the only one who took it to heart. I made a point not to do things solely because it’s what people expect of me, and it’s made me a very dysfunctional adult.

Teachers should be teaching their students to give in to peer pressure, while also teaching them what kinds of peer pressure to give in to, and what kinds to ignore.

No because avocado is a berry but potato is a tuber

I don’t understand the issue. I’ve been using Linux less than a year but I started with a KDE desktop so it came with Kate, Kwrite, and Nano. I’ve literally never needed anything else.

I’ve tried out a couple IDEs like Codium and Geany, but I don’t see what they offer that Kate doesn’t.

I’ve also at least opened Emacs but I didn’t get much further than that.

I use Nano in the terminal when I’m editing config files because I read somewhere that it’s safer.

I installed Neovim and Micro but I haven’t explored those at all yet. I don’t have any problems with Nano.

I tried Pluma but I really only use it for dumping lists.

For the most part I use Kate, but for simpler notes I use Kwrite just to keep them in separate spots on my launcher.

I don’t see why this is such an issue though.

Yeah, at least their government was handing out bread… I don’t think the US government would do even that much if the roles were reversed.

Holy shit, even in the 90s, Dems were already doing shit like resting their hopes on a catchy theme song being enough to “rally the party faithful, inspire the crowd and get the campaign off on the right note.”

Man, if only Kamala had known that all she had to do was play Despacito at all her rallies, the world today could be a different place… 🙄

Or maybe, like, if you’re a doctor giving a rectal exam then maybe your patient shouldn’t walk away feeling as if he had just been anally raped. Even if you think he’s too young to request a screening…

It’s been recommended to me a few times in this thread now so I’ll have to give it a shot

Ah, now this is going to need a spoiler tag but I can’t not say it.

Okay, soapbox over.

It’s interesting that Sanderson was aware he didn’t do Mat justice. The self-awareness is to his credit as an author, in my view.

I’ll definitely give him a chance. I’m willing to acknowledge he may have simply been out of his element finishing the story in Jordan’s world, and that his work in his own worlds could be better.

I need to wind down for a bit after finishing WoT though. I’m not ready to start another series that will take me a year+ to get through. It would feel like remarrying too soon after a divorce, if that makes sense. I need time to grieve before I move on.

I’ll probably read Earthsea next since it’s shorter and definitely within my comfort zone since I read some a few years ago and I liked it. I’ve been meaning to finish it ever since. Then maybe Ring World because it’s lighthearted fun and I don’t need to commit to reading the whole series in one go. After that I’ll likely decide between Farseer or Mistborn

It’s funny that you mention Mat, because his character as well as Nynaeve’s I felt suffered the most in the last three books. They both have such complex characters, though deceivingly simple on the surface. It seemed like Sanderson picked up on their surface simplicity without reproducing the underlying depth.

And yeah, I really liked Androl but he felt different in a way I couldn’t put my finger on. So it makes sense now that you say he’s mostly Sanderson’s work. I can see that, how a newly introduced character gave Sanderson the creative liberty to write him in his own way. The result was a character that didn’t quite seem to fit inside the world, yet was still a good character in his own right.

Not sure if I’m explaining that well. I liked him, but maybe something in the way that so much depth and backstory was packed into the last three books felt a bit unnatural, when all the other characters took so much time to develop in their complexity. Not in a bad way, just different.

But if he’s an indicator of Sanderson’s characters in his own series, then I think I could get into it.

His characters are flawed and relatable and feel real

That sounds promising. The characters’ flaws in WoT is what makes them so interesting to me. Mat would have been bland if he wasn’t a scoundrel, and Nynaeve would have been bland if she wasn’t a bossy-pants. But when the two interact, their flaws create such an interesting dynamic. And the way it slowly develops from a mutual antagonism into deeply appreciating and caring about each other in a really wholesome way was one of the highlights of the series for me.

It’s funny though, because now that I say that I realize I can’t think of a flaw for either Moiraine or Egwene, and those were my two favorite characters. My third favorite was probably Birgitte, but of course she has a reason for being flawless. Eh, love is blind though, maybe they have flaws and I missed it. Oh and Bela. Bela was flawless.

It is often described as epic fantasy, and as a character-driven and introspective work.

(from wikipedia)

Sounds interesting enough, I’ll check it out. Thanks!