It’s got some amazing moments, but a lot of them aren’t related to the plot, and they’d get cut. What’s left would leave people wondering why they bothered watching.

You could probably cut a pretty watchable white-man version of How Stella Got Her Groove Back with all the best bits. I wouldn’t call my life a romance, but most of the best bits have been romance-adjacent.

Got a ring, but I don’t even like talking through it. I just look and hope they go away. But sometimes I have to ask.

Going out on a limb here and guessing the guy is white and his family is well off. I’d go check but… we all know I don’t need to.

If it was ever not about selling (product, religion, candidate) maybe it wouldn’t be so awful to have your door knocked. I don’t mind if it’s about a lost dog or kid, or maybe someone with baked goods saying hi. But no, it’s always someone trying to get you into their pipeline. Someone who doesn’t see you as a person, but only as a lead.

Fucking people. Get off my porch, lawn—just back all the way out of sight.

Sounds like a great investment opportunity.

Yep. White House is on Bluesky? No it isn’t. Not that I can see, anyway. I follow a couple of block lists and I’m going to guess it was blocked for me while I was sleeping. Working as intended.

You’ve gotta keep in mind that in a regular school your kid is one of 20-30 for the teacher and they are lucky if they get five minutes of individual help/instruction. Everything else is just lecture, reading, and assignments.

It doesn’t have to be onerous. We homeschooled until around 3rd grade. Even so, the other kids they are in school with are academically… not stellar. My youngest (13) has a reading disability and she struggles to pass classes. She still frequently finds herself helping out other students because they are even worse off.

I’m not anti-public education, but whether it’s Covid or just republicans gutting the system, public education is in a state right now. I figure funding needs to increase by 30-50%. Kids need more resources than they are getting. And until they do, homeschooling isn’t an unreasonable option. But it’s not for everyone, of course. One parent has to work (or not) from home or odd hours.

I struggle with anime in general and Miyazaki specifically. There are different storytelling conventions and it’s weird when you’re struggle with the structure, don’t understand any of the Japanese cultural references, and they don’t put any edgier into explaining it — things just are the way they are and you have to go with it.

My brain gets overwhelmed and shuts down in self defense. I had to watch Princess Mononoke about 7 times before I got through it without falling asleep. It’s a good movie but like a lot of Miyazaki’s films, nothing makes any sense except internally and you have to watch the whole movie and understand the themes and internal logic before it makes sense.

But I have to say, Studio Ghibli movies are worth it. I’ve enjoyed all the ones I’ve seen. They are ethereal and surreal but they tackle real shit whether directly or allegorically.

I’ve always loved The Scarlet Pimpernel starring Ian McKellen as the bad guy (Chauvelin? I can’t spell French worth a shit). It has all of the above. He was so good in that movie.

They are so much better when you get together with friends to watch bad movies every so often. It helps to have someone to verbalize the ridiculous shit to or feed into the humor with you.

I’ve been a full stack developer for nearly thirty years. They keep adding so much to the stack that these days I will only claim to be a Java developer. I know way more, but there’s no point in laying claim to it. I can do JavaScript, css, and typescript, but I don’t really know react and I don’t want to because it’ll be replaced in another five years anyway.

I have worked with so many CI/CD systems and there’s a new one around every corner and what you know for one doesn’t apply to others.

Like, whoever you hire is going to take months before they are able to do significant stuff independently and 2 years before they can do the full scope of the job you hired them to do, and most folks are looking to move on after 2 years. About the time they’ve been around for a full Java/spring upgrade, build system change, and you’ve moved cloud providers, they will have encountered every problem often enough to know everything they need.

I’m here, aren’t I? Guess that could be interpreted either way.

I’m picky, but also not. I steam the hell out of Disney Plus because I like pretty much everything Marvel and Star Wars. But I’m always on the verge of cancelling Netflix because other than Stranger Things and KPop Demon Hunters I haven’t watched anything on there in years. (I haven’t because every time I do one of the kids remembers something they want to watch and I have to resub a couple of months later.)

Cold leftover pizza.

They technically a member of the ambulatory foliage genus, yes.

Indian—Chicken Vindaloo and Samosas and butter naan. I’ll be honest though, I’ve never had anything I didn’t like at an Indian restaurant, and when you ask for extra hot, they don’t give you a pussified “white people” extra hot, no, they try to murder you with spice like you were personally responsible for English colonialism and I’m here for it.

Thai—Chicken Panang is pretty good most places I go that have it. I’ve had plenty of Thai food I don’t like, but most places have something pretty good if you try a few different things.

I don’t think I have mainstays at other types of restaurants. I will say, for all the shit it gets, avocado toast is pretty good if you’re at an indie restaurant or local chain breakfast place. And try their specialty Bloody Marys. They are sometimes shit, but sometimes good, and if it’s shit their regular Bloody Mary was also shit so you didn’t miss out on anything. But if they have a dozen different kinds—they are all shit and just have a mimosa.

Mate, your judgement on the basis of nothing I’ve actually done means fuck all.

Used to commute 212 miles daily, so that’s about 4500 miles a month with lunches and stuff, plus errands and leisure travel would make that easily 5000 a month on average. Currently commute about 3 steps from my bed and about the only driving I do is taking my kid to and occasionally from school. So I figure about 500 miles a month which checks or math-wise.

Circ’d here but I’ve struggled with this decision myself. Lucked out in the matter and had girls. Society has changed. Circ rates have recently fallen just below 50% national average (much higher in the Midwest).

If your only reason for considering it is to match his peers, you can have no concerns either way.

That said, I do think people make a much bigger deal about this decision than it really is 99% of the time. You’re going to make thousands of decisions for your kids and most are more impactful than whether they have a penis hat or not. Saw someone here saying circing flat out makes you a bad parent. I don’t expect they are a parent because that’s not the kind of decision that keeps me up at night wondering if I fucked up, you know?

Go with your gut and it’ll be fine.

Ordinary movement isn’t an issue. When flaccid, the corona is generally still covered and underwear moves with it so there isn’t really friction. The only time I’ve ever had an issue is when bicycling. For some reason the mechanics can lead to side to side friction right on the tip and it’s pretty uncomfortable when that happens.

I feel like this would happen as well to folks that are circumcised often enough

It’s kinda hard to bully someone for matching the vast majority. Circ rates would have to come way down before it would be submerging to be bullied over.

Of course, there are regional differences. I just looked and in the Midwest the circ rate is about 75% which is way lower than I’d have expected based on personal observation. (OTOH , I’m older and the majority of penises I’ve seen were 30-40 years ago) YMMV.

National rates have declined to just under 50% according to John Hopkins, which suggests many fewer circs are performed outside of the Midwest.

At any rate, I think bullying folks for being cut is a ways off yet.