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A lot of people were motivated and well-paid to downplay covid for political reasons. Sure, you can point to quirky coastal libs or orthodox Jewish communities, but widespread vaccine rejection is primarily a product of this conservative covid backlash.

We've been sorta conditioned to view policing as the task of stopping lawbreakers at all costs. But those costs are real, and it's worth examining whether they're always worth it.

Antifar posted...

At any rate, if Seattle police are choosing not to pursue DUI suspects, that's their own decision, and not one foisted upon them by liberal lawmakers.

The supposed justification here is that these sorts of stops are dangerous for cops because they've encountered drug users. Which is to say that they're too afraid to do the jobs they get paid to do.

There are people afraid to enter DC city limits because they think they're gonna get robbed or murdered who get on the highway every day for work. People are bad at assessing risk.

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For birthdays, holidays, etc.

What even point, indeed

Questionmarktarius posted...

Carbon dioxide is 0.4% of the atmosphere.

Even you aren't stupid enough to believe this is a point you're making.

Frostshock posted...

Imagine moving somewhere that is expressly laid out in law as not possibly being able to be a state, and then complaining you don't live in a state.

I don't think moving for work or otherwise should result in being deprived of a say in how your life is governed.

PiOverlord posted...

The land was given with the expectation of it being solely federal land.

Should the expectations of people long dead have any bearing on the political representation of people now alive?

PiOverlord posted...

I think, while areas like the white house and such should still be separated from states and considered Washington D.C., the rest should go back to Maryland.

Why

Not yet

As a resident, yes.

I have a Pixel 5 that I'm quite content with for now. Not crazy about how the newer pixels are significantly larger

Define sex. Because I've had a couple different first times that didn't entail standard PiV sex

I've had the best luck with Hinge by far.

Crazyman93 posted...

American public transport sucks and if you live outside a city is nearly nonexistent.

Money spent on gas rebates is money that could go towards fixing this problem.

Lonestar2000 posted...

What a fucking stupid post.

Governments should be doing everything they can to push people away from car travel and towards using public transportation.

That's cool

Giving people money because they drive is unserious environmental policy. It's pretty much the exact opposite of what should be done.

White Castle is 15 minutes away and she's upset it taking an hour. Idk, it just seems like a lot of money to spend on a situation she's almost always upset about.

darkprince45 posted...

The stuff that happens primarily happens in LA and NY are not a representative as a whole.

Those are two largest police forces in the country, and the suggestion that this stuff primarily or only happens there is too absurd for you to truly believe it.

The woman I've been dating keeps testing positive for covid, so we had an impromptu remote movie night. It was fun, good movie.

If you defund the police, they won't be able to afford "don't murder the people investigating your crimes" training

Cool

Yeah these days I make a point of kissing at least by the end of date 2

Arcanine2009 posted...

What kind of move.. like even kissing she called it off? What did she say?

She gave a generic text about not feeling a romantic connection, I pressed her a bit and she said

"What it comes down to is that it didn't feel like things were escalating. There wasn't any flirty touching, let alone a real move, you know? I absolutely will take some of the blame for this, because I know about this specifically i can be a little shy/closed off. But i think the fact that neither of us really went for it was a sign for me that the physical chemistry just isn't there, and that's not something i can just talk myself into, as much as I wish I could"

Antifar posted...

Why do you think the one has worked out where the others didn't?

Idk; I don't feel like I've changed my approach, and I keep feeling like she could hit me with a text saying she's not feeling it.

SwordMaster13X posted...

How do you feel about the girl you have been on five dates with?

She's attractive, funny, and thoughtful. I wish she was a bit more expressive about how she feels about things between us, but I get that might be too much to expect this early on.

Bump

A woman I liked back in early August has matched with me today since I made this topic, lol.

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Is that functionally different for me than if they turn down my date offer?

TotACon posted...

How long has Bill Maher been out of the closet as a bigot? I thought he was cool then I saw him talking about trans teens transitioning and well damn. Admittedly I'm not American so I don't really watch his stuff.

It's kinda his thing. He's the liberal who isn't afraid to say [insert minority group] are complaining too much these days.

HelloImaPC posted...

Sex after 3

Prior to this, that's how things had worked out effectively. I had two third dates end back at the woman's apartment, and the other called things off because I hadn't made a move to that point.

Master_Kazuya posted...

Why keep track?

To get a better sense of if what I'm doing is working, and if not, why not.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Five dates is a lot

It's more than I've been on before.

In an effort to better gauge how I'm going about this dating stuff, I began tracking my numbers the last time I changed up my profile. Hinge allows you to like 8 profiles a day (unless you pay), so this is 25 days worth of doing so, from July 20th to August 14th (when I was getting frustrated and decided to just play out this experiment before making changes or adding more people)

Matches: 15. I was aiming for 5%, because that's what my estimated rate was before, so I was pleased with this.

Conversations (defined by getting at least two message replies): 12, which feels like a much better rate than previously

Women I asked on dates: 10. I was a lot more quick on the trigger with this, usually asking after 5 or so messages when I used to take about 10.

Of those 10, three unmatched me, one said she "realized she's not in a good headspace to date right now," one put off plans for like three weeks before I got tired of trying, and one flaked on me twice after we had agreed to a time and place. Which leaves...

Women I went on dates with: 4. 20% of matches was my estimated rate before, so this is good despite the above disappointment.

#1: went on two dates with her, really enjoyed them, and then she said she wasn't feeling a connection. In retrospect I think I may have come on too strong.
#2: went on one very stilted date with her and didn't hear from her again.
#3: went on a decent date with her, and we'd talked about seeing each other again, but she seemed to lose interest afterwards.
#4: I've been on five dates with her now, with a sixth hopefully on the way.

Previously, when I asked women out, I had like a 90% success rate in terms of that actually happening. So I'm thinking that I could save myself some disappointment by talking to these women longer beforehand before trying to set up a date. If a conversation fizzles out, that doesn't feel quite as harsh as getting ghosted (which honestly had never happened to me before).

Ask me anything.

Lol

I've gotten nowhere with Tinder or Bumble, but I've gone on dates with ~15 women from Hinge, which feels like a good rate of success for only swiping through it for four months.

Mass deportations is, historically, a policy with some problems.