Does distinguishing country actually matter here?

And not the women who actually date women, we’re with y’all on it

The problem is that the safeguards keep getting eroded. Companies really want to be allowed to make the gambles that tank the economy and so they push for them to be removed.

Yeah. Automotive, insurance, and banking were industries when they collapsed in 08. They kept making bad calls (and automotive has continued to do so immediately after the government stopped forcing them not to), but the industries were bailed out because the consequences of not having them would be disastrous to the US economy.

Unfortunately I do think a lot of the government feels not having AI dominance would be disastrous for the US economy so it could easily become a fight.

Romantasy has been thriving in recent years but you have to market yourself to stand out. It’s also been weird in that increasingly self publishing has been a better deal for authors of the genre.

Personally I’d love to get into reading it but I hear there isn’t much good f/f content in the genre.

Different people find different physical activities beneficial. Some people love team sports, personally I’m not a fan of competitive activities or of games where I feel my physical abilities could let others down. Some people love running, many find that while they don’t love it, they love the physical and mental effects of it; both of which are hard to deny, there’s a reason every competitive sports team makes its players run as part of practice.

Personally I’m a cyclist, because it’s like running, but without the parts that make me not want to run and with added benefits like equipment to mess with and upgrade and the ability to use it to run errands. I also enjoy hiking for exercise because it’s just a long exhausting walk in a beautiful place that I can spend chatting with my wife.

For some people it’s basketball or soccer/football. I have a friend who’s really into gridiron flag football (she actually used to be a runner when she was younger). Sports are great for people who don’t derive meditative effects from solo cardio, but don’t discount those effects.

Some bike rides are me just listening to a podcast or audiobook, but personally I struggle to process my emotions if I’m not taking a walk or a bike ride, and so regularly doing these things is invaluable for my mental health. Runners are often the same way, the act of running can make it difficult to hold on to a thought or to avoid it, which makes it a shortcut to meditation as you just kinda have to observe your thoughts and let them go.

As someone who quit running not long after getting to the point I get runners high, you have a point, but also different people can thrive on different forms of cardio. When I ran i found myself rapidly overheating and just generally miserable until I was stoned on feel good chemicals. Bicycling on the other hand was fun enough from the start that I wasn’t struggling to force myself to do it.

When I bought my bike I was struggling to get myself out running every other day. Things like stopping for water made me feel like I was failing. By switching to a different form of cardio, one that I enjoyed, I was able to get into shape without the constant urge to give up. It also came with my knees not hurting.

If I see a scary dude trying to exercise his feelings away I just feel sympathy. Like, I’ve known too many men afraid to cry, and seeing someone exercising and trying to hold back tears feels like he’s probably healthier than many of the guys who struggle with that.

Hell as a woman I bike the pain away too.

I had to stop running like that because my body is much better for looking at than doing things with. But I switched to biking that way and yeah. 4 hours on a bicycle after work every night can almost approximate a monthly therapy session. And what it fails to give in mental health it gives in an ass. Jesus fuck I miss that ass.

Well yeah, I was the same because at 18 I didn’t understand how to think yet. Also because I hadn’t experienced those who never learned. At 31 I cherish the education I tried to avoid in my teens.

And it’s ironic because once I let that go my grades improved. Professors wanted me to think for myself and do something weird, but only when I thought for myself.

He spent 4 years damaging it and between him and the pandemic it still hadn’t recovered resilience.

The FAA obviously

That last one sounds very “I’m terrified I’m a bad person and need reassurance but also need to try to lighten it”

True, but that more or less applies to all religions. The problem is that it’s never just the wisdom of the beatitudes or the Tao Te Ching. At a certain point they start asking you to believe this guy rose from the dead, and a lot of us just don’t buy it

Yeah a lot of them are pretty open about going to Christianity because they’re directionless. It offers purpose, direction, and community. That all is something the left has struggled to provide to these people (but it absolutely can). So yeah, talk to the directionless young men in your life about food not bombs and union organizing or the right will.

Yeah he looks like a decent chunk of every bdsm community I’ve known

Maybe but I feel like food not bombs aee busy with the food thing

I wonder if anyone with a lactation kink has made cheese out of it…

It’s Ubuntu based, but it’s doing a lot of what Ubuntu is for. If canonical is happy with that that’s awesome, but I would suspect that they want these people going to Ubuntu itself. Ubuntu remains recommended against by a lot of people.