Ace here: I have plenty of sex drive, but am not attracted to anyone. I didn’t come up with it, but a good analogy is feeling like eating, but you open the fridge and nothing in particular is calling to you.

If you are (or can imagine being) straight or gay, or even just have “a type”… There are people you don’t feel inclined to fuck. For me, that set of people is everyone I’ve met so far. I’ve been in relationships, albeit rarely, but it’s always been when the other person showed a lot of interest to get things started.

There are also people who feel like sex is gross, and not all of them have trauma in their history.

It kinda sounds like it’s a security risk for them not to

This reads as sarcastic to me, but I and many others legitimately do, through the use of a password manager. I have an encrypted database that syncs between my phone, laptop, and a vps, and I occasionally manually back up to a free email account. I only need to remember the one password to unlock the db.

What weird morals do optometrists run into?

I hate that I do this, but when I do finally respond to an email or letter and it’s been too long, I sign off with “Yours eventually”

I put place and a word or two of the context I met them. In my case it’s usually the instrument they play like:

Jane (NOLA music clarinet)

Right? I haven’t listened to knowledge fight in a minute, but I’m sure looking for their upcoming episodes.

Ya win some, ya learn some.

Earlier in the story arc they got to their campsite by canoe. In the 80s it’s totally reasonable that they didn’t know when the rain was going to break.

I love Wendell Berry. My profile name across most of the internet comes from one of his poems.

Looks like $250 to me? 50 grand for 200 devices?

They do/did here in Virginia. They’re “skill games” or something. Some law changed it something because they’ve been turned off with a sign taped to the screen for a while now.

That’s great. One of mine is remembering that the Guy on a buffalo videos exist.

I went through the same path. Gmail came to mind first, then eBay, then a MUD I haven’t actually played in ages but double check that my account is there now and then.

It always is.

It’s not even consistent within the US. I’ve known people who, if they said that sentence over the phone it would sound a lot like “E as in A”

Be the change you want to see in the word.

He did post another performance last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBKm1MBsTbk

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate

Just like within actual government there’s supposed to be balance of power between different branches or houses, there’s this idea that the role of the press is to hold governments accountable.

(More of an ELI12, but that’s the gist of the idea)

It Could Happen Here is often talking about what’s going on that week in the world. I wouldn’t try to listen to their whole backlog, but I usually catch an episode or two a week.

Behind the Bastards is great. Since I found it (Summer 2020, I’d reckon), I’ve listened to most of what has come out since.

Cool People who did Cool Stuff is a sort of spin off of btb. Deep dives on people and movements who were resisting the bastards. It’s only been going on a couple of years, so the backlog is more manageable if that’s your thing.

I listen to Past Times on the Dollop feed most weeks. The Dollop is another deep dive history podcast. On Past Times, they read headlines and articles from different newspaper every week. Usually from the late 19th through early 20th century, but they’ve gone as far back as the 1600s.

Anything by Jamie Loftus is great. She’s mostly done short run things on a single topic. She’s on the Bechdel cast, too which I listen to occasionally.

You might enjoy The Deprogram, which has a less daunting backlog.