Dr. Bob @ DrBob @lemmy.ca

Recovering academic now in public safety. You'll find me kibitzing on brain

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Why can't we get accurate information about this?

Because the Internet has been broken by tech "innovation". But no, no he didn't.

Who cares?

Removal is so common now that "hairy" is a category on porn sites just like feet or squirting. I suspect I am older than OPs boyfriend and I have never been with a partner who wasn't close cropped to bare. So attributing it to GenX thing is incorrect. I suspect it's the boyfriend's preference.

I do have a copy of "The Joy of Sex" from the 1970s and it has more hair in it than a furry convention.

Less than 50 lbs a year. It doesn't make any sense to manufacture in Canada and move it across the border. It's easier to import precursors and manufacture in the US. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/politics/us-canada-trade-fentanyl-fact-check/index.html

eta: thousands of pounds move from Mexico to the US. But it's not a factor on the Northern border. Now if you could stop smuggling guns up here that'd be real nice.

He reduced spending. We need to know the societal cost of those reductions before we can talk about savings. I suspect he has impoverished a generation.

 ¯(ツ)_/¯ That's just part of the fun. The colours are based RGB values so they are what they are.

https://ismy.blue/

You and your friend can both do the test above and see exactly where your breakpoints are.

eta: I'll show you mine...

I don't think it's the consumer market. It's more expensive to manufacture with physical controls, keyboards, and moving parts. It wasn't lack of consumer demand that killed the phono jack.

. "Twin cartons of two less a score m'lud" is what the egg valet relayed to me.

Checkmate America.

Ask a drumline what they call it.

This is truer than you can imagine. At least from what he told me.

The wads of money stuffed in their pockets act like a pillow suit.

Dildos have been around a lot longer than that. https://allthatsinteresting.com/history-of-the-dildo

My understanding is that "hysteria" legitimized the use of the vibrator (not unlike how "weight loss" was used in the 1980s to prescribe fentanyl), but they were around before that, and probably would have found another way of entering the mainstream.

There are a lot of executive security firms. If you have the wallet They have emergency doctors on retainer, private hospitals, helicopters on standby. Yes they will take a bullet for you, but you'll pay for that privilege. I knew someone who worked for one of the firms in a managerial role.

I think you are overly optimistic in several points. Trump has already shown that the "ally" thing is meaningless.

We had a free trade agreement (NAFTA) that he didn't like so he tore it up to negotiate the USMCA. Now he doesn't like that and is threatening tariffs. As many people are asking "what use is an ally if you can't trust them to keep their word?". If they negotiate agreements but refuse to hold up their end of the bargain, what value is the agreement?

Trump has withdrawn from the Paris accord, is talking about withdrawing from NATO, and has threatened to withdraw from the G7 if we don't let Russia back in.

We have mineral wealth which he is very interested in right now, and a claim to large sections of the North that are becoming valuable for shipping, and which we are not able to defend. So yeah, we are in a bit of trouble. Blithely ignoring the issues is not helpful at this time.

Well it was someone else who spent most of their career with FØRTRAN punchcards. By the time I was learning BASIC in the 1980s it had moved to the zero.

Dad was a programmer on IBM 700/7000 series. He always slashed the letter O. Years later in programming people were slashing zeroes and I was mighty confused. Some greybeard explained it eventually.