Nepenthe @ Nepenthe @kbin.social

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The responses given can be found here, though that doesn't actually offer a breakdown by gender. As noted in the original article,

Concerns about COVID-19 are low on the list of reasons for not dating, relative to other reasons. More cite the fact that they just like being single or have more important priorities than provide any other reason why they are not dating, the same as in 2019.

Being too busy, feeling like no one would be interested in dating them, and feeling like they are too old to date are also all reasons that single non-daters give more often than concerns about COVID-19 exposure.

While obviously some do give up for that reason, nowhere did it state misogyny as an option either offered or given. If, from the .pdf, the most common reasons are "I'm happy by myself" and "I have other interests," I don't think that qualifies as a worrying development for me. It shouldn't be something that defines whether or not a person is happy/successful.

The absolute worst that can come out of this is guys who were only interested in my feet actually obtaining a life. Hell, I might even stumble across a damn friend.

If they can let go of the 1950s marriage ideal being the only correct path to supreme glory and just put that energy into enjoying their time, maybe that outlook will do something for their mental health.

That is definitely Ohio. But if we construct hard enough, I truly believe my city can assimilate Ohio like we're close to devouring our surrounding towns

I'd believe it if I hadn't already heard of Musk being the type to fire workers in his line of sight at pure random simply to fire someone. It apparently got so bad that aids would plan the route he would take to the meetings around having as few victims as possible out in the open.

It would be a smart move for anyone, and he is succeeding to a good extent (they'll just go elsewhere?), but I think that's just a happy accident of his. I feel like he's really just using it as a chew toy so he can feel all big and important with the headlines. If he were being journalistically gray rocked, I wonder what he'd do.

I'm opening up a rival called "social media." Already, we're on everyone's lips, set to have a userbase spanning half the web.

Damnit, now I have to show everyone I know. Also, my own cat initially ruined it by meowing at precisely the same time

By topic, in order of how likely I am to immediately click on their video if I see a new one:

D&D:
• Viva La Dirt League D&D
(Including hammy greenscreen reenactments! Beyond hilarious. Top of the list. My god.)

Skits:
• Viva La Dirt League (gaming)
• Dr. Glaucomflecken (medicine)
• Ryan George

• Paint (parody music)
• MTGRemy (Magic: The Gathering parody music)
• Brian David Gilbert (music)

• Fire Department Chronicles
• Steven He (being Asian)
• Daniel Thrasher

Interesting/horrible facts:
• Casual Geographic
• Tom Scott
• Kurzgesagt

Movies:
• Pitch Meeting
• CinemaTherapy (psychology of movies)

Psychiatry (gaming bent):
• HealthyGamerGG

History:
• Tierzoo (prehistory if it were an MMO)
• Linfamy (Japanese)
• Fall of Civilizations (all 1-3hrs long but great)
• Townsends (US colonial)
• Shadiversity (medieval)

Gaming:
• The Escapist (zero punctuation)
• JelloPlaysGames
• Razbuten (highly recommend checking out his "Gaming for a Non-Gamer" series)

Art (chill):
• Sultan Sketches
• LavenderTowne
• ABD Illustrates

Art (tutorial):
• David Finch
• Bobbo Andonova
• Winged Canvas

Misc:
• OwlKitty (cat greenscreened into movie trailers)
• Exurb1a (emotionally distressing prose)
• LegalEagle (lawyer drama)

• JelloApocalyse (misc/gaming, can genuinely recommend the hilarity of a video about lemonade reviews, of all things. His delivery is fantastic.)

• b2studios (programming fun)
• Huggbees ("How It's Made" parodies)
• The Onion

I think I've had them once or twice and found them ok? But that was eating them like a banana. If they're more intended for cooking, that may require another attempt..

Forcibly removes one of their main forms of entertainment so they don't get distracted from all the cancer they have.

Half the players seem to get a manual about a completely different game? I read and reread that very thoroughly before going for a hyper-wisdom support build, and apparently that's just not even a class anyone wants?

Everyone keeps saying how integral they are to survival, why is healer class actively punished whenever they get in a 10ft radius of interacting with another player? I've completely ditched defense for this and it's just unplayable now without starting over.

Decide what this this place is supposed to be or take it out of the options and admit it's a street fighter clone.

As always, South Carolina is a cringey little copycat

That, and the whole ritual pederasty. And that homosexuality was viewed really from a standpoint of power dynamics rather than uwu yaoi twinks.

The greeks had several more nuanced words that would all be translated to English as just "love," and if Eros were used I don't think this would be a debate, yes? The question is whether their relationship lines up with philia or whether that word was said with a deliberate wink, and that would be Homer's own fault.

It's always aggravating interesting to see this kind of contradictory interplay from the same people who are always talking about understanding other cultures properly instead of appropriating, and the need for absolutely any depiction of men behaving in a way that is consistent with normal human emotions like "being sad your friend died". No. Unquestionably gay behavior.

You guys are really gonna tell me to my face that you could lose your childhood companion in battle and you just...wouldn't do anything about it because it's not like y'all were banging.

I need them to flip the whole thing. Green bananas are best bananas, and you use the ones that have overripened in your chartreuse-fueled negligence to hastily make banana bread in an effort to excuse yourself. Repeat forever.

I've had a boss like that 😬
My condolences. Naturally, he'd only keep his mouth shut for fear of looking like an asshole to his own family. His kid must be "one of the good ones" /s

I'm just gonna redirect my efforts to animals. Cats don't do any of this to each other. Even bats will literally give their food to strangers if they appear to be starving. My cousin is less christian than a vampire bat.

There is Jacob's ladder in the bible, a prophetic dream sequence with various interpretations.

Jacob's ladder the decorative body piercing is probably not what this meme had in mind, nor is it something you really wanna google at work for porn reasons, but it seems more fun to climb than their idea.

I mean, trying to explain is understandable for anyone. A ton of people just really desperately need to be part of an exclusive group and wouldn't backtrack under torture. Because the main reason they even need in/out-groups at all is

A.) Community and belonging
B.) (in the extreme political cases) A sense of pride that's already propped up on a single wobbly stilt.

They'd lose that and all their friends at once. Admitting fault and seeing nuance both take an amount of character that would have made it unlikely for them to mindlessly join in like that in the first place, though I do have fragile hope.

I'm willing to bear a good bit as long as we're both decent towards each other in doing so, but idk how you stayed around him even that long. In no other circumstance would it be considered healthy to keep company with the same guy openly insulting you and everyone else at every turn, and there are reasons I'm not allowed at Thanksgiving anymore.

Oh, yeah. I distinctly remember reading in my textbooks in the 4th grade how they were the pilgrims' good friends and agreed to move. This was in the late 90s. That same year, we went to the nearby burial mounds on a field trip. 8yr old me did not put a lot of thought at the time into how the lecturers and their exhibits seemed to depict all of this as happening in the blindingly distant past, as if they'd gone the way of the neanderthal. Adult me only started assessing how it had been presented a couple years ago when I was telling someone else about it, and I am still horrified.

Stuff like this flyer, I never saw until today. That the state of Tennessee is entirely the result of Americans setting up shop on land that still legally belonged to the Cherokee at the time, and that everyone just sorta went along with that except for, increasingly, the Cherokee, was not something I ever heard until I was doing some semi-related reading on my own at the start of this year.

I literally live in this area.

Not even bothering to work out the logic, is he. If he did, he wouldn't have any right to be angry, and he really, really wants to be angry. Imagine some foreign government gracefully granting you the recognized right to fish in your own damn house.

And even knowing that, it's still the one everyone advertises. Drives me insane. Is federation between that and the smaller lemmy instances still janky or something? Because if it's not, there's little to no reason.

:D

So what is there left? Are all her expenses taken care of now? Please snuggle her for me

Oh. Well, that's sad. I always thought stuff like that and r/malepolish were rather niche in comparison to like, r/gaming or r/AITA. Which is how I picture "popular." Here's to new blood, at any rate?