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  • And your helpers and you must be white.

  • This isn't a shit post at all. Don't take it down, but it's not shit.

  • I was poly for about a decade. There's a lot of solid advice in this thread. The only point I want to hammer home is the amount of unavoidable drama inherent to human romantic relationships increases significantly. It doesn't just double: going from a two to three person relationship it quadruples.

    Nothing disastrous or even bad happened due to being poly. I don't regret it at all and would consider it again in the future. When I met my current partner and they said they wanted to be monogamous, though, I was happy to take a break.

  • It just means the opposite of low-key. The logic kinda tracks. I can't imagine why it would be banned.

  • Niagara Falls and Nebraska. Any children whose names start with N - sorry little Neighthan, Nanceigh, and Naruto.

  • I initially knee-jerk disagreed, thinking it's gotta be all those rich bastards, but then I checked the numbers. The top 0.1% of the US had $22.19 trillion in wealth in Q1 2025. Zoom out to the top 1% and it was $27.2 trillion.

    Yeah, it's the fucking 0.1%.

  • I don't think anybody hates real-time combat. That feels like a strawman.

    I do, but just because I have a disability that makes more button presses painful and turn-based tends to have fewer per hour. I also know others who dislike real-time because they're bad at it. I agree with your sentiment completely, though. Liking real-time isn't exclusive of also enjoying turn-based.

  • Not op, but I love tea; however, if the restaurants I frequent started replacing their drinks with a new lineup that ultimately all boiled down to variations on Darjeeling, I'd eventually find myself tired of it.

  • I learned Pitman shorthand. It combined with cursive English makes it so only a few elderly women and I can read my diary.

  • Talking story is my favorite part of EHS! I've spent a lot of time working in the semiconductor industry. It uses some terrible chemicals, one of which is hydrofluoric acid, HF. HF is awful. Exposure to moderate amounts usually doesn't do anything. Not immediately. Without treatment, a very painful burn will appear about 24-36 hours later, as if by magic, due to liquefaction necrosis: it dissolves your tissue into a jelly. Small burns just hurt a lot, big burns can result in abscesses.

    It has a very high affinity for calcium, so a single large exposure can result in cardiac arrest due to it binding the calcium in your blood. Chronic exposure to low levels can lead to it leeching the calcium out of your bones, resulting in bones collapsing or simply dying. This is very painful.

    Despite it being scary, it's dead simple to work with: don't get it on your skin. If you do, wash it off, slather on a calcium gel, and it'll likely be like nothing happened.

  • Or blahaj! We love everyone at blahaj as long as you don't hate us. Plus we have Ada.

  • Awww, thanks! I've worked in some dangerous industries, which tends to make employees very grateful that I'm actively working to keep their bones undissolved (not exaggerating), so I luckily get a lot of love in between the safety cop jokes. Plus if they're nice to me I'll show them where they won't get caught napping.

  • A lot of folks forget that peaceful protests are a great way to get people together and doing something, even if that something is initially just catharsis. Even if things escalate to... let's say spray painting JD Vance oompa loompa graffiti everywhere... forming up at protests is how you can make that happen.

    Thanks for being there. We need more people like you.