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Fr though I hate my shitty apartment blinds so much. It’s midnight with the lights off and blinds closed amd I can read next to the windows

To account for what would happen if you got into an accident before giving them the amount of money it costs

Yeah but they were just groomed to lefty sympathies by Shigeru Miyamoto

Because of what a corporation is. I believe that individually run businesses and cooperatives can work really well, and I think they could function for social media, but in both those business models the quality of the product is the stakeholders experience connection to the product and aren’t accountable to a higher yet disconnected power.

A corporation isn’t like that. A corporation exhibits the ideology of a cancer cell because it disconnects the ownership from the labor and product then distributes it as a financial instrument. It is the abstraction of a living business into many minuscule pieces of capital. Decisions are therefore abstracted away into more and more faster

This means two things: the corporation’s goals will always be to find the maximum point of money extracted from each customer * number of customers, this encourages simple, bland, and extractive products, and that due to the need to keep growing the corporation is incapable of seeing when it has hit that point and will continue attempting to find more users, reduce costs, and increase prices.

Good for them. More harmless nun crime

The gender clinic is where they get hormones.

I lucked out for surgery and was able to get it at 26 a city over with work insurance and it was a really hassle, but for all the difficulties here getting hormones in the US is actually way easier than most places.

Bro’s mad he ain’t swole like a grandma

I’m a vegetarian and use mine for pizzas and breads

That’s like saying wine is just grapes. Cast iron seasoning is a highly temperature resistant biopolymer made by burning thin layers of oil onto cast iron (or carbon steel). There’s no evidence it’s harmful to ingest or that it offgasses at cooking temperatures, but it is a polymer. If it was still oil it would still be liquid.

Once again, no evidence it’s harmful and if I had to bet on the health and safety of popular cooking surfaces it would only be beat by glass because that shit is stupid inert without flaking. Then cast iron and carbon steel (same seasoning). Then stainless in the middle (I’m not certain I trust all the metals to make it stainless. And Teflon and copper vying for last place as known to contain risks to health if misused.

Honestly I just swipe it with a dish sponge until everything is off, rinse, then swipe it with a dish towel

Yeah I’ve been using my mom’s cast iron pan since she died like 7 years ago. Barring a level of fuck up I don’t think I can manage it should last the lifetime of the person who inherits it from me

They need to be protected alright, with thick concrete walls, iron bars, locks, and guards. Nobody in or out for a few decades oughta keep them nice and safe

Exactly. “No because you’re an idiot” is ad hominem, but “no because x, and you’re an idiot for thinking that” is valid albeit rude

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Oh she thinks you can fix her too. Ignore all the people she was convinced could fix her before. If you do go for one, just be smart and start putting money aside in advance for the therapy you’re gonna need

To answer your question:

• When it comes to initiating, somewhat. A lot of queer women, would much rather stand around giving hints than making moves, especially ones who primarily have experience with men (and I’ve noticed a tendency for bi women to especially expect lesbians to play all of the masculine roles).

• Date planning is a toss up, but ime it’s usually a lot more casual.

• We typically both show up at the location or meet at the driver’s home, and honestly I assumed that straight people did the same.

• You show up prepared to pay for both of you, usually you pay for yourself, and sometimes one will offer to pay for the other, usually with a response of “you really don’t have to, I’ll get the next one.” (That one’s also one where women who mostly date men sometimes assume you’re taking the masculine role).

• Driving really depends on how you got there. And who’s place you go back to is often reliant on a variety of factors, like when I met my wife we went to her place despite her having roommates because she was in the city and my apartment was like an hour out of town.

• Once again, had no idea that was an expectation anymore, sounds like some 50s bs

• I don’t think my wife or I could physically do that, and if we stayed out too late or one of us got too drunk to get indoors without being carried there’d be an uncomfortable conversation in the morning. Also a lot of the bi women I’ve dated have been of a size that their husbands couldn’t do that.

• Undressing is a frantic, seductive, and silly display early on and slowly moves to a causal affair as the relationship matures.

• Idk, you usually strap yourself up if you’re going that route. You bring and prepare your own equipment.

• Sex is considered mutual or you’re considered a bad lay unless you were upfront about being stone (only wants to give not to receive) or a pillow princess (only wants to receive not to give) beforehand.

Ultimately I think the difference comes down to expectations. In sapphic relationships the expectation is communication and mutuality. Straight relationships have existing roles and it’s very easy to not see what you’re not doing or to think of it as only fair or even worse as adversarial. I’ve long been an advocate to women who date men to take on some of these masculine expectations at the beginning to create a foundation of equality and to weed out men who are uncomfortable with it. Hell, a lot of these expectations you listed are elements of agency and while yes it would be nice to have a no effort on my part but showing up and looking pretty date, it wouldn’t be a good foundation for a relationship.

I will note that I don’t do butch-femme which is more likely to follow traditional gender roles, and I mostly date neurodivergent women who tend to be more insistent on clear communication regardless of orientation.

Nobody ever had to say keep Portland weird. We all trust them to keep themselves weird

Congrats bro

Yeah, also funnier and fitting

They demanded to know what my weed bowl was for when my home was broken into among other things that night. Funny that they found my legal pot but not the cut window screen or the footprints on the bed next to it as they insisted we must have left the front door unlocked