All these fuckers are our neighbors and for many of us former employers.

We know exactly how they think, and what they think of us.

Andreesen is the tip of the iceberg.

Your experience was the opposite of mine, no kissing taking place at all, just pure focus on the johnson.

I found that keeping up with people over video works better when you’re in the same time zone. When I was managing teams at +8 hours and -12.5 relative hours, communication and trust just weakened steadily over time and creative collaboration stalled. Spending a week there in person usually got things unstuck.

I know people on split engineering teams between LA and Seattle who prefer all virtual and it’s worked long term. LA to NY I think would be a heavier lift.

And, of course, this whole discussion is always dominated by software engineers; there are lots of jobs that involve actual manipulation of matter where in person collaboration is essential to communicate skills.

the executives locked themselves into expensive long term leases for their offices and don’t want to feel embarrassed that it’s a wasted cost.

This is exactly what happened at Alphabet.

I was about 15 months in before my doc wanted to give it to me.

It hit me like a hammer so I guess he didn’t botch the timing too much.

I’m kind of doing “multiple parallel dating”, which certainly isn’t swinging, so I call myself poly. But I’ve resisted joining formal “polycules” for exactly the reasons you cite in the final paragraph.

I could read a thousand articles about trans people and it just bounced.

egg_irl hit me from the inside.

Yeah the US has been far far more outspoken about defending Taiwan than Ukraine.

A lot of them (Alphabet in particular) overinvested in commercial real estate and are now sitting on a huge sunk cost.

Discoloration. I have two areas on my cheeks that don’t blush right any more.

Please don’t use an off the shelf ipl device on your face, you really don’t want blotches.

I got my first lesbian fuckbuddy a couple of months ago and it’s amazing, it’s as much fun as other people always seemed to be having with sex.

It’s good that we are explicitly keeping each other at arm’s length emotionally because I understand u-haul syndrome now.

Very lucky to be able to experience the hormone rush of good sex and experience how it differs from the hormone rush of being in love. Or maybe it doesn’t and I’m just learning to manage it better.

But I wear my old guy clothes and she LOVES it, being a butch lesbian kicks ass. Yeah, the straights call me sir, goes with the territory, doesn’t really bother me any more.

I feel like it fell into the same trap as W&G; exactly like she described, her gay best friend disappears from the narrative as soon as he’s not immediately needed, and in the end it’s about her needs and her growth.

So her friend was closeted in 2009 and has a master’s degree. That’s all we know! Is his boyfriend like her? Not like her? How did he feel about their period living in separate cities? Is he happier now?

The reader is presumed not to care, the story is about the woman, and he’s a prop.

Well, I installed Firefox on all of my devices after finding out about the DRM plans, mostly through lemmy.

So you got one person.

The one who set up the blahaj zone for us ofc!

I use emacs as my lemmy client

I do think we are responsible for each other though, humans are social creatures.

“Benign religions that aren’t hurting anyone”

Ain’t. No. Such. Thing.

Religions cannot exist without an outgroup to reject together.

Just like you can’t become a Dolphins fan without hating the Jets (or Spurs/Arsenal or whatever rivals you have locally).

I was in Istanbul and there are shisha places and coffee shops everywhere. There are dudes walking around with giant urns on their back who will sell you a cup of tea for a nickel (and then take the cup back and wipe it with a rag for the next customer).

I think your info on Muslims not smoking or drinking caffeine is not correct.

I was married into a Hindu family for 20 years. Yoga as practiced by most in India is literally a physical form of Hindu practice, just way better for you than Christian practices like going on pilgrimages on your hands and knees. It is essentially praying with your body.

If you’re really really serious about not practicing other religions do pilates.