Would have been great if he rode off on a horse.

You can’t trick me into reading the AvP books a second time!

I more meant that sometimes requests for help are seen as flirting, when they’re about as casual and commonplace as can be.

I think they don’t really care about their citizens doing any aid. Or, basically, they care so little they’re not willing to put their necks out first.

I think (well, hope) we’re seeing a slow gathering of momentum as different countries make various small shows of support. If a dozen countries decided to send military escorts, and defended the aid all the way to its delivery into the people’s hands, it would work… but right now, none of them are willing to step up and say that they’ll do it by themselves. We’ll see a bunch say they recognize palestine, then diplomatic attempts to get aid in, then rabble rousing about aid needing to be delivered… and in each step it’ll be one followed by a few others before a larger amount all follow along. It’ll take far too long, but I would say in another year and a half that there would be military escorts, as long as trump doesn’t (threaten to) kickoff world war three.

The honest to god reason? Israel is perfectly willing to go all the way up to attacking other nations in this battle, and the other countries know it. NONE of them know whether the states would fuck around in their soil if israel were to start something, so they’re all leery of being the first one to find out.

Ah, the 'ole “I just want someone to acknowledge that I exist and love me for who I am, rather than because of a familial or business relationship” kink.

The apartments were randomly assigned. Do you know many freshmen who got to choose their dorms? Once I was a sophomore+, I did, but that first year in university-run student housing I didn’t get to pick.

I judge people based on whether they can understand youtube (which you should be changing to invidious or something else anyway) urls. It’s a useful and very short way to see if people have ever paid attention to repeated patterns. The moment I saw the t=XYs, I was amazed.

In a sense of understanding the wife’s perspective, proximity is just as important as the other major factors that affect how likely a relationship is to begin. There was a cool study of college students who lived in an apartment style building that showed you were most likely to begin a relationship with the person who had a door immediately next to yours. The only exception to that was for the person who had a door immediately next to the mailboxes. Proximity matters because it lets another person see you enough to form opinions based on a lot of interactions, and we all know someone who ‘shines’ despite their physical looks.

Plot twist: new neighbor was wearing a shirt that read, “I <3 dad bods,” and was already flirting (asking for help moving boxes /eyeroll) with the guy in sweatpants.

Everyone wants to shit on motorcycles, but it’s as much a red herring as a meaningful statement. You might as well mention that horse riding is 25x more dangerous than motorcycles. And if you really want to get into the weeds, go look up how many motorcycle fatalities are single vehicle accidents, and how many of those are due to speeding or alcohol involvement. So if you don’t drink, and don’t act like a fool, you’re really not all that badly off. Still worse than being in a steel cage for protection, but it’s not only for people “who don’t want to get old.”

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and in strange eons even death may die.

I think?

Don’t look up something called, and I’m not remembering it perfectly, ‘the number,’ in the US, anyway.

Well, when you use money you’ve saved from the bank, you’re cutting a check. Barrels full of water from the sky are clearly rain checks.

Honestly they’ve mostly all felt the same to me. Perhaps if you had a wildly different fence that put out something like 10x the electrical rating you’d feel a difference, but every fence I’ve seen used is usually similar, around ~10k volts, I think.

A constitutional requirement for what? Answer that and you’ll understand why it doesn’t matter if they’re in “clear violation.”

As someone with two separate computers that have nvidia cards, I can only recommend hopping distros until one works.

(I’m not going to admit that manjaro worked out of the box on both of them and I ended up staying on it out loud on the internet)

Okay, you found me. Now do something about it. I’ll warn you, though, there’s only one way to stopper this mouth of mine! Trolololol!

Which is honestly pretty standard for the real world. Limited social circles and hot times blended well for millennia, why not continue the tradition at this point if both parties are willing? That’s probably the most accurate character portrayal rowling ever made.

good

You and I have very different ideas of what the word ‘good’ means, lol. The first, like, two chapters were fine as lampooning the poorly thought out logic of rowling’s world, but by chapter 8 or so it just was the same thing over and over again: mary sue thinker boy immediately noticing the giant flaws of the main author and having already rationalized the perfect exploit in a split second.

If it really became good later, well, first impressions matter and it had a pretty bad one.

O.o wait what.