I think I speak for most people when I say that I’m a good representative of the general population.

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Cake day: June 29th, 2020

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  • Yeah I would totally agree with this if the word wasn’t already desensitized a very long time ago. The language has changed. (I’m assuming people were ever differentiating, I don’t really know/remember the history.) Colloquially it means interested in teens unless it’s clarified to be worse than that.

    I recommend not trying to make this argument, anywhere. It will not change the way people use words, even if it could there would not be a point (attraction to pre-teens is so egregious that it will always be clarified), and a lot of people will assume that someone who doesn’t accept the colloquial usage is themselves interested in teens and in denial about how the public actually views that to the point where they think only interest in prepubescent children is problematic and handwave everything else away as a language issue.







  • There was a local r4r dating subreddit I posted to in 2014, somehow my (now) wife saw it like two or three months later. I titled it “Creepy guy seeks woman way out of his league”, which I am still very proud of as a great title for a personals ad.

    A little over a year later we took a look back at that same subreddit and it was 100% hookups, the dating part had been completely phased out except for the subreddit name.



  • The team having trouble scoring goals isn’t exactly new though, our whole thing this season has been once we get more than a goal behind we get shut down very easily. We did great in the games where we never fell far behind, and we were able to produce enough of those games to make the playoffs. We’ve been down by two goals before the end of the second all three games this series.

    The offense has definitely been a part of that problem, but I think there’s a realistic chance that there’s a mandate for the forwards to not expect McIlrath and Johansen to play at the same level as the team had been getting from Jensen and Sandin, and the increased defensive responsibility placed on the forwards is taking a toll on our offense.


  • I switched probably 2010 or 2011. I think I was on windows 7, but it might have been windows vista and I never got to 7.

    At some point I had made a realization that software I downloaded from sourceforge (this website has been terrible for a long while now, but I think it was decent way back) was heavily correlated with not being shitty. After making this observation, I was able to generalize it to open source software tends to be less shitty and I had a year or two of experiences afterwards that reinforced my theory, which led me to try experimenting with linux installs.

    I started with dual-booting Fedora, I had no idea what I was doing and didn’t like the user experience as much as windows at first. I did a little bit of distro-hopping to see if there was something more appealing to me, but during that time I discovered the free software movement and that resonated with me a lot more than open source had, so I decided I wasn’t interested in going back to windows. Moved to Trisquel (originally an Ubuntu derivative, and fully-free to the point of being FSF-approved) and grew to love it.

    After a couple years, I decided I was curious enough to learn more about how the system works, so I moved to Parabola (fully free Arch derivative) to force myself to learn. I really learned barely anything, but I got very good at getting things working by trial-and-error while reading documentation I don’t fully understand. I haven’t progressed very far beyond that point at all in the years since, but I got too comfortable to make a significant change.

    In the past five or so years, I’ve to some degree dropped the free software philosophy in favor of a philosophy that the problem runs much deeper (no hope of a successful free software movement in a capitalist society, and software is not even close to the most beneficial consequence of getting past capitalism), and I’ve moved to legit Arch rather than Parabola.

    I’ve basically gone ten years without real issues on arch installs, but I still have no idea what I’m doing, I’m just comfortable with it and don’t want to put any effort into a change. I feel like if anyone from the arch forums or anyone knowledgeable in general took five minutes to look at my pc they’d be like wtf are you doing. It’s whatever, it works well enough for me.



  • I use an adblocker, but I also drive a very old car and unfortunately my cd player just broke. I can confirm that there are tons of vaginal deodorant ads on the radio, always presented as a conversation between two women. There’s no intention to be funny, they’re trying to sound like a natural conversation two women would have in private and completely failing at coming across as anything short of awkward.

    “So it works well for you?” “Yes! It lasts up to 24 hours, and four out of five gynecologists recommend it!”







  • Christian@lemmy.mltoVegan@lemmy.ml*confused carnist noises*.
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    Farmer here, I can explain this. After eating chicken breasts, the seeds passed through his digestive system. When he pooped outside, the breast seeds went on the soil encased in a natural fertilizer. Most people go straight to a toilet, and since breasts can’t grow there they never really think about the possibility of growing breasts after eating chicken.



  • Some parts of that regular season were ugly. After the season ended someone in management admitted there were two different games that season where they had agreed on Trotz being fired if we lost, but both of them set off brief winning streaks. One of them was a game against the wild, I forget who the other game was against. (Pretty sure Trotz himself was not informed about the specific games until after the run, but he was undoubtedly aware that he was on the hot seat.)

    In a season where he played in the all-star game and won sixteen games in the postseason, Holtby was pretty regularly bad and there really wasn’t much controversy that Grubauer had won the starting job for the playoffs. Brooks Orpik played like shit basically every game for an enormously long stretch. I was genuinely frustrated that DSP had a roster spot game one because I felt like he had provided essentially no benefit through the regular season, which is yet another piece of evidence that it’s not just an unhappy accident that NHL teams choose not to reach out to me to request my insight.

    I also remember thinking it was the worst preseason I had ever seen from the team by miles, and I don’t think they’ve come close to matching that since then either.


  • Sucks more for wings fans, but yeah, maybe the players move differently if the whistle doesn’t blow, maybe the puck does go in but the rest of the game plays out differently and we still win. It looked like the players lost sight of it too, which makes blowing the whistle a more understandable mistake, and given when it was blown waiving off the goal was the correct call.

    If this happened in a game last month it would already have been forgotten, but the context makes it a big deal. I think it’s going to be talked about for a while.