I just feel old and stupid. I naively thought there could be something this time but they are all the same. I hate that I fell for it and couldn’t control myself.

I mean, what’s past is past. Absolutely no reason to feel bad because of a drunken hook-up. The stringing-along and ghosting seems more like a him problem than a you problem. More likely than not, this guy is just as insecure and flaky as he appears in hindsight.

It fucking sucks that we’ve got so many lemons in the dating pool. Your story is one I’ve heard a dozen different women of all different ages and experiences reiterate. A guy turns on the charm, you get swept off your feet, then he’s back to business as usual the next day and you realize he’s just a normal POS.

But we’ve got an urge for companionship, so we all keep putting ourselves out there. The struggle is real. Know that even if you’re lonely, you’re not alone. Lots of people feel this way and nothing you’re doing is bad or wrong, even if it feels frustrating.

One Night flings are rough precisely because you build a deep bond very quickly with someone who - in the long term - wasn’t going to work out. I’m not going to say “don’t do that” because people are horny and fucking is fun. But you can’t beat yourself up afterwards, because mixing guilt and horniness is miserable and ruins the fun part of fucking. Then you’re just left with this hollow urge divorced from the joy of sex.

I can say that finding love among friends (at least in my experience) tends to be more fruitful than trying to find friendship among lovers. Dragging someone out on a date a few times isn’t just about counting the encounters before hooking up, it’s about building a list of things you like to do together that you can do when you’re not naked.

And sometimes just going out and doing things you like to do, and meeting other people who do things you like to do, is the best way to find a long-term companion.

And if that’s going to parties and clubs - because you plan to keep clubbing straight through your retirement years - that’s great. But if you’re a golfer or a painter or a board game enthusiast or a mall rat, you gotta go find big groups of people doing this kind of thing and date from there. Cause the people you meet at bars are, more often than not, the kind of people who want to be at the bar for the rest of their lives.

This is all American politics right now.

Two guys sneering “I bet you feel pretty owned right now. Well, I feel great, because I’m winning” as the boat sinks.

the only reason they put Trump in charge

Brother, I have some terrible news for you. Americans put Trump in charge.

how many wars has Russia won that they actually started?

We can play this game, but we’re required to do the US next.

Almost as though starting a war is consistently a bad idea for your country.

You could have cross-posted. Or at least had the dignity to come up with your own pithy headline.

Quietly

I fucking hate headline writers.

While the Kubuqi Desert isn’t China’s largest desert, thirty years ago, the land’s main export was sandstorms. Today, the Junma Solar Power Station, which is located in the desert, generates tons of electricity, and the solar panels encourage plant growth by, among other things, reducing ground speed winds. You can now find plenty of shrubs and bushes throughout the Kubuqi Desert, as well as the occasional fox or hare darting between them. And like the Gonghe Photovoltaic Park, the benefits stretch beyond just clean energy. The Junma Solar Power Station also provides grazing areas for cattle, supports crops such as watermelons and jujube (Chinese dates), and encourages tourism.

A similar experiment is taking place in California. Project Nexus is a study designed to examine the effects of solar panels and the shade they provide over the Hickman Canal, which is located east of San Francisco. The theory is that the installation could help save 63 billion gallons of water by preventing evaporation. While not necessarily as life changing as encouraging plant growth in a desert, Project Nexus works on the same principle. Regardless, large solar farms (in addition to studies that utilize cyanobacteria) could be the key to preventing future desertification.

Listen. I like this article. It’s the kind of Hopium Lemmy could use more of. I like that we’re getting a target to aim for that isn’t just “ask politicians very nicely to ask businesses very nicely to stop lighting the planet on fire”. And I recognize that - because all the big commercial venues have been poisoned against Woke Green Energy - we’re just not going to see this kind of coverage in the NYT or the WSJ. I even like that it gets away from a bland “China Did Good” coverage and throws in a project a little closer to home, so we’re not reflexively inundated with China Hate as a response.

But this is some high school essay ass writing style. BRG is not sending their best.

Why not just ask Gemini directly?

You don’t think people would do that? Get their parent’s credit cards and buy shit without permission?

Can’t believe a bunch of English expats would recreate feudalism.

A nation of renters and landlords.

SUGAR. Just try cutting it out of your life

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Found the Mormon.

I mean, I don’t think this current tech does anything to materially objectify the subject (any more than the original). What it does is to smooth and brighten certain artifacts.

That might genuinely be a benefit in a game with poorly rendered models or bad lighting inherent to the game. But Resident Evil doesn’t have this problem. They made an explicit choice in setting the scene as dirty, cloudy, and grim. This modeling reversed that for everything, not just the lady bits. You’re going to have zombies and Scagdead and Lickers all brightened up and polished.

• Angry at women for not doing up hair/makeup daily

• Thinks hair/makeup is a trap to trick men into treating you like a human being

You get both from the same chud online influencers

Have you seen the housing costs in Canada recently?

That’s very cool.

But… you know. There’s another place where you can get anime for free.

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Problem with gritty post-apocalyptic grim-dark games is that not enough people have Mar-a-Lago face and stage lighting.