MentalEdge

I think probably the biggest thing my parents did with me and by siblings, was humble themselves in front of us. They never tried to maintain infallibility or some illusion of omnipotence. I’ve seen some parents try to fight tooth and nail to maintain that well into their kids adulthood, and far beyond the point the kid has come to know better.

If our parents lost their temper, or made a mistake that affected us in some way, they’d apologize. To us. And that goes as far back as I remember. No privately apologizing to themselves because we wouldn’t remember anyway. But to us.

One of my core memories, is an argument I had with my mother, about how I needed her to be kinder with her choice of words sometimes. She was saying that I can’t let every word people say to me affect me like that, to which I made the point that I don’t. That the only reason I was asking, is because she’s my mother. And that what she says goes straight into my heart, and even when I know she doesn’t mean it, I literally can’t stop it.

It took her about ten seconds of silence to process that point, after which she apologized and promised to try.

That’s not to say we were raised the “free range” style. Our parents were strict, but they didn’t try to make their authority out to be absolute on matters where it wasn’t. Instead, we obeyed because of the simple fact that they had wisdom and experience we didn’t. And they in turn openly acknowledged that that didn’t mean that we had zero. As we grew up, they’d go our of their way to let us defer to our own judgements more and more on more and more matters. Mistakes and all.

The voting for small parties problem could also be address with multiple ranked choice voting.

That way, candidates who don’t win, can have their voters submit second and third choices, that are count when or if their primary choices don’t win.

That way, people can vote for their actual favorite, while without taking their vote away from a second favorite with better chances at winning a seat.

This is especially important for positions like president, where only one candidate CAN win (some countries achieve the same with multiple rounds of voting, but you can theoretically achieve the same representation in one round).

I expect you to stop attributing malice where none existed. To take back the words that expressed that idea the way I have.

An maybe admit that “not how that works” isn’t the tactful way to point out a problem.

How are you reading my mind, and still so wrong about what I “deliberately” meant to say?

I started off agreeing with you, and I still do. Rudely, but still.

I mentioned ace because there is experiential overlap. But obviously OP isn’t ace. They’re into women FFS.

You can assume whatever you like. I’ve clarified my meaning.

I tend to do that when someone goes for the worst possible interpretation so they can assume ignorance.

Frankly you walked in sounding like the kind of people who were mean to OP on discord.

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Duh

Edit: I know I’m not being nice here, but “that’s not how thing works” is how you correct someone when the main goal is feel superior.

Even then I agree that the adverse interpretation was there, so I improved my wording.

I wouldn’t say it’s wrong… But it might be inaccurate to call yourself lesbian. In that you don’t fit what people expect that word to mean.

I can tell where the disconnect comes from: most non-bi people find the idea of sex with their non-preferred gender repulsive.

In that way your lived experience differs from that of most people. You have a clear preference, but it doesn’t come with the sexual aversion for the other sex that most people experience.

Your experience with men sounds closer to how some asexual people describe sex, than what bi people describe. So neither “bi” nor “lesbian” correctly describe you. If someone was rude in how they said that to you, that was uncool of them.

I wouldn’t worry too much. The important thing is that you understand yourself, which you seem to be well on your way on. If and when you need others to understand, you can add on some explanations.

I think if we include niches with users that post daily, but not necessarily to communities big enough to be seen by most, we can up that to 6.

Maybe even 7.

See, I don’t see a difference between what you are describing and most corporate leaders.

I didn’t say a good job.

Nah. It happens when you let an idiot run things.

Mobsters are still organized businessmen. Just criminal ones. They’d do a much better job.

“You know that thing we sell? Buy a shitload of it.”

Did you read the article?

The contact lens is just the display, it still requires inductive power and external display source to really do anything. Plenty to “tear apart” and fit into existing equipment.

The lens itself becoming a complete device in its entirety is something I think we are decades, potentially centuries from tech which is that minituarized. Smart rings exist, but they’re still orders of magnitude simpler devices.

If you’re gonna be wearing a computer and battery on your temple anyway, why is sticking the display in your eyeball, the simplest solution here?

What sort of extreme environment would exclude other ways of having a hud?

In you eye is an extreme way to do it, considering divers, pilots, drivers, astronauts etc. already wear or are surrounded by equipment this would be more easily integrated into.

Really, really well made mashed potates is heavenly.

Combine with the grease from some meat you’re serving it with… Yum.

and use a pseudonymous message board to vent

You mean use strangers as verbal punching bags?

They’re not screaming into a pillow.

They’re sending their problems out into the world, where they may or may not harm or even kill others.

Fucking truth.

Dumping your emotional outbursts onto people over the internet is no better than doing so in person.

Yet I know for a fact that lot of people online, especially in games, just stop controlling themselves. Simply because they can’t see the person whose day, week, or life they are ruining.

Yes?

“Matrix” is the protocol.

The equivalent is ActivityPub, not discord, fluxer or stoat.