Yup, once I figured out I could tag users I started doing that instead. Much better to be prepared than to just choose blindness.

Generally I’m a bit more specific though.

I wouldn’t pre-count, but I cannot conceive of a world where I wouldn’t be adjusting the ratios for the last few slices once the discrepancy was obvious.

I had an on-again-off-again thing with an AFAB person who identified as non-binary for the latter part of that time. Still had a vagina, still enjoyed PIV, still had a body I found attractive, so whatever. Only real difficulty was cutting gendered language out of dirty talk, especially with them being a sub.

Admittedly, I’m kind of a gender-abolitionist anyway. Biological sex I get, I like putting my penis in a vagina. Body-type aesthetic preferences I get, but those are pretty individual in the first place: some people like tits, some like ass, some like skinny, some like thick, some like short, some like tall; there are plenty of women I don’t find attractive but others do, and vice versa. But outside that, gender just seems socially regressive. So long as I am sexually attracted to you and you like having sex roughly the same way I do, the rest is just personality.

I’m sincerely not sure how social gender would affect my relationship.

Computers I guess? That’s about as logical as you can get.

Not counting a recent shadow cast Rocky Horror Picture Show, last would be the university production of Antigone my buddy was in like 12 years ago.

My mom was a huge Broadway fan, so I’ve seen Chicago and Les Mis on Broadway, and Les Mis and Wicked a couple of times locally. My wife and I are going to NYC this fall and we’re gonna do a Broadway show since she’s never been to one. Haven’t decided which one yet, leaning towards Book of Mormon but we’ll have to see what’s playing while we’re there.

As teachable as they may be, legislating a country of a third of a billion people is complicated. How long does it take to teach constitutional law to a layperson? Not to mention the time to teach them the other relevant knowledge to draft functional policy. Do their terms include that education time, or do they have a preparatory teaching period before their term actually begins?

Then there’s the issue of installing the teachers themselves. Clearly they can’t be assigned by broad sortition themselves. Are they appointed? By who? How do you prevent them from becoming a sort of shadow government, influencing representatives with their own biases and agendas?

I like sortition in principle, but it raises its own questions. Like I said, I like the idea of an upper house randomly selected from those who pass the bar in their states. It’s not a perfect solution, but there may be something workable there.

I like a bicameral system with one assembly being chosen by sortition. Say, expand the US House dramatically, and fill the seats by sortition. I just don’t think completely replacing all representatives with random citizens is a great idea. I don’t think you can train people to be policy experts fast enough for that to really be viable in a large modern nation.

Maybe fill the Senate by sortition from just lawyers, and maybe past Representatives, so you retain some level of expertise in the legislature.

Front right: keys.

Back right: wallet.

Back left: phone, until I sit down then I just pull it out and set it on a table or something.

Front left: nothing usually, but if I put something that isn’t one of the above in my pocket, that’s the one. When I smoked, that’s where the cigarette case went.

Yeah sure, my point is that it’s hardly the “best square footage”.

I guess Fosbury Flop situations, when someone develops a technique that’s so different from the norm and so effective that it becomes the new standard basically overnight.

Ignoring everything else, “our best square footage”? You mean the big room with concrete floors and no climate control?

Don’t get me wrong, I love my garage workshop, but let’s have some perspective here.

Never really noticed any FOH stank personally, guess it depends on the restaurant.

Yuuup. When I worked BOH, shower after work. When I worked FOH, shower before work.

I don’t quite have the urge to believe this, you could say I have a demiurge

The framework was still established long before cars, which was then easier to expand upon. Absolutely governance has a huge effect, but more modern cities were developed with cars in mind, with endless suburban sprawl. It’s far easier to implement public transportation in places that were originally built around walkable city centers.

Additionally, places that weren’t bombed to hell in WWII didn’t have the opportunity to redesign for public transit mid-century. They grew with car-centric infrastructure and never reset. I’m not saying we shouldn’t develop public transit, we absolutely should, I’m just saying it’s harder to implement with existing infrastructure and layout that spread everything out over dozens of miles.

The villain of WFRR was dismantling the trolley system in order to force people to buy cars and use the freeway system.

In many places, using a car is really the only reasonable way. Even when you technically could bike and/or use public transit, it’s either so slow or impractical that it wouldn’t be practical for a normal person. Sometimes, anything short of an infrastructure overhaul can’t work long term.

Considering it was founded, like, 2000 years ago, that isn’t really surprising. Turns out, being a pedestrian in a city which was established in a millennium when being a pedestrian was the norm is quite easy compared to the same effort in much more recent municipalities. Have you ever really paid attention to the plot of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

People (customers and coworkers alike) are generally not very bright, putting it politely. No matter how foolproof you design a system, the human race is out there absolutely cranking out bigger fools than you even imagined.

I went Canon for color laser, no complaints so far.