Wait,blackmailed for dick pics as in “send me dick pics or else”, or blackmailed for sending dick pics, “yo, you just send nudes to a minor, give me cash or I’ll tell the cops”.

Yep, I have one for keeping friends and family updated on my travels without relying on FB/Insta/whatever. If interested, they can subscribe to my RSS feed. If not, I do it for myself and Sarvesh, a random (alleged) Indian man who thinks I am very beautiful and wants to marry me.

If a gathering seems like maybe a host gift situation but maybe not, skip presents for the human hosts and get something for their pets. Picking out wine for a gift would give me hives, everyone will be much happier with treats for the dogs.

I’ve seen three at my state’s Capital building. All three got about 5 seconds of local media coverage and zero national media coverage.

You assume they care about truth as an ideal to uphold.

Their optimization model is set to maximize power and wealth for their people. Truth is a tool to use or discard as needed in reach of their goal. It makes perfect sense, just not within the logic and morals framework you or I would use.

I knew it as arm wrestling growing up. And what most call arm wrestling (hands clasped, elbows on table), was hand or wrist wrestling.

I didn’t learn to read/write it, just simple spoken conversation. I would not claim any level of fluency.

No screen wrap, just in need of a quick display settings adjustment.

I saw One of Them Days starting Keke Palmer the other day. Solid comedy, maybe a little formulaic but comfy.

Full agree. My personal desktop is clean. My company-issued is littered with shortcuts I can’t get rid of because they don’t give general users that permission. I hate it so much.

Aside from cost, there is also privacy to consider. Subscription home alarm systems don’t fit into my threat model, personally. I focus on hardening physical access points as compared to my neighbors, and good insurance.

Just like how I only need to outrun my hiking buddy instead of trying to outrun the bear, my house simply needs to look like a more challenging target with lower yield than my neighbors. I am not going to get robbed when my neighbor leaves their patio door unlocked with valuables visible through their always-open windows.

I’ve been told my polish sounds “old”. I know only a little bit, learned from grandparents and great grandparents. However they were speaking in the early 1900s when they left Poland for the US, that’s the Polish I grew up hearing.

I grew up in the Midwest where there were quite a few 2nd, 3rd, + generation Polish Americans. Now I live on the East Coast where there are more people who immigrated from Poland in the last ~20 years in addition to the generational families and they sound quite a bit different from what I grew up with.

Set your default view to the communities you subscribe to. Don’t subscribe to communities that overlap with politics or reddit.

Strange drunk man hip-checked his way into my locked apartment. He was on the wrong floor, trying to visit his buddy one above me.

Full, over-the-top drama mode to the apartment managers and they installed a much more secure door and deadbolt. I’d already complained about their doors being basically just thick cardboard, so I wasn’t going to pass the opportunity up.

thefacebook.com isn’t exactly a great name.

Yep, fully agree. Regionally, what is most popular. Also what is OP most likely to drive? If the family car is manual, better learn that.

Yes, I’ve found the versions with potassium nitrate to work best for me. And non-whitening too, I think they are a little less abrasive.

What helped the most though is convincing my dentist to give me a fluoride treatment at my checkup every 6 months. Where I live, they stop providing those by default around age 12.

Edit: ope, I just got billed for the fluoride treatment from my recent visit. Reason given: “patient is over age limit for this benefit”. Hot trash. Our teeth don’t stop needing fluoride at age 12, the insurance companies just don’t want to pay for it.

So pay attention to insurance coverage and charging if you decide to try it.

Yep. And adopted a white baby. Like, intentionally, specifically a white baby.

The slideshow of the lives of the couple included photos from a Black Lives Matter protest. One of the two getting married is a cop. Then I noticed Thin Blue Line decor around the gift table. The other half of the couple is Black.

I call AI slop. That quoted paragraph is terrible.

“A fifth of children are in broken homes or parentless”. Lol, as if kids raised by a single parent need to be adopted by a married couple. Bullshit.