Yeah, she asked me to stop because it made her more self conscious.

Man, you guys are fucking AWFUL exploitative enterprises don’t give q shot .I from the I’m fucked because I don’t support the allegiant

Bullshit

Such as?

Of course not, but when good communication is stifled by a field of eggshells, you do what you can.

Our communication on the subject is pretty good, but that alone doesn’t solve the issue. It’s hard to see a way to open that line of communication without them being offended

The hard part is communicating my needs without trampling on their feelings, because at a certain point the onus shifts off of me and I don’t want my SO to have that pressure

It’s not pointless. I make a claim and you’re free to refute it. I’ve already done the research to make myself a secondary source, so you either believe me or your provide a conflicting source.

It speaks to this generation’s willingness to accept information presented to them as fact.

Those people are stupid and you shouldn’t trust a god damn thing anyone on the Internet says as gospel.

I actually witnessed the perfect exchange today. Someone made a claim. Someone else said, “Hey, this source I found suggests you’re wrong.”

The original commenter said, “here’s my source that contradicts that.”

They both Agreed on a middle ground and moved on

This is my method. If I sat something you disagree with, call me on it with a source to refute me.

Don’t ask me to type 4 words into Google for you. If your request for information can be completed with one hand, go fuck yourself. This is literally the point of “do your own research.”

I wouldn’t trust one God damn source you put in front of me. I’m going to research the antithesis to your statement just for a chance to prove you wrong.

I’d never trust you to provide me any evidence at all

Unfortunately I retired from drinking

I really appreciate your answer

But the fact that I’ve never pushed anything is actually part of the issue. I’ve been happy to let my SO go at their own pace, but by their own admission it’s why I don’t get the sexual gratification I’d enjoy. Like, when we first started dating they were the ones pushing me to engage in penetrative sex while I wanted to hold off.

Although that backfired on me because my penis doesn’t work.

The hard part is that they’ve stated that the reason they don’t offer to get me off when they’re not up to sex is because I don’t ask enough, but I don’t ask enough because if they’re not feeling well enough for sex then it seems shitty of me to ask for personal gratification at all.

But it’s really hard to gauge when they’re not feeling well enough to do anything, and when they’re well enough to do it

Not that me cumming is directly relational to me seeing them naked, but it speaks to my hesitation to ask. Because I do ask to see, but they seem to intentionally conflate me asking to see with me asking for sex, even though I’ve explained that when I ask to see I’m literally asking to see them naked.

I have asked for them to think of a way I can ask for personal gratification without seeming callous to their feelings, but like most requests of this nature it falls on deaf ears. Probably because they’re demisexual and don’t really understand a cis gendered straight male on testosterone’s sex drive.

He’s one of the few congressmen that’s actually trying to rally people to get involved to fight back against this.

He’s pretty limited on what he can do being basically the only progressive in the government.

Hmm, I wonder if I can use this on my Synology to manage things until I get around to finishing my proxmox setup.

There is a method similar to a sheep shank knot that is super useful for very long cables, and you can use the over/under method for making the required loops.

Which is ridiculous because those people paid into the safety net when they had jobs. I was on unemployment for about 7 months and I didn’t feel the least bit guilty because I had been paying into it for 20 years. Well, technically my employers paid it, but they paid it with the results of my labor.

Although I did work a temp job doing physical labor during that, but it was mostly an effort to get a full time position in my career at that employer (it worked). Plus it helped with the depression from sending out hundreds of applications without getting a single interview.

Didn’t they just start shipping grid size salt batteries too?

Not to mention the fact that it takes on average 18 months to hire someone.

I’m honestly surprised Trump hasn’t broken out the “take the guns now and figure out due process later,” stuff yet.

Going for the balls and throat is always a good self defense option.

But honestly, unless you’re training very regularly, the training in those classes will be forgotten once the adrenaline kicks in. For most people it needs to be committed to muscle memory to use in a panic situation.

Exactly. 99.9999% of consumers don’t give a fuck as long as they can still access Facebook and TikTok.

I think they were being sarcastic.

It really depends. You just have to have the right boss and know when to work hard and when to coast.

For instance, for me hard work meant I was progressively promoted from a customer service agent to senior IT engineer within 5 years. But after that my upward mobility was capped, so I just coasted.

I stream it from my Plex server.