People in the current year literally believe this

I love Canis Canem Edit!

I think you misunderstood. TLAs want people to prove their identities to prevent or collect data on victimless “crimes” like ML or being a customer or vendor of substances outside of the US pharma-DEA cartels.

I don’t think that’s a good thing, I think criminalising such activity is a way of oppressing the proles on their own tax dime, especially when white collar not-so-victimless crimes are seldom punished, therefore I am against KYC.

An interesting variation on this I’ve heard that I think illustrates why it’s so inflammatory (and thus my issue with it even if I agree fully with what it’s saying) is changing it to whether you’d feel more comfortable with a Christian or Muslim at night in the woods.

Like I used to be racist against Russians because I’m Russian originally and I’ve tons of lived experience around Russians and I would sooner pick just about any other nationality before Russians to be around, I’m justified in this just as I’m justified in feeling that way about men, but at the same time, it’s no less inflammatory to say.

It’s all just ragebait. That’s why unlike many nuanced feminist arguments or discussions about male violence you’ve actually heard of it and see it on the internet, it generates engagement. Doesn’t excuse the harassment, but it explains it. Is it really so productive to get worked up all the time?

Yeah, it’s an anti-glowie measure, that’s why we like it.

Any reason why you think so?

Sucks. Fuck KYC now and forever

You’ve got the coolest instance name I’ve seen btw! Not sure if it’s depression lofi band or a real thing but awesome either way

Moving to the US be like

TIL. Thanks! I figured it was for men and women, but hadn’t heard it before

Well, TIL. Like I said, first time hearing it. Usually it’s just called “oral” casually.

Good at whistling -> good at using lips/mouth or tongue for faux-whistling -> good at giving head to wife, presumably a pre-SRS trans woman or performing cunnilingus on wife if she is a post-SRS trans woman or a cis woman (haven’t heard that called head before tho)

OP checks out honestly, I think whistling actually made me better at being able to form the optimal lip shape for that “hermetic seal engaged” feeling without giving my gf teeth surprises by accident. She’s an even better whistler and her even briefly trying to give me cuni changed what I thought was possible to feel.

TL;DR: sex reference

EDIT: why the downvotes?

I also believe that ads in games are OK with minimal disruption

Yeah you’re gonna find this to not be a popular opinion in the non-mobile gaming spaces. I block all vidya from accessing the internet in any fashion.

That’s true, and you can make Windows XP look like '98, but is it really what retro enthusiasts would want?

I mean, it could be very fun and perhaps even worth playing, but surely you understand that a game that on-paper doesn’t require the viewing of ads, but heavily incentivizes just that is still problematic?

It’s like one of those “free-to-play” particularly grindy MMOs, sure, you don’t have to pay, just grind the “kill 10 goblin rats in a basement quest” for 250 hours and you’ll have all the loot you need to get to level 2, but the option to pay is there if you so-choose it.

In such a case it is fairly obvious that there is not actually a choice when you are heavily incentivized towards one end.

I remember I made a thread asking for advice running an older version of Linux for funsies and to experience it and unironically someone said something along those lines to me, like “uhm Linux isn’t windows you can use modern packages and new distros support older hardware” like ughh

Not really any ads either, unless you choose to watch them for more coin.

Not really any ads

What. So are there or aren’t there

unless you choose to watch them

Why? Is there some sort of incentive?

for more coin.

So not only are there ads but you’re manipulated into watching them. That checks out for a mobile game.

I mean if you live somewhere with “local trans spaces” who use discord that’s a very different environment from here in London UK.

I know this clique group chat long-ass-mastodon-profile 10-nsfw-accounts-and-counting narcissist bay area referencing circlejerk 6 figure earnin’ tech worker subculture exists in San francisco, but it’s very odd to make the assumption that anyone not extremely online and living in like, the rest of the world, would be part of one, nevermind aware of such niche things, like assuming a gay feller is into snm leather or something.

I’d say I’m too online, and I don’t even get discord fundamentally, just seems like an unholy combo of a WhatsApp group chat and forum.

That said she did used to use discord, but I think they were too online for her and it all imploded in some drama over league of legends or some such. I used to have online friends on Skype from 4chan I met IRL too and it never really ended well either.

The benefit of dating apps is that it avoids any such drama, everyone’s intentions are pretty clear, displayed well on their profile.

If you judge people too quickly and find yourself running out of choices that sounds like a you problem to me honestly.

I don’t know what a hookup app is, I guess like for gay men that’s Grindr? Idk what it would be for others. I just used OkCupid, gotta say I hate this swiping trend, back in the day it was a list, one of the reasons i didnt even bother with tinder this time around.

I ended up with like 10 IRL first dates from the last time I was on there, exclusively t4t at that point for variety’s sake and the only problems I had was that they were mostly all too quiet, people who didn’t know how to socialise and didn’t even seem interested in actually putting in the hard work of getting to know somebody and well just didn’t seem to be very interesting people in general or couldn’t convey what they were about well.

Ended up with a few new friends though, one of whom I helped start her medical transition (logistically), and of course I met my girlfriend there that time too, almost 2 years in and I love her very much.

That said my experience with dating apps is a queer-centric one, I know cishet dynamics are way different, and when I turn men on in the settings it does feel like I’m opening the floodgates for all sorts of folks so I get that I suppose.

Yeah it’s tough though because I don’t want to accidentally reinforce the toxic positivity personality.

Regarding what people like, yeah I guess the nicer way is to just accept that some people will have “bad” taste.

No such thing as bad taste, but if you can’t really explain why you like something or give reasons for it then it doesn’t make for the most interesting of conversations and makes one come off like a bit of a dullard, it’s not surprising then that she’s not able to make herself or her hobbies seem interesting to anyone.

I think people should do whatever makes sense to them, theres no one best way.

Sure, but that kind of defeats the point of asking someone else for advice when what makes sense to them doesn’t work.