Shorting isn’t just a bet that a stock will fail but also when

Ah 24/7 Walmart, that’s how I bought my first stuff for experimenting with femininity, waiting until 2am and going a town over to ensure nobody I knew saw me…

And to answer your question the wild west internet. There was freedom and rebellion there. A whole new world with every weirdo, freak, and nerd at your fingertips. A place where you weren’t alone until you found a person who could recommend a place, but instead you could just look it up and find out where your kind of freaks were chatting and they’d even tell you if there was a place irl. Ironically I’m noticing a shift back to needing to know a person to find a place, but that place is a discord server more often these days.

We’re channeling Khrushchev

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If you don’t want to bother with home sharpening you can get your knives sharpened professionally. I recommend every year or so, but in my household it’s usually whenever all the knives slip onto a finger

My mom was just an awful cook and my father didn’t cook. I learned by starting with recipes off the internet. The more I did it the better I got. I also started making bread with my sister as a way to bond with her when our family was falling apart.

Once you understand to season to taste and have some recipes it’s not hard. And you pick up more skills where you see them, and grow familiar with new ingredients as you use them. Simple recipes are simple, and while many of them have depths of complexity the fact is you can’t really removed up american style tacos or baked ziti that bad if you follow the instructions and set timers. And if that’s still a problem start with something cheap like rice and beans and accept that it’ll be fine and you’ll screw up sometimes. The biggest thing is learning what works/doesn’t and why.

Oh also I grew up on good eats which taught a lot. I then graduated to seriouseats and use J Kenji Lopez Alt’s recipes and guides wherever I can, he explains the why wonderfully

Disagree. The taste of tomatoes is horrendous until cooked and salted. That said, fried and salted Pico de gallo is one of the absolute best baguette toppings

UN standard actually, but primarily in Europe. The americas largely follow US road marking standards or ones inspired by them. The Aussies and kiwis followed us yanks and canucks.

Ok but height really isn’t enough to make it that. I’ve dated short women who I was attracted to because of how womanly (mature, mom bod) they were. The first specs of gray hair, the sagging of giant tits, the wide hips… Her being short was honestly mostly an inconvenience because I had to bend over pretty far to kiss her.

Then you’ve got folks like my friends who are in the upper half of 6’. Everyone is short to them. They aren’t going to go to tall communities just to find relationships. One is now dating an abnormally tall woman and he’s happy about it.

Sometimes two people just click. I’d be skeptical if someone kept intentionally dating young looking people significantly shorter than them, or if they were into the sort of stuff your words describe that content as. But that content isn’t the majority of relationships with major height differences. The only people getting off on the stuff I’m talking about are greedy chiropractors.

Also to the tall person that isn’t the ratio of height of a child. They’ve most likely been that height since they were a teenager and think of the height of a child as the height that children are. Sure it may be waist height instead of chest height, but that’s how tall kids are to them. It’s not like you’re 25 and have been dating around for a while and suddenly grew 6 inches and are uncomfortable because women in your dating pool are suddenly a proportional height you associate with children.

This is also amusing to me as a tall woman who prefers older women and keeps getting short ones.

He’s very tall and she’s pretty short, both with regards to average for their gender.

That said, showing love to animals in response to negative emotions is an effective solution

Lol yep. Except it’s weird, I remember the world generally getting worse, but people getting less bad for a lot of my childhood. Around the beginning of my memories every adult in the country lost their goddamn mind and a lot of them got super racist to middle eastern folks. So yeah over the course of the 00s I watched as insane people chilled out and my generation became increasingly chill with people of different skin colors, religions, genders, and sexual orientations. I watched as Obama was elected, homophobia became uncool, and Americans learned to get over themselves and eat a falafel.

Then in college gamergare happened and the one area where things had been improving became a constant battle. So yeah hope faded to anger. I still have hope, but it’s a very different hope than one of my youth

Yeah that laugh comes off as one of “she may enjoy his money and even his company, but his hot girlfriend is my hot wife and she’ll keep coming back to me”

My ex was married with kids, and their main reaction to me coming around was the one being super excited that their mom was queer too

When I was 16 my mom got drunk and told me that she was waiting until I graduated high school to leave my father. It’s worth noting that I’m the oldest child, I’d been playing therapist for both parents since I was young, and somehow mom wasn’t the parent that ruined that vacation.

One of the saddest aspects of my life is that she never got to actually leave (cancer diagnosis right before leaving)

You ever met a healthy therapist? I sure haven’t