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jaaake

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  • The cliche "sex talk" starts with a lie

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  • I feel like this isn't the "sex" talk, it's the "explaining where you (the child) came from" talk. Framing your existence as the product of love is helpful to make the child understand that they themselves are loved... and also why kids feel like they could no longer be loved if their parents explain divorce as no longer loving each other.

  • NSFW

    One of those things you never forget

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  • Yeah, this is exactly why cock rings don't exist.

  • Please shut up

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  • I once thought this was a good thing that meant I was safe and well taken care of while being treated as family. Then I realized this also applied to all of the people who were genuinely terrible at their jobs, making horrible decisions for the company, affecting not just my ability to do good work, but the company's ability to provide. Nobody ever got fired and bad managers got promoted because nobody was ever critical of them. The rot spread and the company never reached the heights of their earliest success.

  • 'What an Authoritarian Oligarchy Looks Like': Trump Says Oil Execs Tipped Off About Venezuela Attack | Common Dreams

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  • He didn't "tip them off" about an action he was taking. He CONSULTED with them to see if it was an action he SHOULD take. If they would have said they couldn't do anything, we wouldn't be in this situation. If they wouldn't have said the problem is Maduro, we wouldn't be in this situation.

    “They want to go in, and they’re going to do a great job for the people of Venezuela, and they’re going to represent us well,” Trump said. “The infrastructure is rusty, rotten, most of it is unusable. It’s old. It’s broken. You see pipes lying all over the ground, nothing’s been invested for years.”

    “The country is a mess. It’s been horribly run. The oil is just flowing at a very low level,” Trump told reporters on Sunday. “Even if it was badly run, it should have more income, more oil than what they do. So we’re going to have the big oil companies going in, they’re going to fix the infrastructure, they’re going to invest money."

  • Billionaire Trump Makes Jaw-Dropping Admission About Who He Tipped Off Before His Invasion

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  • He didn't "tip them off" about an action he was taking. He CONSULTED with them to see if it was an action he SHOULD take. If they would have said they couldn't do anything, we wouldn't be in this situation. If they wouldn't have said the problem is Maduro, we wouldn't be in this situation.

    “They want to go in, and they’re going to do a great job for the people of Venezuela, and they’re going to represent us well,” Trump said. “The infrastructure is rusty, rotten, most of it is unusable. It’s old. It’s broken. You see pipes lying all over the ground, nothing’s been invested for years.”

    “The country is a mess. It’s been horribly run. The oil is just flowing at a very low level,” Trump told reporters on Sunday. “Even if it was badly run, it should have more income, more oil than what they do. So we’re going to have the big oil companies going in, they’re going to fix the infrastructure, they’re going to invest money."

  • Europeans travelling abroad

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  • Do the screw off caps remain attached to the bottle in Europe?

  • Is this antisemitism?

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  • That analogy breaks down as Germany isn't the only nation founded as a refuge for Christians and only Christian majority country whose official religion is Christianity.

    There is a closer tie between Israel and Judaism than any other nation and a single religion. For that reason, I think it's important to make a distinction between the two. Treating either as interchangeable for the other is, in my opinion (as a Jew), antisemitic.

    For example, I am disgusted by the concept of Zionism and have been opposed to all of the historical faith/culture/ethnic based aggression against Muslim people by Jewish people, especially everything that has happened as a disproportionate response to Oct 7th. I think the actions of the IDF are genocide and they should be treated no differently than other armed forces who have committed genocidal acts.

    On the other hand, while I don't practice any of the faith based acts or observe any of the traditions or restrictions of Judaism, I absolutely love the core of the religion, which focuses (as most faiths do) on treating others as equal to yourself, but also on questioning the lessons of the past and trying to consider all interpretations of it.

  • Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’

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  • Amy Hennig is great, but what? Are you saying Uncharted 1-3 is the whole PlayStation brand identity?

  • What was the worst cancellation for you?

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  • What was the worst cancellation for you?

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  • Pushing Daisies... but it might be coming back? 16 years after being cancelled?

  • Idk, I just don't see the use case

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  • It's a PC Console for people who DON'T like PCs.

    I want one because I don't have a modern PC that can run games. I have a PS5, Switch 2, and a MacBook. I hate windows, I don't want to deal with Linux or assembling a PC from components. I'm missing out on a lot of Steam games that I want to play. I don't want to sit in my office and play games, I want to relax on my couch in my living room and play them.

    This is for people like me. There's a lot of us. We're the ones that find piracy too much effort so we keep giving money to streaming services.

  • fine dining

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  • I assume you're talking about the Michelin Guide for restaurants that was started by the tyre company. If that's true, are you saying that Trip Advisor is Michelin in this metaphor? If not, what are you saying?

  • Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews

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  • 10 reviews means the developer has some combination of the following:

    • friends/family/classmates
    • developers on the actual game
    • multiple Steam accounts with the same owner

    10 is essentially 0 and cannot be extrapolated into sales.

    I agree that if game development is a hobby and not a career, this isn't a problem for those developers.

    I also submit that if you are attempting to make money from your efforts and don't yet have a following, and can't afford a marketing budget, and have actually made something unique, interesting, or otherwise worthwhile, it is more difficult to stand out in a market whose signal to noise ratio is continuously and exponentially growing noisier.

  • Jane Fonda Calls Netflix-Warner Bros. Acquisition a ‘Catastrophic Business Deal’ That ‘Threatens the Entire Entertainment Industry’

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  • I too believe that the ornithopter should replace the passenger jet.

  • Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden

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  • Yes, this is a valid choice. Live amongst your family and friends and everything you cherish, or become a survivalist and abandon all human connection.

    You edited to add a lot of projection to your post. I am literally complaining about rent and bills in the city I grew up in and have been living in for 35 years. I have very few extravagances and am typing to you on a 5 year old phone with a small crack along the edge of the screen. You make it sound like I should sell one of my yachts and shut the fuck up. In truth I'm about to lose my contract job at the end of next month and am unsure how quickly I can find another.

  • Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden

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  • Living under capitalism forces you to adapt or perish. I hate money. I hate having to spend time thinking about investments and retirement and savings and down payments and credit scores. Cost of living in my city is insane and I'm terrified that if my income doesn't increase every year, I won't be able to keep up with escalating rent and bills. In order to keep my life as it is, I am forced to think like a capitalist.

    When everything around me is becoming more expensive, I must also increase my personal profits.

  • Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany

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  • Ah, that distinction was lost on me.

  • Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany

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  • Doesn't that depend on what you're developing? I've long thought that I would love to be able to volunteer using my skillset instead of just doing something that is unspecialized like working in a soup kitchen or something. I could write an app that tracks and reserves open beds in a homeless shelter so people who need a place to sleep don't waste their time commuting to somewhere with no vacancy. That could make smaller (vetted) locations more viable and essentially make AirBnB for the unhoused. Why isn't there a place to go to propose and contribute to projects like this that are focused on making someone's life better instead of making shareholders more profit? It seems like you could convince a non-capitalist government to fund such a thing and employ people to assist in maintaining the project, facilitating compliance with existing or new regulation, and coordinating communication with agencies/organizations that would essentially be the clients of the development team (to create feature requests and illuminate challenges).

  • Removed

    Liberals when they see Obama

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  • The fuck excuses? We can do better than this, but you've gotta look at everything in context. Until we have a (most likely violent) revolution, the core values of our leadership isn't going to swing very wildly. Incremental change is all that voting will get you. Obama wasn't some god that was suddenly going to change what this country is, but he was a step away from Bush and in the right direction. It's shocking to me how far from normal Trump is and its fucking infuriating that instead of looking forward, part of the left is all "b-b-b-but Obama wasn't perfect!"