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This was me. When I got married at 26, the date of one of the guests thought I was the teenaged babysitter. (We met for the first time the day before)

Dating while in school/college was easier because the guys knew I was their age. And that I just looked young. Some of them caught shit for “dating a high schooler” even though I was actually in my 20s and a college student.

I was friends with my now husband for three years before we got married. Making friends with people, making a connection, can help them see you as the adult you are. Then you start to look like someone they’d want to date. I was 23 when we met and became friends, we started dating over a year later. Dated for 2 years and married ever since.

Things are different now, as far as meeting people. I know that. But how people perceptions change is still the same. Sometimes you have to just let people get to know you and get past the initial “She’s young” until they realize you are not that young.

Once someone knows you, they’ll think of you as their peer, even if you look young (or old for that matter)

If you just want hookups, that’s trickier. Because the easy pickings are um, questionable in their tastes when you look like a teenager. Or they are the teenagers. Just be careful if you go that route.

Oh, and I was an A cup, size 2 petite. So skinny and short on top of looking young. I also got mistaken for a boy if my hair was pulled back.

Learning to love my body and it’s changes through the years, boosting my self-esteem, finding things I could be passionate about… those things are very attractive to others because those things make you feel better about yourself.

Think of it this way though, she reduced Bezos net worth by more than any taxes, government, or humanitarian aid did. Searches say by about 25% at the time.

She reduced the worth of one billionaire and is attempting to funnel as much of that as she can into humanitarian and charitable efforts.

If she burned it, it would help no one. If she gave it all to governments, 99.99% would fund weapons, war, and waste, maybe 0.01% towards social programs.

She’s not buying yachts or islands. She’s doing what we as normal people would hope we would do if we had obscene amounts of money dumped in our laps.

The alternative is her ex-husband would still have it and he’d spend $45M on a party. And Trevor Project would have none of it.

On a side note, slightly related, I’m wondering what happens when Elmo kicks it and all his relatives’, baby mama’s, and children’s lawyers come out of the woodwork to contest and divvy up that fortune.

Are you talking about a certain guy who openly talks about what he does beyond the gym & diet to have the build he has? If so, I watch because he’s really good at explaining technique. Even though I’m not trying to be a bodybuilder. I just want to be strong and not get hurt.

Okay, I’m 50+ and hate talk radio, general chit chat vlogging stuff.

But I now listen to two guys talk about anime because I got into it during lockdowns. No one my age wants to watch/ talk about it. I feel very “hello, fellow kids” if I try to find current fans.

So I listen to these guys discuss the things I’ve been thinking about. The story, the artwork, whatever. It scratches that itch and I’m not bothering anyone.

They sometimes discuss their lives. But it’s mainly anime chit-chat. And I can skip ahead on the ones I don’t watch.

You know what, it’s 10am on a Sunday. Fuck it, I’m going to eat some ice cream for second breakfast.

I think they were addressing an implied specificity in your question. You were asking about American-based media or media for US audiences without explicitly saying that.

For instance, Get Out wouldn’t have hit the same if the entire cast had been white. The racial tension is the point.

Because it sounds like you are saying we accept The Ring remake being a white cast. But if Ringu had been remade with a non-white English speaking cast it would be called woke by US right-wingers. (Even though it’s Japanese fiction. At least I hope it is fiction)

Siothe other person is asking, I think, if Japan remade Get Out for the Japanese audience and used Japanese speaking white and black people, would Japanese right-wingers lose their shit and call it woke for not casting ethnically Japanese actors?

The follow-up question becomes: is it a right-wing issue regardless of the race or nationality of right-wingers or is it a uniquely US problem because of the ignored national diversity of the overall population?

I’m using mint in fluffy warm house socks. In my defense, I’m using Mint because I may have to install a super user-friendly linux on the old computers of two boomer family members who are using win 11 and macOS respectively.

I need to make sure I know it really well and can do whatever tech support I need to do. And lock it down for them.

But I’m also digging it. Especially since it’s not Weyland, I’ve been able to lock all the inputs and still watch movies

Edit: to protect from my cat, who just knocked my phone out of my hand and butt submitted this before I was ready. Now to clean my screen

I’m old enough to remember when this was a thing. TV didn’t have a remote, 3 main channels. That era.

The thing that hasn’t changed is people wanting to talk about their favorite media. What has is the arena. I don’t know irl people watching what I watch. So I end up talking with other fans on Discord or watching youtubers geek out like I am.

The trick is not falling for parasocial relationships with these people gathered around the virtual water cooler.

Yeah, when I make it for Thanksgiving, I make it the night before and it’s usually served room temp. Because of time and how busy and hectic everything is

But warm apple pie is the absolute bomb. If microwaved not long at all, like 15 seconds. But warmed in a hot oven (if making something else) or like a minute in the air fryer.

But I also eat it room temp or cold. It doesn’t usually last long enough as leftovers to need to be refrigerated.

I have two favorite Thanksgiving pies. Apple pie (especially warmed up later with a scoop of vanilla ice cream) And a chocolate pie my mom used to make with flaky crust and real whipped cream on top.

Yeah, after my mom told me about having to use the pee can at night to avoid going to the outhouse when visiting her mountain relatives…

I just can’t hear people say pee can pie without remembering her obviously very visercal memory of realizing what she had to do.

Her parents and her lived in a house with indoor plumbing in the “city” so it was a bit of culture shock. And her storytelling implanted a core memory for me.

The reasons are not irrelevant to the question being asked though. Vegan for health reasons? Sure the question is irrelevant if you get sick from any animal products. You aren’t going to eat them. Same way celiac avoids gluten.

Vegan for ethical reasons? Then the question is very relevant. Is it ethical to have a pet cat? They are carnivores and will suffer and die on the wrong food. No pets at all would be most ethical. Are you concerned about mass farming of vegetables? If machinery is used, field mice and such are getting killed to harvest your vegan diet. Are you concerned about human trafficking of migrant workers or just farmed animals? If a bear kills a deer in your yard in Montana, eats half and fucks off, is it ethical for you to eat the rest? You had no hand in it’s death and suffering. You’ll have to do something with the carcass or you’ll have more predators in your yard. Are you only eating locally grown, in season fruits and vegetables, hand harvested by fairly paid workers?

If ethics is the reason, it’s fully legitimate to debate and figure out where your personal line is drawn. We live in an imperfect world and there’s no perfect solution.

You made me literally laugh out loud. Thank you

Yeah, for sure. My husband and I are both like this. Waving my arm often works for getting his attention.

But a frustrated parent could definitely blame it on headphones or think the kid is going deaf. Especially if they are not the kind of person that immerses like that.

Unless the parent can hear the headphone music themselves from a few feet away. In which case, they have a point that it might be too loud.

The issue is probably more that you don’t hear her when you are focused.

My husband is like that. Especially if he’s listening to something with headphones.

It’s not the volume (he’s not got them loud) it’s that he’s locked in. I’m the same way, except if you say my name and pause a beat, I snap out quicker.

I have to say his a couple times. Just starting to talk without a cue and the focus makes us miss the beginning, if not all.

Also happens with reading, programming, writing Which are immersive. quiet activities

Jeffrey’s brother (Mark)

From context and references to “Donald”, “with Bannon”, “Ask Putin”, and “Donnie Tee” - I’m guessing “Donnie Dee” also refers to the current President.

Don’t know if Dee is a typo or a dick joke.

Misery?

And Carrie.

Pence was the vice president of the first term.

I learned in both because while automatics were the norm, my parents never wanted me stranded in case a manual was my only option. So I learned in an older cute as hell red paint faded it was almost pink Jeep pick up truck with no tailgate.

Looking at photos online, I think it was maybe a 60s era Willie or a Gladiator from the 70s. It was pretty old, but not a classic, when I drove it.

I still have the throw blanket.