Vaguely reminds me of this vaguely remembered film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Navigator:_A_Medieval_Odyssey

Not beating those cult accusations, are they?

Skegness looks pretty pleasant, actually.

This poor woman sure does seem to be living a miserable existence. Does the UK have voluntary euthanasia?

You’d need to motivate rich people to go along with the balkanization, and you’d have to do it before they could be arrested for “corruption” or disappeared…

Also, to get this movement going you’d have a counter to the massive spy network that gives the feds to target and drag people out of their homes before they can cause trouble…

I think you’re more likely to see rural areas secede, because those guys are Pro-Trump (decreasignly), but also very anti-federal in their bones. Most liberal coasters, driving the economy, think a USG is pretty swell.

I don’t know what situations would lead to the break up of the United States, but California is the 4th largest economy in the world and if the Federal Government was laid low enough, it could probably make a decent play for independence.

Most of the scenarios for balkanization of the United States usually start with the complete dissolution of the Federal Government by some apocalyptic event.

Yes, but maybe things will change once the empire collapses, once the USD is no longer the reserve currency, once we’re not siphoning money into the military that demands to be justified, once we’ve defaulted on our debts, and once the world has separated itself from all our financial and business systems…

No, he got the Peace Prize in 2009 for running and winning as an anti-war candidate.

Then it was back to business as usual for the American Empire.

Reminder that Trump has repeatedly threatened to nuke Iran.

But the only thing he’s nuked so far is the United States’ global reputation. The fallout from that is going to be measured in decades if not centuries.

And here I thought I’d had a rich life of insulting inanimate objects.

Now I feel empty.

You’ve never stubbed your toe on a rock then.

Without reason? Is this a bad translation? Because LLMs always give you a reason to insult them.

A story about lusting after a girl noted for looking “young” written by a 35-year-old man… prefer to sing it in Portuguese for English speaking audiences.

I’m a monogamous hetero cis man, and I’ve never had to advocate or filter for a polyamorous relationship. There is a pro-forma declaration of monogamy pretty early when I’m dating, but I feel like the contract has already been written and communicated in a million small and subtle ways before then, and from my limited experience, that the contract is non-negotiable.

I’m guessing there are subtle signals we put out that indicate where we stand on things, and maybe those signals mutually filter people out before a conversation even needs to be had, so maybe we’re all working with self-selected population bias…

That said, the common complaint of straight cis women in dating is that there are a lot of fuckboys out there, who are just interested in sex, and surely the men quickly realize that being upfront about what they want is disqualifying on a near population-wide level, so they quickly learn not to communicate what they really want.

Hetero pessimism, in a nutshell.

Uh, didn’t he already rhapsodize about the size of Arnold Palmer’s dick on stage?

I think his cult is ready for his next evolution.

Prediction: “It’s only gay if you’re the bottom.”

Well, this is from a straight male perspective and the issue here is a straight women, so maybe it’s the blind leading the blind, but basically straight women want to be the only woman their male partner is interested in and anything that threatens that is extremely destabilizing. Confessing you want to fuck her sister, someone who is in your life and very possibly available, and also very possibly a relational threat (because there’s a lot of commonality already), would be planting a seed of doubt in her mind. On top of that, because the damage is obvious, such a question raises the possibility that the male partner is either cruel or callous or inconsiderate or really desperate to sleep with the sister.

Anyway, it’s good that this is an old comment, because someone argue that women can be just as sexually free and promiscuous as men, to which I say, yes, absolutely they can and it’s fine if they are, but they’re much less likely to be.

Pay the tax.

Depends on your preferences.

Do you like to sleep inside and eat food you bought at the grocery story?

or

do you enoy waking up in the outdoors and finding breakfast in the dumpster behind Dunkin Donuts?

But you make a good point. If I’m going to work in a toxic environment, I might as well not risk not working in a toxic environment by pretending I won’t work in a toxic work environment.

The “honestly ask questions about the organization during the interview” advice is such bullshit. Your questions can and will be used against you. If you are sniffing around after a toxic work culture, a toxic work culture will sniff that out and reject you.

It reminds me of all the straight men who read a gay sex columnists advice about the importance of communication in a relationship then think its OK to ask their wife how they would feel about a three-way with her sister.

“Fitting into a company culture” is an enormous barge-sized excuse to practice every form of discrimination.