Honestly? I often ponder this. It’s amusing when you consider how enamored we are with bosoms.

I’ve heard it described that “Woman is the most beautiful shape in the human consciousness.” And that stuck with me.

My wife often catches me gawking and thinks it’s weird but I’m just like “You’re just amazing. All of you. Everything about you.” I feel like an idiot because I can’t explain what the heck I actually mean.

It’s just hard to fathom how a single being can be so… naturally aesthetic!

Women are just awesome. As a visual artist myself, I totally understand the compulsion to depict cute/pretty/happy/sexy ladies all the time. Heck, some artists do this exclusively. Variety is the spice of life, artists, but I get it. 😂

I think we’re coded to enjoy rounded elegant shapes, but there’s something enchanting about femininity as a whole, and boobs and butts signal “feminine!!” to our brains.

Also I’d say size and such really doesn’t matter. I think the really fascinating thing is the sheer variety, to the point they’re unique to the woman as an individual person. And it has nothing to do with biological essentialism! (Tiny boobs are just as good at feeding young as ginormous ones)

It’s also a bit cultural, I think. They’re so obvious, yet hidden in polite company. So seeing them exposed feels like you have an intimate window into this person’s world, and you feel special for the privilege, I suppose.

Lol now I feel like a weirdo, typing this all out. Does that help? LOL

Edited: Made my reply at root level instead of piggybacking yours with a ton of paragraphs. :p

Too right about the bed bugs. At the library they’ve had to start screening every returned book for them. Yeesh!!

We once took a gamble on a fancy tempurpedic mattress that was on local auction where my wife’s grandma worked. “Nah nothing seems wrong with it!” She said. Cool! Won it for cheap!

We muscle it into the house and only in the enclosed space did we realize it REEEEEKED of cigarettes. It was NAUSEATING. We eventually had to pay more to have it hauled away. Learned our lesson.

The plastic base for it was nice though, and was cleaned pretty well by applying elbow grease and strong cleaning chemicals and sunlight and fresh air.

Excellent list!

Man, how often needle nose pliers come in handy is INSANE.

Even quicker if you help!

Post-apocalyptic economics be like:

They were gonna but the corporate necromancer was out of network.

Just kidding that’d be way too much effort for how they see human lives. They were likely hitting up LinkdIn before the body was cold.

It’s like the mustache-twirling movie villains when an underling gets merc’d for a hairbrained strategy:

“Congratulations, number 3. You’ve been promoted! Go get 'em!”

That’s just it though, the “passing glance” types that don’t pay much attention to anything at all will just assume the truth is whatever headline runs across their “feed of choice” the most often. Usually from large corporate outlets.

Let’s watch how hard gun control gets pushed when the barrels are aimed at the puppet masters.

Fellow lefties: If it’s safe for you to do so, acquire, train, and responsibly store. That is all.

I agree with you somewhat and I don’t like how much downvote spam you’re getting. You bring up some good points we ought to be mindful of.

Right now it seems very clear who the oppressors are, but the scary thing about reactive movements is that even if they accomplish their goal, they tend to seek to justify themselves indefinitely before everyone gets bored and it dissolves.

Everybody wants a revolution on paper, but things get messy and blurry once the powder keg goes off, and people en masse would be looking for the next enemy, the next oppressor, that must be hunted down to finally secure Utopia.

While I’m an anarchist and want the “ownership class” to answer for their wicked ways, I also don’t think a bunch of independent actors picking targets and gunning them down based solely on their own justification is an ideal solution. Even if I understand why it happens and don’t defend the perpetrators that push people to such extremes in the first place.

I can hold two ideas at the same time here, where I understand why it happened as a consequence of rampant evil on behalf of the ownership class, and it’s a natural comeuppance after pushing the wrong person too far. (I think we’re all shocked it took this long to happen.)

But also, unfortunately as much as we love a good revenge story, planting 3 slugs into another human being, even a nasty one, in cold blood, is not self-defense. The goal of self defense is the reduction of an attacker’s ability to cause direct and imminent harm to the defender.

This was assault, and it was murder, and we can reason about the justification behind it, but I sadly don’t really know what it will change, besides the bourgeois getting allocated even more of our money to have protection detail and hold their board meetings in walled enclaves or yahts away from the populace.

Violence begets violence. Blood begets blood, and those who live by the sword will die by it also. I think any sane rational person can agree this guy reaped what he and his ilk sowed every day, but still be against slaying human beings on the streets to make a point.

Edit: Knew I was just asking to get ratio’d for not 100% full-throttle stanning the trending narrative, but the actual responses (that I saw) were thought-provoking and well reasoned, so I appreciate that.

Sometimes it seems people forget the value of discourse and only care about “how popular is my opinion right now.”

And the occasional lenses for my eyeballs.

I know I’m asking for a lot because adequate vision is positively absolutely a luxury, and not at all necessary for doing the vast majority of work or existing in society…but y’know.

Nice!

Tangentially related: So is Automate The Boring Stuff With Python!

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/#toc

I keep forgetting that one! Thanks! I always use up arrow and then waste time getting the cursor back with maybe the home key or ctrl+ left-arrow LOL

The NoStarch books are excellent overviews for newbies to go beyond being “just a user” though. They’re written in a very friendly and approachable manner. If you’re enthusiastic about learning how the OS works and playing with commands, they’re really good about that! I think it’s cool OP is repping rhem. :)

If someone was like “Hey I wanted to try Linux!” and thought they needed to go through LPIC/LINUX+ doorstoppers or had manuals about the kernel or something, I’d be like “Woah there. Calm down.” LOL

Similar story! I teach Capoeira, am not Beasilian. Part of the tradition is coming up with students’ “apelido”, like an alias for them as a martial artist. We try to pick things that are cool, or ironically amusing (but kind).

Well there’s this bigger teenage boy in my class who’s getting REALLY strong. Great kid. Sings real strong too. Has been hitting the weights I think.

“Cannon”. I thought. “That’s badass and not too elaborate. He’s loud and he hits hard. Perfect!” So I look up the translation and submit my suggestions.

“That’s gonna need a change…” my Professor says with a chuckle.

“…Canhão means ‘lesbian’.”

Where does this slang come from?!? My research gave zero indication of this possibility lmao. SO glad he double checked me.

Similarly confusing, a lot of Capoeira songs feature the lyrics “vamo vadia” which I’m told is like, “Let’s go hang out / loiter / chill.” According to google translate…vadia directly means “bitch.”

This beautiful language intimidates me. 😂

I actually like helping people a lot, too.

I don’t think IT folks are naturally misanthropic or antisocial, but I personally got beat down so much by wanting to help and realizing they didn’t care to listen, or weren’t willing to learn anything. At all. Even though they came to me with the problem, it seemed they mostly just wanted me to fix it for them with zero understanding required, or to “be emotional at someone” or were lonely.

I also got so tired of being friendly and enthusiastically educational with advising my relatives or friends, only to then watch them completely disregard 100% of my advice they came to me for.

In the former job I’m still putting myself back together from, most of the public peoples who visited me would have been better served by visiting a psychologist / therapist first, but I was cheaper (free). :(

Often when it’s something I do specialize in and I get all excited, that’s when they choose to gloss over and I can tell they just want me to stop talking.

I hate having biases against people, but there very much are definitely “normies” who are threatened by the prospect of having to activate their neurons for the first time since they stumbled out of their highest level of education, and only learned to think when it was forced upon them.

Makes a guy feel pretty crappy. So I’m not as forthcoming with my skillset as I used to be in casual company. Lol

You don’t need luck. You’ve got us! (And the Internet to verify our claims lol)

Just triple check every step, learn how to prevent ESD, and pull that useless little sticky plastic protector off the cooler before you install it! (That one gets SO many system builders).