This is what I was wondering. What exactly is there to investigate? I read the article and it doesn’t say. I saw talk about gyrations and crotch-grabbing though.

It almost reads like some republicans felt a stirring in their loins and now they want an excuse to watch the show over and over again.

Ugh, the pro-ICE propaganda reeks. The tone of this article makes me feel like I need a shower.

Such nonsense. I’m sure Bad Bunny searched long and hard to find as many white people capable of dancing as he could. It’s not his fault we suck at it.

Story time?

It reminds me of that episode of Archer where he finds a Japanese guy abandoned on an island since WWII.

The theme for the event was “90s music.” As a 90s kid, I just… shake my head. There’s so much good music to choose from that decade, and yet they chose to make AI slop instead.

I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed.

Followed by a spritz of air freshener, like the automatic ones in some bathrooms.

Ooh, have a link so I can see what it looks like?

I’ve been using the metal ones for years, but only recently found a way to clean them. I hold them with pliers and use a small blowtorch (the same one I use for heating resins.) It burns up the residue surprisingly quickly. It does make a bit of a smell, and since the metal gets super hot I’d recommend doing it over a sink for safety, but hey, it works.

I went on a date with a guy who used these. Problem is, I use a metal mesh filter on my piece. When he went to light my pipe, the metal reacted to the electric charge and popped out, scattering burning weed around the floor.

Yeah, no, I’ll stick to regular lighters, thanks.

I didn’t expect to start my day with a potato-rorschach test.

Somebody else already said they see poodles, and now I can’t unsee it. So in order to answer your question more organically, I decided to flip the image upside down and try again.

This is a fun game. What does everyone else see?

Or like one of those people who is two people genetically.

Chimeras are fascinating.

You’re absolutely right, too. A member of my polycule is in a triad that co-parents a child. The little girl has two moms and a dad, and that is the only life she’s ever known. I’d be jealous of their situation if they weren’t living in Florida.

Looking at the examples on the second link, it feels creepy. Granted, I’m not a Grindr user; I’m not even male. If there are gay guys interested in having AI in their app, more power to them. But as a human, I don’t like the idea of an app trying to decide what I like about people instead of letting me put in my preferences for myself. Imagine realizing that you’ve gotten yourself into a bad pattern of dating people who are toxic for you and the app decides, “Hey, since you liked talking to people who have traits of X, Y, and Z, we’re going to suggest more people like that!”

Or, shockingly, you’re into people of diverse stripes, and find the most satisfying experiences to be novel ones. Well, too bad, the AI’s going to assume your past patterns should inform your future patterns, so prepare to be assigned to a niche you can’t opt out of.

“Over the course of a year, You [sic] and Eli had an on-again, off-again conversation that swung between flirty, honest, awkward, and quietly intimate.” Wow, thanks for the creepy stalking of my personal conversations, that totally makes me feel more comfortable. Imagine all those chats culminated in a bad time with Eli and that’s why you stopped talking to him, but the app keeps suggesting that since you had some fun times earlier on, that means you should totally try again. An app doing the work of a pushy ex without being told to. Or maybe your interactions went the other way, and you and Eli now text and meet-up regularly in the real world. But the app doesn’t know that, so it keeps telling you to reach out through their own platform.

Either way, I’m a grown adult capable of identifying my own preferences and making my own dating decisions. It makes me uncomfortable to imagine an AI trying to make those calls for me. Although I’m not their target audience, I wouldn’t be surprised if plenty of Grindr users feel similarly.

This explains all the people who react to someone else’s depression with, “Why don’t you just think positively?”

My friend, if it were that easy for everyone, depression wouldn’t be a thing. When I’m off my Lexapro, literally any given topic can be driven to a depressing topic. Cute kitten pictures? Now I’m sad thinking of how short their lives are. Looking at flowers? Great, now I’m thinking about how many bees are dying. I can’t even look at the sky without thinking about space debris cluttering low Earth orbits or something.

Thank goodness for anti-depressants. They’re the only way I can derail the sad trains of thought that my brain drives me down.

You have a point with the “gets you outdoors and learning your land” thing. When I worked at a nursing home, sometimes we brought the residents into a courtyard. One of the ladies loved going around and spotting different types of mushrooms. Not to eat, just to observe. We were impressed with how many different ones we found in such a small area, which makes me wonder how many more I’d be able to see if I were to go into the nearby woods. Either way, it was a pleasant way to enjoy the outdoors, especially as this was during the Covid lockdown when we couldn’t even take day trips out of the facility.

I’m grateful that, when she was pregnant, my sister-in-law insisted that anyone who planned to interact with her kids got the MMR booster beforehand. I have no idea when my last booster was before that, but with all this shit going down I can feel comfortable knowing I was boosted within the last decade.

Surely, Mamdani has a sharpie somewhere. He could’ve easily altered the storm path. No excuses /s

Isn’t this also a La Niña season? They typically bring such freezing weather to the northeast US.

Though global warming is impacting the El Niño-Southern Oscillation cycle, and that influences everywhere else. It’s all interconnected. Unfortunately, the more complicated the system, the harder it is for conservatives to understand.

After you deduct rent, insurance, cars, gas, most Americans spend ALL the rest.

All $81 leftover afterwards gets spent? Shocking.

Truly, I try to put at least $100 into my savings every paycheck, but sometimes the money just doesn’t exist. Sometimes (like in this frigid cold winter) I need to take money out of my savings in order to cover my electricity bill.

People used to save money “for a rainy day.” But these days, we live in an unending downpour. I don’t know what you think people are spending all their money on, but it’d be best not to assume it’s all frivolous.

Apparently his dad “took” his groupies for him because he was too young. He’d also be in the dressing room while his older brothers had sex. His childhood was truly robbed from him.

“I am stressed, but I don’t feel like discussing it. Don’t worry, it has nothing to do with you,” would be a good, comprehensive answer that doesn’t dig too deep. It acknowledges the truth and validates the other person’s sense that you are stressed, it states your desires of what to do about it, and it helps assuage a partner’s nervous feeling that they/something did may be the thing that’s stressing you.

I can’t stand when someone says, “It’s nothing” when there’s clearly something wrong. It’s a type of gaslighting, and makes me struggle to put together their words with my sense that something is wrong. There’s nothing wrong in wanting not to talk about something stressful, but that’s not an excuse for dishonesty. If a partner can’t handle that, they’re not ready for an adult relationship.