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nickwitha_k (he/him)

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    What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts?

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  • I agree and disagree at the same time. Bars/clubs/etc can be good for quick hookups. Social hobbies can lay groundwork for much greater depths of sustained sluttery.

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    What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts?

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  • Honestly, one doesn't really have to have low standards when taking that approach. Just go to bars that fit one's vibe and talk to people, and don't be judgemental on superficial things. Either it'll click with someone or not.

    To be fair, it does help if one finds the majority of people of their preferred gender(s) to have something beautiful about them.

    And being a bit of a slut. I can state from personal experience that that helps. Embrace your inner slut (ethically).

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    Whats a good Linux distro to dip my toe in with in a laptop running Windows 11? Is there a decent longer form guide to doing it successfully?

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  • Eh. It's a fine distro (I use it as one of my boots) but I really would steer new folks away from Arch as a first distro. The wiki is phenomenal but it's not very ergonomic for people who don't live in the terminal (like me), even with Discover.

  • What is the best Power Outlet, and why?

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  • I like type F for the symmetry. However, type K is smiling.

  • Who is here?

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  • :D

  • YSK: This recent war on adult content was mostly started by a single law in 2018, pushed by a few evangelical groups pretending to fight sexual exploitation

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  • Are you trying to tell me that the largest sect of protestant Christianity in the US, which was explicitly founded on the belief that chattel slavery was right and "godly", might have trouble with respecting the consent of people vulnerable to coercion? /s

  • Who is here?

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  • ...Or...all three :D

  • Where are all the successful "red cities"?

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  • where are all these Utopian "red cities" that people are apparently in favor of?

    They do not and can not exist. Conservatism is an antisocial and anti-intellectual, authoritarian ideology. This pretty much rules it out of success in most conventional metrics.

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  • As others have stated, it's general advice. I think that it is worth stating anyway because there is still stigma around mental health conditions and treatments.

    As for curing depression, it really depends on the type and cause of depression. Some people have differences in their brains that cause chemical imbalances that need medication and therapy to address. Some people come down with the mental health equivalent of the flu and need support to get through it. A mental health professional like a therapist or psychiatrist is trained to diagnose and formulate a treatment plan based upon what is observed.

    Depression can be fatal and I've known too many people who've succumbed to it. So, I will always recommend therapy to anyone going through depression, if they can afford it - sometimes sliding scales are available.

  • there's no escape! brew another cup!

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  • sudo systemctl stop sawtrapd

  • liberals: CHINESE CENSORSHIP CHINA BAD

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  • Another (mostly joking) suggestion: Create propaganda supporting use of free, [libre,] open-source software and esoteric operating systems (like Plan9). While this is not directly related to conventional nation-state-vs-nation-state or political-ideology-vs-political-ideology topics generally central to propaganda, it may encourage people to make the digital and physical world a stranger place.

  • Bill Burr Says Stop Blaming Immigrants, Blame Billionaires | SubwayTakes Uncut [13:16]

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  • Is this murder? No.

    Plainly, yes, it is. Every knowingly illegitimate denial resulting in death from delay or cancellation of treatment is a case of the insurance company murdering a human being.

    You really seem to be pulling the blinders on on this topic. Voluntarily choosing an action that one knows will result in another's death, even if behind bureaucratic abstraction, is more. Saying otherwise is almost literally the same as the fascists like Musk who claim that, since he didn't personally kill anyone, Hitler was innocent of any of the atrocities that the Nazis committed in WW2.

    If the treatments were covered then the patient should continue to get care despite a denied claim and should appeal the denied claim, and in the case of delayed care they should sue the insurer.

    Ideally, yes. In the real world, people who are undergoing chemo or other treatments for diseases that are fatal without treatment generally do not have the capacity to get a lawyer or file a lawsuit, between bouts of vomiting and unconsciousness. Even if the denial is overturned, delay in necessary treatment caused by the denial can, and does, result in the disease progressing to a point where mortality is guaranteed.

    The former CEO literally preyed upon some of the most vulnerable people there are in the country to increase shareholder profits. He chose company policies and actions that he knew were illegitimate and would lead to people suffering and dying. He got better than he deserved.

  • Bill Burr Says Stop Blaming Immigrants, Blame Billionaires | SubwayTakes Uncut [13:16]

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  • There is a significant difference between healthcare and insurance. Private insurance, like UHC, makes money by not paying out claims so that they can pocket the money that people pay in premiums. Healthcare is actually treating people's conditions.

    During his tenure, the former CEO oversaw the implementation of a known faulty AI-based automatic claim denial system (https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/), among other actions and policies intended to prevent people from accessing the healthcare that they paid for.

    For people with severe illness, this in many cases resulted in their unnecessary deaths. These were not cases of triage to ensure that resources were available to those more likely to survive, it was purely to increase profits. These deaths were the direct result of his pre-meditated actions.

    It doesn't matter that the company's terms were shit or that the consumer's delayed their own treatment and failed to file appeals in the vast vast vast majority of cases

    Ethically, it absolutely does. The relationship between people in the US and health insurance is an overtly coercive one. People generally do not have any choice in health insurance but that which their current or former employer provides. Engineering a system to provide significant roadblocks and delays results in severely ill people being forced to deal with a situation that they are physically incapable of (from your expressed view, this is the sick people's own fault?).

    And the fraudulent denial of claims and pre-approvals leads to specialists refusing to schedule life-saving treatment at least as often as the patients themselves.

    The former CEO commited mass murder with a pen and paperwork, as much as any totalitarian dictator signing the orders for mass executions of innocent people. It's just that Nixon helped lay the groundwork to make UHC's murders technically legal.

  • Bill Burr Says Stop Blaming Immigrants, Blame Billionaires | SubwayTakes Uncut [13:16]

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  • Luigi crowd stands for murdering people you don't personally like and getting away with it.

    The CEO stood for exactly what the CEO who immediately replaced him stands for.

    I'm unsure how I feel about Luigi (if he is indeed the person who murdered the UHC CEO).

    Are you arguing that murder through bureaucratic abstraction doesn't count as murder? Because that sounds like the same vein as "Hitler didn't actually kill anyone, he just ordered people to" or "Charles Manson wasn't actually a murderer, his followers did the killing". The former CEO intentionally caused death and suffering of thousands of people.

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  • I would say that I think it's weird because I think shaved pubes are weird (and experienced horrific razor burn when I tried it back in college).

    Sounds like you are a fucking rockstar dad though. That's a very vulnerable thing to think about asking your parent for a teenage boy. Lots of self-consciousness and trying to figure oneself out. That he felt comfortable asking you says a lot. That you stepped up to ensure that he knew how to do so safely says a lot too.

  • Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.

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  • Life long windows user. I switched to Arch

    Fuck. That's like going straight from English breakfast tea to hash oil.

    I've been using Linux almost exclusively both in my personal and professional life for a decade and a half. I only installed Arch a month or two ago.

  • Some TODO app called Emacs?

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  • I'm more into (neo)vim but that is beautiful.

  • Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later?

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  • Cat in the Hat. Kid's got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.

  • Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later?

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  • Cat in the Hat. Kid's got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.