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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.

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.

Ianal, I really hope there is some sort of class action that can be done to force companies to pass that back to consumers.

It should be easy enough to pass through to all the electronic pay methods.

Or force markup items to all be put on massive sale until an equal amount has been sold to make up the sales at markup.

There are no perfect solutions, some people will still make out like bandits.

But jfc, just releasing billions to these companies will only benefit the C-Level and maybe some shareholders, the people already benefiting, not the ones feeling the pain.

Does the algae taste like spiralina? Because if it still tastes like an aquarium that needs cleaning smells, it will be incredibly difficult for some of us to eat without gagging.

And I’m not a particularly picky eater.

Mine in Brandi and she has property that people want to buy and Republicans want her to fill out surveys

I think this depends entirely on the subject.

I was in a STEM degree and I learned a lot of technical skills. (Super early internet, no YouTube) In the extra classes like marketing, English Lit, I basically learned how to deal with people because of the professors like you describe, group projects, and trying to see the perspectives that didn’t make sense to be initially so I could pass the damn class.

It seemed incredibly stupid at times, but making you think in ways that challenge you in ways you hate and think are stupid is actually excellent training for dealing with the myriad of brain-breaking people on this planet.

High School did this too, but less in your interest. High School was “shut up and do it this way, because that’s how it’s done.” This benefits the Institution.

College was “sure, argue, but here’s why you’re wrong, or if not wrong, you need to be able to see this differing perspective, understand, and navigate it. The world is fucked, there is so much that is morally gray, that you need to learn flexibility. Show me you understand by explaining back to me what I’m teaching you. Don’t just entrench your whole being in what you’ve been taught before coming here.”

Not the person you asked, but it’s commonly taught as science in a lot of Christian themed curriculums, including a lot of homeschool programs. Source: friends who believed it, and seeing the homeschool program of my step-kids. We had to teach facts on the side and introduce them age appropriately to real science.

“It” being Creationism.
Here’s something fun to learn more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Museum

Some people work together well. My husband and I have been married over 25 years, the last 20 years we’ve worked closely together.

It’s hasn’t been perfect 100% of the time, but I wouldn’t change a thing.

You just have to figure out conflict resolution AND how to respect when one of you needs downtime (we are both mostly introverts that need to recharge sometimes)

Virgina worked at MAL at age 17 before Maxwell scouted her to “work” for Jeff. Maybe that’s what’s he’s talking about. Jeff stole a perfectly good underage worker handing out towels.

I definitely have friends like this. I have some family like this. We are good no matter how much time between communications.

I also have some family that put zero effort in and maybe they’d show up if I needed them. But given that after one text, they haven’t checked in at all after my Dad died unexpectedly 7 months ago…

They still have each other and both parents. I’m not going to be the one comforting them.

So I’m not actually sure they’d show up even if I asked.

Luckily, I have people who have checked in on me without me having to reach out first.

As someone who has link tracking in our business, yes, some of the stuff after the ? isn’t nefarious tracking, like the utm mentioned above.

All the “list-unsubscribe” options you may have noticed starting about a year ago, are actually required to be there for any company that sends out any kind of email newsletter over a certain threshold. (Lists around 5k or more)

If the unsubscribe links aren’t there, with the required url-encoded parameters (along with some other requirements with DNS) the email will not be delivered to any of the majors (google, yahoo/aol, hotmail, big ISPs) and we get blocked.

The unsubscribe parameters are being tracked, yes, but we have to have them so we can unsubscribe you “in one click” We are not allowed to require you to sign in to unsubscribe you. (Not that we ever did that, but now there must be a one-click option.)

(We used to just be two clicks to unsubscribe off an encoded link. Click -> this you? If yes, click -> you are now unsubscribed. Or sign-in and manage subscriptions without an encoded link.)

Again, the point is that not all url encoded tracking is nefarious. Some of it is now required to try and minimize spam and nefarious emails.

Source: https://craft.postmark-testing.com/blog/2024-gmail-yahoo-email-requirements

I can taste some of them, especially red and blue artificial food dyes. I’d love to see them replaced because I look like a weirdo eating around the m&ms I don’t like.

I watched a couple interviews with Michael Wolff on youtube. He said Epstein tried to hire him to write his biography and showed him photos of DJT with young looking women that could have been underage teenagers. (Or just young looking, he didn’t know) He also said he tried to take the story to journalists/news orgs multiple times over the years, but none of them would touch it. Until now. So yeah, people tried, like Katie Johnson, and the stories got squashed. Or like the Access Hollywood tape, it was widely reported and he still won the election in 2016. Teflon don, indeed.

For those who need it, from the article:

The Trevor Project’s free and confidential crisis services will continue to be available 24/7 for any LGBTQ+ young person who needs support by calling 1-866-488-7386, via chat at TheTrevorProject.org/Get-Help, or by texting START to 678678.

I don’t see it as a way to justify inaction. I see it as a way to be forgiving of myself if I mess up sometimes.

Example: in the worst of my grief, I threw away some recyclables because I just couldn’t wash them out properly. It took everything just to eat.

I didn’t pile guilt on myself over it. I recycle 99% of the time, I never litter. I have to check my pockets for random trash before doing laundry.

Utility companies, corporations, and rich people are not cleaning up after themselves and their inaction almost negates everything me and everyone I personally know can possibly do.

Knowing they are dumping faster than I can shovel doesn’t mean I stop shoveling. I still want and actively work to leave this place better than I found it.

Those 91 jets just mean I don’t feel overwhelming guilt when I fail. I just try to do better next time.

Anything ginger (ginger ale, ginger beer, spicy, not spicy) as long as it’s fizzy. Not all the time, these are treats.

Most root beer. A&W is solid. There’s one I don’t like with perfume undertones.

We make our own seltzer and it’s my favorite. But any ice cold seltzers will do.

If I’m in a restaurant and craving soda, I get a coke or diet coke.

In the US South, an ice cold Cheerwine made with cane sugar in a glass bottle.

I still have some covid home tests, will these still throw a positive on the new variants? (Assuming the test is still good)

How long does it keep once you make it?

I grew up eating garden tomatoes. Went to college, for the first time bought a grocery store tomato. Cut into it, tasted it… turned to my friend, what the fuck is this shit?