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Just do an airdrop. Bag of cash on my porch is fine.

Great value macys.

That was my exact thought. Just the comprehensiveness of the pattern lol.

We all need to be reinforced. That doesn’t change when we become adults. If the little treat isn’t working you are being punished too much or need a different little treat. If the little treat hurts you, such as alcohol, try to find a functionally similar treat that doesn’t. Mine was Boba and fancy coffee for a while.

Not me. The rural part? Yes. But I can smell and feel the wet. In this type of place, you’ll be in a war of attrition against insects of all types. And mold and wood rot. Then there’s the wild animals or scary horror film neighbors.

Didn’t know that! Yes even the cheap coffee has gone up by a few dollars. To the point where I buy whatever is on sale.

Prop head on one of the corners, close eyes, float into the abyss.

Cheese roll ups. Rice balls.

Yes I think the bare minimum for many of us is becoming “no conservatives.”

So many of them don’t want to date conservative women. Like you can have a bio that explicitly says “no thanks conservatives” and they still try to slide in. Or hide it.

Mid-thirties. But I played it cool until I finished grad school. Then moved out to start my new life.

Why is it always the ones who look like Mr. Potato head?

I have two trainees and when they come to me with complex questions they’ve clearly thought out and debated it makes me so happy.

Much like victim blaming. Except we’re the victims of capitalism.

I think it’s good to discuss our feelings. Men have socially reinforced the exact opposite amongst themselves and had it imposed on them by others. We’ve all heard “boys don’t cry, man up” etc. I worked with a young man who thought he was mad all the time. We broke through that, he was having so many emotions he didn’t know how to label because he simply wasn’t encouraged in that direction. That, I think, is incredibly lonely.

Stack on top of that growing up behind a computer screen, surrounded by manfluencers giving questionable advice, having your formative years recorded and picked apart…not being able to make those early awkward social interactions because of covid for a lot of young men as well…yeah.

Of course I think it does get conflated with a lack of intercourse or whatever. Young women are feeling abused by their lack of rights and they view what would traditionally be awkward young love/courtship as a threat. Incel ideology used to be fridge, but there are a disturbing number of young men embracing these ideas. All while women’s reproductive options are limited, making intimacy more difficult for everyone.

So there’s this historical precedent of not opening up, but boys started to learn not to do that anymore. Just in time to get shut down. It’s not girls fault, it’s not boys fault, it sucks. But I don’t see it improving until intimacy feels safe for everyone again.

It’s not absurd to say 20 year olds and 30 year olds are different in that way. From life experience to brain development, it’s a documented fact that older people predate these inexperienced individuals for a variety of reasons. Hence, if you look 20 and a 35 year old is interested in you, I advise you to be cautious. Now, some people will argue that once someone is legally an adult none of that matters. Sure, under the eyes of the law. But you’ve more than admitted here you’re looking for someone immature, that you are also immature. Be careful, older people giving you advice don’t do so to harm you or because they are ashamed they’ve aged. They have often been taken advantage of by older individuals.

Here it is implied girls dressed a certain way is a prompt.

And it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to extrapolate “bad things happen to them” from trouble.

I want to take the opportunity to leave this here: https://sbaproject.org/what-were-you-wearing/

I had no idea. Tyvm for the info.

It has nothing to do with being secure oand insecure. Predators target young, naive individuals. It’s a known fact. Silence enables predation. Your defensiveness is weird.

Makes sense, I didn’t know that. The power bar gels I eat at basically electrolytes and a little caffeine.