No, boomers don’t go to therapy because they believe it’s for weak people. Millennials don’t go to therapy because they can’t afford it. Same result, different approaches.

Okay young one, we have a few things to get through.

First, you should feel whatever you do feel. It’s not as embarrassing to have your parents help you than you might think. You’re in your early 20s, which means most of your life experience comes from when you were a child and embarrassing parents were a social death sentence. You’re an adult now and to a lot of older adults stuff like that becomes insignificant compared to other things. That said if you feel embarrassed, you feel embarrassed, there is no should to feelings.

Two, I suggest you tell your Dad that you appreciate what he’s trying to do, and that you’ll go on the date (because I think you should). You need to tell him that doing this without keeping you in the loop made you feel uncomfortable. He’s trying to help and it comes from a good place but the execution was a little off.

If he doesn’t listen or it still feels wrong you have to tell him that too and ask him to stop. Still I suggest you try it out.

Third, go easy on yourself. Finding a partner is not easy, and at your age you’re going to make mistakes, big ones but that’s okay. That’s what living is. Just make sure you don’t an STI or you or someone else pregnant. Unless future you is trying to have a kid, in which case good luck!

As a non-American what two cities? I knew of Los Angeles but what’s the other one. It doesn’t come up in our news.

But if they’re not listening, you just gotta call them stupid weirdos and make them feel uncomfortable in public. Make their friends laugh at them, make it seem like your side is having more fun. The fear of being excluded will eventually pull them over, willingly or not.

I’m glad that you’re engaging with the topic, but that suggestion won’t help. Publicly embarrassing someone who is holding onto an emotional belief like ‘I can never trust the companies that make vaccines.’ just pushes them to double down. Vaccine hesitancy and how to address it is a well studied topic and any form of attack just pushes the person into defense mode.

The best solution is actually compassion from those the vaccine hesitant most love and trust. Vaccine hesitancy begins with a lack of trust in the medical profession. Which may or may not be well founded, the medical community has some bad people in it.

Regardless, saying to your loved one “Okay you don’t trust the scientists, but you do trust me, and I trust the science on this one.” Is much more effective than arguing or publicly embarrassing someone.

Well the Overton window has moved so far to the right that the Democrats now sit where the Republican’s did 16 years ago.

Here’s an AI summary of your distain for AI:

I’ll begin saying this when people ask why I want “dumb” machines.

AI summaries lack quality, ads distract drivers, you want a washing machine without ads, you don’t want your TV to watch you, you want machines to be submissive.

How did I do?

Speaking as someone who worked cash as a teenager/young adult, no we don’t want to fucking talk to you. I was there because I liked money and that was a reliable way to make minimum wage. That’s it. I didn’t have a passion for scanning items and asking for payment. I had tuition to pay and debt racking up. I wasn’t there to chat with you, or improve the customer experience. I was there to get paid and I can tell you that most if not all of the other cashier’s were in the same boat.

Right? How is an AR-15 going to save anyone against a drone strike? The target doesn’t even hear anything, one moment they’re alive and the next they’re not. Doesn’t even have to be an explosive, like a firearm isn’t going stop the government.

In regards to nuclear power plants, the first and second loops are recycled constantly but the third loop can either be recycled or open loop. That’s why most nuclear power plants are built next to large bodies of water. They use the water from a lake, ocean, or whatever to do the last cooling step. It’s possible but it’s not as cheap as throwing away the warm water once you’re done with it with cheap cold water.

Yes but that’s expensive. It’s a lot cheaper to just draw from the municipal supply and discharge it.

Except I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, my highschool definitely made us read those.

I agree with you that there is a significant chance J.D. Vance would do more to harm the US and the World than Trump ever could, you don’t have to be such a jerk about it. Being right doesn’t give you permission to be mean.

On the vehicular manslaughter sure, on drunk driving charges, I should hope not. Sure this time a Nazi scumbag who deserves to die was killed, but next time it might be someone wholely innocent. Just because we hate the victim doesn’t mean what she did wasn’t reckless.

This is the policy of most colleges these days. The school will provide a service to do that but it’s up to the student to ensure their work is backed up. Granted most schools only offer OneDrive but still, you’re told ahead of time.

A flight of beer is usually five or six smaller beer glasses, usually filled with different beers, on a wooden plank.

Me neither, it implies that dating is just basic stats. Which no, because dating preferences aren’t independent variables. If you score low with a potential partner on a particular quality that doesn’t mean they’ve rejected you, unless that quality is a deal breaker. They are variable’s that are dependent to and from other variables, how are you with pets, are you pursuing a life goal you have set out for yourself, how are your relationships with others, ect.

Not just pick up the phone and harass someone but to also have someone to press a lawsuit against if things go really wrong. With free software the liability typically ends at the user which means all they can do is fire the employee and eat the loss. Suppose now corporate paid for it, well now there is a contract and a party that can be sued.

I’ve heard some people call this the ‘him too’ movement. It’s supposed to encapsulate the idea that right now we’re seeing white men pushback against the ‘Me Too’, BLM, and ‘Trans rights are human rights’ movements.

Unfortunately there isn’t a lot of help available. American’s are going to have to clean up their own house.

They’d remark on how restrained he was, ‘he only had sex with 30 children, the Democrats murder hundreds of children every day to collect their adrenochrome.’