Or they were into older men, as it doesn’t sound like these were anything more than non-committal sex

More or less yeah

Going out into the woods isn’t even a choice. The woods where? Without owning land the state is gonna come knocking telling you what you’re doing is illegal

It is life, but it’s not a multicellular life. Aka, it’s no more advanced than a single bacteria

Be kind as a starting point, but don’t force yourself to be kind if they’re not kind back. Tit-for-tat game strategy

But starting out with kindness is crucial. As well as being kind again if they start being kind. You must give people the benefit of the doubt

It’s no coincidence that this game theory strategy is highly effective in practice. You could even say that this is the foundation of human society and success

I’m pretty similar to this. And I also didn’t expect to follow relationship anarchy

In the end, I was just following along towards the logical conclusion of what I thought of relationships, and what felt right to me. And maybe it’s because I already look at the world from an anarchist lens, but as you said, if there’s any issue with a partner, then that is between them and me, and I don’t feel like it’s necessarily relevant for me what is happening between them and someone else (so long as they’re like, decent enough people that I’m okay associating with)

Paradoxically, it makes me feel safer in a relationship. I know they’re not just with me out of a sense of obligation, but because they genuinely enjoy bring with me, same way a friend is. They’re not beholden to some social contract, and are perfectly free to pursue another connection in addition to ours if they feel it’s right. And same for me. It means that I don’t have to feel like I have to artificially stop myself if I meet someone I like. It’s liberating. It’s what I could describe as a feeling of freedom. But of course, freedom does not mean freedom from responsibilities. It doesn’t give you the right to neglect people

Then there’s things like, not having all your eggs in your basket, or having people who engage with different aspects of yourself, and so on. Though that’s less central

But of course, there’s practical limits. We don’t have infinite time or energy. Freedom only goes so far. But it’s important to me that I don’t feel restrained by social concepts of how a relationship should look like, but rather from simply what me and a partner would want in one. And freedom does have a price. It’s not freedom for everyone, and it is less stable. It’s just that for me it’s worth it, and feels quite right

They’re not that harmful though. Unless you live with chronic pain or need very high doses, this is unlikely to be a large concern. The moderate amounts a typical person with the occasional pain will use is well within safety limits

Sums up a surprising amount of our biology

Yeah, our bodies sometimes have weird random issues, who would have guessed a flesh robot built by trial and error is fucky wucky

Good to know even powerful disgusting people abuse ticketing priority systems

Ah, who am I kidding, they’re probably the ones most likely to do so

And this has always been the obvious logical conclusion for a for profit dating app

And also similarly applies to other for profit software. It’s the whole idea behind enshittification

Which is why FOSS is king and should be supported as much as possible in as many areas as possible

Cope - funny

Me too post card… me too

…how would it even make sense to be serious??

I used this one IIRC: https://github.com/Jelly-Pudding/ereddicator

You joke but I’m being dead serious when I say that I’d enjoy it if someone sent something like that to me

…I’d probably feel slightly lesser due to me struggling with coming up with something as creative as that

The automated tools are more effective if you get the GDPR data from reddit and point the tool towards it

At one point my body just straight up gave up and I burned out from pushing myself too far, and ever since the panic-induced action has been nonexistent.

Now every time I get into a similar place where adrenaline starts up, I just figuratively collapse and freeze up. Absolutely nothing gets done, and I just feel a strong instinct to escape/hide. My body refuses to work with me, instead forcing me to, you know, actually try to take care of myself or it will go on strike lol

Yeah that might be true lol

It has a lot of saturated fats though, which isn’t good to eat too much of

So I went and looked it up, and signal-desktop is listed as a reproducible build, so theoretically you should be able to go and check that it conforms to the source

https://reproducible.archlinux.org/

But this isn’t anything I’ve looked into myself, so feel free to look into it

And you also need to trust your OS not taking screenshots of your apps or recording the text displayed onto your screen

There’s plenty of links in this chain, there’s a lot you need to be aware of if you’re going to those lengths. Pick your battles