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Hi,

This is going to be a bit of a crazy story. I heard this from someone and now I am so angry at this other person where I am willing to lose my virginity to put him in his place. But I feel like this is incredibly stupid. So here goes.

I am a man, in my mid twenties and still a virgin mainly because I want to lose it to the right person. I am still in college and we just got some new students to join our fraternity. I meet this new guy (let's call him Ben) and he's really friendly, relaxed and has a positive atmosphere about him. In fact, he even manages to get some more people to sign up, so really good stuff. During parties he also invites over some girls that he know and I get to meet this female friend of his (let's refer to her as Beth). She's also fun to be around, bit of a heavy set woman but a really good dancer none the less. About a month passes, we're at a house party and we're standing outside. Beth is smoking a sigaret, I'm just outside to take a break from all the stimuli. We get to talk and out of the blue she tells me how she doesn't like the fact that Ben keeps calling her a whore. At first I thought she was kidding because of how unexpectedly and nonchalantly she said it. But we keep talking and she let's me in on some drama between her and Ben. Apparently Ben is an extremely jealous type of person, and also a bisexual. He gets extremely sour when Beth is sleeping with the same guy he slept with. So much so that he called her an "ordinary whore" when he found out. I asked her why she would even take such an insult. Well apparently she had an abusive father and doesn't know how to deal with verbal abuse very well. So anyway Ben being the jealous type that he is has decided to "claim" five people, for Beth to stay away from. Even, and I specifically asked about this, if these people are heterosexual. And here comes the kicker I am one those five people.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I absolutely couldn't believe it. I am so outraged, I am absolutely livid, both for my and Beth's sake. How is she an ordinary whore, when you lose your fucking mind at concept of her sleeping with other men??? Even men who aren't even interested in you??? Also how the fuck do you treat a friend like that?? I, and the same goes for the other five, am not some sort of dog for you to claim, that's absolutely disgusting!

So now I am at a point where I am like: "I'll show this sorry son of a bitch where it's at!" You know, by sleeping with Beth. But I don't think I fully like her that way, as I said she is on the heavier side of the scale, and sort wanted to wait until I meet someone I genuinely like. At the same time it would really be fun to put this bastard in his place. But I feel like where I am throwing fuel to the fire and hoping for an explosion I could just as easily make this whole thingamajig even worse.

So what do you guys think? Stupid, right? Well that's what this community is for.

TLDR: There is this guy who is (allegedly) a jealous bounder. I am really mad at him and feel bad for this girl. I feel like getting back at him by sleeping with her. But I don't particularly find her attractive. Anyway, smart or stupid plan?

Title says it all.

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The CCP is not my fault. I do not feel any shame of saying I'm from China.

Similarly, the trump admin is not my fault, I voted Harris. I do not feel any shame for being American.

So what is the thought process of people feeling shame/guilt?

I don't think ii would ever hurt anyone. But in nursing if have seen severe cases. I just want to make sure their are safeguards for me in place. It scares the shit out of me.

As I understand it for the public web we all use, public DNS servers serve to guide browsers to IP addresses associated with domain names. But of course IPs change for anonymity’s sake on the dark web yet “domain names” stay the same.

How does my Tor browser know the correct route to get to the site that I am trying to visit each time and know that it is always accurate and won’t take me to a different site (assuming that the owner hasn’t changed on that site)? How does this work to keep site owners anonymous without exposing their information to anyone?

I'm almost certainly deficient and I thought maybe it could improve my mood :/

I keep wondering why class prejudice is treated as so normal in the UK, especially when most people are working class themselves. The slur "chav" shows this clearly. It gets used so casually, almost like it's harmless, even though it's aimed at an entire social group. What I can't figure out is why so few people call it out for the classism it is. Media and politics seem to reinforce the idea that mocking the working class is acceptable, but it still feels strange that so many people go along with it without questioning it. It makes me wonder how something so openly dismissive became such an ordinary part of everyday language.

A few poignant examples I've read are things such as "anyone else cross the street when they see chavs (working class people)"? Or "I hate chavs (working class people) I wish they were all gassed". Often, such phrasings will earn a lot of upvotes or likes, as well. It's 42 million people, that is a lot of people some people want to be "gassed", that other people are upvoting/liking.

I just saw a coworker with something like 30 tabs open in Chrome. I also know someone who regularly hits the 500-tab limit on their phone, though I suspect that’s more about being messy than anything else.

When I’m researching something, I might have 10-50 tabs open for a while, but once I’m done, I close them all. If I need them again, browser history is there.

Why do people keep so many tabs open? Is there a workflow or habit I’m missing? Do they just never clean up, or is there a real benefit to tab hoarding? I’m genuinely curious. Why do people do that?

I know that a greenhouse is not air tight so I imagine it breathes somewhat and exchanges gas with the outside. However, I also assume that it's going to use up the co2 in it for plant growth. How does it not run out? I think you could vent it, but then wouldn't that cool it off and thus defeat the purpose of a greenhouse? All my web searches either give climate change facts or co2 supplementation by farmers.

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As extreme examples:

• A shoebox studio (<= 10 m^2) is probably too small for almost any family
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I'd imagine there might be some cultural differences regarding this as well...?

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Gold chain necklace

Gold earrings

Tracksuit top + tracksuit bottoms that match in colour

High end trainers

Baseball cap

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I live in the UK in case there might be some spiritual/psychic significance to this

In the UK that style/combination is considered unusual/specific

All of them were white

They all looked like different/individual people