What I happened to notice with different girls as a guy is that for many, of not most, telling/showing the right way is a turn-off and having something the right way without showing first is a source of tremendous excitement.

With that said, we, men, are still not mind readers, and women really do have it very differently, so some common sex education, while useful, can only cover the basics, and even they are not universally applicable.

If it's not gonna happen, more fascist measures will be introduced - without people's hesitation outside Internet comments.

A solid organized riot does change the course even for most authoritarian governments, even if they happen to suppress it eventually. Politicians should feel that their position is not as solid as they would like.

But the further people prefer to not intervene, the more entrenched authoritarians become and more draconian measures are implemented. As such, the government is strongly interested in making people think rioting doesn't help. This is part of many authoritarians' playbooks.

Sorry if this sounded offensive, I thought it could be a light pun. My apologies.

In any case, I know plenty of girls that would absolutely kick my ass in shooters and that actively take offensive roles. I never meant to say all girls are opposed to taking a gun!

An average person doesn't want to see this and doesn't know it happens, which would potentially tank the reviews for the device.

Same was said about Windows 7 as people protested the switch to Windows 10. New telemetry, aggressively forced updates, and other factors made Windows 10 a nightmare for many. Yet now, when Windows 11 is even worse, people start thinking of Windows 10 the way they thought of Windows 7.

Essentially, Microsoft can make Windows worse and worse for as long as the previous iteration is better and people got used to it.

No one needs to be wiped out. What's currently happening is taxing on the side of Israel and is absolutely devastating for the civilian Palestinians.

Peace talks, two-state solution and resignation of Netanyahu are the only ways.

Oh, if it's pure "people support", let's remove the pledge store and just have donation button. One that doesn't give you anything in game, but supports the project.

Star Citizen uses clever psychology and social engineering to make people spend obscene amounts of money on in-game ships. I know people who are so catches and addicted to this shit they spend their family savings on the new ships. And that is by design.

They also regularly wipe the Persistent Universe for a reason, and the reason is not this bullshit aUEC farming, but the fact that ships bought for real money do not get wiped, stimulating purchases for your very real cash.

By going to release and having equal persistence for ships bought by all means, they'll immediately slash their profits so, so bad, and they know it. They don't want to go release.

Some people seriously can't hold any conversation about sexism without introducing the word "incel" for the sake of it.

I wonder, can that be cured?

Because none of the big companies listen to the privacy argument. Or any argument, really.

AI in itself is good, amazing, even.

I have no issue with open-source, ideally GPL- or similarly licensed AI models trained on Internet data.

But involuntarily participating in training closed-source corporate AI's...no, thanks. That shit should go to the hellhole it was born in, and we should do our best to destroy it, not advocate for it.

If you care about the future of AI, OpenAI should long be on your enemy list. They expropriated an open model, they were hypocritical enough to keep "open" in the name, and then they essentially sold themselves to Microsoft. That's not the AI future we should want.

I'm not addressing the fear itself. I address the culture of fear, the fearmongering, and an attempt to overgeneralize.

This goes further than a mutual exchange of fears and goes into the territory of a cultural phenomenon, a hostile one.

The fear is real, and I understand how it feels due to getting a childhood trauma myself. I've been there.

But we should focus on the actual solutions to the very issues you're afraid of, not on getting hostile to each other.

My daily behavior around women (and men, too) builds on mutual trust and respect, I admire and deeply respect many women in my life - incredible, attentive professionals, caring mothers, loyal friends and confidants, the girls I loved, and I never treat anyone as someone "less than a human". Same is true for most males, for all I know.

It is dangerous and counterproductive to just assume all males have bad intentions. We don't.

Windows settings are notoriously confusing, and absolute majority of things can currently be resolved in various Linux environments via GUI.

I honestly don't remember when I last opened the terminal. Using Manjaro KDE on my main machine right now.

While inferior to Firefox due to reason outlined by another user, it is infinitely better than going with Chromium-based browsers.

Keep on using it if you feel comfortable with it