Like I said, “within reason.” Obviously worse things could happen. They probably won’t.

An item of importance is to try not to put too much pressure on the situation. Just be friendly and see if you hit it off.

In practice this is difficult when you’re new to dating, but honestly you want to find someone you’re comfortable around (to a certain value of comfortable at first).

Most dates in my life were great. You’ll probably make some embarrassing mistakes, but the worst that can happen (within reason) is that you’re back where you are now.

So do you decry senseless violence from Hamas and Hezbollah or are all you complaints one sided.

Wow, your reading comprehension is as bad as Senator John Kennedy’s hearing.

Of course I decry senseless violence from Hamas and Hezbollah. And I would oppose sending weapons to them.

Fun fact, they let you tell them what kind of vehicle you have for the fuel efficient route. So when we told it we have a PHEV, it started recommending more surface streets than highways. Kinda cool.

Fascinating, I’ve found better results with Apple Maps lately than Google Maps. Which blew my mind, because Apple Maps was a complete joke when it launched.

I loaded a deck joist into my Scion tC when I realized one of mine was rotten (while replacing the boards). I put it through the sunroof into the “trunk” (it’s a hatchback) and drove home like a majestic blue unicorn. It was beautiful.

Got home and my neighbor said, “You could’ve asked!” while gesturing to his pickup truck.

I said, “I wanted to see if it would work!”

The icon I was using for Apollo, which I have set up as a shortcut to launch Voyager. I think it’s extremely appropriate for Lemmy, considering the bean memes when the Reddit migration happened.

You aren’t!

“You are now dead. Thank you for using Stop’n’Drop: America’s favorite suicide booth since 2008!”

If you have an iPhone, holding down either volume button and the side button will bring out the Medical ID, slide to power off, Emergency SOS screen. This will also disable FaceID. Password will be required to access the phone now.

The poster I replied to wasn't 'criticizing Israel's tactics' - they were questioning why 'the West' allowed Israel to attack Hezbollah.

No they weren’t. They asked why the West was letting Israel get away with so much. Then listed various examples of things that are causing widespread harm to civilians.

Then YOU asked if they think it’s bad that the West is letting Hezbollah get away with attacking civilians in Israel.

But your question begins from a false premise. Basically no government in the West provides aid or weapons to Hezbollah. They are considered a terrorist organization by the West. So the West is not letting Hezbollah get away with it.

Meanwhile the West continues to provide weapons to Israel, who is using those weapons to cause significant harm to civilian populations.

That’s the question. Why is the West letting Israel attack civilians without repercussion? There’s no reason in good faith to ask someone who asks this question about how they feel about Hezbollah attacking civilians. Because, ostensibly, they are opposed to violence against civilians. As, clearly, is the West when it’s not Israel (or, indeed, the West) perpetrating the violence.

(I think the obvious answer to the question is “because Israel is allied with the West and in realpolitik we let our allies do horrible things that we would not tolerate in our enemies.” That’s not an ethical answer, many of Israel’s actions lately have been horrific, but it’s the realistic one.)

Edit: grammatical fix

Fun fact! You can decry senseless violence from one source while not excusing it from another! Criticism of Israel’s tactics should never be taken as endorsement of terrorism perpetrated by Hezbollah (or Hamas, etc.), just as criticism of the tactics of Hezbollah (or Hamas, etc.) should never be taken as endorsement of terrorism perpetrated by Israel!

It’s unfortunately not always covered by insurance. But it’s worth it if you can afford it.

The whole soundtrack is good, but:

Counterattack from Xenoblade Chronicles 2

I especially love the way it subverts the rhythm and modulates the key going into the final refrain around 3:45.

It’s wild to me that Trump doesn’t understand being given a chance to answer hard questions is what makes most politicians WANT to talk to reporters. Because they’ve been briefed on what tough questions will likely come up and thus have a chance to give a rehearsed answer to the attacks their opponents make against their campaign. It’s a free platform to respond to criticism.

But he’s too stupid to prepare answers and so he hears a tough question and gets mad.

Edit: “WANT to talk to reporters” in the strategic sense. It’s probably pretty frustrating or exasperating, but it’s important.

Besides the advice to seek OBGYN help, I strongly recommend couple’s therapy/counseling. For EVERYONE.

My wife and I started going to therapy when we were having some issues with communication and it was remarkably helpful. Getting to have a trained third party help work through your issues can assist with reframing and seeing things through one another’s eyes.

Like, obviously your wife isn’t the only one suffering here, and for her to tell you your feelings aren’t valid is outrageous, but she cannot see that from where she is emotionally right now. But getting her into a different setting and with someone trained to work through things like this may very well be able to get her into a state of mind where she can see how she’s effecting you. And at the same time, a therapist can help you to better support her by identifying the ways you already are and helping her recognize them, but also by helping her to communicate ways that you can better assist.

I genuinely cannot recommend couple’s therapy enough to EVERY couple. You don’t wait to bring your car into the shop until it’s broken, you bring it in for maintenance occasionally. Treat your relationship the same way and it’ll reward you, I promise.

I’d be shocked if there aren’t.

I loved Clerks 3. I feel like people who set higher expectations for it (and for Reboot) did themselves a disservice.

What is the actual benefit of 5g besides draining phone battery faster than LTE?

Midband 5G seriously outperforms LTE in my experience. And as radios have matured battery drain has gotten significantly better (which is exactly what happened with LTE radios when we all left HSPA+ behind).

When I had an older 5G phone without midband signal and an early radio, I just left the 5G off. But now I get annoyed if I only have LTE.

I do love the tandem OLED screen on the M4 iPads. It’s gorgeous and absurdly thin.