That's a chamber pot right?

Why would you want to be in a relationship with someone who you can't understand signals from? It shows your communication isn't on the same level yet.

Real confidence is not overthinking things. Paying attention is a social skill like any other. I think learning it is the best relationship skill you can give yourself.

You can't love someone off the bat, it's something that builds. It's normal to not be sure at first.

Dating and love is ambiguous and complex.

Yep, so you don't do that. I've never seen anyone confess their feelings and not get met with rejection. What can you expect if you put someone on the spot?

Flirting is about ambiguity and plausible deniability, because you are giving yourself and them ways out of the situation if the vibes don't match.

The more people use them, the less they work. That's kind of the whole model right?

They are inherently all flawed because they keep you away from the single only reliable way to date: growing your social circle.

Even if you match someone, that's a single date where you may or may not continue to see each other. Whereas if you spend all that time and effort hanging out with your friends, getting to know people that are in your and their orbits, you are growing your social circle exponentially and exposing yourself to far more dating opportunities while looking like you're not even trying. And even if it doesn't work, you are still making being single more fun for yourself by having a rich social life.

Just spend that time reconnecting with old friends, hanging out with people from work or joining some club or class. That's how to be successful dating. Specifically by not "dating". To me dating is something that just happens naturally, you don't need to go looking for it. Just be ready when the opportunity arises. Learn to spot them. Its a social skill like any.

Yup, I ain't donating none of my DNA, stem cells or nothing. Sorry organ receiver, I don't want clones of me being used in endless hellish torment after I'm gone. Burn every trace of my existence, thanks. Gonna live like Jerome in Gataca, with a little vacuum cleaner to clean up after my skin cells.

Imagine this company landed the 23 and me database which was sold at open auction?

Exactly, if you think about it for a second, what exactly is going to power these data centers if Patagonia is so remote and undeveloped?

Oh look its mostly natural gas, which is threatened by all the mess in Hormuz. And hydropower, but the country has been in economic chaos for decades so there's no centralized efforts to get those up and going.

Basically dead on arrival as far as ideas go.

Amazon left Quebec after a warehouse unionized. Not legal either, Walmart got successfully sued over something similar in the past. They still did it.

On the plus side, Amazon left.

Hehe, remembering the joys of Deadliest Warrior now. No clips found on youtube, but that spetsnaz dude doing all the tactical dodging and faffing about while shooting still gets to me. Especially when the US army guy responds that its just more efficient to raise your gun and shoot first. lol

We have a big sample bias with good indie games too. For every big hit, there are dozens of abject financial failures. Which in Canada with stuff like the CMF, its fine... but these funds can only support so many things.

AAA studios might be ruthless with layoffs and cancelations, but they have a much better batting average of breaking even or making money. Indie games go belly up all the time and people lose everything.

Like just play stuff on the Steam next fest. Tell yourself that only the top 10 or so games will ever get any sales. Half the games you play might never even make it to market. There's hundreds of good games there.

They used Poland as a military governed area to deport people, then perform extrajudicial killings... then they started settling it with Germans.

Trust me, there's just as much crunch and toxicity in indie studios. Layoffs are just as common, if not more so.

But your boss is clueless and well intentioned with the abuse... which honestly is almost worse I'd say. A prick boss that is honest about being a prick boss is a + in my book. At least you know the game.

And they convinced several generations that using them is necessary for dating.

You guys are a bit optimistic if you think Mitch McConnell's absence isnt a test run for something.

For me a major concern was American surveillance and law enforcement backdoors. A country with no concern for international law or human rights should not have that kind of supranational power. I'd feel safer with Chinese electronics in all honesty.

Here's some alternatives I've been using:

-Routers: Mikrotik, Latvian company, mostly made in Eastern Europe

-Cloud Storage: Tresorit, owned by Swiss Post

-VPS: Ovhcloud, French company with its North American Datacenter in Canada

-Linux: Anything but Fedora which is owned by IBM. Using it contributes to their RnD for their Redhat corporate services and distros.

-DNS: Quad9. Switzerland based non profit. Don't give Cloudflare your precious traffic data.

-Dropped every single US owned social media and subscription service.

Still working on migrating my email and search off Microsoft and Google. Going to drop Android and Steam at the first viable opportunity.

Credit Cards and Youtube are literally the only two that are unviable to switch from... for now.

Farming equipment is a particularly annoying one, that and construction vehicles, are becoming increasingly locked down by proprietary software and impossible to maintain yourself. You can't even employ mechanics outside the dealer network in some instances and it will be more so in the future.

Billionaires like racists?

They actually don't take them down even if reported. I've been flagging stuff like this for 6 months. They refused. I appealed the refusal, a human supposedly reviewed it and it still was refused. The algo thinks I like that shit, so it shows me more and I report more of it. Nothing ever comes from it.

I'm talking about obvious CSAM or allusions to it. Accounts run by cybercriminals using images of minors to lure marks. Fucking shit that anyone with a working morality would remove.

I've been flagging these on Facebook, which I have a blank account only for marketplace. Facebook NEVER does anything about it and I've been increasingly concerned. My reports get closed as "content does not break terms of use".

The things I see through Facebook ads are not necessarily ai generated. They are just disgusting images, or allusions. Like an anime image of an old man surrounded by young boys with captions about a romance dating sim.

Yes, it is full of ads alluding to or including CSAM.

It's been like this for a while. The suggested shorts frequently imply sexual content with minors and Facebook friend suggestions on blank accounts frequently include 14-16 year old girls.

Don't believe me, create a fresh Facebook account and just browse the feed. It's vile. The second you click it to report it, the algo will show you so much more.

Edit: There's also a large number of fake user accounts promoting onlyfans or phishing scams including photos of under 18 girls in swimsuits with captions like "would you date someone young like me?". Facebook also closed those reported tickets as not violating community guidelines.

I flagged one of these in January, I just found it and the user is celebrating her "birthday" holding balloons 1 and 3. Still active.

I've appealed some of these reports they closed and they claimed a human reviewed it and it still didnt violate guidelines.

They at best don't give a fuck, at worst actively want this space to flourish within their platform. I think Facebook is behaving in a criminal way, either through negligence or complicit.

Don't assume all this content is ai. It's just as likely trafficking networks are producing these images or stealing them from minors' accounts. These images could have been produced ages ago as well.

These cybercriminals absolutely have CSAM they will show as a means of achieving phishing or pig butchering scams. Facebook allows its space to be a launching point for this.

Yeah, I'm annoyed at a lot of transformed food products saying "made in Canada from imported produce". Basically American diarrhea spreaders. Ain't buying food that will kill us.

I've successfully cut the use of nearly every American product or service since last year. Genuinely worth it and enriches your life. You just realize how enshitified everything is.

I don't think the American public has understood how these are permanent lifestyle changes. Any trade agreement, getting alcohol back on the shelves, will make these people change that. Tourists are gone. People will not cross the border with the risk of being sent to concentration camps in chains over minor bullshit.

I was terrified with what I heard the Liberals were ready to fold on to get a deal. I am beyond happy we are in a situation of walking away. There is nothing to gain caving on anything anymore. The US will not follow through on their agreements anyway. Give them nothing.

I think we need to focus on hard divesting from the US and focusing on our sovereignty. Cut out Microsoft, Oracle and Google from government use. Ban Facebook for its constant criminal behaviour. Remove all our data from US located or US owned datacenters. Slam Amazon on its appalling labour practices. Make Netflix pay into our culture like all media providers.

Have our laws and values respected on our soil. No more soft ball to American corporations.