Oh, wow. I assumed it was someone misinterpreting me and assuming I was being critical of diversity.

If you’re in your 40s / 50s and subsist exclusively on frozen meals eaten alongside your cat(s) because you can’t cook and don’t know anyone who can / will cook for you, I’d call that crushing loneliness, regardless of your gender.

This was an awesome science fiction short story from a few years back, published in Subterranean Magazine — African Sunrise. Ethiopian culture and cuisine flavors (heh heh, get it?) the story, which is itself really cool.

Where else can you buy matching bathroom / kitchen / bedroom linens and a massive variety of ‘personal shiatsu massage wands’?

What absurd truism? What’s set in stone?

So you’re agreeing? Not sure what trope you’re referring to

It is. Diversity in culture, opinions, backgrounds, etc. is a massive strength for a society. Unfortunately, we seem to be polarizing and fracturing into tribes of decreasing diversity. This is a negative trend, and the rise in hate crimes just one symptom. I hope the trend reverses but feel that we have an uphill…

It’s a self-perpetuating dynamic. As society polarizes, people will naturally withdraw into the social circles in which they feel the most comfortable. As polarization rises, so does tribalism. Our society is at risk of devolving even further toward this model of a bunch of mistrustful, hateful tribes. A tribal…

Oh, shit. Ban I.C.E.

The several ‘beardy-men’ I’m friends with have made it clear to me that, as a beardy-man, you typically have two choices:

At the grocery store once, I recognized a lady from work. She was buying a dozen frozen breakfast burritos, a dozen frozen lunches, a dozen frozen dinners, and a few bags of kitty litter. THAT right there was a physical manifestation of crippling loneliness.

Keurig owners — go online, buy a couple reusable Keurig cups that you can fill with your own coffee, and enjoy the $$$ savings and reduced waste.

I’ve had a number of gay men proposition me, with varying degrees of assertiveness / aggressiveness. 100% of the ones who heard ‘no’ were totally fine with it. Then one of them simply drugged me and tried to take me home while I was borderline unconscious... luckily my girlfriend at the time found me. I thought it was…

I mean, to be fair, Takei is a pretty intimidating guy. So physically imposing, I’m sure men just have to acquiesce since resistance is futile.

The clergy want variety. Altar persons? Altered boys?

My friends and I were playing a game last weekend - which celebrity would be the most crushing / disappointing if it came out that they were sexually abusive / predatorial?

According to the American Council on Science and Health, women are roughly twice as likely to suffer migraines as men.

I have the feeling that people who aren’t already dead-set on seeking out these businesses specifically on the basis of skin color are not going to have any use for such an app... but some people do want to use it, and that’s fine.

The cops in the US are just way too aggressive in general. Even if they’re not shooting, they’re puffing up and yelling at you even if you’re just asking them if they know where the post office is or whether the street parking is metered.

Simple solution — make it illegal to brandish weapons in public. I expatriated to Australia a while back and if you see anyone in public with a knife or gun, you run. Having to scratch your head over whether someone walking around with a weapon is just ‘exercising their 2nd amendment rights’ is a uniquely American…