“I just keep wondering, what are the diapers of our lives, the safety nets we use that keep us from experiencing bare-assed freedom?” is going to bounce around in my head for days now.

Totally agree! But if you love having dozens of cookbooks you’re probably not wondering to yourself “what cookbooks are essential to your kitchen.” You’re asking yourself if you can squeeze another cookbook on your shelf.

To me, there’s three types of cookbooks.

Explain please?

Not really a great deal on an aeropress: Googling quickly finds them for $22 with bonus filters

Creepy: that one robot they’re selling looks just like a human baby

Creepy: that one robot they’re selling looks just like a human baby

Yeah, Rutland looks like where actual trolls would live. Also, your username makes me wistful and sad.

“Don’t Clean Your Plate” except in the countries where it’s rude not to. Just do a little research and be humble when you’re bound to screw things up.

One big risk is it’d make the tax code complex, & effectively non-transparent. There’d be a big risk of special interest lobbying. The more easily an industry can organize their dollars to lobby, the more likely it would have little taxes. So industries with lots of tiny operators (e.g. nail salons & ice cream trucks)…

Just double emoji for different bathrooms:

*moved my comment to main thread*

If you’re uncomfortable with asking for consent, I bet it’s because you’re uncomfortable talking about sex. Practice reading this list out loud. Maybe it feels a little weird & awkward at first talking about & during sex. If you want to know how your partner feels about what you’re doing, ASK THEM. That makes…

With you on the rocket science bit, but the pervasive mentality of “it’s obvious” just baffles me. Why rely on reading the tea leaves of hip thrusts and moans? Why not actually ask “do you want to f*ck? / Do you wanna try __? / Should I put a condom on now? / God I want to f*ck you right now. Can I? / Can I go down on…

nonono. The purpose of explicit consent — and consent apps — isn’t about legal release. It’s about communicating what you are and aren’t okay with to prevent situations where one person is involved in something they don’t want. Not to keep people out of or put people in jail.

Reading articles about what taking selfies says about you as a person, though, that makes you a narcissist.

Did any of this need to be said?

And this is why your sex safeword should never be hey-siri

are you saying it actually records other than when it’s heard the hotword, or just that it accidentally flips on sometimes?

The spying isn’t as invasive as people think. Google, Apple, & Amazon’s systems are always-on listening for the hotword, but don’t record, store, or transmit ambient conversation. Once it heard the hotword, it’d begin recording & transmitting info to servers. And there’s systems to prevent it being hijacked. The…

Hmmmm.