I’m anti-capitalist, so I look at everything in that lens. Why does sex work seem problematic to me? Sex work without profit is just sex, which is something everyone does. I can’t really unpack the gender issues or most of the power issues (as you say it’s complicated and it’s not really my field so I’m not going to…

I don’t really want to wade into a wider debate about sex work, just wanted to share how silly it seems to that you can see exploited workers as “a criticism of capitalism” but not those who are doing the exploiting. You can’t have one without the other. For example, If someone were positive on a tailor who could…

Yeah, they really shouldn’t have put wifi in it so people wouldn’t think it was some magical device. I love mine but I’ve always been the kind of person to run an ethernet line to my TV for streaming since wifi has always been disappointingly spotty and therefore only good for devices that move around too much for…

Really? I rarely have trouble renting from a traditional rental car service for $20 a day and anything I can find on Turo for that is usually in far worse shape than a normal rental car and comes with a lot of restrictions and hoops to jump through (clean it yourself, 200 mile limit, etc.). I look at Turo every trip I…

By my count there’s photos with 4 different sets of wheels in the full ad! 

Yep, I figure thats why they called it a “flag-themed blanket” not actually a “flag.” 

I took it in context to mean don’t use peer to peer PayPal (as in use it like Venmo or Zelle) for anything other than sending money to trusted friends/family. Rather than ‘don’t use PayPal to complete a purchase on eBay.’ Wasn’t clear but since the article is about p2p systems that’s how I read it. 

Thema 8.32s are cool for sure, but unless you meant ‘one class larger’ when you said “grown up version,” that’s a completely different car. The midsize Thema, Fiat Croma, Alfa 164 and Saab 9000 are midsize cars on the “type four” platform. While the Tempra, 155 and Lancia Dedra are compacts that came out a few years…

Miami always plays home games at hard rock stadium. It’s the home field for both teams, probably should correct that in the article 

Because the kind of narcissist who thinks it’s a great idea to film and post videos on the internet thinks everyone wants to hear what they have to say.

Random anecdote but years ago I bought an e92 from a guy who had only ever owned big trucks and promptly went back, so it does happen as weird as that seems!

Yeah, for sure worth asking. They clearly have great stuff, I’m very interested in a lot of it and will have to buy something sometime. Just have a slightly disingenuous name if you ask me

Also important to note that their stuff isn’t actaully made by people in unions. According to their own rep “the name was cultivated as a signifier of well-made and aesthetically timeless goods” “as it is virtually impossible to curate a store entirely of union labor made products.”

Flip up tinted lenses over normal glasses or empty frames is my guess

I used to have dive goggles with prescription lenses. If you were already going to spend the money on new contacts that might be a better bet since you can’t have issues losing the contact if/when you flood you mask or anything.

Yeah that was more a personal thing, I’m kind of depressing and emotianlly a wreck too often to be very interesting as a partner, so I personally don’t have a lot to offer someone who has got their shit together. That’s all I meant

Agree on all of this. I know I have to figure it out, and I have a strong support structure in many ways, it could be so much worse. Still really hard. I don’t mean to complain, especially in a gendered way, on the balance there’s no doubt our society is much more fucked up for women, just pointing out that I haven’t…

I mean I don’t really know about all that, I don’t have a lot to offer anyone a lot of the time. I’m emotionally pretty broken and rather depressing a lot of the time. So I don’t have a lot of youth, interests, humor or affection to give. Maybe soemone wants those things from a mid 20s guy, but even if they did I…

I’m mid 20s and I can’t wait to be old enough that it isn’t weird/impossible to be into women late 30s and 40s. They can have things figured out so mcuh more. Kids either happened or aren’t going to. and let’s be honest if they are taking care of their health there really isn’t a fall off in pure attractiveness. Same…

Thought of the same thing. I was just at the National automobile museum on Monday: (apologies if my photos aren’t uploading, they seem to be glitching out on upload)