Just wait until you hear about zetta (10^21) and yotta (10^24) and their inverses zepto (10^-21) and yocto (10^-24). :D
Huh, neat! When fact-checking my statement, I just learned that there are even two more prefixes on each side of the scale: ronna (10^27), quenna (10^30), ronto (10^-27) and quecto (10^-30). They got added last year.
Relationships? Which relationships?
I'm honestly half joking. The one relationship I ever entered as a teenager was because I was drowning in hetero- and amatonormativity and didn't know any better. I never hugged her, I never kissed her, and I especially never did any naughty things with her. It was an attempt from my mother to encourage me to feel love as an otherwise friend-less neurodivergent child. you know, the kind of "why don't you write a love letter to her, if you enjoy being around her?" encouragement. It was only platonic, but I didn't know better. I'm sure my mother meant well, but in hindsight it is disgusting how much it actually was amatonormative coercion.
Other than that, as an aroace, I never entered a romantic or sexual relationship.
I did find some amazing online friends for life, though. We've been meeting for a full week once a year, for the last decade, and always have a blast. Funnily enough, at least 4 people in the friend group turned out to be queer... :D
And friendships is where I excel at, I'd say. I'd consider myself a very loyal friend.
What does hurt a bit is the obvious priority shift when people start putting their long term relationship to the next level, which usually massively decreases the time and effort they put into their friend groups. The fact that they suddenly have something better to do than do stuff with friends, or only rarely show up, because their significant other(s) are more important does feel more and more isolating over time.
Wow, secretly overriding a decision for a permanent modification of someone else's body... what a scumbag.
It's probably the same kind of guy who's going to be really disappointed and angry because his child(ren) have lost their trust in him.
there is no reason for a (non-foreach) for loop to be any more or less finite than a while loop.
for (a; b; c)
{
d;
}
is just syntactic sugar for
{
a;
while (b)
{
d;
c;
}
}
in most or all languages with c-like syntax.
You people are using the local/all feed?
Am I the only one who exclusively uses the subscription function?
The tendency of society to bully people into conformity is honestly one of its worst traits.
why can humans be so incredibly shitty? 😞
one lesson life gave me was:
no matter how fundamentally and universally hated you think something is, there's always some individuals, communities and/or cultures who enjoy said thing.
the same opposition goes for things you assume everyone loves.
it's amazing how incredibly complex and diverse humans are.
Unlikely. At that insane pressure, the hull is either completely intact, or, once moving, completely imploding in a fraction of human reaction time. We're talking about time frames of a millisecond. They couldn't possibly have seen it coming. One moment you're alive and well, the next moment your body is nothing more than paste.
The only evidence for them to legitimately worry about would have been from knowledge about any kind of sketchy practices and/or material choices during the building process.
If you're respectful to others, you're good.
Generally, I'm really careful about forming an opinion about people without knowing more about them. Each person deserves to be judged by their individual character and actions, not by the group they belong to.
who doesn’t want to be 100% a man or 100% a woman.
I'd go further and avoid any kind of "want to be" wording in explanations to people who can be really doubtful. Gender is who you are, not who you want to be. If you tell them "I want to be ", they might form some kind of "attack helicopter" opinion/joke. but if you tell them "I'm on the inside" or "despite my body, I'm actually ", that leaves a lot less room for wrong interpretations.
"Someone who's gender identity neither aligns completely with man or woman" would be my rewording, in this case.
ASCII alone already does offer a rather wide range of emotions, no need for unicode. :D