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  • We can acknowledge it, sure, but that doesn't solve it. What is your solution? Force young women to marry men they don't love or respect?

    The real solution is far simpler: let these hateful men remain lonely until they are desperate enough to affect a change in themselves.

  • The 'real problem' you're referencing is that hateful young men are having trouble finding young women who share their values?

    The obvious solution is for those men to reassess their values. If they can't do that, then they deserve to be alone.

  • I saw a documentary recently that claimed that one of the reasons the Mongols were so successful was that they attacked in the middle of winter. So for most people fighting in the cold was unthinkable, but for the Mongols it was Tuesday.

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  • You can do a quick web search for the etymology of some of the words, but since it's slang, and sex slang at that, it's mostly speculation and difficult to find an irrefutable source.

    Even the word blow in blowjob has several possible origins. It could be from the Latin fellatus - to suck, move air with your mouth, blow. Or it could be blow like explode, as in orgasm. Or it could be from Victorian era prostitutes who used the term 'below job'.

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  • It was my understanding that the names for these things came about to help facilitate negotiations with prostitutes, which would make them jobs. These actions didn't require names in any other social context because missionary was the only socially acceptable sex act and anything else was simply "sin".

    This isn't a capitalist failing, it's a religious failing.

  • Yeah, the industry seems to be changing again. There's a push towards passion projects and those projects are seeing more success than the big budget games. I think we will either see a new cycle of conglomeration or, hopefully, we will see the executives take a more hands-off approach and let the games make money for them.

    Just because you own a sports team doesn't mean you should be head coach.

  • I mean, kind of, but not really.

    It all started with Halo. Back in the late 90s and early 00s the movie industry was the big money maker of entertainment and there was actually a lot of anti-gaming rhetoric in news and politics. The weekend Halo 3 released it was so popular that it disrupted the box office numbers for a couple of movies. The movie executives decided to stop trying to kill the gaming industry and take it over instead.

    So I guess you can blame millennials for playing Halo instead of going to the movies that weekend.

  • My sister used to do this with Target.

    She was always overdrafting her accounts to the point where my dad actually had to go pay Bank of America $200 to close one of them for her, so she decided 'fuck banks' and would just spend her entire paycheck at Target. Whenever she needed cash she would head to Target and return some stuff.

  • It feels like the Taliban is just passing more and more ridiculous subjugation laws to try and get the west to attack them again so that they can go back to riding camels and shooting AKs with their 'brothers' instead of enduring the hell of office work and family life that is modern society.

  • What you see in the news and on social media doesn't paint a true picture of what daily life is like here for people. Most of Trump's supporters aren't the hateful bigots that the Internet makes them out to be, they're just convinced that he's the lesser of the 2 evils. This is why you see that his rallies are empty and he's still polling at ~47%.

    Most of the deepest Trump cult fanatics live in communities where that is more prevalent, like rural Alabama, so if you don't live where they live, you just don't really encounter them. And if you do live in those areas, you're already used to the rampant racism because it's always been there.

    So me and my immigrant wife will still go visit my pro-trump uncle for his annual pig roast, because he's not a bad person, he's just a moron. I'll still call my conservative mother every week because she's not threatening to kill me for voting blue, she's just consumed too much anti-Kamala propaganda. My religious sister is still welcome to visit because even though she's an idiot, my nieces are freakin adorable and I love them.

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    A transparent trans parent