I have the censored unsafe image and it is very NSFW

Not what I was saying though. Zalensky seems like a person that puts all the cards on the table and plays an honest game. Trump, as his own sister has said in interviews, “has no ethics whatsoever.” That is an assessment I believe. The same has been said about Musk. Everyone in that room but Zalensky sees more value in Russian business than in Ukrainian. Every person in that room is also aware that appeasing Russia will result in WW3. The difference is that everyone but Zalensky is fine with WW3, because it solves the climate problem in a profitable way for the oligarchy. It isn’t a climate problem it is a population problem, and war is the classic form of population control. This is brutal high Machiavellian logic and exactly how people with no ethics think “outside of the box.”

The entire meeting was intended to create a reason not to support Ukraine. The real evidence is in how all the media outlets are covering this disproportionately after they fell in line with the criminal government control over the media. The volume of nonsense is massively disproportionate to the magnitude of the event. That is clear evidence that the entire mainstream media apparatus is garbage. It is like Nazi propaganda, aka “Joseph Goebbels’ class garbage.”

I can suppress my immune response with exercise with most illnesses. If I get full blown sick the inflammation is beyond words level of pain. My chronic spinal injuries are already near my max pain thresholds 24/7 and well beyond a fractured scapula or broken ribs which I have had since my broken neck and back. I never feel like I can or should be riding a bike, especially when I’m feeling sick.

My old boss and kinda coach when I worked for the a chain of bike shops used to say that the only time to stop riding (training) is from stomach issues that get worse on the bike. I still go quite easy and listen to my body.

My folks got the flu bad about a month ago. I came down with it. I could feel that I wasn’t at my full strength and ached a lot. I felt awful when I woke up and sickest around when I went to bed, but by riding my PT routine I never hit the worst lows where I can’t get out of bed or walk at all.

Coming down with something is no time to start a routine, but if one is established it can really help a lot around half of the time. The last time I got full blown sick was 2019.

If humans are your pets, you are a slave owner

I don’t get why anyone views being a moderator like ownership. It seems to attract a lot of narcissism in that mindset. I don’t think mod posts are relevant at to growing a community. Quite the opposite, I think forced posts are worse than none. It is a matter of how the community resonates with users and the total number of people on the platform. The more niche the group, the harder it is to find an audience. The community belongs to users that post. The only community truly owned by a mod in the one where they are the only one that posts. Mods serve the community not the other way around.

Pray to Luigi

Green text got nothing on this.

Sorry you have to tell Mark. That sucks that fil has such low self worth and self awareness.

I one hundred percent agree. People take most of what I say outside of the context of my abstractions. I like to use hyperbole a little more than I should, and I choose to withhold judgment in most cases. With something like the OP’s situation, I’m amused by the unexpected nature of the situation and using that as a hyperbolic pivot but am not saying it should be normalized to post about porn per say. I asked the question to get a better feel for how I perceive the situation. I can’t imagine anyone in my family doing this because they are religious extremists. I don’t have to worry about it anyways as I’m in near total social isolation due to physical disability.

At one of the bike shops I worked at we had small penis contests; biggest cock bought the crew lunch… roadies are weird.

I’d rather anyone tie a necktie on a door handle versus not; friends, folks, sister, solo, gang, whatever. Sex is normal behavior for all humans and should not be made awkward or taboo. It is unhealthy to the individual and society to make sex inaccessible or unspeakable. Every human masturbates with very few exceptions. It has nothing to do with relationships. Releasing tension is healthy and normal. Talking openly about sex is beneficial to society in many ways.

Your dad sounds awesome. English culture is far too ridiculous about prudishness IMO… but I was raised in a Christian extremist cult like organisation and like eccentricity (after escaping that nonsense).

Why do you find this disturbing?

Not saying it is like normal or anything. Am saying society in general in the west has far too authoritarian mindsets that are just dumb. If you go telling this girl she doesn’t matter, at that age, you’re shooting yourself in both feet and likely the head as far as she is concerned. She will not stop because anyone said so. She might listen to some amount of reasoning, but dogmatism has absolutely no chance of reaching a better place. It has a very good chance of getting MUCH worse.

Freetube and others but I don’t think newpipe is unless doing android emulation - which is apparently a thing I’ve seen people talking about but haven’t tried. I never use YT from a comp, so bad 1 am assumptions

TBH, it works for some people. I have a cousin that was happy for 30 years when he married a similar age gap in the other direction.

It really depends on the person. My boss from the bike shops was 20 years older than me and his wife was my age yet they made a great couple too. They were both pro amateur level cyclists and finding a good match like that is not common.

I was physically disabled at 29, and if I was somehow able to recover, I would likely be more interested in someone 10+ years younger because that is how long my life has been in limbo. I didn’t get a lot of the life experiences.

In the world of today, expecting the old normals is pretty much nonsense. Where I live, there is no chance someone in their twenties lives on their own and has any kind of financial stability unless their parents are creating it. Those types of people look to marry and date within their social class. Only fools at the bottom fail to see the social classes and caste systems in all societies. Your ex is likely right in my opinion. Most of our religious and cultural norms are little more than a tool to suppress the peasantry. Resisting the unfamiliar is common tribalism behavior but it has little to no value in the present world. The man’s age is irrelevant against the measure of the man. I’m against taking agency away from your daughter. Meet the man with a open mind and then make your case with your daughter if you need to, but don’t be dogmatic.

Never have had that problem with newpipe. Maybe it is hard to track your other sensor data all at the same time and do that menial functioning stuff