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I thought they were secretly ****ing each other and said that to rationalize their denial to homosexuality. Either way, I recall one guy named Collin, who told me the French said it as a way to justify their time in prison during the war of ____ *I forgot I was drunk*

It got me thinking though. Assuming the circumference size of a penis doesn't deviate from a standard deviation of 1 cm, would humans be able to fornicate ANYTHING? Like if I found a bat, would I be able to stretch "it" out to the point where I can pleasure myself?

I would probably have a backup smartphone back at my hotel along with credit card, wallet, etc. Would you risk taking your passport out in public? Would you even trust to have it safe back at your hotel? I would love to live that nomadic lifestyle where I work remote, but I can't seem to wrap in my mind on how everything would map out. There's too much to consider, the logistics of it all seems way too overwhelming. I mean how difficult would it be for me to take a 3 month trip to Thailand and decide to daytrade stocks as a nomad? I'm getting old and I feel like I'm wasting time only talking about the things I wish I could have done. It's time for me to actually do it now.

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I'm not sure. Does it?

Aren't marriage and maintaining a family an ongoing process though? It's not like marriage ends once you get married; you'll have to continue maintaining that marriage.

Some guy with a cushy corporate job was like, "I miss my college days." Oh yeah you miss, partying? He'd go off and explain how he enjoyed struggling through Calculus and how he almost failed Physics. The endless nights he spent studying and agonizing about concepts that seemed impossible to grasp, motivated him to work even harder, in pursuit of a bigger dopamine hit when he would score well on his exam. Now that he's not in school and over compensated in salary for doing nothing, he's now depressed and struggling to find passion in his life again.

Like seriously Tom. You have a beautiful wife. You have kids and a dog. You drive a lambo, and you're depressed? Well apparently there are more men like Tom out there. Rich successful men that live cozy suburban ideals that somehow miss slaving long hours in the urban landscape. Fuck you Tom.

It brought awareness to those oblivious to what's happening with all the injustices in the world. You figure after decades of combining effort to integrate diversity against Jim Crow, there would be less instances of racism leading to murder, let alone by one that's supposed to protect us. Keep in mind there are people living in their bubble completely ignorant of the sacrifices made to obtain their privileges.

For those that are cringed out by the thought of wanking off to a dead person, you also have to consider with the adoption of streaming services, people are masturbating to uploaded content by random users (stealing content from other platforms) without knowing if the actress/actor is alive or not. For all you know, that nameless hot girl/guy you've been wanking off to for the past week has tragically died decades ago and you're seeing their deep fake.

death...

People like to belittle the profession as nothing but drug abusing individuals who got sucked up into the job because they had no other prospects in life. While that may be slightly true, I see them as artists. They create timeless voyeuristic art that future men and women will be able to pleasure themselves to. How is that not a great legacy to leave behind? With all the recent tragic death of these porn stars, at least there's a silver lining to consider.

What the heck am I going to leave behind? I wish women would somehow normalize sexualizing men. Maybe one of these days I'll have some 100 lb gamer hottie paying me in roses and chocolate emoticons everytime I say "ooo ice cream so good."

have someone ask you questions about horoscopes. Like, I understand astrology and astronomy sound similar, but up until I was in high school I didn't understand the nuances either. I can't imagine how many other people mistake the two for each other.

Sucks to study so hard for a profession where some crystal loving - homeopathy believin-tree-huggin **** mistakes your job for some horoscope equivalent.

PurpleOutsider posted...

My mom was both a celiac and allergic to corn. After the diagnosis, she called Coke to find out if she could still drink Diet Coke, since wanted to get all wheat and corn out of her diet. While they couldn't say the ingredients, they could confirm it didn't have either of those.

interesting...so in theory by calling Coke and asking if they use a certain ingredient or not -- repeat 1000000 ingredients known to existence--you could essentially find out their secret coke recipe?

all the ingredients in case of food poisoning, allergies, etc?

What if I'm vegan and I'm eating an imitation steak, but it's using enoki mushrooms instead of tofu and I'm allergic? There's too many personal injury suits that it seems like a liability not to disclose any recipe. Can someone tell me how I'm seeing this wrong?

1337toothbrush posted...

I thought everyone just used chatgpt these days.

Well, if people make an effort to write their own thoughts on forums like these, what are the chances that the same type of people will exist in these school board settings? I'm sure more than a handful. I like to think that posters have an ego that prevents them from relying on AI or plagiarizing.

It's usually discussion posts for school assignments that center around humanities courses. Sometimes you'd see posts that are beyond edgy, but their thought process is rationalized well through their critical thinking. Other times, you'd get lazy posts that have full on fragments and sound like bits and pieces were taken from other articles. For this one particular class though, I've encountered a lot of classmates that try to sound "educated" by using big words--sometimes malapropisms--that end up forcefully creating awkward sentences that just don't flow.

For example, there was a question about cultural ancestry and whether or not DNA would link you to a specific lineage. One student wrote something like, "Convalescently, I don't believe the structural integrity of one's lineage would be dubiously compromised, because what determines who you are is your kinship/connection. That said, DNA is structurally meant to define who you are, whether or not the blood defines your culture."

Wtf? How do I have an actual discussion with what I'm given? I'm required to reply to at least 2 classmates, but I'm not given enough content to reply with anything substantive. Do I just auto-bot my reply with: "HI _____ I like your post, your point on ____ made really great sense. Great job on your post. Thank you very much."

I just want to take nothing but accounting courses already.

We are slowly gearing ourselves for the Great Depression.

• Housing market will crash
• AI bubble will burst. What is up with NVIDIA? Way too overvalued
• SPY will crash down to 300 levels
• Corporations will increase executive pay while laying off workers
• Government debt will only increase
• Education is so competitive that every job almost requires a masters

You have to disclose your first and last name along with an email address to a third party in order to participate in their share buying program. I presumed reddit reached out to everyone considering how increased shareholders would benefit their bottom line. Has anyone else gotten a message or are they being selective in terms of usage history and karma? Doesn't make sense if the latter applies.

Just realizing the retirement age will extend to 69 at some point. Which makes me wonder if it's worth planning travel for retirement if I'm going to be limited in mobility. Maybe the trick is to "force retire" at 60 and live your 10 years enjoying your limited health.

marthsheretoo posted...

Mac, we found the bike.

What bike? It's there to lift me up when I'm tired....

I went from wearing an XXL to just a large

Would you rather look big with a shirt on or look small but ripped underneath? By becoming fat, you bypass the 4-5 years of hard work needed to gain the same amount of mass.

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Whoa this dude has the same story as me!

Anecdotally speaking, when I was 270 lbs, 3 years ago, a lot of people (gym bros and middle age men) used to give me head nods as a sign of acknowledgement whenever I would walk by in public. It was weird in the sense that I looked sort of brawny like a D-line backer when I had my shirt on, but without it you could tell I had very little muscle definition.The fat on my body gave out the illusion that I was muscular. You could even argue that it was a confidence move to get validation from random gym bros.

Now that I'm actually working out and losing weight (down to 230), what appeared to look like massive back and shoulder muscles, have shriveled up taking away the illusion of me having any sign of muscularity. Now I don't get any head nods when I'm out shopping for groceries. I felt like people were intimidated of me before; now I get the feeling that I'm being sized down by the same people that once gave me head nods. People don't give me the same respect anymore. I need to get fat again.

I miss being fat.

So the Bing is going to be a male strip club then?

Wanda Skyes: "He was only 20 years old! Why did you have to do that to him? He had a baby on the way too"

Girl playing Ralph: "But he was a wwhooarrr and that wasn't my baby"

Glob posted...

Yeah. There were many things wrong with my childhood but not going to Disneyland wasnt one of them.

I went to Sanrio Land instead and look how great I turned out /S

Disney makes kids happy. Happy kids make a great family. Therefore by transient property, Disney could makes great families.

ai123 posted...

Is this satire?

Do you not realize how expensive a trip to Disneyland is? If you grew up with no social mobility, you better believe you'll be working dead end jobs until you finally have enough saved up. By that time you're a mid manager at some chain restaurant and you finally have a week off after gritting 20 years of your life through sleepless nights, and unpaid overtime.

_____Cait posted...

People in here have really weird and sometimes dangerous advice or opinions

having kids depends on the person, circumstances, and partners involved. Thats it.

Yes, absolutely. But can we all agree that having kids when you're in a shitty circumstance with shitty partners is horrible?

If you're making 30k a year with a partner that's addicted to alcohol, should you really be having kids? Just like my friend only grossing 60k a year, that's not enough income to responsibly support a child with even the basic necessities. Can you imagine growing up as a child not ever having the opportunity to go to Disneyland/world until you're in your 40s? I wouldn't want to do that to my kids.

Just a small town 18 year old girl at Starbucks
Livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight starbucks run going anywherrrreeee
Just a city boy
Born and raised in South Detroit
He took also took the midnight run going anyyyywheeeeree

"Strangers waitin' Up and down the boulevard"

Let's not gate keep rom com scenarios from happening now

What about having kids when you're 50? 60? Can you still enjoy parenthood or is it only worth doing when you have the energy and health while you're young?

LeoRavus posted...

Poor people with kids get all kinds of government assistance.

But they're still below the middle income level right? In that sense is it worth having kids even with the government assistance?

viewmaster_pi posted...

having kids is, not are. the concept of having kids is one thing, kids are multiple things, so it should be "having kids is a trap, right?"

What if I mean "kids" as in multiple kids to make it a plural noun?

I found out one of my friends who I haven't had contact with for so long just had kids and now he's married. He was working as a restaurant manager barely making 60k when I knew him. I remember him spending his money recklessly on drugs, alcohol, and gambling establishments (slot machines). Had he cleaned up his life then, he would have had 20k put aside every year, totaling to maybe 80k by now without considering compounding interest.

Now that guy has a kid. He'll never be able to save money. That 20k he could have put on the side goes straight to child care expenses. Now he's trapped into a lifestyle where he's bound by law to uphold his parental duties. He can kiss his 30 - 50s goodbye.

I think when you have a stable career, your 30s and 40s are a prime time to really dig deep into your predispositions and see what your true passion is. Having kids will ruin that "me time" that many men over 30 are missing out on.

Somehow I went from being racially neutral to being implicitly scared of white people that believe in the Anglo-Saxon perspective. I'm learning about social Darwinism, imperialism, militarism; and it makes me sick to my stomach. They were pretty much terrorists that pillaged indigenous tribes that were trying to peacefully live their nomadic lifestyles. They forced private ownership onto them. Took their land, and justified cultural genocide as part of their "making the world a better place" bullshit rhetoric.

I get that people today are different. But a part of me believes that their proclivity to harm and manipulate people for an agenda is deep rooted into their genomes. If evolution plays a part in certain personality types succeeding, then can't we agree that people like Trump and Andre Tate are examples of how evil persists?

I have to go to therapy next week and I really don't feel comfortable talking about this issue with them.

Aristoph posted...

"I apologize" = "I know you're upset because of something I did."
"I'm sorry" = "I know you're upset because I fucked up."

One takes personal responsibility and shows intention to be better next time. The other simply acknowledges the situation but doesn't plan on doing anything differently next time.

That's dumb. So if someone says they apologize, I could respond back by saying, "I guess you're not truly sorry then huh? Well F*** you too."

but "I apologize" is okay?
I never understood it. If you're going to apologize, you might as well say you're sorry. Is this a matter of self preservation? Do they think saying sorry makes them look weaker than saying "I apologize?"

Why does it have to be that way? Doesn't that behavior somehow rationalize that human beings are intrinsically geared for murder? I feel like society and its current rules are the only reason why civilizations aren't randomly pillaging neighboring cities. What would happen if that structure become broken?

It's like going to an ethnic wedding you haven't been invited to, and throwing temper tantrums because the wedding dinner didn't have real food; your favorite American hamburger. Somehow that behavior justifies throwing a massive prima donna fit, by proceeding to ruin the wedding shouting obscenities and drunkenly stumbling everywhere in rage, breaking everything in sight. Why should the wedding have to accomodate you? YOU WEREN'T INVITED. But noooo, it doesn't end there. Now it's in the papers that the ethnic wedding party wasn't all inclusive and as a result, random people are upset, further justifying your rage as appropriate. The innocent couple on the other hand, now have to deal with a lifetime of trauma, all because some drunk asshole decided to crash their party. That sounds like the premise America was built on.

badjay posted...

I'm not a restaurant owner or anything so don't take me too seriously. This is just putting serious thought into the subject at hand.

If you have a 100 customers paying for 40 dollar crunchy roll platters, and you lose 20% of customers but the rest (80) pay up 50. It's 4000 vs 4000. So basically provided you don't lose more than 20% of your customers you should be fine.

If the restaurant has a more intimate setting where the owner knows the customers just lay it out for people honestly. They'll either continue patronizing the place out of supporting a local place or not. Customers always should have a say. You can either just throw the price in without them knowing or not. However it's possible that you lose out on tips too. If people know you're charging more to make a more comfortable living then tipping shouldn't be necessary if everyone is getting paid well.

REGARDLESS, I'll have to say a 40 piece sushi set for 40 sounds like a steal.

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This is one I ripped from a place. Not sure but 30 pieces commands a price of 46 dollars. But your quality of sushi will have to determine the price ultimately and if it's good enough.

If you're struggling for prices, there are probably higher yielding dishes like spicy varieties of fish where you can mix in lower quality fish with spicy mayo and still charge higher prices because people tend to enjoy them regardless. (I enjoy eating these a lot).

If the place is new it seems pretty easy to change the price on stuff and have a short explanation stating it wouldn't be profitable and you'd have to shutter. Please understand, and move on. No point in running a restaurant to feed people and then close down and be unable to feed those people because you didn't make enough money. So long as you aren't being unethical about your pricing and how food is prepared your friends should be fine.

Thank you for taking your time with this. I appreciate your help mate. I just spoke to my friend and they're concerned about ruining the established relationship they have with their customers.They're telling me customers often come to their establishment through word of mouth and raising the price of their menu would deter their loyal customer base. I told them them the same thing you just mentioned, "If 80% of your customers are willing to pay, why not?"

Ultimately, it's their conservative Japanese- non capitalistic viewpoint that's ruining their business model. Apparently, these guys are happy working 10 hours a day for peanuts. I would never understand my friend and their work ethics of "diminishing returns."

superbot400 posted...

it depends on how much energy,machinery,rent, labor cost its operating on. Also what state, that change what you need to keep the business alive . 10-15 %is way better than most restaurant. Most failing restaurants cant make money, let alone get it up to 14%.

source : used to run a pizza business that was struggling to get 5% profit margin. Who would have probably stay in business if it even cost to that number.

Their operating expense ratio is about 52% on average. They operate in California (I have no idea why they would consider doing business in such an expensive state).

May I ask why you were struggling to get 5% margin? I thought the cost of goods sold for pizza would be relatively low. Did you have to pay interest on your business debt or were your operating costs also similar to 50%?

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So let's say their sushi sells for $16 a pop. If they want to net at least 30%, wouldn't they have to raise the price of their sushi to at least $18-20? How will they be able to suddenly increase the price of their sushi without deterring customers?

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No alcohol as it's take out only. Apparently for a dine in restaurant, they need to have a "bathroom" that's accessible to customers by law.

Naysaspace posted...

Whats their ebit

No debt other than a 50K notes payable to friend that lent them money.

Considering revenue for the month is around $21k, and cost of goods sold is about $8k. Operating expenses account for a fixed rate of $11,000, leaving a net profit of usually 2-3k a month.

My friend works 6 days out of the week, 10 hours a day at his restaurant. I just found out today, they were pricing their menu based on cost of goods sold and never factored in operating expenses. Basically a $40 crunchy roll platter with 40 pieces of sushi, only profits them $5 ish. That means on a good day, they makes around $100 for 10 hours of work. It's saddening because their business model is based on "Japanese" business knowledge where they naively thought running a business in the US is similar to Japan. It's not. In Japan you can get away with selling for cheap because there's not much operating cost to worry about.

Should they raise the price of their crunchy roll platter to at least $50? How would they explain to their customers the sudden $10 price increase? I know CE has some super smart financial consultants/accountants. Will you be so kind to suggest anything that would help? These are good people and I hate to see them on the losing side.

Therapy convinced me to start social media as a way to start journaling my healing progress. I thought the algorithm might garner me viewership and potentially some followers. Thinking that I had chance, I went through the process of looking up editing tutorials and even read a few articles on compositional theory. But no matter what I do, I can't seem to project the same vanity in my videos like the other influencers have made seemingly effortless. I don't have that same enthusiasm when I'm talking about myself. I can't seem to make trending topics like: "This is how my day in the office is," or "How much protein do I eat in a day?" Everything calls upon being intrinsically self-centered in order to make a good video; otherwise it just takes a whole lot of energy to fake a "pick me" attitude.

I think social media is stupid, but if people can somehow make passive income out of it, I want to join the bandwagon too. Why am I working so hard for $20 an hour, when there are college dropouts that are making millions for doing absolutely nothing?

Dakimakura posted...

I am also a professor. Not only is that guy after you now, depending on the size of the school, most other professors know/are friends with each other. That guy is going to poison your reputation to all the other people there. Good luck ever getting fairly graded. Probably should just switch schools at this point to be safe.

That sounds extremely malicious. Are you just saying this to scare me or is this something you do as a professor? You guys are not above tort law.

I have until tuesday to drop the course. I would really like to hope that I'm just overthinking things, but when I read my professor's response to other students that he "liked" tag, they were good feedback that were validating. I just want to make sure that he's not going to grade my future papers with bias based the premise that he didn't give me any feedback whatsoever.

DandyQuackShot posted...

My little town began a Juneteenth with their Rosenwald school the feature exhibit. People are just now discovering how effective these schools really were

are you okay? I had a hypomanic episode a few days ago too.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Way, way overthinking it.

Do you think so? I can't help but feel directly targeted, especially how 3 posts (pretty much all the posts so far) right after mine got "liked" by him.

SauI_Goodman posted...

What grades did you get on the assignments

Not graded yet.

It's an online course that just started a week ago. So far we had to do two assignments: 1. Introduction to the class along with explaining the differences between primary and secondary sources. 2. Talk about how Frederick's speech was a warning of the "Lost Cause" narrative along with comparing WEB Dubois approach for direct action and T.Washington's approach for accomodation and which would have been better for Jim Crow.

I spent 7-8 hours reading through the sources, watching the lecture material and I was the first one to post. The next day there were 3 other people posting after me and the professor "liked" tag their posts except for mine. He did the same thing when I posted my introduction for the class as well. I'm starting to get the impression that he does not like me. Perhaps he thought my writing was peculiar and sounded off putting?

So emailed him this:

"I noticed there were "likes" given for the discussion posts. If I did not receive one from you - blagh blagh blagh - does that mean I'm not doing well in your class?"

I'm about to write a long email to the Dean about how his class is not inclusive. I just lost all motivation to try in this class.

Do you guys have any advice on how I could go to sleep? I'm at this point where my brain feels fried, like when you go on a caffeine binge, but I can't seem to lay down and close my eyes longer than 2 hours.

Please. Any advice would help.

VampireCoyote posted...

Youre experiencing exactly what Ive gone through the last few years

hypomania is what Im diagnosed with now. I was manic for 7 months straight shit was wild

How did you know you were manic for 7 months? If the duration was that long, I would have thought it was just part of my personality.

I'm not sure if I fit into this criteria. I've been sleeping 3 hours a day for the past week with a decent amount of energy. I feel motivated to take on multiple tasks despite not being able to fully focus on a single project. It feels like similar to a subtle adderall high, but I don't have the complications of paranoia and hallucinations that come as a side effect. I'm actually scared that I have no idea what's happening to my brain. Is it possible to get late onset Bipolar after taking year of medication for depression and anxiety? I'm actually worried that these antidepressants actually changed my brain chemistry and as a result I'm suffering from periods of hypomania.

Are these actions a precursor to having a manic episode? I don't have a point of reference as the only manic people I've seen were the ones exaggerated through television.

Thus, while the syntax and style of academic philosophical writing may indeed come across as unnecessarily convoluted and perhaps even pretentious, it is a deliberate choice designed to convey complex ideas with precision and depth. It is an art form in its own right, albeit one that demands a considerable investment of time and mental energy from its audience.

You just made me wonder how these writing styles are being translated into foreign languages? A language like Japanese won't have much of the same vocabulary let alone the same sentence structures that will help them convey similar thoughts. I have a difficult time imagining someone is bilingual enough to fully understand English and Japanese enough to translate the thoughts with precision.