That teaching isn’t the point. It’s getting research grants or funding. So much energy was spent on that. Students came 2nd.

One of my favorite things about getting older is that I give less of a shit about anyone else’s opinion, every year. When you’re 40, you’re gonna laugh at how worked up you got about this.

But the reason people like or dislike stories isn’t because of powers or machines in them.

For some, sure. For others, like me, that is exactly why I like certain things.

How pedantic of you. ;)

Waiting so long to cut off a toxic parent. Not spending more time with a good parent. Not going to therapy sooner.

Aw, thanks.

It’s not about loving myself. I think I’m pretty decent. It’s just luck of the draw that everyone around me has their head up their ass. I rationally know I should be loved. I emotionally feel the lack and don’t understand it.

No idea. I posted like I usually do

That’s just the way I’ve been treated my entire life. Don’t see any reason for it to change.

Huh?

Wish I this could be me, but I don’t think it’s in the cards.

I mean, this is imaginary starships.

The US. In my dad’s time it was percolator brewed (the literal worst way to brew) or with low grade, super roasted. I drink medium roast or lighter and drip brew or pour over. Vast vast difference.

Second vote for thiccmoe

Coffee. My dad was in the navy in the 70s and you could tell by the tar he drank. Never got into it. Early 20s I got hired as a delivery boy for a coffee shop. A perk was that it came with free coffee drinks. Turns out I didn’t hate coffee, I hated the swill my father brewed. Good coffee was quite good.

Ugh. I’m the opposite. I hate mine. It’s a middling mattress that can’t hold its edge shape. Mine is now a slope. Also moving them is somehow worse than moving a spring mattress which is already terrible!

I find this hard to believe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gum_base

They’re right.

Vtubers. I get the cute anime girl thing and I like fan art of them as I do other anime. But the models move wayyyyyy to exaggerated. It hits uncanny valley for me.

Also I don’t get the parasocial relationship of chatting in a huge room of other followers. The chat is scrolling by at a hundred miles an hour and you’re competing with everyone else for their attention.

Making anything. All of my hobbies are making. Making pickles or beer or bread or dried snacks or canned jams. Designing and 3d printing my own widgets. Organizing and cleaning. Structure.

I use connect which also does that. IMO, it should be native.