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SwingingTheLamp

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    Women 30+, how do you deal with all these symptoms? I've been dealing with all of this ever since turning 30 (am 32)

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  • There was a poster who'd ask what we thought about age-gap relationships, spin elaborate relationship scenarios, rage-bait by insisting that any gap of more than about 2 years was disgusting, argue with anybody who said otherwise, delete the post, and then post something very similar days or weeks later. Very similar MO to this poster, coincidentally.

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    Women 30+, how do you deal with all these symptoms? I've been dealing with all of this ever since turning 30 (am 32)

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  • By the way, wherever happened to the age-gap relationship poster?

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    Women 30+, how do you deal with all these symptoms? I've been dealing with all of this ever since turning 30 (am 32)

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  • FYI, this person has posted this same question over and over, and hasn't seemed to absorb any of the answers.

  • It's true

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  • He was into Pink Floyd before they were cool (or were born).

  • Why did your last relationship fail?

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  • She was from New Delhi, and had a potential fiancé back in India. As I understood it, the culture of arranged marriage has moderated, and your family will find a partner for you only if you don't find one for yourself by a certain point. He was the one, if she didn't pick somebody else.

    So, after a less than a year of dating, her job moved to Europe, and she wanted me to marry her so we could stay together. I wasn't convinced that it wasn't just a case of cold feet about the guy at home, so I said no. One of the hardest decisions I've made, and sometimes I still second-guess it.

  • This happens a lot.

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  • I figured it out a while back. It's a definitional mismatch. While you and I think about entry level as the level at which we enter a career, the companies think of entry level as the level at which somebody enters the company. They ditched any notion of social responsibility in the form of cultivating new workers long ago.

  • Returning to the fediverse is hard.

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  • The trouble, I think, is that even Reddit wasn't Reddit (as we think of it now) for years and years. Recall that when it started, there were no subreddits, it was all one feed. The niche subreddits branched off of more general ones after participation grew and critical mass developed, the subreddit topics driven by what users were talking about.

    It doesn't work the other way around. You can create a community to house a topic that people want to talk about; you can't make people interested in a topic just by creating a community. I think we've suffered by premature fissioning into a thousand niche communities, each with 1 or 2 people talking to themselves.

  • It Wasn’t a Blowout, but El-Sayed Won. Get Behind Him, Democrats.

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  • Tactical voting may be the correct way to participate in FPTP elections, but unfortunately still doesn't lead to a good outcome, just like leaping out the window of a burning skyscraper to avoid being burned alive is the better choice.

  • By 60-Point Margin, Missouri Voters Reject GOP Push to Make Ballot Measures Harder to Pass

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  • Huh, a large majority of voters want voters to be able to vote? Weird.

  • It Wasn’t a Blowout, but El-Sayed Won. Get Behind Him, Democrats.

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  • It Wasn’t a Blowout, but El-Sayed Won. Get Behind Him, Democrats.

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  • You know what they say about assuming...

  • It Wasn’t a Blowout, but El-Sayed Won. Get Behind Him, Democrats.

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  • FYI, Pew Research found that only 85% of Biden voters showed up in 2024. If all eligible voters had shown up, though, Harris would have lost with 45%.

  • Well, I tried.

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  • Nah, I feel like you're really reaching. Walking is an innate characteristic of all humans. One of the defining characteristics, some say. That poor people walk in Houston is not a revelation. However, it is unconsciously making cars an instrument of punishment for the poor (forced to walk in a car-dominated hellscape), that is the dipshit behavior, and hell yes I'll judge Americans all day for being so cruel. It's anything but innate; you can't choose your skin color or sexual orientation, but you certainly can choose not to scream about removing a few street parking spots for an important bike lane.

    The observation that Americans don't walk unless it's a special event comes from a lifetime of observing my fellow Americans. Hell, I watch my neighbors drive 4 blocks to the grocery store almost daily.

  • Well, I tried.

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  • Thankfully, calling out dipshits for the dipshit things that they do is not racism. Houstonians have a choice, and they choose.... that kind of abomination.

  • Well, I tried.

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  • If the U.S. is so large, then don't we have plenty of room to build the necessities of life (stores, schools, offices) near where people live? The size of the country has next to nothing to do with the layout of a city. That's absurd.

  • Well, I tried.

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  • As yes, in the immortal words of Kris Kristofferson, "Freedom's just another word for deciding where you want to go based on other people not wanting to go there, too. (And somebody building a road to get there.)"

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  • Funny thing, flattening the entire city is what did happen in the 20th century. But for cars.

    Bad transit and big parking lots are a policy choice, and many cities around the world are showing that we can still make better choices. We don't just have to put up with car shit.

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  • Americans do walk sometimes, but only if it's a special event raising money for charity, or on vacation to a theme park like Disney World or Europe. Otherwise, if you can't park your car literally within sight of your destination, "there's no parking!"

  • Well, I tried.

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  • But cars are freedom! They let you go anywhere you want, right? /s