It varies person to person, in my experience. Some straight dudes are also uncomfortable with this "guy talk". And some bi and gay chicks will do it so much it makes me uncomfortable lol
I was never able to fully form the habit with transactions. The guardrails I use are writing the where clause first and keeping my query tool in read-only mode for prod connections and only disabling it once I'm sure I need to make a change.
The country had an identity crisis boil to a head 10 years ago, and the DNC decided sucking corpo teat was more important than actually giving people what they need.
Big yep. Partner ≠ 24-hour therapist. If you can't be alone with your thoughts, you aren't working on your shit, and shouldn't inflict it on someone else just because they're there.
Best Buy financing is pretty sick, 0% for 24 mos on high-dollar items. I bought a ~14-year-old house that still had the original washer and dryer in it and immediately replaced them with brand new, warrantied ones in a way that didn't force me to pay extra to some do-nothing rent-taker and that I didn't even feel the hit financially. Promotional shit like that feels scammy sometimes, but it definitely has its place if you use it judiciously.
Oh snap, not sure how I missed that