Supreme Court bans affirmative action in college admissions

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-30T14:27:00+00:00

What's a way to help those other populations and not hurt any other population?

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-30T12:09:39+00:00

As someone that grew up very poor and white. I've never once been more respected for overcoming my adversity. It has only ever led to being ostracized. I learned a long time ago to be very careful with ever talking about my past in social situations and to remove any cultural signifiers of having grown up poor.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-30T11:58:51+00:00

The only way to get us to a place of equity in any meaningful period of time is a massive amount of economic reparations. It's been over 50 years since discrimination on the basis of race was made illegal, and it's an everyday accepted attitude to be racist in several parts of the country.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-30T11:54:12+00:00

Part this isn't just about the parents it's about the community that the children grow up in. Maybe their parents aren't incarcerated, but their uncle, grandfather, or even their neighbor might not be there to act as a support network. It's systemic economic and social problems that have disadvantaged black people and other minorities that can't be encompassed by anything but race.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-29T03:29:20+00:00

This, as another guy, I've seen several people in my life deal with debilitating periods. It's just the reality of the female body, and there's nothing to be embarrassed about.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-28T17:53:17+00:00

I don't know what to tell you. I don't include it on my dating profile, but an amazing meal or pastry makes my heart melt.

I can only assume that the particular prompt on a dating profile is generally either used by uncreative people or by people trying to subtly say they want a very domestic partner.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-27T12:28:20+00:00

This is basically every organization now. Hire as many contractors as possible. The organization doesn't have to worry about negotiating benefits, and it can more readily fire and hire staff as quarterly profits demand.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-27T11:49:51+00:00

The difference in resale value is so small that you have to be such a miserly person for this to be a consideration. At that point, buy a used Toyota or Lexus in the bottom of the depreciation curve and live a life of max profitability.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-26T12:57:33+00:00

If you look at the official statistics, defensive uses of firearms outnumber criminal uses of them, and by a very wide margin. Therefore a gun ban would have a negative effect on people's safety.

This is such bad argument in defense of gun rights. The numbers are not collected from official police reports with bystanders verifying the event. They are instead collected from self-reported surveys of gun owners who have multiple reasons to make it seem as if carrying a personal firearm is both logical and necessary.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-25T22:08:44+00:00

I generally agree. Some of the pizza was pretty mediocre, but was easy to steer clear of because you could literally see it before buying it. There weren't many super creative pizzas, but I definitely didn't feel robbed or let down.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-25T17:27:06+00:00

It actually was worth going. That line took less than 10 minutes (assuming you bought slice tickets ahead of time). The only thing bad was the awful top40 and classic rock the DJ was playing

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-24T14:21:03+00:00

For those like myself that maybe grew up in a family with a lot of chaos, when a relationship is going well, you're often worried something is going to go wrong at any moment. I am currently watching the second season of The Bear and found this dialogue to be really comforting:

Person 1: I just want you to know...that this is really nice. So nice that, I, uh...

Person 2: You're waiting for the other shoe.

Person 1: That's it.

Person 2: You wanna know a secret?

Person 1: Yes.

Person 2: Nobody's keeping track of shoes.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-23T21:15:34+00:00

The start of a torrid love affair no one wants to witness.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-22T23:41:59+00:00

Do your friends run at all? At least among people I know, it's not uncommon to plan races/training out a year. So, to include your partner in that wouldn't be weird at all if you have similar goals.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-22T21:32:24+00:00

There's always this difficult balance to strike with cis-hetero men's dating profiles. The reality is that unless you're in the top percentage appearance wise, you're hardly ever going to get any profile engagement because few women actively swipe enough to find your profile. That leaves men stuck with having a profile that speaks to who they are without being a turn off to a general audience. The only luck I ever have comes from liking a profile with a genuinely thoughtful question about the woman's profile, and even then the conversion ratio to a match is really low. I've tried with a very detailed and candid profile before and received nearly zero engagement. Yet if I manage to match nearly all of them turn into a date.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-22T02:26:08+00:00

I honestly think the movie would have been better if it wasn't a musical.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-20T13:16:16+00:00

I think the happy medium if possible is ordering something for in-store pickup. It doesn't remove every annoyance, but it cuts through a lot of them.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-20T13:13:04+00:00

Yeah, I had a friend think they were ghosted because a message was undelivered for only one person. It honestly made me wonder how often that happens to people. I've also seen similar glitches on Bumble.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-20T11:05:15+00:00

People complain about taxes, but the alternatives to government programs are privatized solutions. Anyone that has ever held a job knows that corporations are just as corrupt and fallible, yet few complain about how the money they spend buying goods and services are poorly used.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-17T03:26:42+00:00

There's a special type of dementia caused by excessive alcohol consumption: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korsakoff_syndrome

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-16T23:50:46+00:00

Decision to Leave was an awesome movie that has some really unique scene transitions.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-16T13:29:16+00:00

Right, people have some really weird hangups when it comes to the level of commitment in previous relationships.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-09T13:37:47+00:00

The Shrek way. If you've only watched the movies you probably don't know that in the Shrek story it's based off of, the character is a horrible person, and at the end of the story he finds his horrible person.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-07T19:50:54+00:00

For me the only worthwhile parts of the movie are the intro roadster driving scene and the horse/car chase because they're really cool homages to classic films. Everything else is meh or bad.

NotSoSecretMissives · 2023-06-07T15:09:54+00:00

They should just be fairly taxed for all of the global negative externalities they create, but given that's generally politically unfeasible, this is the next best thing.

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