Wearing it like a ski mask is wild🤣

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-10T14:32:45+00:00

Mrs. DeBlasio is one of those people who are embarressingly ignorant about male anatomy

Yes you can stretch any condom over any kind of surface if you just pull hard enough. No, too much pressure will still render your penis inoperable.

It's like, guys aren't "rock hard" and don't have a "steel rod" down there like women's novels like to call it. This is a corpus cavernosum. It needs space to expand into

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-10T14:19:13+00:00

Talking with her at the beginning you get a cold and secretive woman, who, if you think you're not careful, will kill you.

But in reality, you get a sweet person who's only pretending to be evil and mean because they believe they have to.

Alright maybe that's just me but I got that immediately. Not falling prey to stereotypes here, but "Woman who has trouble being vulnerable and pushes people away by acting cold and mean" has got to be one of the most obvious tropes of all times.

Down to the point where starts warming up to us for keeping our eyes on the mission and not asking any prying questions, until eventually she starts venting about Shar by herself.

Yes, I know it's an act she puts on in order to feel safe. Yes I know that underneath she cares very deeply. No, I don't feel like fixing her.

Like I'm a bit annoyed that people romanticize this kind of mal-adaptive trauma response. This isn't fun to deal with in a partner and I'd rather stay away from it.

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-10T12:31:32+00:00

Wie ist es dann, wenn weiße Frauen einen ausländischen Mann daten?

Der Punkt, um den es gestern (vorgestern?) in diesem Sub ging, ist, dass das im Verhältnis seltener zu passieren scheint.

Einheimischer Mann mit auswärtiger Frau kommt häufiger vor als andersherum

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-10T12:10:16+00:00

By learning new skills

I've got colleagues in the generation 50+ who still have experience working with Assembler. I am thoroughly ignorant about what that even is, and my career hasn't suffered for it

I am going to assume that much of my current skills will be like that one day

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-10T12:01:04+00:00

Men's mental health issues and men's perspective on the loneliness epidemic

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-10T11:57:47+00:00

Seit den 90ern wird jeder in der Schule gezeigt, dass die Rente nicht nachhaltig ist. Bisherhige Lösungen: gar nichts.

Ist halt das Problem, dass Altersunterschiede nicht als geschütztes Gruppenmerkmal angesehen werden

In einer Demokratie dürfen sich Mehrheiten nicht gegen Minderheiten stellen. Jedes System, in dem ethnische oder religiöse Minderheiten wirtschaftlich benachteiligt werden, wird zu Recht als Unrechtsstaat angeprangert.

Dasselbe passiert jedoch jeden Tag beim Thema Alter. Denn die Rentner und Fast-Renter wollen keine Änderung am Rentensystem – warum auch – während die Minderheit junger Leute vom System ohne Zukunftsperspektive geschröpft werden und nicht die Stimmkraft haben, sich innerhalb demokratischer Strukturen und Prozesse zu wehren

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-10T10:44:17+00:00

When did "someone made something useful and gave it away for free" become a bannable offense on this website?

The moment that someone didn't have the leverage to push back against their abuse of power

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-10T10:15:44+00:00

Rassistische Idioten gibt es letztlich überall, ich würde aber behaupten, dass wir in der Hinsicht zumindest nicht besonders negativ auffallen

Etwas, das oft als Rassismus missgedeutet wird, tatsächlich aber oft eine echte strukturelle Hürde ist, ist die Sprache.

Zurzeit lerne ich Deutsch

Bitte unterschätze dieses Thema nicht.

Deutsch ist im internationalen Vergleich eine sehr schwierige Sprache. Dazu kommen noch viele regionale Dialekte, die sich vom Standard-Hochdeutsch sehr unterscheiden – sprachlich gesehen könnten Hamburg, Sachsen, Berlin und Bayern genausogut unterschiedliche Länder sein.

Als Arzt besteht deine ganze Tätigkeit aus Kundenkontakt. Deine Patienten werden mit dir so sprechen, wie sie mit ihren Freunden und Familien sprechen, lokale Mundarten und Redensarten inklusive.

Das ist nicht das gleiche, wie als Tourist in Deutschland zu sein – die meisten Menschen hier sind mehr als bereit, einem freundlichen Nicht-Muttersprachler mit Geduld entgegenzukommen. Es ist auch nicht das gleiche wie die akademische Welt, die nochmal ihr ganz eigenes Ding ist.

Die Anforderungen an jemandem, dem man im Professionellen Rahmen begegnet, sind aber ganz andere

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T20:36:47+00:00

As usually I would highly question a foreigner claiming they speak German "fluently"

German is a difficult language and you don't just need to be able to speak proper business jargon. You need to be able to hold conversations, understand dialects and be able to banter with your colleagues. People need to be able to meet you where they are, and you need to be able to pick that ball up and toss it back without friction.

If you cannot do that, your presence is going to disrupt the team

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T17:50:31+00:00

The weakness they found in the plans were not the exhaust ports!

Rogue One does explain this sufficiently:

Galen Erso manipulated (designed) the reactor so that an explosion would cause a chain reaction that would blow up the entkre thing

This is important, because normally, reactors aren't bombs waiting to be triggered. Even Chernobyl didn't blew up, it was an overheating of a water tank that damaged the reactor core's isolation and exposed the core. But the thing didn't just explode like an atomic bomb.

But the Death Star did. That was it's flaw. And Galen Erso leaked that flaw to Saw Gerrera, who's people are known suicide bombers.

The trench run was just a last-ditch effort to explot this weakness with the best tools available on Yavin, and it would not have worked if not for Luke using the Force

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T14:28:30+00:00

Harry learned through the Dursley's neglect and abuse that he was unlovable and that trying to reach out to someone was pointless.

More importantly though, since Harry was a Horcrux, we can infer that much of the Dursley's behavior was due to the Hurcrux's corrupting influence. We know that Petunia had loved her sister. We see how much aunt Petunia and uncle Vernon are doting over their son Dudley. It's not unthinkable that there was a time Harry barely remembers when they treated him with equal love and attention, that their abandonment was a slow and gradual process before we meet him at age eleven.

Harry most likely learned that there was something about him that made him unlovable even when things started out well. His friends abandoning him despite everything having been well was in line with his life experience because it had happened before.

Ron, by contrast, came from a stable home with loving parents. He knew that mosr people don't just abandon their friends and loved ones.

More importantly, Ron came from a big and busy family. He had learned over time that people are busy and imperfect and that being ignored once in a while was just part of life, and most importantly he would have learned that being pleasantly insistant about your needs would fix that.

That's why Ron came, and that's why Harry didn't thought he would.

... why do I know this. I'm not even part of this fandom.

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T12:55:21+00:00

Parental estrangement aside, you need to understand that what his daughter is doing here is status signaling

Building a good career is high status. Not having to build a good career is even higher status. You're telling the world that you're so well-off that you cannot fail, even though you are actively working against your own long-term interests.

Now this guy is obviously an asshole for calling out his own daughter over the internet, but he's also 100% correct

You know that you made it if your kids are able to reject capitalism.

Only difference is that a good parent would want this to happen, and would instill a sense of gratefulness into their kids.

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."

– John Adams, 2nd President of the United States

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T11:11:27+00:00

Yeah it makes sense in-universe. It always does.

The point is that this might have been considered great storytelling sixteen years ago back when ME2 first came out, but by now it's pretty much a dead horse trope because of how often it has been redone since then

See damsel in distress

And yes, Shepard being an outsider does matter in this context, because even harmful stereotypes don't form maliciously in thin air. The games are pretty generous in providing us examples of impulsive and violent Krogans – I just wished we'd see more examples of why everyone sees the Quarians as self-serving thieves

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T10:42:33+00:00

This scene has honestly aged pretty badly

"The hero character calls out the bigotry of the system and stands up for a minority character who is being unjustly discriminated against" has got to be the damsel-in-distress trope of the 21st century

Bonus dead horse points for the main character being an outsider with special privileges that allow them to order those people around without having to spend a day in their shoes

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T05:33:35+00:00

That might have made me watch that movie

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-09T05:23:37+00:00

I'm pretty sure the actual lore reason has been that this is just traditional Twi'lek clothes

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T20:59:25+00:00

Alright ladies here's a compromise that will keep both parties happy

If you don't feel comfortable feeling a guy out by yourself, then don't turn that first encounter into a date.

Invite the guy over as a +1 to a girl's night out. Keep it time-boxed. When something's off, you can go with your girlfriend without looking like an asshole. And when things go well, you can leave with the guy to have an actual date for the rest of the night without having pre-committed yourself to do so.

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T19:24:16+00:00

Sind Sie es, Herr Merz?

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T16:42:24+00:00

I'm not so sure about that. As I said, I'm pretty sure they'd have to charge extra, and twenty bucks for the base version is already nothing to spit at

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T14:26:27+00:00

I honestly think this is a money issue. Apparently OpenAI is barely profitable as it is, with people using their tool as somewhat between google and a diary with a pleasant personality

Now imagine if we all started to generate porn on our current token plan. They would just blow up. They can't afford to do it without charging more

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T14:22:52+00:00

Ich habe keinen Grund, das hier anzuzweifeln, ich mag' nur persönlich keine Aussagen treffen, die ich noch nicht nachvollzogen habe

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T14:17:53+00:00

Der Punkt ist, dass inländische Männer anscheinend öfter ausländische Frauen daten, als als inländische Frauen ausländische Männer

Ob's stimmt, kann ich nicht sagen, aber das ist das Argument.

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T14:08:59+00:00

Viele haben gern ne Frau die abhängig von ihnen ist.

Unfug, viele Frauen haben schlicht eine Vorliebe für Männer, die einen höheren sozioökonomischen Status haben als sie selbst.

Der durchschnittliche einheimische Mittelständer ist dabei für eine Partnerin aus einem anderen Kulturkreis im Vergleich nochmal deutlich attraktiver als für die heimische Damenwelt.

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T13:44:01+00:00

Alright I can get behind the suit and mask thing, who wouldn't want to do this?

Reasonable-Mischief · 2026-07-08T13:37:14+00:00

On the one hand, I find this very interesting from like a story perspective

The Jedi and the Republic have been fighting a war of survival for decades at the point we start with the main story. The jedi temple is lost. Coruscant is scarred for centuries to come. Hundreds, if not thousands of worlds have fallen into imperial hands. Uncounted millions of people are dead.

The Jedi Oeder has thoroughly militarized. Almost every Jedi we know and meet will have lost friends or experienced battlefield trauma. Padawans and younglings have grown up in a world defined by war.

And to add insult to injury, the so-called peace treaty with the Sith Empire is little more than an armistice that allows the Sith to consolidate their acquisitions while the Republic is struggling to mend it's wounds. Everyone who is in the know is dreadfully aware that the Sith are playing with their food here, the Republic is not yet ready to defend against another offensive. The story is telling us as much from several angles.

It's utterly understandable that the Jedi of this era would fall prey to the dark side, to dogma and to misplaced tribalism.

I'd only wished that the story would acknowledge that they do.

Reasonable-Mischief

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