Well, did you kill your parents when you came of age? You can be free from someone without killing them.

Also relevant - you can’t smell porn. Everyone has a scent, especially when doing a physical activity.

You KNOW there’s a brothel that constantly brews polyjuice. Bring in a hair from the person you’re attracted to, and have sex with (someone who looks exactly like) them!

You can even obliviate the polyjuice’d person afterwards and leave no evidence behind. Consent in the wizarding world is beyond fucked.

I should not be involved with people who turn a blind eye to fascism.

Full stop.

I’m sorry to say that you already know what you have to do. There’s no easy way to do it other than to just do it. If it makes the process easier, you don’t have to pose it as “it’s me or them” because you already know what his answer will be. If he was going to change, he’s had plenty of opportunities already.

Don’t wait for him anymore. Live YOUR life.

That’s an interesting wikipedia article - that’s the first time I’ve seen [failed verification] on a citation, let alone two. You learn something new every day.

I think this is too specific, as you mentioned. Why not broaden it to “a piece of literature they were not required to read”? You could talk about anything from wikipedia articles, to current news headlines or sci-fi books this way, and it shows where their curiosity lies.

Article: Gender-affirming care

Commenter:Gender-affirming care

You: Sex change

You seem to still be misinformed.

I love both Page and Inception, but I agree, his most memorable moment was his kiss with JGL. I remember seeing it in theaters and thinking, “Why does this feel queer?”

When he came out, it finally clicked. Crush confirmed.

Have you considered that he might like having his name start with E so his initials didn’t change for his signature?

First, think about how smart the “average” person is.

Next, think about how half of the people in the world are dumber than that and you start to get an idea.

Yeah, yours is hypothetical. Good luck solving entropy.

“People have died long before Jack the Ripper. If we want to prevent death, you need for the root cause, which isn’t Jack”

We’re not trying to solve every case of data disappearing, but the large influx that has appeared as a direct result of Trump’s orders.

In case it’s not obvious, the root cause of that is Trump.

This is clearly fake, right?

Both achievements and in-game rewards linked to playtime should be banned. The “Tales” game series is especially bad at requiring ridiculous amounts of playtime for character abilities.

50 hours in menus, 25 hours in “combat”, and a whooping 250 hours in the game in general for the highest-level bonuses for the main character in Tales of Berseria.

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I’m both glad you made it out and jealous I don’t have a similar history with another country to move to. You’re a great parent for everything you do for your daughter. Hope the last bit of the trip went smoothly and you find a job quickly.

Convicted felon. Known rapist. Told us to inject bleach for COVID.

Absolutely I still blame people who think he has their interests in mind.

Back in my day, we let the entire ringtone play out because it was “Who let the dogs out”, and we paid 99 cents for it. There was no way we would admit that paying for a ringtone was a dumb idea, so we had to justify it any time we got a phone call.

(By we, I mean millennials, but I never did buy a ringtone. Never understood it, and have used vibrate since my first phone.)

With that data collection, their algorithm for targeted marketing is on a completely different level. I completely believe they’re profitable.

Not only do you have knowledge into people who are likely buyers, you can put them into a buying mood right before showing them the ad so they’re primed for it. Then on top of THAT, you don’t have to design, film or edit the ad - you just pay an influencer to do it for you. It makes it faster, easier and cheaper to AstroTurf brand awareness than ever before.

Relatedly, the only people I know ordering things from Shien or Temu are on TikTok.

I understand this sentiment because I had a similar story growing up, but I’ve had to come to terms that the internet of that era does not exist anymore.

Now we have these corporations who made it their goal to algorithmically trick you into spending more and more time engaged with their website for ad revenue, not caring how angry or misinformed people get in the meantime. It used to be a place we could escape to, but has turned into just another echo chamber/prison and worst of all - we’re addicted to it.

I think places like Mastodon and the Fediverse can help bridge this gap, but on the whole, the internet is just not a safe place for developing brains anymore.