GraniteM

I love SOHKN MILINE!

"I tried to find out who was playing Baldur's Gate 3, but all I found was this worthless pile of sexual abuse evidence!" [Throws cardboard box into incinerator]

Better for what? I only listen to mp3s I've got stored on my phone; I use BlackPlayer for that, and I love it. For streaming music purposes... I dunno, I never got into that racket.

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too, right then, so they'd leave me alone.

—Ender Wiggin, Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card

P.S. This attitude led Ender to >!accidentally genocide an entire sentient alien species.!<

What's odd is that Anon is so close to achieving enlightenment. I got to a point in my life where I felt like I had no idea how to attract a romantic partner. I'd dated a few times, but each time it had kind of fell into my lap, and I never got the hang of talking to women I found attractive in a way that made it clear I was interested.

So I just gave up. I accepted that I had no idea how to get a date, and I just went about my life, pursuing things that I found interesting.

And, lo and behold, I wound up meeting the woman I would marry, albeit through the mechanism of someone straight up telling me that she was interested in me.

If you're focused on "getting" a girlfriend, you're thinking of a partner as a valuable object to be acquired, and you're not enjoying your own life, and improving yourself within that life. If you don't think of romance as a pursuit, but rather as something good that can happen within the context of living your life well, then you are much better off.

Also, you've really got to get it into your head and heart that women are people and not prey animals, which I'm going to be honest, it seems might be a detail that is escaping Anon.

The theory I heard on the Strict Scrutiny podcast is that the 5th Circuit exists to write atrocious opinions on terrible rulings so that the Supreme Court can make rulings that are only 85% as horrible as that so the SC can seem more reasonable by comparison.

I worked on this story for a year...

And the Carolina Squat!

I thought that was the sort of thing that the government mandated companies had to do in a controlled and transparent fashion. I wouldn't have thought that the NTSB would allow a vehicle to be registered without a thoroughly vetted crash testing procedure.

I describe fox noises as sounding like a combination of shock and pain, like someone getting unexpectedly stabbed in the back with a fondue fork at what was up until then a nice party.

Sorry

Also, this is just a really negative set of statements. "I DON'T want X, Y, and Z." Even giving anon a pretty big benefit of the doubt and assuming they didn't state it like "No fatties," they aren't really saying what they want in a partner, just a bunch of standards by which they would judge somebody.

The search for a romantic partner should involve more positives than negatives. You should have ideas about what things you like in people and yourself, and what interests and activities that you're passionate about and would like to share with someone. If you start with a laundry list of things that you don't like, that's not just going to be off-putting, it's going to be limiting you to thinking only in those terms, rather than finding something that brings you joy, and finding someone that has that in common with you.