Ya Kid K's Congolese accent definitely has some of that marbles-in-the-mouth Staten Island sound. I was also surprised to learn she wasn't from the Burroughs.
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In the US, motorcycle helmets are held to a DOT specification, which are okay standards. Buy when talking about brain cases, DOT spec is kinda minimal acceptable designs. Snell certification is an additional, more rigorous set of standards, and in my experience, those helmets are generally more expensive and, in my experience, a better helmet to wear and use.
In the US: Emergency medical decisions/advanced directives, hospital visitation, postmortem decisions, much easier management of estate. There are lots more legal benefits, but that's a pretty big start.
Too few people have advanced directives. If you ever deal with a medical emergency or life-critical event, having these in place makes things a lot easier to manage. Marriage or affidavit of civil partnership is a shortcut for those things.
Fuck Konami
Sincere question: what did Konami do?
Pssh... This guy is chump change, maybe a senior engineer at best. You can tell by his footwear. The really highly paid engineers have Crocs with socks, if any footwear at all. 😆
Fuck cancer right in it's stupid ear. I'll take sudden, unexpected death, even a stupid death, over watching someone close slowly auger into the ground like that. Hell, I'd rather suck start a shotgun over watching another loved one scoured away by cancer. There are people I'd kick in the junk on sight, and I still wouldn't wish cancer on them.
Because patents are now used as an offensive thicket and a way to parasitize businesses that actually do something.
Intellectual Ventures is one of the more notable patient troll companies: https://www.techdirt.com/2016/03/31/stupid-patent-month-mega-troll-intellectual-ventures-hits-florist-with-do-it-on-a-computer-scheduling-patent/
Ihttps://www.techdirt.com/2012/12/20/intellectual-ventures-dont-mind-our-2000-shell-companies-thats-totally-normal/
Fiio had some misses early on; the E10 leaps to mind. But damn, they really turned things around. It almost feels like Fiio has the audio Midas touch, and now we're stuck with decision paralysis on which features and nuance we want. 😆
Relationships aren't business deals. You don't pay for sex with choirs and brownie points.
All relationships are transactional. There may not always be an explicit ledger with columns for AP/AR. Interpersonal relationships that repeatedly fail to provide the expected return on investment result in dysfunction and toxicity. We always pay for sex and companionship; the currency just probably isn't money.
Came looking for this comment. It's absolutely critical to know thyself, and understanding one's attachment style is one of the easier bits of self-knowledge.
One of the most accessible books on the topic is "Attached" by Levine and Heller. For me, that book was such an eye-opener. I read it as my second marriage was imploding, and I was grabbing at everything to try to save it. The example conversations for my and my ex's attachment styles were uncanny. I kept getting the feeling of "were y'all in the room with us for that argument?"
I've seen this from different angles of results. I like my place to be neat, clean, and dialed. I had a partner of eight years, and we had a mutually agreed division of house chores. She complained that her chores were sapping her libido, that my standards were too high. "I hear you honey. Would it help if I did everything, leaving you to focus on your graduate degree?" She confirmed that would be helpful all around. Yeah, except things got even worse.
And reacting to "I'm just not horny after [doing my share of maintaining our home life]" has, in my experience, been a trap. In retrospect, that late stage behavior has always been my wife/partner trying to bleed the relationship just a little more before throwing away the husk, all while weaseling out of any reciprocal effort. I also now understand that I was self-selecting whatever that personality archetype is.
Now, with my current partner, she loves being of service. When she had cancer, me trying to take over everything domestic made her feel worse. We negotiated that she could retain her share of chores, but I could veto for the day if I thought she was overextending herself. For the entirety of our relationship, the amount of chores I do has nothing to do with how much sex we have. I cook dinner? We have sex. She cooks dinner? Sex. Someone else cooks dinner? Believe it or not, sex.
I credit a lot of our success to strong communication and clear boundaries. The chores:sex ratio seems to go completely out the window in a healthy, communicative relationship. Again, in my experience.
Got a link for that other source?