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Bomb, bomb, hydrogen bomb, hey bomb bomb, hydrogen bomb, it's a big loud noise and a real get gone, bomb bomb, the hydrogen bomb...

Seriously, it is NOT windows 10. If it was, it would affect other sites, and it doesn't.

Watching post-debate coverage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzz5kk_49qA

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To keep the thread from getting hung up on sex, because that is a very, VERY easy subject to get hung up on, I just found out something amazing. Video rental still exists. In actual, physical stores! People actually go and rent physical copies of movies! WHY? Have they not heard of Netflix? Or Hulu? Or at least pay per view? I want to drive to a video rental place and start hanging up advertisements for online video rental, because this is absurd.

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Battleforge. That episode managed to drive a point home while still being hilarious.

And most of the emphasis we put on it is a totally arbitrary cultural construct with no real meaning. The women of the palaeolithic era would look at modern women like they were sick in the head for thinking those feelings are intrinsic to sex. Of course, the women of that era were also all sleeping as many men as they felt like, and all the men were sleeping with as many women as they could, and neither sex had any expectation of exclusivity with their partners. Back then, the question with sex wasn't about any feeling other than attraction, and didn't imply a relationship. And that was most of our history. EDIT: Sexual exclusivity was actually primitive civilization's attempt to counter-act the sudden proliferation of sexually transmitted disease. They noticed the correlation between sexual activities and disease, and in cities this rate was very high because more people were in a tighter space with more partners more frequently. So they decided to try and make sexual interactions more exclusive. Women became treated as property so that men could control their sex lives, using a contract called a "marriage", in which a man bought a woman from her father in exchange for a payment of material goods. (It's called a dowry, look it up.) Now that we know how to prevent the spread of STD's, detect them, treat them and in some cases even cure them, we don't need such a construct. And of course, the concept of women as property has been rightfully rejected by secular society, but as women being property was the ENTIRE reason marriage existed, I don't get why we still have this idiotic institution when we realize how barbaric its founding principles were.

Depressed. My girlfriend's been moping on Skype for a couple hours now. She thought her appointment with her gynaecologist was today (obviously, it's tomorrow), and it's reminded her that she'll never have children. Which, in all likelihood, means I'll also never have children. And since neither of us believes in the institution of marriage, adoption will be difficult even if our financial situation vastly improves. (US adoption agencies massively favour married couples, and adopting when you're not married, especially in an open relationship, is difficult even in liberal states.) I really wish I could get drunk and lose myself in a game right now. Get my mind off the shit I can't change. On the bright side, it was kinda funny when she realized it was actually Sunday.

It really IS pretty simple. It's even simple to do right, most men are just utter morons in this area. (No offence to male readers, but can you seriously not push up? Is it that hard? I don't see how that's hard.)

See my previous post. (Also, wouldn't that hypothesis only apply if this happened to other sites?)

And this is a charity! I'm a volunteer, and a real one who is in no way compelled to show up. I'm not getting paid, there's no court order, I'm not stupid enough to think it adds to my resume, I'm just showing up because I feel like shit if I go too long without working. If I get treated like this at a food bank, I can't imagine how I'd be treated at a corporate workplace. Probably get fired for "upsetting" her.

Well, yeah. But the manager's response at the end sealed it, I probably would have stayed the rest of the day if he'd kept his mouth shut.

I have indeed.

Laptop works fine.

Oh, my girlfriend. Can she say "I'm cold"? Nope. That'd be too easy. Instead, she phrases it as "My nipples could cut diamond right now." Her phrasing of other mundane complaints is similar in style. At least it's rarely dull speaking to her, even when she's complaining. EDIT: She is now going on about it incoherently, estimating what materials she could or could not cut with her nipples as if this was an actual metric for ambient temperature. On one hand, it's funny. On the other hand, I am concerned about her fever now.

Yes they're allowed (or it wouldn't be just the site) and there are Accursed Farms cookies in there. This is weird. I'm going to get my laptop out and try that. See if it has the same issue.

If restarting my computer or router would work, the issue wouldn't have lasted long enough for me to notice it. Also, Firefox didn't work either. Closing the browser and coming back logs me out, even though I am set to automatically sign in.

Windows 10, latest versions of Chrome and Edge both have this problem. Going to download and try Firefox.

PC, and I tried all that. My phone doesn't have that problem. (Though it is hard to type on this crappy touchscreen.)

Anybody else have this issue? I mean, it's not a big problem, but it's kinda annoying to be suddenly logged out when I've been off-site for less than an hour. (Though odds are the issue is on my end.) Edit: It is actually every time I close the browser.

For what it's worth, I still have no idea what he did. Unless he did nothing and he just messed with Rarity by saying he did something. OT: Trying to sleep and clearly failing. It's okay, sleep is above my pay grade anyway.

So, it's distribution day at the food bank. I should be there right now, and I'm not. I went there, and an hour into the day I walked. I say again, I walked an hour in. On distribution day. That is unprecedented, but you might understand why I did it after I explain what happened. So, a woman comes through, and she gets all of her food. And she's got a LOT of it, enough that she must have about half a dozen kids or something. The problem is that this woman looks like she weighs about a hundred pounds soaking wet. So clearly, she was having some trouble. I had just gotten in from the back room as she was going out the door, and the manager asked me to go help her. Now, this guy asks me to help every woman because he thinks they can't handle things for themselves, but in this case she clearly couldn't and I was already on it by the time he said anything. So, I went out and offered to take a couple bags for her. And she flips the fuck out. I mean, seriously, she starts screaming at me for offering to help. She calls me a misogynist, says I think I'm stronger than her, that she doesn't need my help, and continues struggling onwards. Okay. One at a time. First off, it isn't misogyny to acknowledge that sexual dimorphism exists and men tend to be physically stronger. Second, I never said anything about women being weak, I asked if she needed me to help carry some of her bags. Third, yeah, I'm fucking stronger than her, plain as goddamned day, and I'm pretty sure being well over twice her size (NOT HYPERBOLE) makes a much bigger difference than being a man does. Is she going to deny being over twice her size makes me stronger, too? Fourth, even if I wasn't stronger being heavier would already mean I could handle weight better than her. Fifth, she can BARELY WALK with all that stuff. She's moving towards her car at the rate of continental drift, she's already dropping shit, she even had to set a bag down and come back for it, she CLEARLY NEEDS HELP. Sixth, even if I was a fucking six-year old and half her size she STILL would have no reason not to accept my help because that would STILL be some of the burden off of her. So at this point, the manager comes out while I'm being screamed at by this woman to ask why I'm not helping her. Gee, I'm sorry, I guess I got sidetracked being STUNNED SPEECHLESS by this woman unleashing her obvious emotional baggage on a volunteer who's trying to help her. So she starts screaming at him, and he goes through the obvious part about her needing help, and she screams some more, and I cut in and tell her nobody's insulting her, but she's clearly having trouble and it can't hurt to have somebody else carry some of the bags. And at this point she's degraded to just screaming "Fuck you". So we stop, and let her struggle her way towards her car. Once she's out of earshot, the manager looks at me and says "So, what was that you were saying about women not needing help?" So I grabbed my stuff and left, singing "Fuck this shit I'm out". I'm going to have to find somewhere else to volunteer.