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To be honest the person I feel sorry for here is your best friend. You have chosen to continue your relationship with your gf, fully knowing how they act. That choice is yours, so you cannot distance yourself from all the toxicity of your girlfriend so long as you stay with her. Clearly none of her behaviour that you are now clutching your pearls o......   2 reply

They went to the same med school (different classes, dad was a year older). He asked her out, and that was that, lol.   reply

Because the attention economy is peaking, and while people think that short attention spans are only relevant when you want to advertise something, the truth is that people's attention towards each other is also harder to capture. Those who are interesting (either by character or appearance) will still usually get enough attention to be well-socia......   reply

It helped immensely, honestly in a life-changing way. A bit of background: when I was a kid the dynamics between my parents led to my siblings and I being raised with a combination of contempt and neglect on some days, emotional dependence on others, with a constant underlying tension of nervous anxiety. Nothing was ever good enough; important dec......   reply

Somehow ending up as a gainfully employed adult with my own life and healthy relationships, despite having grown up in an extremely neurotic and dysfunctional family. During my late teens I did not think this was ever going to be possible for me.   reply

I mean... a lot of people are just bad at sex. It's portrayed as this thing that's amazing all the time, but tbh it's not - if your partner has no idea what turns you on beyond the common physiological points, then yeah... sex will be a waste of time and energy. If you're doing it with a partner that you actually click with and are sexually compat......   reply

I'm sorry you're experiencing something like this. What you are feeling is real, and a coping response to the circumstances you are going through right now. Both feelings, negative though they are, are indicators of your own awareness towards deserving, and having potential, for better. I obviously don't know your exact circumstances, but it sound......   reply

Here's my ultimate favourite that fits the criteria: https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/watashitachi_no_shiawase_na_jikan/ I read it years ago, then lost track of it but couldn't forget about it. It's so beautiful.   reply

I do think it's inevitable. The quality of comics will suffer for a while, though, because AI just doesn't draw distinctive characters well. I can totally understand the temptation of using AI if you're an artist who is not paid well, and yet keeps getting bombarded by (often rudely phrased) demands for faster updates and longer chapters (and some......   1 reply

No. In Sweden, we have bananas on pizza instead, which works much better.   1 reply

No, no, and no. He's got the personality of soggy wet napkin and the desperation of a self-hating pick-me, and no amount of money will turn that into something that deserves any physical contact from me. Not even a handshake. Sorry.   reply

Of all the feelings I've had towards this hellscape of a website, respect is not one of them. I like it, though. It's full of degenerates which keeps the standard of coexistence on a tolerably manageable level. No one is better than anyone because we've all read weird shit we don't want to be associated with. That said, no one IRL even knows I kno......   reply

I think your feelings make perfect sense. It's hard to try and want to believe in something, and then you look all around you at the people who claim to be practicing the same religion, only to be disappointed by them and their conduct at every turn. I see people skipping over the part where you say you don't want to stop being religious. I will a......   1 reply

As a gay man, I absolutely agree. Not to say that there aren't people IRL with strict preferences, but in fiction there seems to be a strong adherence to gender roles even in portrayals of gay couples (you can tell that the authors tend to have a "which one is the woman in this relationship" way of thinking when writing gay couples).   reply

I already finished mine (economics, did it in Sweden). It was hard, but I am glad I did it. I was being paid for the whole duration of it, and I got into teaching early on so by the time I finished my PhD I had already landed myself a permanent teaching job at a university in my city. The hardest part for me was the academic community (some aspect......   1 reply

What kind of bank would process 70k worth of transactions that are out of the ordinary? Because if you don't have an established pattern of spending 70K-range in a day, then most banks (depending on where you are and what kind of bank you're using) would flag expenditures of that scale as abnormal and require confirmation (via a phone call). And fo......   reply

For sure it's a valid ick. Also smokers don't seem to realize that if they smoke often enough and long enough, they will stink. The stench of whatever they are smoking will not just cling to their clothes, but their bodies and their environment as well, and no amount of washing will get rid of it. They will ooze that stench and somehow never reali......   reply

So 3 people have died after she had met them one-on-one? No way the cops aren't after her. She carves 5 figures but gets arrested before she manages to do the 6th. She's held in jail pending investigation, but when the cop goes to check on her in the morning, all he sees is a small wooden figure that resembles the girl: she couldn't carve the 5th ......   1 reply

This would be nice! I'd join!   reply

IDK if anyone here knows/remembers the original gogo figures? From the mid-90s, lol. They were a huge phenomenon in my elementary school back in the day, and for some reason (I can't remember how and why) I ended up running some dumb gambling operation where I would set up games, and to participate the players would have to bet on a gogo figure tha......   reply