No. Even if they dramatically changed on all fronts, became a democracy, promoted LGBT+ and racial civil rights, broke up their concentration camps, stopped surveiling citizens, gave people true elections, and stopped cracking down on political opponents, their nation is facing an extremely serious gender and population imbalance, one that will have drastic impacts on their society and stability in the next 30 years. A large portion of their workforce is going to retire and cannot be sustained by the smaller population that are kids and teens now. There’s also a severe gender imbalance from the One Child Policy favoring boys over girls. There’s no getting off that train, and shit like incel culture and a ton of retirees causes bad political instability. Or wars, to distract from problems at home, like what Russia is doing.

It’s going to be a massive problem since they don’t have much in the way of immigration, and even if they got a ton of people pregnant now, they are still facing down a 10+ year deficit of people.

Hell, the only reason why we aren’t in the same boat is that we didn’t implement boneheaded policies like that, and immigration helps offset our birthrate being below the replacement rate of people. We depend on immigrants as much as they depend on us.

As long as it’s properly cleaned, it should be fine. STDs can’t last very long outside the body. However, you don’t have to use it if you don’t want.

Aww, sorry to hear that. Hopefully you can find an egg donor. We are two men, so we aren’t quite as fortunate that way. Finding another couple or woman who was interested in having children together would be very lucky. We’re hopeful, but it seems fairly unlikely. Surrogacy might be our best option.

If the US is unable or unwilling to be a world leader, the EU must step up. China runs concentration camps and has a totalitarian government, not a good fit for the world, especially for anyone “different” from the regime.

I’m not your husband, but I’m completely satisfied with both of our bodies and would be a bit unsettled if either of us wanted surgery to enhance sex further. There are many products and things you can do to enhance time spent with your SO that don’t require surgery.

Surgery is pretty permanent, so I’d be damn sure you (in particular) and your husband both are interested.

Fwiw, I think smaller boobs are wonderful, and natural is best. A family friend had really bad complications from a boob job and ended up having to get them removed while she was very sick in the hospital.

Meetup.com is actually fairly decent about finding events in your area, it’s fairly diverse. Game nights, snowshoeing, park walks, mountain training for climbs, etc.

They are good, but chronically underfunded, and we need to copy virtually everything the European version of the FDA has banned.

I had the same problem, and I really only fixed it by getting a different mouse. You can look up different mouse reviews, the only mouse reviewer I knew was RocketJumpNinja, but there are probably others these days. He had lots of comparison videos which were helpful in determining which would work best for me and my large hands. (I ended up with the Corsair Ironclaw wired. Not the best mouse shape, but it works well enough).

More often than one would think. Apparently someone fell on their .38 revolver and it went all the way up :(

Best $12 I spent in awhile. Great coffeetable book, lmao. It’s a real conversation-starter. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/713sBBhxtPL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

Bumble used to be different back in the day. I tried it when it was going down the tubes.

I think part of the problem is that the matching is fairly superficial, so while you know a little about the person, most of the details amount to their face, 1-3 hobbies, and their ass.

The women I matched with that I went out with were awkward and felt forced. In the end, I ended up falling in love with a close guy friend that I had known for years.

If bumble wants success, they should allow for much deeper Q&A, longer response times, a tweaked algorithm that matches people based off hobbies and passions, and an AD section that allows people to privately put in stuff that they like after dark. Info that isn’t shared with their matches, but helps make people match better with people like them.

As for straight dating though, idk. I feel like people should probably be avoiding apps and meeting organically through stuff like biking groups, climbing groups, skiing events, big dance venues, etc. it fosters much more organic connections.

I don’t participate in bar culture that much, but the difference between the gay bars I’ve gone to and the straighter college-y bars feels immense. The former is much more social with a pinch of kink, the latter is where people are getting absolutely blitzed without much dialogue over loud music. It’s an extremely small sample size, but I can’t help but wonder if it’s part of a larger trend when it comes to meeting people and how portions of society meet and date. Perhaps there are bars where single straight men and women meet over 1-2 drinks and talk, but I haven’t seen any so far.

Overall, I think the Internet and cars (decreasing population density and increasing the space between third places) has had a dramatically negative impact on love and friendships in places like the US.

Is surrogacy an option? We’re a same-sex couple, so we are in a similar boat.

I would love to have kids someday, but we aren’t financially prepared yet. I’m envious of people playing with their kids, or even just mundane tasks like taking them to school or going shopping with them on the back of their parents’ bike.

Unfortunately, I expect the next administration(s) to make it much more difficult for same-sex couples like us to try for AI + surrogacy or adoption, so we might be forced to wait. Hoping for expanded surrogacy and child credits, but even just writing that feels foolish.

People forget shit so fast, it doesn’t even matter. All that matters is the present + six months for most Americans.

Shit, I think many 14-16 yo Americans don’t even know who Obama’s VP was, or would have to think for a second a least, haha.

You’ll need these, OP:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/borninchina/which-furry-friend-are-you

https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/fursona-names.php

Have this playing while looking at this picture :)

https://youtu.be/d-mPtsKpb14

Please send the police here next.

It’s cool tech, but mine broke in two years after being extremely careful with it. The ribbon connector gave out, which is a 20¢ fix. Unfortunately, Samsung doesn’t allow repair shops to replace ribbon cables though, so the shops have to replace both screens and the ribbon connector that connects them. That costs $600, hilariously.

I bought a moto G Stylus for $250 and decided that it was close enough for a fraction of the price to repair or buy new.

I don’t know if you wanna do that. PP is probably going to start eating Canada within the next election cycle, in October. Though the status of France (National Rally), Germany (AfD), Italy, Hungary, and the UK (Nigel Farage is up to shit) worries me a lot. Short term (20 years), I think we are going to see many of our friends and allies regressing until we either slowly beat them back, or have a giant world war.

We should all support each other, but also be clear-eyed that times of plenty and peace might be temporarily behind us because so many people are bored.

I have no problem with it, but it sounds like an exhausting way of making money.

You can switch to loose leaf. I thought loose leaf sucked because the tea bits always got in it. Then I found a metal filter that has like, 180nm holes in it. Extremely fine mesh.

I use it more than paper tea bags now!