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On the flip side, I think men could use more men's groups because male loneliness is problematic. Women don't want to feel responsible for men's loneliness (rightly so), so the natural solution is men need to do better at making friends with men. The problem is doing it in a healthy way That said, I would suggest the solution is hobby groups without gender exclusion. Like carpentry, basketball, knitting, dance, ballet. Hobbies seem to self select. Most of my hobbies are female dominated in my conservative area.

I asked chatgpt to put my CPU into heat consuming mode and it then suggested I mine BTC to equal out the thermodynamics. I'm still trying to figure out where the BTC is, but it's nice to go green

Just talk about other women you are interested in. Something in writing like "hey, I planning a date on Friday, and I was wondering if you can you cover XYZ?" If she retaliates, you have a message showing lack of interest

This is generally why I don't like this social isolation of conservatives. It leads then to extremes. You don't need to date them, but you can be friends with them. A lot of them were raised in cults (I was). After I got out, I housed this guy who was hard right, but talked with him, cleaned his guns with him and now he's doing better. He was just traumatized from a hard childhood. And honestly, shooting guns, riding 4 wheelers and other conservative things are fun.

I agree. I think hobbies are a good middle ground and neutral. It would be nice if men wrote more books like that. The only men who would listen to a women tell them how to change are probably not the target audience.

It's amazing to me because half of this vibe coded shit is just regurgitated open source code. You can literally just install an open source tool and it will do half of the work for you ... Or you can vive code a substantially worse copy of the open source project

Mastodon is awkward to use for me. Filters and following give poor control. Lemmy gives me only what I want to see. I like bluesky feeds and wish mastodon had them. Then it would be easier to use imo

So you'd agree to "fuck the IDF and Hamas"?

Yeah, that's why I suggested it. The guy I housed softened, left the military and now just works in a hospital. Had we not befriended him, he'd probably be ICE now. Also I wouldn't call it humoring. Just actually being his friend. He's human too and it's not his fault he was raised in a shitty environment. He was never show any alternative way to live

In the US, taxes are paid first to the federal. The states collect second and the states don’t remit taxes up to the fed like in the EU. So states and citizens have been little power to withhold tax money from the fed.

That’s not how it works. You can’t just stick your business profit or employment income into an account and not pay taxes. European banks don’t even survive US sanctions for tax fraud. A US State tax scheme doesn’t stand a chance

That would be cool if it worked. I honestly really wish it would, because it would balance power better. I think the trick would be to “make it MAGAs idea”. Like how Mamdani works with Trump