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Typing on phones gets hard. Added not

Being intimate with someone is always a vulnerable experience. Sometimes this vulnerability pays off and sometimes it does not. This encouner may have been fine for portions but overall negative. When something like this happens its best to learn from any mistakes (if there was any) and understand that sometimes we take a risk and it doesn’t work out. You may learn that you hate staying over at someone’s place. There is nothing wrong with doing something that isn’t in your character. You don’t know what is in your character unless you try something different.

You can try to continue to chat with him but that might not work. He might be embarassed that he couldn’t stay hard or could be million different reasons. At some point you will need to cut your losses and stop responding but that depends on you. We are all human and make mistakes and you should treat someone how you want to be treated.

My one real piece of advice is if you see him again at your professional organization is to act cool, professional and friendly. Its a sign of real maturity and a good life skill to practice being around people who you might feel awkward around. Also you don’t want someone to take something valuable from you (in this case the org). You shouldn’t feel ashamed for what you did because this is something that happens between two consenting adults. You did nothing wrong and should not be ashamed for it

Miss Piggie is just a DIVA. It’s gold

Miss Piggie is pure comedy gold. Everything she does is hilarious.

That or Tim Curry

If you haven’t tried Thistle and Spire they are amazing. High fashion Slutty for sure

Homeschooling feels like an act of hubris. The idea that you and your partner know the same or more about education than trainer professionals is crazy. Each teacher has at least a college degree, most have a master’s and they all go through yearly refreshers on how to best teach on top of their on the job experience. How can one (or two) people do more than that?

On top of that your child will be exposed in their home life to things you know and think are important to understand. School can show them things you know you don’t know as well as things you don’t know you don’t know. I want my daughter to know things I don’t know and to expand her worldview beyond mine. Homeschooling limits their knowledge that what I know. (Which is usually the point to shelter a child from scary ideas which is not doing them any favors).

Can homeschooling be okay? Sometimes but not often enough and most people who do it aren’t prepared or qualified to do it

Anyone who says they are self sufficient is lying to themselves. Communities of people can be but we all need each other

Just requested it from the library. Our composting in place garden has been producing a ton over three last year. We have lots of berries now and have a lot of functional plants in our urban yard. It’s mostly teas, medicinals and some cut flowers but we can get lots of use out of it. When you really try there is a lot of space to grow what you need even in a small space if you prioritize. I can’t feed myself but good supplemental for high value things

If you are interested I would recommend reading some books on permaculture. My first book was Gaias Garden which I loved. It talks about how to piecemeal increase your own sustainability starting in your own yard. It’s a great first step if this is what you want to do. Overall no one person / family / farm can stand all alone we are all interconnected

A porn instance is the perfect single topic instance. We need more of them

Agreed. A bunch of general purpose instances with slight variations on ideology that are pretty much identical.

That’s what I said. 2000 too few

As a Twin Cities resident we are surprisingly radically progressive. I think it’s important to know how much “work” people did post George Floyd to look at racial bias and systematic change in progressive socials. I know of multiple book clubs of retirees reading books on anti-racism and white privilege. It was eye opening experience here

I think about that all the time. Especially when people online are like “do something”. We are doing something. Lots of things. Lots of small decentralized things so they can’t be targeted as easy.

I am on paternity leave now and I love it. If my wife was making 12 million I would never go back.

Call a strike!!!

Everything about Trump is so predictable tragic.

Of course they are targeting wonderful Hmong community here in the Twin Cities. Most of which are US citizens all of which are here because they ran from Vietnam and Laos after supporting the US in the Vietnam war. Disgusting.

I’ve been looking at the weather here and saying the same thing. We have been above freezing for weeks and just getting back to normal cold of 0. Would love to see these ICE agents be sent out in the -40s we get in mid Jan.

What I really want is to get the city to not plow around ICE locations. Plow in ICE