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.
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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.
Honestly, what exactly do you do if the parcel of land where your home used to be caves away in a landslide? Do you still have ownership rights on the slide area? (Or a riverbed moves on your parcel, or the land is washed away in a hurricane)
People think that voting either doesn't matter, or that it's like choosing to be a fan of a certain football team. They won't realize their mistake when the rug gets pulled out from underneath them....but they might when they hit the back of their head on the polished concrete floor.
Unfortunately, we (the world) are paying for their medical bill. Climate change policy will regress. Trade and economic policy, too. Peace will be undermined. And regional wars will flare up and get worse as people fight for water and other resources.
Anduril sounds like some elf city from Lord of the Rings. Which is apparently in Ohio.
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.