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I'm not sure it would only apply to women. Never had much of a parental drive myself but I met several men, both friends and partners, who wanted children very much.

Maybe it's different somehow, I wouldn't know, but something's definitely there.

You could try moving to Tidal or Qobuz, they treat their artists better and there are tools to transfer playlists

Was it this one?

I love self checkout. It allows me to avoid most of social interactions and physical proximity with strangers, making the experience just that much less uncomfortable.

You're right that it's being used against the employees, everything that possibly can will in this system, that doesn't make it inherently bad.

It should be an option, together with a well paid, well treated (let them sit ffs) workforce.

Is this for real? It would be a delicious little nudget, but I don't seem to find a way to check it

The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.

I grew up in a fairly conservative household. I used to read the rags my parents considered newspapers, people in my social circles and schools were mostly middle to upper class, and I idolized my father.

It took me a long while to realize I was seeing through distorted glasses, even after I started mingling with different viewpoints.
There always was a gut feeling that something didn't add up, cognitive dissonance maybe.

I sometimes wonder what kind of person I'd be had I not been high on the neurodivergent spectrum and pushed on the outside.

Privilege and social echo chambers make for pretty efficient blindfolds.

And yet

It usually pisses me off immediately, it feels like I'm discussing with 12 years olds, but it's mostly when they use them as nicknames, as you said.
And constantly.
Jokes and occasional puns, that's fine, I still find most are not funny to begin with but that's personal taste.

I share the same pet peeve, but I have to admit a few clever ones deserve to survive and you bring a good contender

You're hopeless and after this I'm done arguing with a wall.

You go learn science.

Being vaccinated doesn't make you 100% safe, that's a fact. Even if it did, when shit is left free to roam in a herd of unvaxed morons it can mutate.

Beside all that, I'm not hiding or running, I'm staying in my country or going places with mostly reasonable people roaming about.
It's really truly that fucking simple.