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Is there any average differences in hormones between gay and straight people of the same gender?

What people don't realize is that the Dems have generally been pretty happy with the way things were going. They don't mind losing elections from time to time if that means they continue to occasionally win without changing in any way.

It's basically a fight of demands and consequences. If the people want a better government and threaten not to vote for Dems if they are not gonna get it, the Dems have to choose between improving or losing one election. If the Dems want to stay the same, the people have to choose between letting them stay the same or getting something much worse from the GOPs.

The question then becomes: on the long term, who can better endure the consequences of their choice, the people or the Democratic party?

If you want the Dems to lose and learn a lesson, you (and everyone else around you) will need them to continue losing until they do learn, otherwise you'll be facing consequences without any benefits.

As someone with no interest in predominantly NSFW games, it does bother me a bit that that is the most common type of game that show up for me unless I disable NSFW completely.

But my problem is exclusively with the algorithm and not with those games. I'm surprised that in 2025 a 200+ hour rpg with one implied sex scene may get tagged with the same 'NSFW' category as a Sex Simulator type of game, with no way to hide one without also hiding the other.

All itch.io had to do was create a "monetization-unfriendly" tag and aplly it to those games and hide them behind an opt-in toggle (with some proper notification for current users). They could even target their ads based on that toggle and get even happier advertisers with it.

I think I had a Mandela effect. I had clear memories of news breaking out about Epic Games acquiring itch.io, but googling for it now, all I see is references to when they added it to their own store.

~~Tbh it took longer than I expect for the new owners to start ducking itch.io~~

Sorry I think I hallucinated some events.

This time the chicken got to the other "other side"

The kind you get from social media randos.

I didn't even start listening to music until I was already an adult.

I remember a comic I read at some point long ago, where power had gone out and a bored kid asks his grandma: "what did you do before TVs existed?" and the grandma says: "we would just sit around and wait for TVs to be invented".

I'm now using that answer everytime I see a "what did you do before ___ was invented?"

At one point long ago (just for a short while), I thought Delphi was destined to take that place. It was much higher level while still letting you go as low level as you wanted- it didn't have garbage collection but it made it pretty easy to keep track of what is or isn't allocated, on top of having good tools to find leaks on runtime. But it had too many problems too: the Pascal base and the association with drag and drop coders being some of the first ones, followed by a series of bad decisions by whatever company was responsible for it at any given week.

When I was 18 I moved to a small apartment near my job, two cities over from where I had lived all my life. At that time I was very depressed, with absolutely no faith in humanity anymore, thinking that everyone was greedy and selfish. Then winter came and a coworker asked me if I had enough blankets to get by, offering to lend me some. I didn't need it, but the offer alone was enough to break me. At that point in my life I really didn't believe people were capable of doing even the smallest thing for others without getting something in return.

As long as it runs the same code, yes. But things may change, clients may pre-emptively split the string or stuff like that.