We can have both a local manufacturing sector and imports.

The last few years have shown us that we need to produce stuff here because the supply chain can explode and were caught with our pants down.

Gender affirming surgeries, blood rituals to Baphomet, same thing.

It is sarcasm.

Women were treated as children and men had all the power in a relationship. So yeah, divorce rates were lower because lots of women were trapped.

If that isn’t love, I don’t know what is.

Worst is that some medication will kill your orgasm. So you get your libido back, but you don’t get to enjoy your orgasm anymore.

This is only my experience, so take what follows for what it’s worth (not much).

I have been in the same situation as your partner (though I had sex with my partner more ofte, but still way less than before medication).

Simply put, I was ashamed of my low libido and not in a good headspace even with my medication( which was supposed to help).

I was so ashamed that I didn’t want to initiate sex with my partner. It was not rational, but that is how I felt at the time. And I would sometime watch porn so that I could get the dopamine I would get from sex, without the shame.

I know it won’t make you feel better, but hopefully you can have a different perspective on how your partner might feel and get, hopefully, a new track to find a solution to your problems.

Also, there are some medications that can help with libido (Wellbutrin if I remember correctly). Might be worth it for your partner to check with his doctor.

I would bet that a lot of trucks are larger than the Smart is long.

I planned my kids and still can’t wait to get some of my freedom back. Both can be true.

No amount of babysitting or exposition can truly show you show how relentless having kids is. Timing and planning will help alleviate that. But you are still one flu away from two weeks of hell. And that’s when your kids are healthy.

There is a second axis between libertarian and autoritarian.

When my son was born, I had 3 months of parental leave.

The first month was spent just recuperating from work and taking care of my first one. After the first month of sleeping better and not having the stress of work, I started esting a lot better and training and lost 50 pounds in 2 months because I had the time and energy to cook well.

Over the last two years, I’ve gained back 30 pounds because my 2 years old doesn’t sleep and my job is stressful.

So I feel what you said.

What about the other side?

Loot box are still a thing, in a big way. Look at CS2 or the yearly soccer games.

And gacha games on mobile are a plague.

Lootbox is the first step, battlepass close second.

Capitalism has carcinisation for rent. If something stay solvent long enough, it will turn into a rent seeking subscription.

They are still fucking traitors. To the streets with them, like the others.

Because happy people don’t talk about why they are happy.

Just like kids. People usually share the hardships unless prompted to share the good memories.

We like to share our struggles and commiserate so that we feel better. When we are happy, we don’t need to do that.

He’s a grifter, of course he will vote for someone that will make grifting easier.

I do understand that the DNC has complete control. We’ve seen many example of that, the most egregious being Bernie vs Clinton.

US society is fundamentally to the right and the DNC will keep it that way.

That creates an issue where changing the Democrat Party will take a long long time. So the better option would be a real left party, but that would mean that Republicans would be in power for a while, until the politcal landscape changes and stabilise with 3 parties. And that’s not accounting for the DNC that will work against the newly formed party.

Denying that the DNC is neo-liberal to its core is deliberate ignorance.

Any prominent member that has an ounce of progressism has to fight the DNC at every corner to get through, like we’ve seen Mamdani.

Meanwhile, progressives should definitely vote for the Democrats. But this is a different issue. The vote turnout is terrible in North America (we have the same problem in Canada).

The DNC is neo-liberal, period. They are center right everywhere in the world.

Luke, Han and co should have been 20 mins in the first film to hand off the plot to the new generation of characters.

The terms are used because of the narritive forms of a story.

1st person is from the point of view of the character, thus the view from the eyes of the playable character.

3rd person is he/she perspective. You follow the character from the narration of an external narrator. You see the playable character do actions from a perspective that isn’t their own or someone’s else.

2nd person would be from the point of view of a person involved with the character but isn’t it. So you would see the actions of the character through the eyes of an NPC. There was a demo floating around YouTube where a player was shooting zombies, and the camera was from the POV of thr zombies. It made it look pretty weird.