And “utter menace” in what regard?

On the scale of things, I think this rate’s a “who the fuck cares?”.

I don’t really care if cousins get married. I don’t really care if they have kids together. I do care if they have birth defects and we should do things medically responsible to reduce or eliminate birth defects, but the whole cousin thing doesn’t really bother me as long as there’s no external pressure (like British royalty or stereotypical Southern Hicks).

Who is really that bent out of shape on this and why should we care?

Anything can be backdoor… In, but I’m really struggling to see how you could do something useful with a dram chip. In theory, if it were smart enough, it could analyze the data that’s being stored and manipulated in some way, but there’s no way a dram module would have the processing power and brains to do anything useful with this.

And memory manipulation would be about the most it could accomplish because the dram modules themselves don’t have signal lines that can control anything. They basically have data alliance address lines, return lines, power ground and control circuitry. They can’t affect the rest of the motherboard/ computer other than subverting data… And computers tend to be pretty good at catching memory that doesn’t store data properly.

If you tried hard enough, you could figure out a scenario where this could work, but I don’t think this is something we really need to worry about.

Let’s be realistic here, every time someone tells you so and so is their girlfriend or boyfriend or husband and wife. That means they’re getting it on. That means everything in this cartoon except maybe they use protection.

This is the stupidest load of bullshit meme around. If people tell you they’re trying to get pregnant, that’s letting you in on their life planning, not letting you in their sex life. They have a sex life, and whether or not they’re planning on getting pregnant, they’re still having sex. Grow up and get over it.

It’s just a celebration of winter solstice. My family is as atheist as the day is long, but we still enjoy the trappings of Christmas.

I’m sorry your bio family aren’t better people. I hope you’ve found better quality humans to call your family.

This is a bit of a weird question to answer because it depends a lot on context.

At its core, the purpose of life is to reproduce and guarantee your bloodline passes on to the next generations. That’s kind of the heart of evolution. That’s great and all but that just means we’re here and we have a lot of time in between all that if we even want to follow that purpose.

Beyond that evolution purpose, I believe that the goal in life is to get as much enjoyment out of life as possible. A lot of that is based on experiences and personal growth. But the reality is that’s all a personal choice. You get to make up your own purpose, and that’s just one I’ve made up.

You do you, but life is short and we don’t get a second chance.

Holy shit. I feel like I live in a different world than everyone else who’s responded to this question.

Yes, of course I love the kids who reciprocate my love more. It’s one of the most endearing things about kids is when they say that I love you and provide that emotional feedback. That doesn’t mean if they didn’t that I wouldn’t love them, but it does mean that if one or two of my three kids got distant that I would probably love them less. That doesn’t mean zero, it just means less. I left all my kids in different ways based upon each of their personalities. It always fluctuates and I see it pull on my heartstrings whatever they do things that are loving and kind and giving…

I guess what I’m really saying is that I’m not 0 to 100% love, I’m talking about going from 70 to 100% or something like that. I will always love my kids, but I love them even more when they give it back.

Honestly, no, I can’t really say I have. I’m also not someone who loses my temper very easily and when I do I never start screaming or shouting.

I feel like what some of you guys miss. Here is understanding what makes life fun. Certain superpowers would make life criminally boring and the goal would be to get power so that you can do what you want with your life, try different things out, be safe and secure, but still have a life that has meaning.

If you are too overpowered or have things that allow you to see way past what being human is, then you’d be stuck all alone looking at humans that look like ants to you and you’d be bored out of your skull. I kind of feel like that’s what Dr. Manhattan was except I think the reality would be worse.

You have to look at what phase two of this super power would be. I kind of like the save point one or something that gives you control to do what you want, but you still have to deal with the consequences. That way you gain a lot of control over your life, but you still have to live it with consequences. It would kind of be like winning the lottery. It would be turning the video game on easy mode, but not making it so easy you don’t want to play.

You know what, I think it was OG Oblivion and I just mixed it up with Skyrim… It got me to quit playing the game after a while.

One of the worst game mechanics ever found in a game was where the enemy got harder as you gained levels. The same enemy. It basically defeated the value of having more levels. I think it was Oblivion Skyrim where I found this, particularly annoying.

Meh. My wife and I had kids based upon our own thoughts of how we wanted our life to go, not based upon some reproduction drive. The sex drive is a totally different thing, but there was no urge and pull to have kids for us.

We’ve had three kids and it’s been an incredible experience with very few downsides and massive upsides. I was not a “kid person” before having kids, but IMO it’s one of the peek good experiences in life.

Don’t do it man. I live in the US (born and raised) and I’m uncircumcised and I’ve never in my life been challenged about it. There is zero reason to do it to fit in culturally. And fuck any culture that encourages you to mutilate the genitals of your child.

Don’t do it.

Even if it’s for your religion, let your kids decide whether they want to be circumcised at the age of 18.

I have an echo show in my kitchen. It displays ads, but they’re super easy to ignore. They’re just basically text pictures on the screen when it’s not being used and on topics that I selected.

I’m pretty massively against ads, but the echo show’s don’t bother me in the least. If Alexa Plus starts giving me verbal ads or injecting them into things then it will quickly find its way into the trash can.

Anytime the girl looks like she’s not actually enjoying the sex. Fake or dubbed sound. Choking or slapping (see first item).

I also usually find any talking (sexy talk) to be awful. I don’t have a problem with it in concept, but in porn execution, it’s almost always super bad. Camera man talking is universally bad.

My parents-in-law came from an African country where they had opinions similar to South Africa and apartheid. Basically blacks were okay but it was shameful if someone black married one of their children. They immigrated to San Francisco and lo and behold, one of their daughters started dating a black guy.

When it can’t to light she was ostracized from the family by her mom. Now, she said she did this, but it was really only the parents who tried to break contact. All her siblings were perfectly fine with this and didn’t break contact and in fact my wife and i supported them when they moved to the city we lived in to get resettled.

To cut to the chase, after about 5 years the mother and daughter worked things out and now every is accepting of their relationship. I took the mom a few years to get over it.

I guess my point is, I would almost just ignore this, if you’re a good couple they’ll get over it eventually and it’ll be fine. And if not, fuck 'em.

It’s good to reward good behavior too. If none of them came back then they might as well have just shrugged their shoulders and said “oh well” and left him off air.

Ah, ok, then that’s not me.

So does straight edge strictly refer to not doing drugs? If that’s the definition, then I’m a straight edged person… Hell, I don’t even drink and I work for a Scottish company where all my co-workers drink like fish.

I’m not religious, it has just always seemed dumb to me that people felt they needed to be inebriated to have a good time. Maybe this is just the normal for them so they don’t know any different? But doesn’t that seem pretty stupid? Anyways, I was stubborn in college and resisted peer pressure and by the time I didn’t care anymore, I just never saw the need to start drinking (or doing drugs). But I’m not here preach, I don’t really care what you do as long as it doesn’t affect me (i.e. drunk driving).

I’m a CTO for a midsized company. I have three kids and I’ve been happily married for over 25 years. Between my friends, there are more people who don’t drink than those who do, but at work I’m definitely the oddball… But I’m also old enough that I don’t really give a shit what other people think so I’m perfectly happy going along and being the guy who doesn’t drink.