Lol love your story. What a prankster that guy is…

Damn Hollywood will really do anything possible to avoid writing new stories, huh?

I’ve received in-patient care, overnight studies, emergency procedures, and much more in Spain without ever paying a dollar in copays or fees, and I’ve never waited more than 2 weeks for non-urgent care or an hour for urgent care.

My taxes are $600/month total in Madrid. Given that I have epilepsy, my insurance alone in the US was $490/month, AND I paid more in taxes ($1100/month).

So, yes, universal healthcare isn’t “free,” and it’s supported by taxes. And still, Americans are taxed more AND have to pay for insurance? And then you still have to pay copays? I don’t think “dur dur me taxes!” is actually the strong argument you think it is. And wait times are no longer (or in fact are shorter) in many countries with universal healthcare. But you know what’s longer? Life expectancies.

I mean Venom is injured all the time in ways that would clearly impact a body within it. So either the host body goes full caterpillar-coccoon and is basically jelly while Venom is fully formed, or the host’s body becomes immune to injury/near fully regenerable, in which case Venom could wreck the host’s face without worry.

All of venom’s mass is already clearly pulled from the meat dimension, so what’s a little more for a glam rock tongue?

What a radical take

Many apologies!

I thought the question was more theoretical/conversational, so I just answered with how I felt about the idea of bonding with friends over porn, not how I think you do it. It doesn’t appeal to me personally, and the title of the post is “do you ever want to?” So I was just offering my answer.

No, and people come off as pretty weird when porn is such a significant part of their life and so frequently on their mind that it’s their chosen pastime and conversation topic. It suggests an imbalance in how much porn is a part of one’s life, when it’s totally fine for it to play a large role, but not so large that you feel a strong urge to bring it up even when it makes most people uncomfortable.

I would never shame someone for consuming (large amounts of) porn, but if someone thinks about it so much that they are frequently bringing it up in average settings even though it makes many people uncomfortable, that’s honestly pretty rude. And if someone knows that’s the case and still feels a strong urge to do so, I think that demonstrates an issue with how and how much they are thinking about it.

If you find someone or some online community that intentionally welcomes that, lean into it and enjoy. Outside of that, exposing others to conversation they’d rather not have is not cool, likely to put distance between you, and pretty selfish. If you can’t resist, that’s a whole other issue.

This is absolutely not every city. I’ve lived in several and not a single one compared to LA in these regards. I don’t know what you’re basing this claim on but it’s simply inaccurate.

Neighborhoods have their own identities, but in most places, what makes something a neighborhood rather than its own town is the fact that it is surrounded by other neighborhoods that are immediately accessible. That’s why Lincoln Park in Chicago and Soho NY are neighborhoods, but they use a whole different term to identify Manhattan from Long Island and so on. Those are properly boroughs rather than neighborhoods, as they are big, physically separated, and it’s not that easy to get between them, which leads to each almost being considered its own city. And it’s still harder to get between LA neighborhoods than it is to literally cross the (admittedly very thin) stretch of ocean between Manhattan and Brooklyn.

And I don’t think there’s any similarity between your second example, looking at how someone interacts with the whole of a country, and this question of how someone interacts with their local community. Countries are of course big enough that folks might see less than 50% of their own and still love it. But it’s much harder to consider someone an expert or proud local of a “city” they don’t visit 90% of. You can be a countryman and see only 30% of your country, but you can’t really be a local and see only 10% of your city.

I mean more that it’s crazy to call them “neighborhoods” when any two have nothing in common and are completely inaccessible to each other unless you have your own car and get on the highway for an hour.

And when that’s the case, how does one even say they like “LA” (as in the whole city) when you’re more likely to travel out of state from Long Beach than to Westwood.

Ok but LA sucks for reasons that have nothing to do with what I want from a city and everything to do with what everyone wants from a city: walkability, affordability, good roads/traffic and infrastructure, good vibes, authenticity, public transit, and people who don’t suck.

Even people who are from LA and say “we have all that and I love LA” only mean “I love my neighborhood in LA, which is a 90 minute drive from the 7 other malignancies of highway sprawl that also call themselves LA.”

For those concerned and yet to click the link: he’s expected to be back on stage by Wednesday and has received scans, so it appears to be no major concern, though of course not quite minor either.

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Checkmate, atheists

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Xavier a dog

So annoying. Uranusiance.

Weird, I didn’t see that. fingers crossed it’s a bluff lol