Well, the clone was based on their genetic material. Enhanced musculature, green skin, and yellow cat-like eyes with enhanced vision, and nanobot-enhanced artificial blood.

Not the same, obviously, but a step closer towards something similar.

Old Man’s War coming to fruition.

Perhaps you might benefit from some inward reflection? Presuming your observations to be accurate, why does it bother you? If women had good reason, or any reason, to distrust or avoid men, how would that change how you interact with them? What drives you to seek the kinds of interactions with women that your desiring? Is there anything in how you speak with women that might not be very inviting to further conversation?

The internet is a funny place. People are very often not who they seem to be. Usernames and avatars often portray a person in a way that mismatches the person behind the keyboard. Even when people use their real name and a true photo, they can end up being very different than who you might think. This happens in everyday life, including face to face IRL relationships.

What are you looking for in such interactions, DuckWrangler? Does it align with what they are hoping for?

When women read your post here, how might they perceive what you’ve written? Would they be put off? Why? Do the presumptions bother them? Do they sense entitlement that puts them off? Do they sense someone with ulterior motives? Again, why?

Why use the grammatical quantifier “all”?

Clearly, politicians enrich themselves in a variety of ways. Clearly, many of them use their positions of power to abuse that. And still clearly, there are examples of politicians that truly are working to change things for the better. Some of those persons sacrifice much and lose out on many opportunities.

There is no single answer for “all” politicians, but there is plenty of evidence to say that many do it to enrich themselves while others do it to enrich their communities as best they can.

In the end though, politics tends to change people and often not for the better…

What country are you in? What kind of job are you applying for? What are the drug laws in your area and/or nation? What industry are the jobs within? Many industries are legally bound to drug test. Does the company do this to prevent legal liability for some reason? Perhaps company reputation, dependability, and/or cost management are important factors for them . Etc etc.

In short, depending on the area, drug testing is pretty normal.

As for social media, always assume that your employer, co-workers, and anyone in your life will look up your social media and use it as a basis for understanding and assessing you. If you’re concerned about what people will think, then privatize and/or anonymize your social media use.

Donald?

Purity is a human construct. Purity doesn’t exist.

What you can do… What you can effect… Is to always improve, always learn, and always grow.

Press forward in goodness and wholeness. Let that be purity enough.

Well goodness. I read the article, fortunately, but it’s good to see other people pointing out here.

My initial thought was that this was the matrix we obviously care about. I didn’t look at the details to see if these people are truly nefarious and do belong in jail, which I’m okay with, but it was definitely troubling to imagine that something I thought secure wasn’t secure. 😬

Firefox for general use. TOR browser (Firefox) for everything else. Privacy, security, and ad blocking are paramount.

I’m shocked! 🤯🫨

Just kidding, I ignored the headline and read the article. It really is interesting science. I had to run to Wikipedia to reference a bunch of terms, though. I’ve paid only limited attention to biology at this level. Haha. For the record though, I’m not shocked. 😏

Turns out you can’t read this story without crying either. 🥹💜

It’s unclear to me how often they need to hook up this elaborate setup. Is it a one-time thing that once set up it’s done? Can their grandmother walk out of range of the iPad and allow it to disconnect? What is the quality difference between typical hearing aids and this airpod capability?

Thanks for sharing the article. There’s a lot of people hurting in so many ways. This boy has it real real hard. It’s so good to see a win and to hear how this little boy is finally experiencing some much needed relief. He has so much hardship ahead of him, but this is a good day. 💜💜💜

Identity is a construct. Identify however you wish to be identified. You will be judged by and perceived as the identity people inevitably assign to you, regardless of how you self identify. Hopefully it matches. Maybe it won’t.

Mostly, just try to be okay with yourself. Be a decent human and people will generally be okay with you.

Your first step might be finding someone who can mentor you and help you and teach you a bit. Someone with patience and who is caring.

To be honest though, it sounds like some good therapeutic council would do you very well and bring quality of life.

I mean, time-travel stories typically involve traveling by way of some mechanism be it a spell, wormhole, tear in spacetime and etc. The end goal is usually traveling from one point to another with a purpose. Characters can travel back and forth. Everyone usually remembers each encounter.

Time-loops, like in Groundhog’s Day or Edge of Tomorrow, usually cause people to get “stuck.” Some plot device is then introduced to eventually “unstick” them. Only the people stuck in the loop are usually aware that anything is happening.

1999

Are they dreaming of each other or dreaming of being each other? 🤔

And this was how I learned that Video Station is no longer supported by Synology. If you want the updates, you’ll have to uninstall it.

I mute them habitually and very regularly wish muting was kept as a metric so “they” could know just how much I truly loathe them.