Which is why Putin appears to be doing his level best to make that not happen.

Exactly that. There’s sex as an intimate act between loving partners, then there’s sex as recreation. The two things aren’t necessarily the same. It’s why swinging is so popular.

Britain is where the Canuckians got that from. Our colonies ranged very far and very wide, and for that we’re very sorry.

Sorry.

oh no i am bamboozled

I appreciate your honesty. It’s refreshing in this world of lies and deceit.

This is just gatekeeping seasoning and I won’t stand for it (while getting e-coli from my unwashed dishes).

Mastertwat.

I’m a 44 year old (mostly) straight guy who’s at a point where I don’t really know why any of that stuff really matters to people.

I was a teenager in Britain in the '90s when it was ridiculously common to refer to something bad as “gay”. So I grew up not homophobic as such, but having definitely equated being gay with negative connotations. But some 15 years ago I started to question my own attitudes, and, helped by a woman I was seeing at the time, I explored the idea of playing gay. I didn’t actually do anything, but she thought the idea was as hot as hell.

Fast forward to now, where I’m married to a different woman who also thinks that guys fucking is hot, and so do I. So it’s something that’s become an occasional part of our sex life, and it’s great.

Now, I’m not necessarily answering your question, because sex ≠ emotions. To me sex and emotions aren’t really linked. One is something to be enjoyed, and the other is something to be shared with an intimate partner. But the point is, if you’re a naturally open-minded person then your baseline for who and what you are will be constantly subject to change.

Are you straight? Are you gay? Are you bi? Are you any of these things? Does it really matter?

As to your point about being attracted to femininity: I definitely get that. Regardless of how someone identifies, if they’re feminine I’ve got a soft spot for them.

Given how much they’ve shrunk the Mac mini down, the next Apple TV will either be a surprisingly powerful gaming console in its current form factor, or they’ll keep its performance roughly equivalent to how it is now but have it in a far smaller form.

My money would be on the latter. Smaller devices mean more can be shipped for the same cost in less expensive packaging, and that’s the Cook Way. They’ve no real interest in offering ‘proper’ gaming on ATV, so as long as it can work with 8K signals it’ll be powerful enough for what it needs to do.

I was going to say, depends how far north/south you are.

Down here on the south coast you’ll be looked at with extreme scorn if you try to fire up a conversation with a stranger. As god intended. People who can willingly talk to strangers are utterly alien to me.

Well, this is absolutely wonderful.

Iggy Pop is looking well.

I acquired the new Ted Danson/Mike Schur show, A Man on the Inside a few days ago. Given that it’s spy-coded I didn’t think it unusual when the opening scene supposedly filmed in the early '80s was in a foreign language. Figured that maybe Danson’s character is ex-KGB or some shit and that there were no subtitles because we’re not really supposed to know what he’s saying.

Yeah, no. I’d somehow managed to strip out all language files but Turkish when transcoding it from MKV to MP4.

Off the top of my head, What Dreams May Come and One Hour Photo are two wildly different types of movie, both kinda bleak in their own way, and neither what you’d turn to if you wanted a Robin Williams comedy. To some extent World’s Greatest Dad as well, though that one actually is pretty funny.

Reaper is available for Linux. I can’t vouch for it as I’ve not used it on there, but I’ve used it on Mac and it’s great. Generally well regarded and is pretty inexpensive.

Picture someone who’d hide behind his bigger mates if he was threatened and you’d be closer to the mark.

Was ever thus, init.

The options are 1) Charge less and sell more, or 2) Charge much more and sell less, but make up more than the difference in how much more they charge.

They always, always take option 2 because they’re shitheads who feel like they have a legal duty to put the shareholders above the customers.

I am so uninformed over the last year

Being uninformed is ok as long as you pair it with knowing you’re uninformed.

Our Stupid Monkey Branes aren’t designed to be filled with doom all day long, they’re designed to know a handful of people in our tribe. It’s not healthy the way we chase after trying to know everything about everything in order to satisfy ourselves that we’re informed.

If I didn’t already think that Musk is a fucking shithead, him stanning for Tommy fucking Robinson would have sealed it.

Tommy Fucking Robinson (or Stephen Yaxley-Fucking-Lennon to give him his actual name) is the worst. A racist thug through and through, who, by being banged up, is in the right place.