Toys aren't "a race to the climax" they're literally just another way you can have sex with someone. It's crazy to me watching all these straight people freak out about toys because I find it to be deeply intimate. Even in the case of vibrators. It doesn't feel like just the toy, it feels like the other person is granting you that pleasure. It's a much deeper and still emotionally enriching experience to use toys with other people vs. using them alone to masturbate.
If I'm using a toy on someone else, I feel good about making them feel good. I'm not offended that they find it pleasurable because that's fucking ridiculous.
And using a toy also doesn't necessitate that you're using it solely to get to the climax faster, that's also kind of a bizarre claim to make. There's a reason why they have settings. Overall, it's ridiculous to see toys as anything other than a tool you can use to enhance sex and feel (and help your partner feel) sensations you couldn't possibly be able to replicate without them. I basically agree that sex is much more about the process than the goal, it's just weird to say that toys go against that rather than help enhance it, which has been my experience with them.
You know those are the exceptions, not the rules. Capitalism means that you play the dirty tricks everyone else does or get left behind. Legislation is the way out of this, not the delusion that we can convince people to just "choose better". I tried to convince people for the better half of a decade. People simply do not have the knowledge to understand why they should care.
I don't know why people keep saying this. You either pay for a service, or you get a company extracting as much data as they can from you for advertiser or VC money. Servers and bandwidth cost money
Honestly I just use PiVPN on my clients and Jellyfin over HTTP. (The VPN encrypts traffic, don't worry). It's more secure than exposing it to the public internet in any way, really. After I had a goddamn Minecraft server get joined by a bot I stepped up security - in 2025, any hole will be exploited for data and botnets. If you're hosting for family, I think there's still value in the security Plex is offering by being the middleman between your computers in your home and the outside world.
I don't know about you but as a lifelong Albertan my life would improve if my city had even a little bit of the culture of like, Seattle. I'm not guessing, I have been there and it would be a place I'd consider moving if they weren't under fascist dictatorship keen on eradicating my people.
Marginally, compared to the large detriment that car dependency objectively is, and the raw materials extraction required for everybody to own 1, 2, 3+ cars. My comparison isn't with ICE cars, it's with functional public transit systems. I don't wish to argue about the particulars because inherently cars are the wrong solution to moving a lot of people around, because it's bad for society and doesn't even scale well, evidenced by the 401 and many other major highways.
I've always said that electric cars are basically a red herring for improving society. I don't really care much because it's a lateral move. Call me when we start getting electric cars of the train variety.
Turns out most of my sensory problems have to do with my hair and my face. As long as I've had my coffee (start up metabolism and keep me warm after leaving the shower) I can stand 5-10 minute "body showers". I also have music or YouTube running on my speaker and a heater running in the bathroom. I can FINALLY regularly shower, in my 20s. Washing only my body also doesn't seem to feel like the transition that getting my head soaked does.
A lot of people are nervous to talk about hygiene, because NT people simply do not understand the struggle it can be for neurodivergent people, especially those of us on the spectrum. But I think it's important so we can share our strategies, and shame about it just isn't good.
Yeah, I think laser with viable third party cartridges is the actual answer. No matter what brand. Individual model is more important than the brand too, because my Brother was actually still kinda annoying to get working properly.
Inkjet isn't appropriate for somebody who prints infrequently, especially refillable inkjets, because they dry out even faster than cartridges. Toner is powder and stays good for basically as long as the printer is functional.
It might depend on climate, because I live somewhere semi-arid, but it's worth keeping in mind.
Yup, I'm sure THESE smart glasses will be the one that everyone suddenly loves. Yeah nah. But it is pretty funny to watch people learn why Google Glass failed again and again.
Everything about the way the news works is wrong and hurts our society. For-profit news should've never been allowed to exist.