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You don't.

Like Buddy said, neurodivergence has absolutely nothing to do with your ability to make love. It might change how you go about doing it, but it's not an impediment like your perpetual defeatist attitude is. The bigger issue all along has been your inability to be yourself. I'm not saying the person you present yourself as is false - that pathological self deprecation you use is ostensibly an armor you wear to protect yourself from abuse while, in reality, it is a second skin you wear to realize your self image. There are any number of reasons why you wouldn't embrace your neurodivergence, the totality of which makes the prospect dauntingly prohibitive. However, becoming the "creep" others see you as isn't sustainable, and it isn't a path toward finding someone to love and accept you. There is someone out there that will accept you, but only if you embrace who you actually are.

You did decently. I just have to figure out who owns the Toilet Bowl Champion team: a lot of people don't use their screen names for the ownership handles.

What are you even talking about? What people?

Ghosty, I would never peg you as creepy. You can be… kind of whiny… sometimes. But, never creepy or threatening. You would be a lot less whiny if you got laid, though.

Early James Bond era, he's most definitely sexy.

I was watching The Great Train Robbery the other day and... Donald Sutherland is basically carrying their scenes. He's not a bad actor, but he isn't really all that great either. He's basically there to look absolutely chiseled, and he fucking nails that.

Kids these days dont know how to talk to Daddy.

Because they like it rough.

San Francisco

Why would they think "aiming to prevent 'embarrassment' to the iraqi government" is a coherent rationale? Is there an additional claim that the strike was mistakenly directed at the barracks?

I don't think the debate is whether or not Trump is the worst President because that is an inherently subjective assessment and it relies almost entirely on results that are only partially attributable to him. The debate is whether or not Trump is the worst human being to be President, and that isn't really debatable.

There is a notable gap between the excitement of seeing a great player lead his team to his first Super Bowl win and the excitement of watching a legend in the making win his fifth Super Bowl. In between is the disappointment of not seeing the unexpected or unlikely. Mahomes, for better or worse, is in that middle phase where his legend is being built on fleeting moments of greatness wedged in the monotony of competence. If he wins, it's because he's expected to win, but if he loses, it deflates our opinion of his past successes. It's depressing to think about, really.

I don’t have an NFL team per se. I like teams with players and coaches I like, and I really like Amon-ra. Goff is okay for a Cal Bear, so I can overlook that. i don’t like the Niners, though. Fuck those guys.

So it goes. I find it hard to rack a dude over the coals for sticking to the same game plan over the course of a season. Yeah, those 3 points could have gotten them the game, but kicking field goals is not what got the Lions to the NFC championship. Heck, if it hadn't been for a blatant case of corrupt officiating, it very well could have gotten them a better track to the game where they didn't need to rely on field goals. It's really disappointing because I believed in the Lions this season and I'm going to believe in them next season.

Deterrence is an antiquated strategy to be sure. It works between two superpowers when both superpowers have some kind of skin in the action. It doesn’t work when there is a power differential, and it’s counterproductive when dealing with terrorists and insurgents.

And it was the plan because that’s all they can do. Israel doesn’t have much of a military without all the expensive hardware the United States sells them. It’s also debatable whether or not Israel is actually looking for a fight. The sorry state of their armed forces would suggest the disproportionate response might be more of a defense mechanism.

Hamas knew this would happen when they went on that terror spree. It’s not about Israel being ok with murdering Palestinians and choosing to do this; bombing is literally their only play. It’s become increasingly clear their defense force is completely inept. It’s a shock to me because I would have assumed their vaunted espionage service would have included some specialized and commando units, and that doesn’t appear to be the case. The tragedy here is that hundreds of innocent Israeli hostages and hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians died because Israel isn’t the regional power they pretend to be and a corrupt PM with his ultra conservative ministers out to save their own skin launched an ill advised/unwinnable war because they are too cowardly to admit they let the kidnappings happen on their watch.

But, sometimes Gorillas don’t want the attachment, you know?

To add - it's should not be a surprise that people on Hamas' payroll are also working for the UNRWA given that the people who best know Gaza, its residents, are the same pool of people Hamas recruits from.

Yeah, it means she's outrunning you instead of you outrunning her.

That's not what the linked post is saying, even remotely.

HBD, Pooh....

And, the winner of backhand compliment of the day goes to ....

Ghosty, don’t kill the gorilla, love her.