Communication and transparency. Everyone should know so that everyone can make decisions based on their own risk tolerance.

Personally, in an open group, barriered sex is the default except for two primaries. In a closed group, I think it just depends on everyone risk tolerance and trust.

Personally I’d be fine going barrier free if I was in a closed group I trusted. Like all things, the bigger the group, the more likely somone isn’t playing by the rules.

So I think it depends a lot on the circumstances.

A link to Reddit to a link to unverified “documents” is not news. It’s gossip at best.

News should be verifiable and fact checked. Not some random post in a subreddit.

Agree, OPs experience sucks and it’s good perspective but YSK should be focused on facts.

Moussaka.

You have to peel, slice, salt, and drain eggplant. Then cook it.

You have to peel, parboil, and slice potatoes.

Optionally also peel, slice, salt, drain, and cook zucchini.

You have to make your meat sauce. Make bechemel.

And then layer it all together and bake it.

It’s MANY hours.

What is it you’re looking to get from the lethicin? What do you think is missing from just straight canola? What problems are you having? I think this would help with alternative suggestions.

Looks great! Any oil in the pan? Any kind of seasoning?

I have a dishwand that just stays out all the time, so I’d hit it with that. Almost everything either goes in the dishwasher or gets hit with the dishwand. If I cut up something like apples or cucumber I may just give the knife a rinse before it goes back into the block

This just makes sense. Probably a lot of history to show that foster kids go downhill once they age out. Giving them a path, via paid for college, to transition into stable adulthood should help a lot.

I support access to free college for everyone. Until we can get there, this is a good step.

In many ways this is shocking but also not surprising. Many underperforming breweries are closing. It’s tough for the workers. Multinational conglomerates can suck an old sock, though.

Anchor Steam was definitely a gateway beer for me, and then I enjoyed Old Foghorn when I could find it, and many large format Christmas Ale’s made it into my fridge.

Good bye, old friend.

There are no cake days, this isn’t Reddit. Don’t try to make it Reddit. Let it be it’s own thing.

I’ll go.

My wife and I started dipping our toes into the hotwife thing last year. If merged with a bit of poly as she developed a dating relationship with one man. It was really fun. Things started to get less on the ethical side, so that’s morphed into a non sexual relationship.

We were talking about what was fun about it and what’s next. My wife shared that she’s more interested in finding a couple to swing with than just hotwife, so we’ll probably explore that in the future.

How do y’all go about finding other couples? We’re way more interested in finding a couple we can also be friends with and hang out with. Go to dinner, have over for bbqs, but also dtf :). What are the best ways to meet folks like that?

Edit: I recognize this is the “unicorn” couple, but I guess more to the point we’re not looking to go to a club and play right now. We’re trying to meet a couple with at least somewhat similar interest/mentalities that we can laugh with while enjoying the lifestyle.

In principle, these type of weapons are immoral even in war. We’re talking about things like mustard gas, chlorine gas, sarin gas. Nerve agents that are incredibly cruel and painful. They painfully, sometimes slowly, kill or incapacitate indiscriminately.

I think in practice warfare and weaponry have changed enough that the U.S. military feels it can wage war more effectively without these type of weapons.

Based on past behaviors from Russia, this sounds like they are considering a false flag attempt on their own nuclear facility to justify additional escalations and war crimes.

This is some very ironic, animal farm energy here. The government has forgotten who gave them their power.

I’m coming here from kbin and see the link fine

Spez has been correctly advised that investors are going to be concerned with profitability, or at least a viable pathway to profitability.

There’s a huge startup bubble starting to burst. Companies reliant on cheap money to supplement a business model that at best is years away from profitability but in some cases decades or will never be profitable.

Uber and Doordash IPO’d when money was cheap and investors were fine with speculating on these disruptive, yet unprofitable, companies.

I work broadly in the VC funded start-up world. My observation is that money is running out. All of these companies are trying to commercialize, even if the product isn’t fully ready, because they have to show revenue and there has to be a path to profitability of that revenue. That’s the only way they’ll get more money.

In this context, Reddit is more like these startups. They’ve been funded by investors, including big ones like Condé Nast and Ten Cent, and they need more money, so they have to show a path to profitable revenue.

The IPO is going to be a shit show. I wouldn’t touch it with a 9 foot pole. Reddit has been notoriously unprofitable for its entire existence. Now there’s no more juice to squeeze and their backers want to pawn it off on retail investors.

I can understand the interest in watching the drama unfold. It’s like reality tv.

But you should also ask yourself, deep down, why do you care?

Reddit will never go back. It was going downhill long before the 3PA-crisis. Spez will never back down. Even if Spez gets fired it’ll be an Ellen Pao situation all over again. The new CEO will say nice things and then not undo anything Spez did.

At this point the most anyone left on Reddit can do is damage Reddit’s valuation. It’s retribution for destroying the community we all enjoyed.

The mods can do this by impacting what subs can be monetized. Users can do this by decreasing traffic. Even being on the site is traffic.

The title is click bait, but the article has some legit criticism of Boca for this move.

Sucks for Ibarra.

It’s funny you phrase it that way. I have a number of plants that I “bring in” for winter. It’s the same thing, just I view them less as “house plants” and more as “not winter hardy”.

I’ve got a few cacti, a jade plant, peace lily, and and orchid that all come inside for the winter time.

I used to have a lot more, but I pared them down. They took up a lot of space inside and it was just a lot of hassle to deal with.

I really use very few platforms. Was mainly Reddit, now mainly Kbin. No Facebook, no Twitter, no Instagram, too old for Snapchat.

I stopped visiting Facebook several years ago. I think it was for two reasons:

1. I decided it was unhealthy for my in real life relationships to see how people behaved on Facebook.
2. When I noticed that Facebook was showing me way more “suggested” crap than stuff from my friends.

I never used Twitter. It just wasn’t for me.

Maybe too old and too much of a curmudgeon for Instagram and Snapchat.

Leaving Reddit was going to be hard. I tried Mastodon but, like Twitter, that wasn’t what I was looking for.

When I found kbin, I made the switch and that’s it. I have one sub I still check out on Reddit, but here if used to be daily, now it’s a few times a week. It’s continue to diminish I’m sure as the community on the deliverer grows.