Ah, yes, indeed! Related to that, I’ve seen a lot of comments from circumcised men on here saying that they’re glad that they had it done, because they’re already “too sensitive,” by which they mean that they reach orgasm too easily. (Not that it’s too pleasurable.) I’m a straight guy, so I’ve only experienced one penis, but my friend who has experience with his own, and many more, says that that’s not how it works. He says that intact men have better awareness of their own level of arousal, and better control over the level of stimulation, and can last longer before.

That’s certainly a case of not missing what you never knew.

Great insight!

I would add, though, that you absolutely can miss what you never knew you had, even if you don’t know you’re missing it. (Else, why the concept of eggs?) I have seen several intact men in these communities say that their primary sexual sensation comes from their foreskin. Say you were one of those men, and had your primary source of sexual sensation amputated at birth. You could go through much of your life knowing that something was “not right” with sex, but not knowing what.

I still have an impacted wisdom tooth, and it’s okay. Everybody should keep theirs.

Okay, but let’s then also talk seriously about routine infant labiaplasty. A lot of women prefer the look, and it’s a common cosmetic surgical procedure that many of them get later in life. If it were done at birth by a qualified medical practitioner, it wouldn’t harm the clitoris, but have the advantage of cleanliness and, while it hasn’t been studied extensively, preliminary results show some benefit in preventing disease. Seems like a great idea. Why don’t we do it?

I feel honor-bound to point out every time somebody brings this up that Gaige Grosskreutz could’ve greased that guy, and it would’ve been legitimate self-defense, too. Wisconsin law be fucked.

“The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Nah, Kermit has to play Wesley to Miss Piggy’s Princess Buttercup. I’d keep Andre the Giant. Or maybe Fred Savage. Statler and Waldorf would of course be the grandfather(s), and the Swedish Chef as Miracle Max. Oh, this could be good…

What a giant, extra-crispy bucket of stupid. Here’s what makes a woman: Intent.

Remember intent? It’s kind of a big thing in criminal law. It’s the difference between manslaughter and murder. We treat killing people very differently depending on the killer’s intent. Murdering for a life insurance payout? Very bad. Manslaughter with a car? No biggie. Killing an enemy in war? Laudable.

Point is, intent matters, in this and lots of other ways. So if a person intends to be a woman, she is a woman.

(And, yes, if a hen could conceptualize and express intent to be a human woman, I say that we should consider her as such. Shit, The Android Who Wants to be Human is a well-worn sci-fi trope, so why not a biological organism, too?)

Well, I mean we currently give them a badge and a gun and pay repeat offenders to repeatedly offend.

Yes, try the Sonoff ZBMINIL2 device, which does exactly what you want. Wire it in the box with your existing switch, then you can control the light with either the switch, or via HA. If you have a neutral wire in the electrical box, there’s also the ZBMINIR2, which has a relay-disconnect feature. In that mode, it provides continuous power to the the bulb, and sends switch-toggle events to HA to trigger an automation to turn the smart bulb on and off.

I’ll take your word for it, because it would be awfully hard to compare it to other billiard balls after we’d asphyxiated from the atmosphere dissipating into space.

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Funny how the difficulty of this puzzle varies so much between people. I had green and yellow on the first read-through, which made blue a snap, but I’m still not clear on WTF purple was.

Here is osmium, a framework and tool to work with OpenStreetMap data.

Here ya go.

I’m not a gamer, so I had to look up the definition of a third-person shooter. It seems like very poor terminology; it’s actually a second-person shooter. There’s the player (1st) giving commands to an on-screen avatar (2nd). Where’s the 3rd person?

I’m thinking a true third-person shooter would consist of an NPC shooting at your unarmed avatar?

By the time I left r/fuckcars, people were asking this question several times per day, or every 15-20 minutes at peak times. I recall that the moderators had an auto-mod bot that would respond, and my paraphrase of it is something like this:

We don’t hate the cars, per se, but rather the physical, environmental, and social destruction wrought by designing all aspects of daily life around their use (to the near-exclusion of anything else). Small, cheap, utilitarian motorcycles are better than cars in a lot of ways (space, cost, fuel economy), and worse in others (noise, pollution). They’re fine, as long as the riders aren’t demanding that the entire landscape and society be structured and built to cater to their machines.

That’s brilliant! Now, when users replace their phone, they also have to replace a second device. Hooray for planned obsolescence!

Quite a few of them actually do have public transit in the form of shuttle buses.

Seems like Germany could save a lot.of.money by not building lanes that you’re not allowed to drive in!

That’s utterly ridiculous. If the highway has three lanes, it’s because on average there’s too much traffic for two lanes. That’s why they added a third lane. What—the left lane is for passing, the right lane is for cruising, and the middle lane is for decoration?