Numbers are all made up stuff, and they’re all the same. Here, lemme prove it; let a=b, and…

a² = ab             // multiplying both sides by "a"
2a² = a²+ab         // adding a² to both sides
2a²-2ab = a²-ab     // subtracting 2ab from both sides
2(a²-ab) = 1(a²-ab) // isolating (a²-ab)
2 = 1               // dividing both sides by (a²-ab)

From there you can prove any number is any number. 36=36 or 36=8 or 36=π.

Guys, please don’t call anything after Zirconium or Niobium. We need the names for the future Russian hacker groups Snugly Bear and Hugging Bear.

On a more serious note, someone is developing an operating system codenamed Boron.

It’s like one of my cats. When she’s doing something silly, and I grab the phone to take her pic, all I get is a picture of her butt. Because to observe something you need to interact with it, and when I interact with her she collapses into the “I wants buttslaps!” state.

And before I watch it, she’s in a superposition of states. Much like Schrödinger’s cat. However her states aren’t dead vs. alive; they’re “sleeping”, “licking her own buttocks”, and “ruining my Christmas decoration”.

It’s a Troy under the glorious Soviet Russia protection, tovarish.

In Soviet Russia, you don’t stuff the horse. The horse stuffs you!

nyaa.si has a bunch. Just be careful to not download the manga instead. (Both are under the same section, “Literature”.)

Not really assumptions, but how it sounds like, in the context of a social setting. Or, if you want: that’s how people “read” it.

Because he spoke to a stranger that didn’t want him to speak to them.

Don’t be disingenuous. That is not even remotely close to what I said.

Not bothering further with you.

If you’re trying to say something like “you have connections, unlike all of the dating people”: that is not what I said. Everybody has at least some connections; it’s all about how you use them to know more people.

If you mean something else, please explain - I’m genuinely struggling to parse your sentence.

Paying too much attention on the others’ conversations, even in a public environment, is creepy.

I get your reasoning, but personally I never interpreted it as a transaction fee. It’s more like a token of good will; I do something similar when I find friends in a bar, too.

The main gender problematic I see is:

1. If a woman approaches a man with a drink, society immediately labels both sides as bad.
2. In some cases she’d be better off approaching a bear, but she won’t know it until it’s too late.

I’ve seen it plenty, plenty times. Because I was looking for it. That was my “plan A” strategy when I still bothered dating; it works great as long as you know to be assertive without being pushy. (Some people want to be left alone, some only want to chitchat, both things are fine and you should respect that.)

My “plan B” was relying on connections, but that relies on luck. For example:

• you go to the bar with A
• A is acquainted with B, who’s drinking with C
• You say “hey, what if we all drink together?”

Then you have some room to at least know B and/or C better. And potentially ask one of them out.

Odds are my “plan B” is not viable for Anon, though - does he even have friends to go to the bar with?

Asking her out would be fine; the problem, as I already explained, is how. However I do agree with you that her answer was over the top, a simple “No.” would be the best.

Whole thing is no issue.

It was clearly an issue to the Anon, check the last paragraph.

If you are gonna randomly strike up conversations you will get cooked sometimes.

He wasn’t just striking up a conversation.

Additionally (and that’s neither side’s fault), mob mentality is a plague. She was in a group of four people; people typically behave worse in groups than alone.

What he says boils down to “I was eavesdropping your conversation, and I assume you’re desperate. You might as well lower your standards — date someone random you have no connections with, like me.” It’s bad; not bad enough to deserve that rude reply, but still bad.

A better approach would be to try to pick up a woman who’s alone, offer her a drink*, chitchat a bit, and then ask her for a date. With no references to what she said to other people. Creating some connection between him and her, before he asks her out.

*always ask the bar workers to bring it. Don’t bring it yourself.

The issue with Anon is not where he decided to pick the woman up, but how. What he said is basically “hey, I’m creepy enough to eavesdrop your conversation for three whole hours. Since you’re desperate you might as well lower your standards and date someone random, like me.” Of course she’d reject him.

Guy’s a creepo, gal puts people down unnecessarily. Both will unwillingly die alone.

Don’t forget the soundtrack. Ich brauche Zeit, kein Heroin, kein Alkohol, kein Nikotin. Gib mir Benzin!

I don’t know which one is the coolest. But people keep me asking this one:

“MSG ME! MSG ME!”

To be fair to the copyright troll, the Switch buttons are still in the same relative positions as they were in the SNES.

I’m not sure if gold would be a good fit for the Fediverse forums. As problematic as the voting system is, tying visibility to popularity is less worse than tying it to money spent.

Instead I think the current approach (donations) should be improved. I expect the same type of people who’d buy gold to finance their instances to be OK with donations, as long as they know it’ll be well used.

Yeah, but what constitutes vote manipulation is an issue that pops up here, too. I bet most instances would ban someone acting like this, too.