Truly, this is the socialist utopia I am fighting for.

From each according to their ability; from each according to their needs. If you have plenty, it’s only reasonable to share with the cumslut

Defeat the cumslut by becoming the cumslut.

!You know you want to!<

“leftist” means a heckton of different things depending on who you’re asking. Some people strongly feel that “leftist” means something distinct from “someone who is left wing”, whereas others don’t make that distinction. Of that latter category, some people use “leftist” to mean someone who is leftwing in an absolute sense, whereas other people use it in a relative sense, such that they would consider Bernie, who is on the leftmost fringes of a not very left wing (but more left wing than the GOP) party, a leftist.

I agree that when we’re talking about politics, it’s important to try to be precise in what words we use (especially when discussing politicians whose views may have shifted over time, as you highlight). However, the reality is that there is no single, agreed upon definition for terms like “leftist”, and no authority by which we can definitively say who is using it wrong or right.

Even if Bernie isn’t a leftist, he was certainly perceived that way by much of his party, who don’t care about making granular distinctions between “Socialist Democrat” and “leftist” when for the Democrats, both of those collapse down to “way more left wing than we want to go”.

Though I would also note that the person you’re replying to didn’t explicitly state that Bernie was a leftist. This isn’t just me being persnickety — I get that they did heavily imply Bernie was a leftist. The point I’m trying to make is that there are a lot of people who don’t think Bernie is/was a leftist, but, as one of the more left wing people in his party, could have been a passageway towards getting more candidates who are genuinely leftist (and indeed, some of the Dems pushing against Bernie likely shared this view)

Research has actually shown that people respond better to people with Scottish accents. Apparently at least one big company (might have been British Gas?) factored this into their decision about where to base their upper tier customer service call centres

I mean, that is the definition of ragebaiting

I didn’t know about the reformulation thing — is it Adderall that’s affected? I’m not personally on Adderall, but I like to be aware of the overall landscape of ADHD meds due to having many friends with ADHD (and also being a nerd)

If corporations can get the benefits of legal personhood, then they should be subject to the penalties too.

It certainly can, but it’s far from typical. Whereas it’s not uncommon for lesbian/sapphic sex to last for hours, such that I’m pretty confident that the average duration of sapphic sex is going to be much higher than the average duration of heterosexual sex

I think there’s more to it than this. In my experience, sapphic sex is less focussed around orgasm, which means there’s often periods where the sex/making out is sort of enjoying the good vibes (no pun intended).

In contrast, men that I have slept with can become overly fixated on the idea of me orgasming, which always annoys me because I’m quite difficult to bring to orgasm, and they don’t seem to get that orgasm != good sex (they’re certainly correlated ofc, but one doesn’t necessarily mean the other).

Women also tend to take much longer to reach orgasm, which can mean that sapphic sex tends to be quite dynamic in terms of positions, tempo, use of toys etc… Like, if I’m going down on a partner who can only orgasm through oral sex, and I know that the position I’m in will start causing me pain before she’s anywhere near orgasming, then I might opt to switch things up to be in a position that’s restful for me (so I can resume oral afterwards) but still stimulating for my partner.

TL;DR: I think the biochemical wakefulness can’t hurt, but I think sapphic sex going on for hours is mostly sociocultural

It took me a long while to find someone who actually appreciated weird stuff like this. There are plenty of folk like us out in the world, it just takes some time to find them sometimes.

I think the image implies that the questions are something big and heavy, likely pertaining to the relationship itself, but when I do this, it’s usually something a bit random and abstract.

For instance, earlier today, I asked my partner “if you were a God in a pantheon of many different Gods, what would your domain be? I reckon we wouldn’t be especially powerful Gods, so it’d have to be something fairly specific — sort of like how [in Dungeons and Dragons], Azuth is the God of magic as a craft, existing as a lesser God within Mystra’s domain of magic in general”

Men tend to get sleepy after sex, whereas women are more likely to become more alert and/or mentally stimulated. I think it’s prolactin release that makes men sleepy, though I’m unsure of the potential mechanism behind women becoming more awake.

If you haven’t shared with your partner/wife that this is off-putting for you, you should tell her. I think it would be reasonable to say that whilst you understand that questions like this are likely how your partner/wife decompresses after sex, that you would appreciate 5-10 minutes of quiet so that you’re able to recuperate also

A joke my mum (ex-military) used to make was “There’s 3 ways to get things done: The right way, the wrong way, and the military way”

(For people who don’t get it, the joke is that the military often does stuff in a dumbass way not because they tried to do things the right way and got it wrong, but because they value consistency and predictability much more than doing something right vs. wrong. I suppose there’s probably a logic to it on the big, zoomed out view of things, but when you’re just a grunt, the way the military works can often seem nonsensical)