Yeah. That reminds me of my friend.

She was embarrassed about it sometimes, but she was also at the heart of our friend group. I think those are related.

I think it sometimes, maybe often, made her feel small and vulnerable.

But she liked people quicker and better than I ever could. And she often did a better job than I could of telling people how she felt.

She was a warm person trying to fit into a cold culture.

I think she realized her own warmth was a strength, eventually.

Now I try my best to let go and feel and show love the ways she did.

Edit: To be clear - she would crush hard on someone new very quickly. Then she would share it and sometimes get ingored or hurt, or sometimes date for awhile and break-up.

But whatever happened, if they didn’t turn out to be total assholes, she chose to be an irrepressible friend toward them, afterward.

She was always self conscious about the whole cycle - but we all admired her.

We were pretty honest about that, but some people have a hard time accepting compliments.

I learned a lot about how to be a better friend, from her.

I wonder sometimes how her eventual husband (now widow) felt about her fan club of exes. I figure he must have been pretty confident - he would have had to be!

Liking or loving easily makes a person vulnerable so it feels like a weakness - but the ability (or just tendency) to do vulnerable things is actually a kind of special strength.

I had a dear friend who said similar to what your posted - how she liked anyone who showed her attention.

She said it was a weakness.

But I always saw it as a strength. I always wished - I still do - that I could learn to be more like her, in that aspect.

I’m too afraid of being hurt, so I hide or suppress my feelings by instinct.

My friend couldn’t do that, but through that she blessed everyone around her.

She always worried how it made her look - her close friends could tell how quickly she would grow affection for someone. She thought we looked down on her for it. But we admired her for it.

Sorry I’m talking in the past tense because she got really sick, and we all still miss her terribly.

But ways that she impacted my friend group live on.

I like to think we all make new friends a little easier and show affection to those new friends a little more quickly, because of her love for us.

now I like anyone that shows affection for me.

This comment reminds me of people I have found really inspiring. I hope this becomes a source of pride and joy for you, someday, if it isn’t already.

True. But what about as an over the top art exhibit?

Yeah. I just mention it because I’ve generally just used VNC myself; and wondered what the fuss with fancier tools was about.

But then I realized home Internet has getting worse for some folks, and so folks might be using a service to get VPN-ed together, or whatever.

I’m also a big VNC fan, but I imagine RustDesk is solving for CGNAT better? I’m not aware of anything in VNC that solves CGNAT being a PITA.

I’m pretty sure this is the real reason my taste for spicy food advanced so far after I became a parent.

It’s nice to have a snack that the kid won’t loot and empty.

“The Parlor Room” is everything I wished Tom Vassal’s “Dice Tower” and Wil Wheaton’s show had grown into.

I think the big difference is DropOut has such a deep bench of comedians.

Even so, The Parlor Room is my favorite effective and entertaining way to shop for board games and learn the rules.

I wish my second favorite, “Beer and Boardgames” would join DropOut so I could watch them ad free more easily.

Be sure to check ouy Hyper Team Mechatron Go.

It’s a delightful spoof of Power Rangers that has more heart than it has any right to.

Archie is an idiot, here.

Yes. And the awkward social situation is when they ask what I’m wearing, but I didn’t pay any attention to the brand of the urinal mat.

I don’t want that to happen again, so now I’m careful to take note of the urinal mat branding.

Oh fun. Oscar feels like someone anyone could just sit and chat forever with.

Except there’s no non-wildcard Republican candidate.

They’ve cracked the formula for telling their voter base that this time will be different and anti-establishment.

While the Democrats have solved for how to exhaust their voter base patience. (Bombing innocent people in other countries.)

Approval based voting is the only way the Democratic party remains a player in American politics.

How does this compare to first past the post? Does it make any difference in outcomes?

Yes. It may be the only chance American Democrats have of winning any future elections.

The next wildcard candidate will attract a bunch of votes, while a Democrat who stands for shitty compeomises could still get a “better than the other asshole” approval vote.

Tagging is essentially the same as removing and not a compromise in my book.

Come check out Mastodon sometime, where we also tag movie spoilers, politics, mentions of any medical condition, and eye contact.

There’s nothing wrong with eye contact. It makes some people really uncomfortable. So we tag it so that they can filter it.

I wish I could upvote this twice! I’m actually on my way around to my second re-read of “Small Gods” during another full Discworld read-through.

Yea. Any religion that believes in a just interving diety runs into this.

If i really believe my god is perfect and all powerful, then why should I have compassion for all the unlucky people that god clearly despises?

It’s hard, because the idea of a perfect loving god is incredibly attractive.

It’s the evidence that sucks: if god is real and all powerful, then god is, at best ineffable, and at worst a terrible raging asshole who lovingly created a parasite that eats childrens eyes.

Now, if we’re willing to believe in a sort of weak impotent god, the theology gets more interesting.

why would I want this type of thing done at the community level?

I have an RSS feed for my unfiltered comics.

I read here for the community.

I’m happy to just skip the work of bigots, and have mostly blocked the users who routinely post that stuff.

That saif, if we’re going to remove credit with intent, i have a request:

let’s be clear and cedit “some random bigot”, so I’ll know i might not want to seek out the artist.

Even while aware of how little classic scifi or fsntasy covers usually have in common with the book contents… This is still surprisingly weird.