Ah, the classic water glass ballast, for when you want to do microwave shenanigans, but not 800W worth of shenanigans

My guy, it is not 1970 any more, you can throw that monochrome computer away. I heard they even come with more than 256 colors these days, and some even have more than 640kB RAM!

Mate, if you were orbiting her, she has too much mass. Perform a slingshot manoeuver and reach escape velocity.

Meh, count your blessings. I know a guy that is over 6'8 and super thin. I am rather of average height and width, and still able to fit comfortably into seats.

I don't understand the last point. If anyone, regardless of gender, were to punch me, and broke their own hand, I could hardly prevent that, right? Unless by dodging, in which case the punching and hand breaking does not apply at all. I can't make my skull less hard.

I have to admit, I have never had a shoe resoled. I should start doing that. Problem of living in a country (and world) where buying new is cheaper than repairing :(

Well, not any more apparently

Honestly, that is lack of training and/or technique. If you hit someone and break your own hand, you should either hit them less hard or it's a life-or-death situation and a broken hand is the least or your worries, right?

The difference is, they want to remove side loading.

That means all apps need to go through play store. No more f-droid on certified android devices. You need to be on play store, or your app is not installable.

Same. My usual failure mode is wearing through the soles. I wear through a pair of "general purpose" shoes in 2-3 years, and I have boots from 10+ years ago that just start to show the first issues.

I mean, if he had an iPhone, he wouldn't meet to barter for one, right?

I've been thinking about this for quite some time. Short-term thinking is the one big bad effect of modern turbo capitalism. Since we cannot have nice things, and are stuck with the current shitty system, could we at least come up with a way to make people in positions of power interested in the long term? Like, monthly payment in stocks that they are forced to hold for ten years or so? You can get a credit against those stocks, but at the end of the day, you would need to care that the company still exists and has worth in ten years.

Chess without horses is just lacking something

Fuck that, they can do their own market research. I am not their marketing department, I am not helping them build profiles of their customers for a few cents bonus. That shit is straight out of a 2000s dystopian speculative documentation.

Me being whatever I am does not change the validity of the question. Many presumably neurotypical people could really do with some honest mirror of how they come across. Yet the presumably on-average-neurotypical peers don't say anything out of politeness or other reasons.

And I ask here for the same reason I don't ask IRL friends: we are all anonymous strangers here, nobody knows me enough to not tell me my idea is stupid, and I don't know anyone enough to be offended by being told it is stupid.

Sorry, you misunderstand me, I think: I meant I am posting here, exactly because nobody here knows me well enough to really care about my feelings. So, if what I say is stupid, a random anonymous stranger is more likely to tell me than a friend. Bit of a meta question thing, I know.

For the actual question, it's kind of the same: an irl friend is at least a bit biased towards not trying to hurt my feelings. I know I do at least, if a friend asked me how he came across, I'd be inclined to be at least a bit diplomatic. Which is why I am looking for other ideas.

I guess I have to. On the other hand, I heard Finnish people don't like human contact anyway, so... meh

I hope I am a decent person. But even a decent person can be annoying, intimidating, harsh, closed off etc, right? I've seen it often enough in others.

Yeah, right?! I catch myself debating if I should tell a friend of mine that he smells sweaty or if I shouldn't, and I can only imagine other people have similar considerations.

You disagree with that?

Mostly yes. Guns are a thing now. Female cops are around 1/4 here. I fucking hate how female soldiers are not conscripted, you enjoy the freedoms in your country, you should have to protect it if shit goes south.

Now, if we talk about wrestling a drunk guy into handcuffs, that is one of the few things where peak physical strength is required. But I'd argue it is less about protecting the cop or the public, but rather the drunk guy from itself, since otherwise we could just shoot a drunk trouble maker.