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USS Lincoln Sailors Attempted to Jump Overboard Amid Extended Iran Deployment, Families Say

https://ground.news/article/uss-lincoln-sailors-attempted-to-jump-overboard-amid-extended-iran-deployment-families-say_4a6ccb

I’m all for any person practising whatever relationship style they want. What im against is using people to fulfill your needs/wants. Have fun, meet people, enjoy experiences, but please dont make people your experiments. You may enjoy “the chase”, but the long term effects on those individuals may have further impacts.

I won’t fully agree with all the other comments that OP is not a nice person for doing this. We all have our motivations, methods, and reasoning. That being said, considering the fact that other humans have feelings and desires helps to mitigate that main character syndrome.

I find it interesting that a majority of the top comments assume the image is referring to a female coworker. The gender neutrality of it leaves much room for interpretation. I haven’t seen the latest Lemmy demographic stats, but this doesn’t exactly paint a balanced perspective.

Interesting. I had read something similar. Thing is, unless you host your own or give up conveniences, email will always be a means of surveillance. I try to do everything I can to keep my digital footprint small, but I also value my time. Going down a rabbit hole and hosting my own service, or never being satisfied with an email provider seemed like a waste of my time. I’ll do the best I can, and focus on what I can control.

I’ve been using Fastmail for a while now, and I like it. Clean interface, good apps, and lots of support for CALDAV (including tasks!). Frankly a much better interface than many other providers. I was also tired of using Thunderbird with my hosting provider’s email.

I spent quite a while looking for a good email provider as well. Proton didn’t work for similar reasons, and I didn’t like having to use the bridge on Linux. I settled on Fastmail as it’s cheap, and does what I need (email, calendar, tasks).

I wasn’t excited that they have servers in the US (they’re an Australian company), but I had to make a compromise to degoogle. “Perfection is the enemy of progress” is a common phrase for me.

I’m interested to see what other opinions come up though.

Breathing in the fumes from so many idling cars

I’ll never forget // Watching all the reds and oranges slip away

I have, and it’s working out just fine! Negativity doesn’t encourage growth and exploration. High standards and low expectations do.

Good question, and I’m happy to answer.

My personal wealth is damn near zero (and also no one’s business, but relevant here). A series of events led me to losing a number of assets, and scraping myself up from a deep depressive stretch.

A ton of therapy, personal development, and some medication has helped me to live a healthy balanced life. That’s what my partners find attractive. It’s not my wealth or abs, but the work I’ve done my myself.

Interesting. I don’t find that’s the case at all. I’m certainly not “stacked”, yet I’ve managed to find two partners that I absolutely adore. They each have other partners as well.

I’m pretty sure being open, honest, and vulnerable with a high EQ is far more important than having great abs. Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to the gym when I can, but real open relationships are about more than sex appeal and jealousy.

I’m running Mint on my Desktop/Gaming rig, as well as on my laptop and a microslop surface. I have some old hardware I’m considering trying vanilla Debian with, to try it out.

I like to stick with distros based on Debian/Ubuntu as I’m familiar with the utilities. Default settings and locations of things change, but I don’t mind finding those if the base architecture is familiar. I spun up a VPS with Ubuntu on it, and I was very comfortable getting it set up due to this.

I’ve also looked into a way to sync my OSs, but that’s a whole other animal, from what I can tell. I just have a markup file shared with Syncthing that gives a little To do list when I’m setting up a new machine.

That being said, I have an old laptop and a Ventoy USB loaded with distro images that I like to boot up now and then. Puppy, Kali, and Pop are some of the really interesting ones.

+1 for Niagara. I’ve been using it for quite some time, and I love the simplicity of it. No clutter and just a quick launcher. I have a widget stack for my calendar, tasks, and Firefox search.

Or… Migrate to another email service provider?