Customary? Yes.

Reasonable? That’s far more complicated. Really depends on your own values

No, to the Christians, it’s not “raping a child” it’s “sex with underage women/females/etc…”

In their religion, it was totally normal to have sex with rape children, even and especially when it’s their own child.

The smart move is: don’t get your honey where you make your money.

Jane is not interested in an intimate relationship with you. She is being a polite and considerate coworker looking for support from a friendly face. Help her without turning it into more than super and teamwork, and it will eventually just turn into a deeper relationship if she really is into you. If not, then it was never going to anyway.

John is your subordinate. He is reaching out to you with trust for support in this time, but he ultimately cannot get the support he needs in his romantic/personal life from work. If the only thing keeping him there is her then he should leave, and you should support him there. Either make it a place he wants to work at outside of his (AND YOUR) romantic interests or use your professional resources to find him something that is a better fit.

You need to be very careful with both these dynamics.

What would you rather have here: someone looking to build interdepartment trust and friendship and a subordinate who wants to be at work, or a subordinate who feels like you don’t care about him and a coworker who feels like you think so highly of yourself that every girl who talks to you wants to date you?

There is no third option where you get the girl and fix the kid in the situation as you describe it.

Car manufacturers have always overstated mileage ratings because their tests are done in very controlled environs under ideal conditions.

They cannot control how you use their vehicle, but they can baseline it. That’s what those ratings have always reflected, and why. “Here is the way this car performs under ideal circumstances. YMMV”

It’s misleading because it is reporting a very generalized average fuel consumption (actual usage) of all PHEVs while manufacturer claims are based on individual vehicle potential.

Manufacturers cannot control how people use their cars, they can only assure that the cars operate the way they claim when used the way they suggest.

Fast car still chokes me up

Savior

Dammit

That statement some real “both sides” energy bullshit. The only ones obliged to behave like professionals here are the ones representing the US government on official duty. The rest are obliged to do exactly what they are doing. Keep watching, keep filming, keep supporting each other, and keep showing the world all of it.

Air-dicking is a hard practice to break free from, ig… easier to retrain into air-fishing

I’d probably go back to around 2000 and tell myself that my stupid decisions were going to catch up to me in about 24 years, and they will definitely cost me the relationship I have with only person in this world who had ever genuinely loved me, and that it will drive her mad and she will react in a most brutal and callous way.

I would remind myself that the way I think other people are feeling is almost always wrong, to some degree, and that i should listen better to her about her feelings while I still have a chance to salvage what was once true love.

I would explain that, if I’m not careful, I will misinterpret everything she says about her feelings, and i will lose all my friends and hobbies, one by one, trying to be someone for her that she doesn’t even want.

I would describe the way it feels to be with her, then illustrate the way it will feel when she starts dating other guys while you beg her to please work with you on your relationship, and that it would already be too late no matter how much you want it to work.

I would suggest that, if I decide to proceed while ignoring all my other advice, then I should at least not buy a house with her in 2023 when she is so insistent. Just hold out for one more year before making that mistake.

She wanted to be my forever person, and i didn’t know how to deserve that. We were fucking teenagers when we got together, and neither of us knew how to be. We were just spitballing.

And I’m a fucken dumdum.

I probably wouldn’t listen to me anyway

Before the toilet, there was Little Big Skibidi

This will probably actually make it more confusing, but it’s still worth it, and it’s a Brazillion times better than skibidi toilet could ever dream…

He who truly knows, knows that he knows not

Or

The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.

But also, understanding that about yourself doesn’t take more knowledge or intelligence than you currently have. As another user (darkdarkhouse)^ posted, you can understand how the brain works and still not have all the knowledge in the world (hard drive with a map/directory of the hard drive on it).

The kom.bu.cha! mush.room! peo.ple! sit.ting a.round all day!

Perhaps that anyone of any religion is not also atheist.

Anyone in any theology believes in only their deity, but doesn’t believe in the hundreds of other recorded, historical deities.

Even the theists are atheists.

All good friend… it’s too easy to get caught up in the emotions of charged politics

If I had to guess, I’d say that they were talking about how it’s barely affordable just to live in some places (wage slaves), and moving yourself and your family to an entire other state takes substantial time and money. Not to mention the emotional difficulty of leaving everyone and everything you know.

The same argument was made about recently freed slaves who had nowhere to go afterward, and how they should just move if they don’t like the continuing slavery-like treatment where they lived.

It does seem very cold and privileged from that perspective to tell someone to just up and leave, but this specific comparison seems unnecessarily impassioned

Scattering the remains has long been a custom

Toddler: grabs step stool

I mean, I might as well be listening to journey. Giving myself a mullet hook the Flowbee to the Kirby