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Science is great, and gathering data on things that confirms what we already believe isn't a waste, but I think this paper is presenting itself as more surprising than it ought to...

The study shatters the outdated myth that vaginal penetration is the primary driver of female pleasure.

Literally my entire life I've heard this. From, like, everyone that talks about sexuality at all. And we already have studies that say only like 30% of women orgasm from penetration (quoted off my recollection, I don't have a citation handy). So this is fine, more different data is fine, but this myth has been beaten dead for like 50 years.

I did like the part where they talked about how more orgasms with a partner is more satisfying, but more orgasms solo is instead a symptom of less satisfaction. And similarly, more variety in activities with a partner is a positive sign, but more variety solo is instead a sign of "desperation" almost. That makes intuitive sense, I'm not surprised by that, but having data to back up the intuition is nice.

I think the real novel value here is the part where they talk about women having trouble with partners where they feel pressured to perform, and so much more relaxed and comfortable by themselves. Not surprising, makes sense, but that feels like interesting insight that could have further study.

I'm pretty sure the DJs in my area record a bunch of inserts and bits ahead of time, those get edited and sliced up, and then put into the playlist at the correct positions. So I don't think they're sitting in the booth listening to the music live, and then talking in between, like they used to anymore. So that's probably how they don't get bored, they didn't even hear the music last Friday when they laid down the week's schedule.

Wow, I had no idea! I just looked through the list of World Cup balls, and they only used that design, like, twice. But what an impact! I assume they had to get fancy afterwards because every ball started to look like that, so now it looked almost boring. Wild!

I've always liked them as a set. I think neither of them on their own are as good as the two of them contrasted against each other.

Maybe "Ell's Well Bhat TEnds -Ell"

This isn't me hating on trans folks, but as a word nerd it bothers me that we started using "transgender" with the explanation that gender isn't sex... but mostly because "transexual" had a bad flavour. And by now the term has completely lost its distinction and transgender basically means transexual, but we don't like saying "transexual", which is where things like this meme came from.

The dinosaurs weren't transgender, because they aren't expressing a gender. They're not changing clothes or pronouns, or wearing or not wearing makeup, or going by a name that suits them best. They changed sex. Or maybe they were intersex all along, that's fine too.

Anyway, again, human people who experienced gender dysphoria are lovely, I'm not hating on them, I just wish we were able to keep both terms around to separate the different opinions and desired outcomes for folks.

Kain is deified

For outsiders: Doug Ford is the Premier of Ontario, vaguely like a governor I think, and is Conservative. From Toronto, Ottawa is about 3ish hours North East by car, and Kitchener-Waterloo (KW) is about 1hr South West of Toronto. Hamilton is perhaps the next major city after Toronto and is around 30 minutes South (ish) of Toronto. Guelph is a smaller city 30ish minutes North of KW.

This is why these various places were all brought up in relation to a comment about KW. Besides Ottawa, they're all pretty close to each other.

And yes rusty tailpipe sounds about right 😉

I'm not trans, but I'm in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and know a few trans people peripherally, and see more I don't know around town. So at the very least it's safe enough for people to be out and about just casually hanging with friends. We have the University of Waterloo (UW, but not University of Washington), and it has well-regarded math, CS, software engineering programs, at least around here.

Just an option I figured I'd mention.

I love how the paragraph opened with how anyone can upload their own skins, and use simple photo editing and have unlimited creative freedom. But then in the back half of the second paragraph they reveal that their kid has been using the default female character the whole time. So none of that customization stuff anyway, the game said "boy or girl" on boot, they picked "girl", and that's that.

Wait, you guys get relief? All I get is guilt that it wasn't done within a reasonable timeframe or amount of effort in the first place...

Streaming a torrent, in this context, would mean to start downloading a torrent at the first block working your way to the end, and to start watching before the download is complete. It's possible to do.

But steaming in the context you're replying to means to broadcast a signal as it's occuring. Sending the start before the end has even happened yet. As far as I know, there are no torrent-like systems that support uploading things before the file has ended. Torrents in particular need a list of all the blocks of a file, with their checksum for integrity checks, before they can be created, and so definitely can't support streaming upload.