Hard to knock him for this one, who the hell CAN stay awake listening to Dr. Oz?

Oh, certainly not.

This very article.

And one batch of the 45WE EMU (electric multiple unit, the kind of train that doesn’t have a separate engine up front to pull the passenger cars), would switch off automatically when passing through the Mińsk Mazowiecki railway station. Trains full of passengers were left stranded.

I was feeling resentful for how he seems to just drop things wherever

Yo, I feel this a ton. I can never get him to clean consistently, cause he’ll get distracted by… well, basically anything. We had success with scheduling “clean up time” 1 hour before bedtime, for a while, but even we could never get it to stick. Best I’ve learned to do is remember it’s not malicious, “focus” is just something he doesn’t have mastered, yet. I’ll also point out, he’s gotten a LOT better in the past couple years. Hell, he voluntarily wanted to clean his room tonight, after having his friend over all day, he said they left the room a mess.

To an extent, yes. “Video streaming giant Netflix” would suffice.

Three different articles I’ve seen about this and not ONE of them even ATTEMPTS to explain what Blackstone is.

Yes, I could, and did, google it, but it’s infuriating, on principle. It’s a bsic reading comprehension concept: don’t assume your reader knows outside context, when your audience is essentially random.

For once, I’m on Trump’s side (sort of). Just deny this fucking merger. Both of these companies are big enough already.

Well, yeah. The people who host them for profit should be held liable.

you write it in a special programming language, which is basically English, which describes how you want to see this application in a very specified way

A derivative of English, with different syntax and rules to help eliminate ambiguities? We in the industry tend to call that “code”.

I mean… I don’t see the comic portraying the idea as good. More just using it as a vehicle to call most people dumb.

Both based on books by the same dude! Something I didn’t realize for quite some. I need to go read his shit.

Wait, isn’t Wu-Tang the group that made an entire album and chose to sell it to one single rich asshole, so no one else could enjoy it? Doesn’t sound like any friend of the working class to me.

Gone in Sixty Seconds.

Moneyball.

Addendum: Kung Fu Panda

It’s what got me canceled.

…says guy who still makes a living publishing his opinions and artwork, worldwide.

Not wanting to incentivise waste is a legit point, but this is the cruelist possible solution to the problem. Which is another thing capitalism is great at incentivising!

They should be fucking arrested for wasting Wagyu beef in a chili.

Hehe. The manager troll was perfect.

I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.

The fact that “how it used to be” in your childhood produced a scumbag like you is a compelling argument to not let people’s childhoods be like that anymore.

I think you’re very pretty - especially naked.

Something I’ve learned about compliments, in general, is to be specific. Like, even outside of the nudity, just “I think you’re very pretty” is rather a poor compliment. Leaving it open-ended like that plays into what others have said in this thread, that it can be interpreted negatively.

In this case, the obvious alternative in my mind is “I really like your tattoos.” That even opens up the opportunity for a conversation about how she got them and what they mean to her. You could could also complement her hair, as you mentioned you appreciated that as well.

asked her if she’d allow me to explain my obvious fuck-up

This is a very natural reaction on your part, and comes from a good place: you’ve recognized that you’ve caused someone pain/harm, and want to help alleviate it. Unfortunately, when it comes to topics where sexuality is involved, I don’t think there’s any scenario where it helps. Not unless they come to you seeking an apology/explanation. The most helpful thing for most people, in this scenario, is to have a little contact as possible with the person who made them uncomfortable. Even if you’re being genuine about this, most people aren’t.

I tried to explain to X again that I wasn’t sexualising her in any way

I think this is especially not going to help, because it’s not an apology. A real, genuine apology for a situation like this involves you recognizing that you did, in fact, do wrong to someone (which, again, in this case, I think you do recognize), so an apology HAS to focus on that.

For me, a true apology has to consist of 3 things:

• Contrition (I.E. “I’m sorry”)
• Understanding (what you did that was wrong, and how it was wrong)
• Amends (what/how you’re going to do better in the future)

Focusing on explaining your side of the story screws up the “understanding” part. It makes it about what SHE did wrong (“you reacted without knowing the full story”) instead of what YOU did wrong (“I didn’t consider that my words would make you uncomfortable”). Alternatively, it’s “you shouldn’t be feeling this way, because you don’t know the whole story” instead of “I shouldn’t have made you feel this way”. Even though that’s not what you meant to say, that’s an entirely understandable way to interpret it.

Explaining your side of the story can still be part of this, but it comes under the “Amends” category. I.E. “I wasn’t trying to sexualize you, so I need to work on avoiding sexualizing language” or “I need to work on choosing my words more carefully, I should be able to compliment someone without it coming off as a sexual thing.”

Anyway, that’s just my 2 cents. If everything you’ve told us is accurate, I think you’re genuinely a fine person, and you just need to file this one away as a learning experience, the best you can. Nothing more to be done about it now.

What’d you have for dinner?