• Plenty of people lose their virginity in the 20s and later, even if it’s not talked about much. Try not to worry about it. Nobody is going to judge you. My current girlfriend and I were both older than you when we lost ours.
• Virginity is a social construct and (assuming nobody gets pregnant or a disease) you’ll find that not much will change in your life once you lose it. I understand the FOMO, but being on the other side of it now I can tell you that it’s not really worth having FOMO over.
• Odds are you could find somebody to have sex with if you were really truly desperate. But you’re probably not that desperate, and nor should you be. Masturbation is significantly better than bad sex with some you don’t care about.
• Online dating apps generally suck and aren’t a great fit for most people, let alone one-size-fits-all. If you want to avoid the dating apps, I recommend finding other ways to put yourself out there and expand your social circle. Touch grass and get some hobbies. Do your best to make plutonic friends and see if that introduces you to people who you might want to ask out.
• If you have someone you want to ask out, then ask them out!! I spent too long letting shyness and fear of rejection block me from making moves, but we’re much better off just going for it. Rejection isn’t guaranteed, nor will it kill you if it happens.

You can do one better by posting this to the community itself. (Bonus is that it’ll probably annoy Beep when people repost the things that he posts without attribution.)

1. Pets are not intellectually capable of communicating their feelings or desires to humans, so it is up to us as humans to assess the quality of life of our animals in order to prevent them from needless suffering. There is nothing wrong with trying to treat animal illnesses, if you have the resources to do so and can make sure that the animal is maintaining a good quality of life–but that’s sadly not always the case. We love our pets and we all want them to live happily forever after, but the sad truth is that they will eventually get old and sick and (unless they die suddenly) one of the most important acts of compassion that we owe them is giving them a humane end of life without suffering. It is sad. It breaks our fucking hearts. But it is our duty and our responsibility to them, and in a strange way, it is an act of love. We owe it to our pets to take care of them in life and in death.
2. Unlike pets, human beings are typically thought to have agency and the ability to express their own wishes regarding their end of life. We can’t really decide that “ok, grandma is lives enough, time to put her down”, because even if we can see that her quality of life has degraded, we understand that it is not our decision to make whether she can continue to try to live.
3. In some parts of the world, human beings do have the right to choose when to end their own life via physician-assisted suicide, especially in cases where they have some terminal prognosis where they know that their quality of life will not stay high if they continue to live. I don’t envy being put in this position, and it’s terribly sad to think about, but I do think that it’s ethically the right thing to do to allow for that.

If you like artists to be given credit for their work, upvote this one and downvote the other.

If you know an artwork is being stripped of credit by some dipshit, then do that artist a favor by reposting a credited version.

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• Closer to the center is always best.
• Moving back is preferable to moving forward.
• Front row is the worst, because you’ll be straining your neck to look up.
• Far sides are kind of bad because you end up viewing the movie from an angle.
• Back row is hit or miss depending on the theater, if the seats are right up against the wall you may not be able to recline them.
• In my opinion, sound quality can be hit or miss depending on the theater and what you’re seeing. Video quality is pretty consistent.
• While it’s nice to have snacks and drinks during a movie, they are often a big rip off (like $8 soda and $20 popcorn kind of ripoff!), so just know that if you plan on getting snacks it’ll cost a lot more than you think. A lot of people sneak stuff into the theater. Whether it’s worth it to you is your call.
• People these days seemingly don’t know how to watch a movie without being annoying. If someone nearby is bothering you, I suggest just moving seats to an open seat. Don’t let it ruin your movie.
• I think as TVs get bigger and better, the movie theater experience is much less impressive today than it used to feel when I was a kid in the 90s! It’s hard for me to want to go to the theater when I compare it to the experience of just watching a movie on my home theater system. It’s probably still worth the experience though!

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Geography (the topic of this thread) isn’t primarily about people, it’s about land.

Plus, even if you did sort by population, there’d be states like California, Texas, Florida and New York that have a higher population and a larger economy than some European countries.

The point remaining that if you see the entire US as a monolith, then you’re really not as good at geography as you think. Certainly not good enough to be impressive.

The question is about knowledge of geography. Geography isn’t limited to knowledge of countries.

Europeans will be quick to clown on Americans for not knowing where Luxembourg is, without any self-awareness of their lack of knowledge of North American geography at a similar (and often much larger) scale.

To put it another way, if your understanding of NA geography is “United States, Canada and Mexico”, you’re really not much better at geography than an American who thinks of “Europe” in vague terms. Do Chinese people know more about Asian geography than I do? I would guess so. So Europeans getting all high and mighty about their knowledge of geography because they can name the countries that are within driving distance has always been dumb and embarrassing.

Kansas is 5 times the size of Switzerland, comparing it to a small region of Switzerland isn’t exactly the same resolution, is it?

To be fair… My state, Oregon, is roughly 45% the size of France, 3x the size of Ireland and 6x the size of the Netherlands. And some states are much bigger than that.

Now I won’t argue Oregon is as culturally relevant as France to the world. But since we’re talking about geography, ignoring the subdivisions of the US and Canada means you are leaving some pretty fucking BIG gaps in your knowledge of the map.

A shocking number of Europeans seem to think that California is the entire US West Coast, despite the region being about the size of Scandinavia, culturally significant, and one of the largest economies on Earth.

So, I don’t think knowing states is equivalent to knowing regions of France. That’s a much finer level of detail.

Here’s a wild and crazy thought…

Win an election. Preferably 2, and preferably by a wide margin.

Feels like we’ve tried everything short of actually winning.

I’m not sure I really want my tax dollars to be insuring oil tankers traveling through a war zone.

I’d rather my tax dollars insure sick people.

Plus, who would be dumb enough to believe that Trump would ever hold up his end of a bargain like that?

Dumbfuck

Yes. A holy war. What better tool to indoctrinate the unwashed masses to fight for the billionaire class?

The world is far less safe because of actions and words like this.

I think we should expect a new wave of Islamist terrorism in the West as a response to the invasion of Iran and the killing of political and religious leaders, because their useful idiots also like to believe in holy wars.

Did him bring the living environment of all 7 deadly sins give it away?

Religion is a mix of mass delusion and propaganda, period.

Oh and great look btw, killing the Ayatollah (who, like it or not, is both a political and religious leader to many in Iran and around the world), and then immediately depicting it as a holy war… Great plan, Magastan!

Definitely won’t be used to further indoctrinate lost souls with nothing to lose into radical extremist groups all over the world!

“Operation Epic Furry” does sound like a legit name for a wild post-con dance party. That’s a freebie for the anthro community.

Also leave the furries alone! Most of them seem to be way above average intellect. I wish they’d take over world governments.