Of course not. I’m in love with a whole person, not her appearance. I love her fierce intellect, her passion for justice, her wanderer’s spirit. I love that we can sit together and watch anything only for it to lead to a new and endlessly fascinating discussion.

Makeup doesn’t affect any of that.

I like how makeup highlights her favorite features or hides when she feels tired or insecure. I like that it helps her feel more fully herself. I think it’s great that makeup can do that for her.

She will always be attractive to me for who she is. How she looked may have helped me first talk to her, but who she is has kept us talking for 16 years.

Any good tutorial videos you’d recommend?

When can I get one of these voices to read an epub on my phone? I’d love to have something like that

Do you mean politics as in the details of elections and minutia of governance?

Or do you mean the discussion for how we ought to live together?

The answer is not really to both.

I do try to avoid authoritarian idiots spouting fruitless nonsense, but they seem to be a tragedy of the commons for public discourse.

I’m not a huge fan of dogs in general. They’re capable of unsettling amounts of violence and you have no idea if/how they’ve been trained.

It has its moments. The opportunity to figure out a tough problem or create an innovative solution can be very rewarding.

What busy work there is I can work at my own pace, so long as I meet deadlines.

I work from home, have a fair amount of autonomy and responsibility and have no one looking over my shoulder.

I recognize I’m very fortunate.

How would this handle audiobooks? I’ve not made the move to Jellyfin yet, as Plex handles all my multimedia needs for now, but I’ve been keeping an eye on Jellyfin’s development with interest.

I would assume after. They’re already down, after all.

I’ve been learning to employ self-compassion for these scenarios. Just pretend my life belongs to a friend who’s sharing it with me. How would I respond?

I’m so much more generous and compassionate to others, so learning to give that same compassion and dignity to myself has been healing.

For those of us that wouldn’t know what bahn mi is. It sounds delicious.

Be careful what I shoot at?!

Because there may be people who have yet to experience this meme: https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss