BlackLodgeCooper

Drinking in my 30s really meant that I won't get much of a buzz, but will feel bloated and get a headache later. Also, unless I do all my drinking early in the day, I won't get a good night's sleep because my heart will be racing.

So...only have 2-3 drinks max for the day and do it before the sun sets so I have the evening to process it. Or don't bother at all since the benefits don't really outweigh the cost. Staying hydrated throughout is important but doesn't really fix any of the aforementioned issues.

It's poor UI but also I think it's a sign that the userbase has been coddled too much with things like this. Even Google adding the search bar widget to their homescreen of Android is kind of an illusion since it doesn't need to be shaped that way. But an entire generation has been programmed to type into a little empty field with a search button that they don't think of alternatives anymore.

Windows 8 thru 11 are trying to add sleeker and more intuitive interface skins to be more usable for the masses but the underlying OS is still the same. Accessing additional options that a legacy Windows user uses all the time just takes you back to the old menus. It feels so lazy that each major windows iteration feels like a new skin on top of windows xp/2000 because not much really has changed since then other than the bloat and a few cute features that could've been done with a 3rd party app.

Obviously being a little reductive here but with how windows 11 looks, I would've imagined it being actually different. But as soon as I right click something and view more options, it's clear it's still the same stuff once the old right click menu pops up from underneath.

It was pretty popular into the early 2000s as well as far as I'm concerned. Just not in media as much.

Options for word choices have diminished and aren't as edgy, but I still see men call each other cupcakes and removed in lieu of using more classical words.

Edit: Guess there's some pretty strong word filters here. It was the b-word in case anyone was wondering. Feel like I'm in elementary school...

Dave Shafer at 5' 5" and 150 lbs? How is that even remotely close?

This is just a personal opinion but I suspect the trend is not linear. There will be a surge in acceptance and then possibly a calm in popularity. Social pressures aside, I feel there may be some portion of the world that is bi/pan but not in numbers so large that it would be a huge shift in current status quos. We're also at a time when mental health is seeing an identity crisis and we're trying to label every quirk. Gender identity almost seems like part of a shotgun approach to try and fix other issues.

I do not want to sound like I'm downplaying the importance of sexual orientation and gender identity, but there's just so much going on socially with how fast we're moving as a culture with the Internet that it's hard to predict what is real and what is trendy.

Of course I could be entirely wrong.

I've been to Portland, ME a few times for vacation and one time a few of us decided to bike everywhere. Couldn't go car free since our hotel was a bit far away, but once we parked, it was bikes all day. There wasn't a ton about Portland that made it stand out in terms of places you can't find in other towns, but the ability to ride around to all those places made the difference between a vacation destination and just a thing to do for a weekend.

To have the same experience in terms of types of places to visit in a day my area would require driving 10-20 minutes between each spot which definitely takes the winds out of the sails for trying to enjoy yourself.