My dad was NSA. Why does that make him any different regarding privacy at home than any other dad? The experience of having an NSA dad is that he doesn’t talk about work, and otherwise is just a dad. Any issues I had with my dad are utterly and completely unrelated to him working for the government. My dad was fine in terms of having privacy.

I keep following it, it keeps looking awesome, it keeps not being done. :(

I agree with the person who said it’s not a bad idea to learn the language of your enemy. And Russian culture is fascinating and worthy of study, even if the country is currently being run by a fascist dictator bent on world domination, at the expense and destruction of his own people. But then, that has been a trend in Russian history.

If this bothers you enough to ask about it, have you considered learning Ukrainian instead? You’ll get many of the benefits of learning Russian, and my understanding is that the two languages are mutually intelligible with some difficulty despite the differences.

I mean, on the one hand, one of the key features of autism is that they make people feel uncomfortable. This isn’t bigotry, this is the reason autism was investigated and studied in the first place. People on the spectrum make other people uncomfortable by a wide variety of mechanisms— not understanding social cues and not understanding body language being two big ones. That’s practically the definition of autism.

I wouldn’t say that this, alone and isolated from everything else makes her a bigot. But everything else absolutely does.

Yes, I genuinely enjoy the flavor of celery and distinctly miss the flavor when it’s absent. I grew up eating it raw with peanut butter, or melted/spreadable cheese. I grew up thinking it mostly tasted like water and was just a good vehicle for other flavors, but as my palate developed I noticed, and loved, the flavor more and more. In soups especially.

They say it takes something like twelve tries of a new flavor for your body to stop being afraid of it and actually enjoy it, and that most disliked foods are this kind of instinctual rejection. Maybe just try to force it a dozen times? I know that’s not pleasant advice, and I only recommend it if avoiding celery is something that will cause you life difficulties, such as in social situations.

You’re being downvoted because there is contemporaneous historical evidence for their existence as people who existed and had a large following at the time, and in fact, as much or more evidence exists for them as exists for a lot of other historical figures. You can disbelieve claims about them, but it isn’t particularly rational to disbelieve they were actual people that attracted crowds. Likewise, it would be irrational to call Uri Geller a fictional character, even if its rational to disbelieve he had psychic powers.

At some level, it’s because each platform costs a lot of money. If a game is not available for your platform, it’s super expensive to get another platform. So other platforms having fun games your platform doesn’t can mean losing out— either you won’t get to experience the game, or you’re going to have to shell out, and either way hurts. Thus, it is actively in your best interest if the other platforms fail, thus encouraging devs to spend more effort on your chosen platform.