Sombyr

joined 11 months ago
[–] Sombyr 62 points 7 months ago

Extrovert here.
People do. Constantly. It's a normal thing. If you're hanging out with people who refuse to shut up and let you be comfortable for a while the problem isn't that they're extroverts. The problem is that they're assholes. Unfortunately the two can look similar on account of assholes having less boundaries making them appear to be more extroverted when in reality they're just less respectful.

[–] Sombyr 8 points 7 months ago

According to the quantum mechanical totalitarian principle, everything not forbidden is compulsory, so it must have happened. It's physics.

[–] Sombyr 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The generations are determined by what the biggest common experience they all have is (at least, that's how it's supposed to be.)
Millennials are millennials because they all remember the turn of the millennium. anyone born 1997 or later wouldn't remember it, which is why the generation line was drawn where it was.
There are people who find that weird and prefer to call anybody born after 2000 gen Z because they were born after the turn of the millennium, so there's a sizable amount of people who've taken to calling anybody born 1996-2000 a "zillennial" as a compromise. I use the term sometimes, but only when I need to demonstrate to somebody that there's no clear difference between a young millennial and an older gen Z.

[–] Sombyr 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Gen Z is 1997-2012. The oldest of us are 27.

[–] Sombyr 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I never said old? Quick edit, I meant "how old" as in people have a misimpression of our age, not old as in "oh we're so old." People think gen Z is just a bunch of teenagers who couldn't possibly share any experiences with them.

[–] Sombyr 10 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Older gen Z here, I remember these really strongly.
People always forget gen Z was alive for these kind of things and I'm starting to think nobody realizes how old we actually are. Most people you think of as gen Z are only really on the younger end of gen Z. Some of us are in our late 20s now and also struggling to understand kids these days.

[–] Sombyr 1 points 7 months ago

I don't have direct examples because I suck at googling, but what I saw that made me think of this was an ancient Greek philosopher insulting another, presumably in a rude tone, but still translated to look super polite and old timey. The explanations people have given here have really shed a lot of light for me on why that is though, so it makes sense to me now.

[–] Sombyr 2 points 7 months ago

I tried to find examples but turns out I'm really bad at googling. Quotes of ancient Greek philosophers is one example though. Surely not all of them spoke formally, and I've heard some even spoke rather rudely, and yet when they're translated they're still translated into really formal, old timey language. There's been some nice explanations here of why that is though, so I understand a lot better.

[–] Sombyr 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've learned the dumb way going for married people is always a bad idea regardless of the status of the marriage, so I must politely decline.
I'm an Ubuntu user anyway, so I'm unfortunately unfit for marriage in the first place.

[–] Sombyr 22 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Then allow me to introduce myself.
Not that I'm a Linux pro, but I at least know how to copy and paste terminal commands until I fix whatever problem I caused by copying and pasting terminal commands.

[–] Sombyr 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think you're a little confused about what it is they were asking. They weren't asking if wanting to not have sex was a fetish thing, they were asking if seeking out partners specifically who have never had sex is a fetish thing.
It's not the same thing as wanting to date an asexual, because not all asexuals are virgins (often due to experimentation and discovering "yup, I don't like this.") The reason so many people want to date virgins specifically is because they have this weird idea that taking somebody's virginity is a sacred thing. Or sometimes it's just due to insecurity, not wanting to have other past partners to be compared to.
Wanting to date a virgin isn't wanting to date somebody and not have sex with them, it's wanting to date somebody who's never had sex before. Whether they will have sex or not during the course of that relationship is technically irrelevant, but most people seeking out virgins specifically unfortunately are expecting it.

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