You try telling a random stranger that they don't deserve their spouse. I think you're in for a surprise. Like it or not, that's the way "normal" people think about their loved ones. There's nothing insane about it.

Ever since the birth of the Tea Party, it's been impossible to distinguish between satire, sarcasm, and 100% genuine teabagger idiocy.

How the heck are you supposed to get motivated to find a mate if you don't feel like you deserve one? I think that part is normal, but what gets tricky for some people is reconciling that with respecting another person's rights. That takes some fairly sophisticated ethical thought that unfortunately, not everyone is capable of. Certainly not a narcissist with asperger's or whatever was wrong with that guy. So unfortunately, I don't think that merely "educating" nerdy men is the solution to this problem.

I'm 40, and I've been programming professionally for two years, but I'm currently trying to get a better paying job. I find the main stumbling blocks are inability to "talk shop" well and lacking experience in highly specialized skills. Talking shop convincingly is difficult because I haven't had much experience collaborating with other programmers. I imagine you would have the same problem. Employers expect you to have all the correct terminology flow right from the tip of your tongue. The other issue is that a lot of employers seem to be looking for a lot of experience in a very particular area, which an inexperienced programmer is rarely going to match. You have to program for many years on many different projects to have a good chance of matching what someone is looking for. Age itself, as far as I can tell, is not an issue at all. At least, not at 40. Although I know there's some very vociferous people on Slashdot who will tell you otherwise.

They're pretty mainstream in Europe. They sell a lot of models with less powerful engines and fewer luxury features that they don't offer in the US.

One that has the same sentiment but doesn't sound like a 14-year old wrote it.

So people would know when they're being recorded. It's ruined now because even if they add one, people will forever wonder if you just have an older version without the light.

Everyone knows there's very little socializing going on on Facebook. Facebook is just there so you can pretend to be friends with people you don't really like. You can't be yourself on there because everybody's parents and bosses and neighbors are on there watching everything you do. It's the Potemkin villiage of friendship.

BRB got some photography to do.

walking right up to people and putting a camera in their face? Nah, that's not creepy at all.

We could be part of a computer program, but I don't see why it has to be a simulation. In fact we already know that computer programs which do not simulate the universe are possible, so it seems much more likely that such a program is not a simulation. Our laws of physics might be representations of something completely abstract in the "host" universe.

...so lets make a federal case out of it.

The idea goes back to the days of Aristotle, at least

GRRRR! It's not caused by my inability to cope! It's caused by my laggy connection, n00b! GRRR!

Probably some loop used in Bitcoin mining.