There are values and there are values. I told my wife no tattoos, and she knows it is a deal breaker. She has her own deal breakers, and I comply. In your family, I take it you have no deal breakers? Your wife can do anything at all and you would just say " Okay dear - have fun"! Tell Bob , Jim and Sally I picked up the hotel bill for you guys.

Rather than go down the standard road where you end up calling me the M word (admit it, you want to) I have standards. I have boundaries. My wife has standards and boundaries. We respect them because- and I emphasize this we respect each other

And yes - another of my boundaries is respect. It isn't a deal breaker though, just gets a rebuke - after she cools down. Her's? She demands support and respect as well. Extramarital sex is also a deal breaker on her part.

Now back to tattoos. At their very best, they are gilding a lily. Almost all women have an element of beauty in them. Feminine beauty is real. Evolution has insured that.

At their average they are garish, and end up looking like a skin disease, fuzzy and unidentifiable after 20 years.

At their worst, they are a symbol of your love for youe ex, that you would expose yourself to a tattoo artist, and wonder why your new boyfriends don't stick with you. Or then I've been seeing women with teardrop tattoos. They think it is cute - look up wht a teardrop tattoo symbolizes. She better not show up in the wrong place.

You can think all of that is okay if you like - it is your opinion. But acting like I'm some sort of jackass because I don't like it. Is kind of rude

I also like women with freckles, I like tall slender women with long dark hair and blue eyes. But they have to have standards, and boundaries, and they have to respect my standards and boundaries. If tattoos are okay in your book, then that what you like - or maybe accept. Here's one for you - if your spouse looked like this, would you say "You slay queen" if she decided to look like that nightmare fuel on the left?https://www.tyla.com/life/true-life/worlds-most-tattooed-woman-shares-throwback-picture-943343-20240216

Finally, is there a level of tattoos your wife could get that caused you to say "no more!. ? If there is, you have a standard. So don't high road me.

Oh dang, you're right! That's explains everything! ;)

Not at all. If climate change was not occurring the same outcome would have been reached.
With the level of mismanagement they did, the outcome was invariable. Therefore climate change could be removed as being a factor in the outcome and thus 0 percent a result of climate change.

"When it concerns English-speaking people, we call it" idiocy under the sub-category "Tragedy of the Commons".

"rational individuals optimizing their personal well-being" is a euphemism that greedy fools like you use to avoid acknowledging your own greed and foolishness.

They exist to present to the public as a viable alternative to renewables and transitioning to renewable energy resources in general.

It lets you tell the public that the scientists will figure it all out so they don't need to make any changes to the way we do things today.

It's the exact same scam plastic recycling turned out to be and for the exact same reason.

Are you trying to instantiate a new law like Godwin?

I dug into the sources a bit. Apparently they were excluding white neighborhoods from checks, then somebody else was removing non-asian names before forwarding it for further investigation.

source.

Looking into the sources and tracing a bit:

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If they actually did this, well, that's like how the NRA forced most "may issue" states to be effectively "shall issue" for various weapon permits.

When the police can't come up with a good reason for denying the black woman's permit request when she has letters from a ex-boyfriend stalker threatening to kill her, who is due to be released from prison soon, but the white doctor living in a gated community gets it first thing, there are questions to be asked. Especially when permits for black people have a 99% reject rate while whites get them 90% of the time.

because any attempt to offer the same choice more than once could not hide the history of prior choices.

Test it on advanced Alzheimer patients.

The sort of people who think base load generation wont be required in the future are deluded.

No one has said that. But thanks for playing.

One of the things I've been noticing lately is that the kind of people who didn't use to get hassled by the cops are now getting hassled by the cops...

Crime keeps going down but we keep putting more cops on the street. People expect them to arrest people. So they're looking for guys they can hassle like yourself.

Recently a municipality had lost a fight to prevent a freedom of information request for flock camera data.

They instantly canceled the program and shut down the cameras.

Remember that Steve Jobs would buy a brand new Mercedes every couple of months so that he didn't have to have a permanent license plate.

The rich and powerful are very concerned about having their movements tracked.

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I never would have expected THAT. No sirree Bob.

And, to be fair, I've had friends and co-workers run into that sort of thing on Windows. Quite a lot.

Which is why I said they would have to get them on their genitals or a tramp stamp, below the bikini line. I noted that I have seen them sleeveless, in shorts, in backless gowns. in bathing suits, It ends up being a additive process. I'd I've seen the uncovered arms, legs, backs, necks, Not all at once, but over time, most of them.

And the other thing is that most of these ladies are not the mentality of a woman who gets tattoos.

Funny, I've lived in the boardroom for around 20 years, and you know how many C-suite women have tramp stamps? Explain how you know this fact.

I've worked with enough highly placed ladies to get close to them as friends, and they are simply not the type. They tend conservative, they tend understated, they tend to have husbands who pretty obviously wouldn't put up with that.

I certainly would not. If my wife came home with a tattoo, we'd be divorced ASAP.

You might not like it, you might believe that a woman covered with tattoos on her whole body is empowering and putting to the patriarchy - but you can't shake the opinion of many men that tattoos on a woman is a sign of making bad choices, and the more tattoos the more bad choices.

The fun part is after the empowerment and showing men that their bodies are their choices, after a while, the tats fuzz out and if you have enough, they look like you have a skin disease.

In the end, it is a great way for men to winnow out who is worth it or not. Many of us look at tattoos on a woman as similar to the rattles on a snake or the colors on a poisonous frog - stay well away. And it is a great way for tatted women to avoid having men who don't like tattoos to stay away from them.

Would you marry a woman with immediately above her vulva a tat that has "Bobby forever" or a tramp stamp that Say's "Only for you Bobby" ? What if she wanted to reconnect with Bobby for a week or so to get "closure" ? A lot of moderns like to do that. Closure is very important.