I’m in a similar boat, but I want to increase my fitness, rather than bemoaning smaller.

Exercise. Because being a sedentary 40 year old man is catching up to me.

Givin me a chubby right now. 😏

Its really hard for me to have women friends if I find her remotely attractive. My lizard brain takes over, and it also feels wrong, like I am cheating on my partner.

Ask her to something casual just the two of you. Like “let’s grab lunch” and see where that takes you.

I disagree. I take it more as don’t chase whatever comes tour way, but take the opportunity if you find someone you like who seems to like you back.

“Target fixation”

Don’t gotta worry about that.

Kill them with kindness.

Yeah, sometimes I get bored and just wiggle the mouse to make it all huge just for fun.

I want it and some things either poorly implement or outright refuse to implement.

Yes, exactly like that!

Remember early 2000s malware infested internet explorer on grandma’s computer? I swear the window was half bullshit toolbars.

I love KDE’s “Wiggle the mouse a bunch and it temporarily grows massive” feature.

Dark mode, apparently.

Look into space/aerospace/embedded. They still pay well and you get to write software for cool shit.

“K” works best without a period. It is literally the lowest effort acknowledgement possible while ensuring that you contribute absolutely nothing in return.

My first thought. Be careful though, those fuckers can rip arms off.

Yeah, he would totally try and union bust.

I can understand his take on that. There were a few jobs I was thinking about applying for, but ultimately decided not to because “They have a union because working there was so shitty that they needed a union.”