If you try to pursue a platonic friendship with someone you are crushing on, that has the potential to turn quite ugly, speaking from experience. Obvs you know the situation better than me, but one might say that carrying on like that is even dishonest/unfair to both parties. It will be way harder to salvage a friendship if this comes out later on, when you both know you've been continuing under false pretenses.

As for appropriateness, there's nothing weird or creepy about asking someone out! You can even lampshade the awkwardness it if needs be. You're making out that boundaries were set when you spoke with her. Is that true? Because asking her out is how you give her a chance to set those boundaries.

Rhyming 'bad' with 'sad' 😙👌

Just ask them out imo. This feeling will only fester otherwise. And if they say no, well now you know!

Yeah I second this — I have Linux Mint on the family computer and the non-techies get on just fine with it. The Cinnamon desktop environment is basically a modern remake of Windows XP.

On quiet shifts when I worked at McDonald's, we'd deliberately dirty up the work surfaces so we could look busy when a floor manager came by — because otherwise they'd find some awful/dangerous job for you to do instead

I don't think you know what you're asking for tbh

I mean if you absolutely must use Windows applications, why not just use Windows? I won't tell anyone

You have to pay it forward to two people or gulag

Lmao no one has any right to be surprised by this — his whole election pitch was 'I solemnly swear to govern as an awful right wing bastard, because that's what Normal Britons want'

Yep. We tend not to see it this way because it's just too horrible to bear, but homelessness is a death sentence.

I want to live in this timeline

Did they also serve a fist made of ham

Remarking over a coffee that there were far fewer homeless people than a couple of years previously, suddenly realizing that they had all died

Interesting implications for the golden rule

Dominos Tests Limits of what Humans will Eat https://youtu.be/31JNEVHZxO8?si=o86xWZBMC-jw0xAl

Yes that election really did represent a crossing of the Rubicon

Beet there's a huge battery pack in there like off an old camcorder

Not really. The name is inherited

But the contention here would be that the business owner has been entrusted with power — e.g. control of a factory and its workforce — ultimately by the state

I mean she's right that every American deserves to be upset