pezmaker

Amazon customer service used to be amazing. Now it’s clearly designed to frustrate you into giving up trying. Assholes.

I’ll start by saying I agree with all your points. And I wasn’t able to find info about the median height, but the average height of American men is actually 5’9. Which including women would bring it down quite a bit. That said, as a 5’7 shorty, I hate the small space in seats. Based on your post I’m guessing your height is around 6’2" (I must know if I’m close!), so you truly have my sympathy sitting in those sardine can aluminum tubes.

It’s easy to believe you’re invincible in your twenties. Or “later me can deal with it.”. As that later version of me, I’m not a huge fan of that earlier version in a lot of ways. It’s fine, I’m who I am for what I went through, and I’m righting the ship. But the more cans you kick down the road, the more you have to deal with later and the harder they are to deal with. Physically, mentally, financially. It’s ok to try to live life freely, but definitely be aware of this and consider kicking one less can every chance you get.

If you ever do digitize it, or even going forward for other recipes you use, I recommend checking out the recipe app Paprika 3. I’ve been using it for years now and love it. It even bypasses pay walls on recipe sites like NYT cooking when downloading. Enter the url in the browser section, and hit download regardless of the paywalls I’ve encountered so far. I put cocktail recipes in there too.

I started my career with it, studying it in college. Relying on it for finances definitely is a major push. I don’t touch it for a hobby though because of that. Hopefully others can help with suggestions for that side of things.

You might get differing answers due to the payment portion of the scenario, but here’s my 2 cents.

No, there’s nothing morally wrong here at any level to me. This is legally ok as far as the ages go, pretty much everywhere.

As long as there’s no power dynamic being abused, and both sides are consenting, go for it.

There’s an entire instance for such things, though I don’t know what more is there beyond mostly porn. Lemmynsfw.com

Did you forget to switch accounts?

You magnificent bastard, thank you for bringing this into my life.

Even during the breaking up, try not to console them or make them feel better. I don’t mean be a jackass. Other comments have covered the overall approach very well already. I just mean trying to help them feel better about it is really just for you. They’re going to and are allowed to process it however they’re going to, and you give up a right to try to be a part of their healing when you break it off.

Be kind during, give them space if you actually want to remain friends after, and let them process and heal how they will.

As I’ve gotten older I’ve actually preferred to be broken up with over being the one breaking it off. It’s hard to do that to someone you care about but isn’t a good fit for whatever reason. When it’s broken off with me I can say so be it and start moving on and not have to hurt another person in the process.

To go with this, never go back. Once it’s done, move on yourself. The memories will likely skew toward the positive as time goes on. That’s ok, bit remember you broke it off for a reason and let go.