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Can Someone Offer This Guy Some Fatherly Advice….
I’m a 24M who is balding, short (5’4/5’5) and really embarrassed to say but have a micropenis. Its only when you grow older past the age of 16 you start realizing all these things and how much of an impact is has on your life and mental health.
What is the Turing Test?
In 1950, Alan Turing wrote his landmark paper COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE , where he probes the question “Can machines think?”
At the time, it was widely believed that there was something special about human intelligence and that computers would never be able to perform certain tasks, like understand language or play chess at a high level. Part of the paper was a point by point takedown of all the common objections to machine intelligence.
Picture of the Day
Many Chinese medical tourists who go to South Korea for inexpensive and high quality plastic surgery have difficulty re-entering China due to their passports photos not matching their new face post op.
According to Korean sites, some Korean hospitals are now issuing a “plastic surgery certificate” at the request of overseas visitors. Customs officials, of course, are strict about making sure people match the mugs in their passports. These certificates can supposedly help make clearing immigration go smoother so officials don’t have to call hospitals to confirm procedures.
Poll of the Day
So I’ve always been attracted to very feminine men, but something about my boyfriend doesn’t sit right with me. He tells me he loves me and desires me, but he is the first guy I’ve been with that doesn’t really initiate sex. Here are just some of a few things he does that makes me think this …
Disclaimer, I’m a bisexual woman so I don’t care if he’s bisexual. I just think he’s gay.
Be The Person You Want To Be With
We’ve seen it time and time again. That one co-worker who is obese but is only attracted to people of a healthy weight, that one cousin who prefers to date highly successful people but have no ambition whatsoever, and that one friend who you love to death but they carry themselves like they’re in a post-apocalyptic era and for some reason they only want to date Instagram models.
Linkage
Schrödinger’s Uncle Both World War II Buff and Holocaust Denier – The Hard Times
She Played Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. See Julie Dawn Cole Now at 65 – Ned Hardy
New ‘Frankenstein’ opioids more dangerous than fentanyl alarming state leaders across US as drug crisis rages – Yahoo
The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver – Atlas Obscura
The Best Cheap Noise-Canceling Headphones – Amazon
The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are – The Atlantic
I Cold-Plunged Every Day for a Month—Here’s What I Learned – Outside
Fat, Sugar, Salt … You’ve Been Thinking About Food All Wrong – Wired
7 ways to come across as authentic in a job interview – Fast Co
Calm Down. There is No Conscious A.I. – Gizmodo
Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says – WSJ
Best camp chair/tailgating chair. The rocking and the star-gazing features are fantastic! – Amazon
Why Do Cats Knead? – The Conversation
El Chapo’s Inside Man Was America’s Closest Partner in Mexico – VICE
15 facts that should be common knowledge but aren’t – Linkiest
A Hong Kong fashion influencer was found dismembered and scattered around the city. Her ex-husband’s family have been charged with her murder – Insider
5 Sex Techniques Women Beg For – Wing Girl Method
Pastor’s Old IG Post Celebrating Girlfriend’s 18th Birthday Goes Viral Again Amid Debate About “Grooming” – Ruin My Week
The Dumping Grounds
Book Excerpt of the Day
Confessions of a Woman Who Fell For The Pig Butchering Scam
Im a 28 year old female from Australia. I decided to go dating online using Bumble after my breakup with my ex 7 months ago. I believed I was healed and excited to find someone, I knew what I wanted in my next relationship. The first day I was on there, I matched with a good looking Malaysian-Chinese man.