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  • Friend of mine started a womens’ friend group in a small town. She posted the first meet up on Facebook, made it for a wine bar at a time not too many people would be there. She used an agenda, having us write and doodle answers to questions like “how did you make friends as a child?” “What has been difficult about making friends now?” “What kind of activities would you be interested in?”

    Some of the hopes for the group included things like having a place to ask for help if you needed a ride or help moving a couch, or inviting someone to just hang out for moral support while you fold laundry.

    The group set up a signal chat to make regular plans, ask for advice from people who had different experience levels, discuss current events, etc.

    I would recommend doing this with some kind of narrow focus, like a particular gender or age group, or life stage commonality.





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    5 days ago

    To me the joke isn’t “wife bad”, it’s "this is why the phrase ‘calm down’ shouldn’t be in your vocabulary.

    There used to be a webcomic (Abstruse Goose maybe? I can’t remember and can’t find it) where the first panel is “things that calm me down: drinking tea, hot baths, watching a funny movie.” Second panel: “things that don’t calm me down: ‘hey calm down, bro.’”






  • I think the question is more interesting if you take out the “better quality” qualification. What does better quality even mean? That’s too subjective. I think what we’re trying to figure out is whether an original has any properties to it that a copy cannot.

    Let’s say your grandma dies and leaves you something special in memory of her - a ring. Maybe it was her wedding ring and you wear it every day; it makes you feel close to her. Now say I replaced that ring with an identical copy. Does that change anything? Is there some special property imbued in the original? Does it make a difference if I tell you about the swap immediately or if you wear the “fake” for a year before finding out?

    There are forgers who can make near identical copies of art. It’s illegal because no one wants a “fake.” But why? In the art world, I think it has a lot to do with exclusivity. The value is in there being only one.