Men who have Sex with Men, it includes multiple orientations under the umbrella such as Bi/Gay/Pan/(or straight or undecided, but still have sex with other men, MSM is used in a medical context)

No worries, and this depends on the country as well. As sexual education breaks down, STIs and blood-borne pathogens increase.

Luckily, many have medicines to cure them- but prevention is better, particularly with the rise of drug-resistant bugs.

For HIV, there is a pill called PrEP that gives you extremely high protection against infection when used correctly. There is also a state of the art PrEP shot that was just released that gives you six months of (in trials) 100% immunity. However, it is very expensive at the moment.

The safest bet is always condoms and getting tested, as well as PrEP if you engage in sexual tourism with many people among any orientation. As always, talking to a doctor is the best way to get medical advice.

It’s primarily heterosexual transmission, though MSM and needle sharing are still vectors.

We’ve had character fade for decades. Otherwise it can be hard to see upwards for targeting or looking around in third person titles :p

Ban plastic bottle packaging. Nothing short of that is going to stop plastic waste. We have metal and glass. We can reuse and recycle those materials fairly easily.

Balatro is super good

The new commentary is really good, tbh. I had no idea how much research and R&D they did. It looks fucking amazing for a 2004 game. The characters in particular.

I use an Oxford Monster chain and U lock. I park my bike in highly visible areas. Registered it with 529 garage and have the tracking sticker on it. And if I’m really sketched out, I activate a bike alarm that is ungodly loud.

Mostly, it’s about making your bike harder to steal. Cutting through 12mm chain and a standard ulock sucks. Getting caught with it being easily identified on 529 makes it risky to steal and easy to be returned. Some cities also do bike valet or bike lockers.

Inb4 “both parties are the same”.

While I hate stuff like these rollbacks, we are already starting to see EVs save people money on gas and service, and they are stupidly fast compared to ICE counterparts. That’s something Americans of all stripes can get behind.

Once I tried an ebike, I realized I never wanted to go back to gas engines. So fast, so much torque, and pennies to charge vs $70 gas tanks at Costco (even more at a normal gas station). It just makes economic sense to run PEVs in all major urban areas in addition to mass transit.

With traffic and some protected bike lanes, even a conventional bike can almost beat a car in a 7-14 mile drive in my city. An ebike makes it even easier.