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12:00 AM

And they are still improving.

@Cerberus And back then, everything except vanilla hetero sex (preferably missionary position) was just lumped into the general category of perversion.

David A

There's also the impulse to demand progress right now because lives are at stake. Such cries usually fall on deaf ears unless you can give people a personal reason to care.

Cerberus

@PM2Ring Well, I wouldn't put it quite so strongly, but I agree with the sentiment.

Jason C

@Shog9 Sara Chipps is the best Q&A director ever. Nice find with her. Hope you got enough squeaky stress toys to get you through the next few weeks.

Man I go away for a few months and look what happens. You guys are nuts, lol.

David A

@PM2Ring for a brief moment, I made a mental note of the fact that there was no SE site about sex. Then I felt this strange sense of gratitude.

Cerberus

12:07 AM

@DavidA Ohh sex advice!

That would be nice.

Jason C

^

Pretty sure that's been in Area 51 at least a billion times, lol.

David A

@JasonC hey now... Shog9's behavior has been absolutely outstanding during this mess.

Jason C

Hey I'm cheering for him.

@Cerberus interpersonal.stackexchange.com lol.

PM 2Ring

@Cerberus Yeah, I was over-simplifying a bit. But still, there was often not a clear distinction made between gay & paedophile. On a related note, it wasn't that long ago that anal sex between consenting married partners was illegal in some US states.

Cerberus

@JasonC Well, it doesn't have to be interpersonal...

David A

12:11 AM

@PM2Ring historically that conflation has been a thing.

LinkBerest

^^^ Japanese history is pretty interesting in regards to that PM2

Cerberus

@PM2Ring I think America has always been more puritan. It's funny how people needed laws about sexual behaviour!

Though not funny-haha.

Jason C

It would be so awkward to be the cop that busted somebody for unapproved anal sex.

I'm so going to get chat flagged.

Evil

@Cerberus This is not meta chat I was looking for, but sex tips chat?

Journeyman Geek

@JasonC .... Actually...

David A

12:14 AM

Yeah I would try to keep it "acceptable to all advertisers".

Evil

It is a bit awkward moment to enter...

Journeyman Geek

There is a law against it here

LinkBerest

I was military police officer when we had to have classes on "don't ask don't tell" & detaining someone for "sodomy". I was also an MP when the executive order came out and we had direction on "sodomy is still illegal" vs. "its no longer illegal to be openly gay in the military"....was not fun

Journeyman Geek

They don't enforce it but it keeps some folks happy

Jason C

The world is so complicated sometimes...

Cerberus

12:15 AM

@JasonC In Iran, you need four witnesses. So it's hard.

LinkBerest

luckily, my command fell on the "don't report it" (more because "we don't want to deal with it") side but I remember it being a thing - to include people kicked out of military because "sodomy is still illegal" even though its "no longer illegal to be openly gay" (beyond the few who were high up enough to make the news)

Cerberus

@Evil Why not!

Jason C

@Cerberus I spit out my coffee, and I am not even drinking coffee.

David A

I'm just acting like a transcript of all this stuff is being sent to my HR department. For all I know, it might be.

Cerberus

@JasonC Oh, dear, no serious burns, I hope? But I heard about that in a documentary, I believe. So it's not often that people get arrested for illegal sexual acts.

But there are other ways that people may terrorise those they suspect in Iran.

PM 2Ring

12:18 AM

We should probably change the topic. Sorry for starting it...

Jason C

@DavidA Off topic, but the other day we determined our HR department is a lair 30 stories under our HQ where the alien queen / HR director occasionally lays eggs that hatch into the weird swag they send to new employees. The rest of the HR department exists only as husks wrapped in cocoons on the walls of her cave. The queen spoofs emails from all of them as needed.

We could find no evidence to the contrary.

PM 2Ring

But I guess it's kind of on topic, since a lot of anti-trans sentiment is strongly connected to anti-gay feelings.

David A

@JasonC they're not called HR because they're staffed by humans.

Jason C

It is on topic. As long as we don't go off the rails like I usually do.

@DavidA EXACTLY

LinkBerest

I remember being hired by HR for this wonderful sounding Web developer position because of my knowledge and experience in C# and ASP.Net....only to find out the entire website was maintained with the Bootstrap.js framework.

Jason C

12:22 AM

@LinkBerest points and laughs

Journeyman Geek

I have never gotten past hr 😁

Cerberus

@JasonC Nice.

@PM2Ring I didn't know we had a topic!

PM 2Ring

@LinkBerest The old bait & switch ploy. At least they didn't get you coding PHP...

LinkBerest

......no comment

Jason C

Haha

PM 2Ring

12:24 AM

@Cerberus trans-pronoun-phobia

Jason C

Welp, just poking my head in. Night all.

LinkBerest

I also responded to HR once to work on a very modern system which was a high match to my resume and skillset (at the time: Python, Java, C#).....to find out it was Cobol

highest paying contracting job I ever had too. Also the worst one (it was in 2012)

PM 2Ring

We have a policy in the SO Python room: we don't bad-mouth other languages. One-off posts venting about a language are tolerated, but not sustained rants.

LinkBerest

I'm not in the SO Python room....am I?

Cerberus

@PM2Ring I thought users were discouraged from discussing the hot topic...

LinkBerest

12:28 AM

wait, where am I?!

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