I’m your age and I’ve done it several times, including with my husband.

The caveat is that you start with coffee or a drink (my husband and I arranged to play mtg and have a beer), then the conversation is so nice that you order food or move from a cafe to a restaurant.

Now that I think about it, all the good relationships I’ve been in that weren’t with friends of mine involved dinner tacked onto the first date. When I’ve dated friends, it’s a very different progression, but doesn’t really involve restaurant dates at the beginning.

I also definitely would not eat there. I don’t know why it’s assumed that you would eat dinner there after being stood up. I’d be sad and I’d want to be alone, at absolute most I’d get takeout, but there’s probably a greasier takeout that I want, but have been restraining myself from. I’d very much prefer tacos/falafel to a date restaurant meal if I’ve just been stood up.

That warm blue does look cozy, in that it looks like the color that your dad’s old too-short shorts were in the 70s.

I’m not trying to be a jerk here, but what’s an example of a warm blue? I can’t imagine it.

You have to cherry pick to post a meme like this

To be fair, there’s a shocking number of made up words… that’s part of the fun?

Neoliberal hubris

Do you think all people are exactly the same level of social or just dislike that it’s considered a binary?

Depends on how wrong it is. I’m unable to digest pork and will say something if there’s bacon on my food. I don’t like sun dried tomatoes and will happily pick them off.

So the two professions would be equally old.

If you don’t think to bring something with you, you have to go back and get it (for example)

Holy fuck, Sardinia. Being dropped from a great height or beaten to death by people I held as babies while tripping sounds like one of the worst ways to go.

I like this, but I wish it accepted scientific names. Common names are not a convenient way to play

There’s a Pax Romana/olive branch joke in there somewhere

They’ll probably answer something like: around 20 deg/around 70 deg/room temperature/warm/etc

All of which are reductive, and the only non reductive answer would begin with our understanding of the concept of heat

Do people expect 13-16 year-olds to be more resilient to bullying than younger kids? Are they?

I’d expect that to be the most vulnerable age, but I don’t know. 17-18, I can see, but only because they’re more likely to have more varied social circles, and may be able to find more accepting groups on their own (though that could be a dnd group or an alt-right group, so that’s not necessarily a good thing). Again, I don’t really know anything about childhood development though.

Edit: is it doxxing to say the name?

As discovered from [4], she will not continue to love me if I do not share an equal love for the workplace based drama.

My favorite line

I wonder what the Venn diagram of prescriptivists and graffiti artists is