Definitely, especially in the shoulders and lower back.

They start touching my genitals. That’s about it.

I’ve never been uncomfortable with being naked or being touched. And I’m actually an extremely sex-positive person.

But I get massage because I get sore muscles. It’s not about just being touched, it’s directed pressure to work out muscle knots. If I got a massage and all they did was oil me up and lightly touch me, I wouldn’t be going back.

Best depiction of time travel ever presented, in my opinion. There are better movies about time travel, but Primer does the best job of presenting a mechanism that feels like it would work.

You’re the second one to refer to touching the previous and saying “You like?”, which may be the answer to my question

I typically do, like I said I have one I go to usually. Sometimes I’m extra stiff in the morning and need to take what I can get sooner rather than later.

Well yeah, but sometimes it’s urgent and the legit places are all booked up.

My normal massage therapist is pretty cool actually.

Interestingly, my previous go-to massage therapist told me that “massage therapist” was the preferred nomenclature, and “masseuse” carried sexual connotations.

My go-to is very professional, but that doesn’t help me with emergencies.

The real happy ending is muscle tension relief

Hard to choose between:

I once had a life, or rather
Life had me
I was one among many
Or at least I seemed to be

Can You Get to That - Funkadelic

We are stardust
(Billion year old carbon)

Woodstock - Joni Mitchell

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds

Redemption Song - Bob Marley

Came from Anders Klimax

What? He gets freaky in some other books, but Stranger is pretty clean for a free love manifesto. Every character I can think of was a full grown adult, I don’t think there’s a single scene even euphemistically depicting an old man sleeping with a young girl. All the sex even referred to was between people of relatively close age.

Grok just means to understand/drink fully. You drink water, and it becomes a part of your body. You understand an idea, and it becomes part of your mind. It’s an efficient word to communicate “understanding something fully enough to functionally incorporate it into your worldview”. It’s not that intellectual.

I met a couple with a pet raccoon once. They said it got into everything all the time and generally caused mischief constantly.

Altoids Sours, specifically the mango ones. Those were my absolute jam. Probably for the best, in regards to the structural integrity of my hard palate.

Who’s gonna believe an orangutan?

I can see the value of data networks. If every car on the road is self driving and interconnected, they know where every other car is and can cooperatively adjust their speed and routes to basically eliminate traffic. Even if it’s just every car in a taxi fleet, they can still share their sensor data to build a better operating map from multiple angles. The privacy side of that is rough, but it could drastically reduce accidents compared to individual human drivers.

Half to student loans, the other half to home improvement.

queer people, and people of color

That’s not a victim silly, it’s just a domestic dispute. Now return the boy to the nice Mr Dahmer.

due to being rich is able to get great equipment to use.

That’s the power: gadgets. And also being a genius detective, but largely the gadgets.