For a while my go-to move after leaving a restaurant with a date was to say something to make us both laugh, and then put an arm around them and squeeze a bit in a friendly way.

If they lean into it, keep the arm there, physical contact makes it much easier to flirt.

If they don’t lean into it, just let go and drop it for now. It’s easy enough to brush off as a friendly gesture.

I also found that it’s generally very sexy to actively make it easy for the other to say no. The easier they feel it is to just shut things down, the easier it is for them to keep exploring where things might go.

And, by extension, mindfulness. Which is more or less what you describe I guess.

Absolutely. Both me and my siblings. My parents were in an okay spot at this point, but they supported us to do far better.

Times were pretty borked compared to now, at least in this country.

People don’t have a “natural frequency” is the real answer.

I won an Xbox 360 a long time ago from a Coca Cola competition. You had to use codes from the bottle caps and then quickly answer some quiz questions correctly. But you had unlimited tries. So I just kept clicking random answers quickly until I got all questions right at a ridiculously low time.

Good times. Borrowed Guitar Hero, LA Noire, Batman Arkham Asylum and Red Dead Redemption at the library, had a blast.

It’s for sure a product of its time, but it really doesn’t feel like a 1999 movie. Around that time we had

• Sixth sense
• American beauty
• Eyes wide shut
• Being John Malkovich
• Fight Club

Matrix has such a stark level of visual and thematic modernity compared to those. Maybe Fight Club comes near, but the other movies look like they’re from a different decade.

Surely not?

I still can’t believe The Matrix is from '99. The themes and the effects hold up incredibly well, it feels far more modern.

How would you feel the charge outside the black hole? Electromagnetic interactions are mediated by photons, which are famously unable to escape black holes.