If you’re interested in getting into bicycling check if there’s a local co-op. A good one will sell you a cheap bike and even let you pay a decent chunk of it in labor of fixing bikes (and learning to fix yours). Not only is this two hobbies for the price of a few drinks, it’s also a good way to make friends, build skills, learn good trails, and feel connected to your local community. You also can get cheap used parts. The bikes won’t be high end expensive ones, and you may decide some parts are worth paying manufacturer prices for (several used trigger shifters led to me buying new), but when all is said and done they’re usually pretty decent bikes. And you can find weird shit you may not have known was a thing.

I feel bad for anyone on this website who happens to be named Nicole

Political power grows from the barrel of a ketamine pipe (idk how ketamine is ingested)

I disagree. Hard labor in the California summer sounds awful

Cut it into squares

Well yeah, you’re promoting the same kind of violence that Ukraine continues to perpetrate on Russia.

Dishonorable people view dishonor as virtuous.

Because he doesn’t respect you enough to think that your provinces deserve to remain independent of each other. Or to know that you have provinces.

Ok yeah that tracks. I hear south korea is a particularly extreme case of that too. My assumptions that op wasn’t from such a culture were largely bases around their comparing themselves to others in their culture doing differently from them

That’s fair, though op definitely sounds like they may be on the ace spectrum or a late bloomer in that context. There’s waiting for self sufficiency to pursue relationships and then there’s wondering why people in their 20s are so focused on romance.

I was self sufficient when I married in my mid 20s, but it usually takes a few years of romantic experience before someone marries.

And I guess slim may not have been the best word, drastically reduced might be better. The romantic scene has a few time periods of your life with dramatic changes to it. And what and when is cultural but itll happen. I remember when around the time I graduated college suddenly half my tinder matches had kids. In my 30s a lot of single people my age are divorced. Not all by any stretch, but notably many. As you get older and older widows start entering the picture.

None of this is inherently bad and they shouldn’t get into a relationship just because they’re worried they won’t be able to later, but waiting can make it harder and it’s something to be prepared for if they aren’t just asexual

Weird but not bad. More abnormal. Be aware others aren’t waiting, so you may have slim pickings when the time comes