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  • The process of dating is inherently complicated just by the fact of coordinating the schedules of two people, more if one or more of the people involved have kids.

    You can’t just drop everything and choose to go do something, you have to plan it, in advance, with another person.

    Planning something fun can often take all the fun out of it, you have to work harder to have fun.

    But in the end, the shared experience of planned fun is worth it.


  • Newspapers who use the word “ouster” but as a noun, not a verb.

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ouster

    “With Torres conspicuously absent from City Council and committee meetings and events in District 3, the mood quickly changed from offering Torres due process to calling for his ouster as many residents and organizations felt Torres was in no position to effectively represent his constituents.”
    —Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024

    “Niccol’s surprise hiring in August — announced alongside Narasimhan’s ouster — was greeted with widespread praise from the Club and Wall Street, with Starbucks market capitalization soaring by $21 billion in a single day, to nearly $109 billion.”
    —Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024

    “The news of Hinton’s award comes weeks away from the first anniversary of Altman’s brief, stunning and ultimately unsuccessful ouster—as well as the second anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT at the end of November 2022.”
    —Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024

    “That experience was in the back of my mind when reading about the struggles at CVS Health, which owns Aetna, and the ouster of CEO Karen Lynch last week.”
    —Diane Brady, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024

    As opposed to:

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oust

    Ouster - One who ousts.