Reddit, too, is rife with threads by gay men complaining about gay dating apps in general, and the culture pervasive within them flakey conversations, rude users, rampant racism, and attitudes that reinforce negative self-esteem.
Another challenge was pervasive in informal conversations at the meeting, but only rarely addressed in presentations: exactly what are the standards that we should be applying when confirming that a novel mutation is in fact disease-causing?
Not all gay teenagers are into cybering; a number of the boys I met online complained that the pervasive sex talk eclipsed more substantive conversation.
Mental illness is a pervasive part of our culture and conversation, and yet finding a photo that accurately represents a concept as complicated as depression is about as easy as, I don't know, finding a magical cure for it.
The debate back and forth was perhaps the best encapsulation of the current conversation in Congress concerning the pervasive surveillance of the NSA that has recently become better known, mostly through the prism of leaks from the now fugitive Edward Snowden.
Towards this purpose, we present COCOA, a solution for COnversation-based service COmposition in pervAsive computing environments with QoS support.
Although interviewees say "the talk" imbued them with a pervasive sense of fear, others reported using the conversation to foster a sense of safety and pride.
It's precisely this breakdown of trust — and, even more so, this pervasive fear — that has led me into the conversation and debate over "armed discipleship".
Academic cheating is a pervasive problem and if, as a parent, you have left the conversation until high school or even middle school, it may be getting late.
