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I'm not really in a fit mental state to maintain a relationship so wealth wins by default.

*shrug* My sex toys will be seeing a lot more action from me than any man will, I guess.

That's very sad. Hopefully she can get tubal ligation to prevent future pregnancy accidents.

LeetCheet posted...

So she's done with the procedure now.
She was apparently almost 8 weeks into the pregnancy.
8 weeks! Does it really take that long to notice that you're pregnant?

It can and often does, yes. I'm pretty sure the fetus wouldn't be too much larger than a gummy bear/kidney bean at that point?
Fetal development really isn't that noticeable early on unless you usually have a VERY regular menstrual cycle and you notice right away that your cycle is late. (In my case it would not. I have never had sex but I've had multiple periods of time where my cycle was 2-3 months late. Very odd. Furthermore, depending on your location, your tests and related procedures may be delayed, lengthening the process. Anti-abortion laws take advantage of these and ban abortion with a slim time margin, so that by the time the person realizes their pregnant, or by the time they get their procedure ready, it's too late and ceases to be legal.

Ah yes, the philosophy of "her rights to her own body only matter when she's dead; gotta check and see if we can use those organs."

Jesus, what the fuck was the owner doing to those dogs? Were they just not trained?
How sad.
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I used to live in a farmhouse on the outskirts of a town. The walk from the bus stop from school to my house was about... oh, maybe half a mile? down a hill along a pothole-filled gravel road. The nearest neighbor had 3 large dogs which were just left to run wild around the area. They attacked me several times while I walked home, sometimes when I had my younger sibling (who is about 9 years younger than me) with me. Nothing would get them to fully ease down, though I could get them to jump back a bit with an umbrella and a constant throwing of rocks, but before I learned that I had to pick up my sibling and run down that fucking road while those asshole dogs tried to shred us.

Completely ruined my ability to enjoy being around dogs, though I don't hate them.

If the bread is floppy, it's not toasted. Beyond that, it's just a matter of how well-done you like it. I don't like my bread charred outright, but other than that I don't really care much... oh, but if it's just PB+J sort of sandwich, I guess I prefer a lighter toast.

People might give me crap for this but I have always, ALWAYS disliked Magmar. It's like some abhorrent amalgamation of Charmander, Psyduck, and Castform. What the fuck is with that thing? I don't necessarily think it's the worst but it's the first form that springs to mind when I think of pokemon designs I don't like.

I think it's pretty inarguable that IV-VI are the best, but the issue with the rest is that... like, the prequels are terrible but there are some decent roots in there. You can see what they're trying (and admittedly mostly failing) to do... and they're vastly improved if you outright fast-forward through large chunks of them, lol. I think the sequels have higher highs than the prequels but they're also a jumbled mess with no clear vision to them at all and really nothing of interest to say or add. I feel like they somehow managed to botch their potential even harder than the prequels and that is saying something.

Judgmenl posted...

You shouldn't let video games (or any media for that matter) shape your wold view.

I think that there's nothing wrong with letting a piece of media look at something in a way you haven't before, but it definitely shouldn't be the bedrock of any position you hold. Maybe more the inspiration to go do some additional reading about things. Peace Walker is actually a pretty good example of this because it gives a lot of perspectives from characters on historical figures and events that people don't often hear.

The focal message is anti-war, and opposed to the borderline fetishization and exploitation of "heroes."

I guess one could argue that the message in Peace Walker in particular skews pretty far Left, and the series in general is undeniably socially progressive.

Have you watched Like Stories of Old's recent video on anti-war messages in video games? It's long but you might find it of interest.

Edit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FDUt5x5oww

Most of the combat in the HP series was underwhelming. She wrote in too many spells that functionally just turn wands into conventional weapons- I think that was a mistake, tbh. I genuinely think that the combat sequences were weak compared to other kids' fantasy books I remember reading as a kid.

Like... Tamora Pierce has some metal af mage combat sequences. Street Magic has a section where the main character storms a wealthy murderer's estate with nothing but seeds, it's so goddamn cool... and there was that pirate siege book... man, maybe I should read those books again, it's probably been nearly 20 years since I read them. They did the same thing Rowling's books did, aging up with the audience, but I think in a lot of ways they were more... um... they were crafted with a more careful mind for what the consequences of including certain things in the setting would be, I guess would be how I'd word it? No one had to accidentally destroy all the time travel devices because the author didn't think about the consequences of putting time travel devices in her setting, lol. If you're looking for an author that targeted similar ages that liked to deal a lot with trauma in its many variations in her writing, Pierce is a good choice.

I think Rowling is good at making quirky characters and memorable plot twists, but I get kind of irritated at how venerated she is. I read so many fun books as a kid, and sometimes it feels like people are too busy licking Rowling's boots to acknowledge any other authors or even accept that the books aren't the best books evaaar! Like that one post that went viral insinuating that Rowling was the first woman author, jfc...

I live in Idaho and it's pretty well-known that the aquifers the region I live in depends on are going to run out of water soon-ish. Not very high quality water, but it's what we've got. There's also the matter of us running out of topsoil. Gonna be a disaster.

Lokarin posted...

What's sad is that Amber Heard is such an unmitigated monster that the fact that the abuse was hidden for so long means there's probably millions of people out there also being abused with much much much smaller profiles than Johnny Depp who will never get their day in court

Oh, yes, definitely. I'm not in contact with him (he's a virulent homophobe) but my body builder uncle (mother's side) was abused by his wife for years. Like threatened with knives and such. My mother's mother's brother was also abused- his wife was a serial adulterer who emptied his bank accounts for one of her lovers. It, uh... did not end well.

"Why would I spend any time learning when I could instead spend that time making sure people on the internet laugh at me?"

Have fun with that, Kyuubi.

keyblader1985 posted...

That video is about 27 minutes too long for a lot of people's attention span.

They can speed it up. Honestly, I have no patience anymore for people who have multiple life-times' worth of information at their fingertips and are like "BUT IT WOULD TAKE LIKE TEN WHOLE MINUTES. TEN MINUTES!" and then they proceed to stay on gamefaqs for an hour whining about the same exact subject that they refuse to educate themselves on.

My sibling who does not have an account on here expresses condolences and reiterates that it was sweet of you to support her.

It was nice of you to help her.

A lot of the cruel things people have said to me were sarcastic and paired with some form of gesture or physical assault, so out of context they almost sound like compliments, like people tearing at my hair while commenting on it.

Got the R-slur a lot, I suppose, but that never bothered me much because I knew the kids hurling it at me were stupider than I was- I was top of or near the top of my class for most of my school years.

My attitude is that people can be assholes and that sucks, but if you're taking advantage of the fact that someone has to serve you and cannot leave the area to get away with being a piece of shit, you're a special kind of asshole.

The same principle applies in reverse; I work at an assisted living facility, and my family has had people that have worked at places like this since I was a kid. If you're working at a facility where your customers can't leave and are often disabled and you take advantage of that and behave like a total piece of shit to people, there is no way faster to make me hate the shit out of you. I've had to intervene when I saw an employee screaming- full on fucking screaming- at a confused resident once. Bitch would never get away with that if she was working at a place where the person was mentally able to leave and/or complain.

Lokarin posted...

Thing is - as long as people are aware of the basics of CRT and the real examples, then it's ok to disagree with it, I just don't like when people bash the strawman version of CRT

But then they can't cower in fear of it.

LinkPizza posted...

I agree that everyone has a price. And tbh, I think its lower than most people think. Especially if someone just had a briefcase full of money in front of them

Nope, that's true. That would do it for me.

Put on my wish list. If I can set aside some time to play it I might purchase it. TY for rec.

Hmm... my memory is not the best, but... I don't remember my age, but my oldest memory is holding my mom's hand at a bus stop. The buses were late or we had missed the hour-long route or something and had to wait a long time to go home, and home had a rather bad reputation to us... and I paraphrased Tolkien's The Two Towers at her.
What a fix! Thats the one place we dont want to see any closer and thats the one place were trying to get to!
Made her laugh. Mom and my grandfather were big Tolkien fans, so we grew up on the books, the Bakshi film, and the BBC audio drama.

LinkPizza posted...

It looked weird to me at first, as well. Basically, you are giving oral pleasure to someone (whichever gender you are not attracted to) And theyre asking how much money would it take to get you to do that

Oh, I'm pan so the question doesn't really work for me then. If I wasn't pan, though.... hmmm... probably wouldn't take a lot, tbh. I'm pretty broke and don't have any weird hangups about sex work, though I will say that I would probably haggle for as much as I could for the same reason. In that respect, I guess the real answer would be "as much as I could get out of the person in question."

Unbridled9 posted...

Where do you think the whole 'defund the police' ideology got started from?

Probably from the fact that in most jobs you don't get your pay raised if you do shitty work, and it's on the fucking taxpayer dime.

I... don't understand the question at all.

I don't object to UBI inherently, but it's more vulnerable to issues involving price gouging, inflation/deflation, etc, so I think a federal job guarantee is preferable and expanding unemployment/disability/social security are probably better options.

UBI is not a bad idea per se, but I don't really think our system as it is will mesh with it very well. I also think it needs to be implemented thoughtfully and that's, uh, not the impression I get from this particular attempt.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

In other words:
"Even when problems are addressed, we still think it's a problem, and since it's already defunct, there's nothing you can do to rectify it. Please submit to X group, you are irredeemably a villain for your race."

Yeah, it turns out that if some creep stabs a person a bunch of times, and you confiscate the knife, you still have someone bleeding out on the ground and telling them to walk off the stabbing is not really useful.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

The situation is resolved, future people do not have problems going forward, that's all you can ask for.

Even on a very simple, easily understood level, this is so obviously not how reality works. :-/

I dunno, I have trouble engaging with someone who not only is grossly ignorant about these subjects but constantly signals that he's completely disinterested in actually learning anything and bettering himself. *shrug* I should not have to explain to an adult human being how reality works.

Barring forced labor for criminals, the final legal loopholes that let people continue chattel slavery in the USA ended in the 1940s. The US government repeatedly either directly seized the assets of (see Andrew Johnson taking the land that was granted to freed slaves away) or allowed for the seizure and destruction of the property of marginalized people (this happened in my town to Chinese American people, for example), which crippled them economically.

"BUT THAT'S THE PAST SO IT HAS NO IMPACT. WHAT EVEN IS CAUSE AND EFFECT? WHAT IS TIME ANYWAY? I DON'T KNOW."

I refuse to believe that you are so stupid that you can't understand how it might be that a kid whose parents inherited property from their grandparents has an edge over a kid whose parents had no inheritance because their grandparents' property either never existed owing to them being slaves or was destroyed or seized during a race riot thanks to the actions of the US government. That can be the difference between you being housed or homeless, or being able to go to a decent school, or being able to get a higher education, or being able to go to a fucking doctor if you need to, which means it can be the difference between whether or not you get to live long enough to find some bootstraps to attempt to pull yourself up by.

There are people, to this very day, that get shitty medical care because outdated medical textbooks have racist misinformation in them that was designed to post-hoc justify the abuse and neglect of people of color. I hate to break the news to you, Kyuubi, but it turns out that things that happened earlier have an impact on what happens now and what happens now has an impact on what happens in the future, and if there are bad things happening now, you have to actually work to fix them.
https://examples.yourdictionary.com/cause-and-effect-examples.html

Krazy_Kirby posted...

race isn't a social construct, their are biological differences (and I'm not talking about skin color).
admitting there are differences doesn't mean they are bad.

That does not make it not a social construct... do you not know what a social construct is? Like... you think all these scientists telling you that race is a social construct don't know that ancestral phenotype traits exist?
Money is a social construct, that doesn't mean money isn't real. :-/

Hmm, how do I explain this? Social constructions around phenotype traits have varied wildly across times and places.... eh, I'm too tired for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teyvcs2S4mI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVmj8dDx9yY

It really depends on what you mean when you say "woke."

ReturnOfFa posted...

He literally brings up clients during lectures and calls them 'doomed'.
Good psychologist....sure.

Yeah, he's a cretin. I can't believe people find him even remotely uplifting. There are so many better people to listen to.

The_Viscount posted...

they may need to stay at a medical facility permanently.

FFS, Zeus...

hypnox posted...

I am pretty sure the payments will be direct deposit or a state issues debit card like normal childsupport. odds are the kids may never even know what the person looks like, or even their name.

That would probably be the best way to do it. I've been thinking about the legal system lately and how it's unfortunate that we focus so much on shitting on the perpetrator that we do very little for victims and their families. I've always been a bit confused at how victims have to cough up for their own trauma therapy and such, for example.

Most people don't have anything to add beyond the updates. Poor lady.

hypnox posted...

I am not trolling I honestly don't get it.

Bisexuals are either: attracted to the gender the same as your own, AND to other genders, or: attracted to two or more genders.
I've seen both used.

Pansexuals are attracted to all genders, generally. Alternatively, that gender simply doesn't factor into whether or not they're attracted to someone.

There's some overlap, obviously.

There's been some manufactured controversy about bisexuality being transphobic- it's not. There's already been a transphobic orientation dreamed up by transphobes that briefly went viral and it was not bisexuality.

Anyone with junk is probably gonna prefer men's underwear for obvious reasons... beyond that, it depends on the individual piece, I imagine? Like I have never, ever understood the appeal of thong underwear, it's so fucking uncomfortable and I don't think it looks good on people either.

This is conceptually interesting and something I agree with in theory, but I'm a bit worried that it is not going to work out well. The system does give a 1 year grace period before payments have to begin, which is smart, but there is a possibility that this will just result in the perpetrator in question ending up behind bars again if they end up having to resort to criminal behavior to make payments.

I also wonder if it might cause harm to the victim's family to have prolonged contact of any kind with the perpetrator in this way. Hopefully Tennessee's State will keep a close eye on this (not holding my breath). I wonder what psychologists/therapists would say about this.

Don't get me wrong; I think in a less dysfunctional legal system, this would probably be an unambiguous good, and it could still be largely successful, but I suspect it may cause additional issues, unfortunately.

Honestly this trend has outright ruined games that I otherwise mostly enjoyed. It just sucks anything compelling out of the game.

pionear posted...

So what are these BLM people doing with the $$$ they are raising? And why give it to them if this **** is still happening?

Lol, why the fuck are you bitching at BLM for this? How stupid. Might as well shit on Frederick Douglass for not ending slavery, lol.
In case you haven't noticed, there are people who like things the way they are that are standing in the way.

It really depends on the water quality where you live. The tap water where I live is fucking revolting and I can barely tolerate it even with a water filter purging most of the contaminants. I've always lived in towns with shitty water quality which is annoying because I do like water.

No, and worse still, I took a home ec class to learn how. The teacher assumed that all of the students taking the class had done so to get an easy A and already knew how to sew and use sewing machines. I didn't learn shit in that class and I'm still mad about it, lol.

It's harming agriculture, which does impact you directly. There are species going extinct all over the place, and some locations have already been submerged underwater, so you'll never get to see those things irl.

Judgmenl posted...

I was playing on normal.
I've beat every mothership Tales game except for Vesperia, Xillia, Xillia 2 and Arise...
Hell I've beat some of them on the highest difficulty.

I believe you, but it can take a bit of time to get back into the groove of a game you haven't played for a while. Vesperia has some very strange difficulty spikes, too, which come near out of nowhere. I've beaten almost every Tales of except for... Hmm, it's just Destiny 2 and Rebirth from the main titles at this point, wow... the difficulty settings are there for a reason, and it's not to insult your pride. It's for you to scale up as you refine your inputs, whether you're a first-timer or a returning player.

... Just turn the difficulty down. Tales of games have difficulty settings; you can scale it to your skill level as you improve.

Pregnancy is a life-threatening condition that permanently maims the body. We to not use State violence to force people to preserve the lives of others at their own expense; it doesn't even matter if you consider a fetus to be a human being or not. Wanded's ethics are completely inconsistent.

ItsKaljinyuTime posted...

Cool, and

Give me a study that shows that sex ed has a negative impact on children that outweighs the evidence we have that it protects victims of CSA and helps society capture child abusers. Do it now or I'm ignoring you.

Bye. I see no point in talking to someone who has nothing on the subject to say that is based in reality.

ItsKaljinyuTime posted...

You don't even need to know the word "penis" to know to seek help. It's not the learning about your penis that teaches you to seek help. It's the knowing that you're in danger/being victimized.

Cool, and if your parent is the one doing the abuse and you haven't been educated on how to do that, what is the child supposed to do and how are they supposed to know what to say?
You're dodging my question.

And again, if there's a question of how far content can go before it's fucked up, why don't you explain why talking to kids about dicks is fine? Because they'll know they're in danger? Because you can do that with rape videos. But we don't use them. So where do we draw the line?

This is so fucking dishonest and completely irrelevant and you know it, lol.

You're the one objecting to teaching kids basic concepts and words that have been PROVEN to protect them against sexual violence. YOU are the one who needs to come up with a reason why anyone should give your bullshit the time of day. Give me a study that shows that sex ed has a negative impact on children that outweighs the evidence we have that it protects victims of CSA and helps society capture child abusers. Do it now or I'm ignoring you.

I have already told you the line. You teach young children about consent so that they can recognize that they are being victimized, basic anatomy so that they have the language to speak when they are being victimized, and that their body and the body of the other person does not determine whether or not they are capable of engaging in behaviors- girls can touch girls and boys can touch boys when they are old enough and consent to doing so- I should not have to explain to you, someone who presumably has a brain rattling around in their skull and has been spewing dumbfuck fearmongering about education, why it is that children should be taught that they can also be abused by someone of the same sex as them. Sexual orientation MUST be taught in order to protect children and validate those who have victimizers that are the same sex as them if for no other reason.

Ozmose posted...

Teaching a kid about abuse is not the same as the shit they're pushing on kids now. It's pretty simple explaining to a kid where and how they shouldn't be touched. When I was a kid, it was part of the whole "Stranger Danger" thing. If that's all it was, people wouldn't be opposed to it. It's all the woke trash they're trying to bundle in. Wokeism is pretty much a new religion, and just like any other religion, It doesn't belong in the classroom.

Stranger danger is fucking worthless. Kids are usually assaulted by people they know and thought they could trust. Also, grow the fuck up about "wokeism," you sound like a moron. Post a study as evidence that it is causing a problem or shut up.

ItsKaljinyuTime posted...

Googling "comprehensive sex education outline k-12" would get me a variety of results. There isn't just one standard. I'm not asking "What if it's inappropriate?" I've heard your standards for it and have decided that it is inappropriate. If not also unnecessary and based in subjectivity. Talking with small children about genitals, theirs or anyone else's, is fucked up. Unless you're their parent and have the kind of trust that only comes from being a parent.

I want you to explain to me then how a child that has been deliberately shielded from knowing the names of their body parts (HOW HORRIFYING! BODY PARTS!) is supposed to properly articulate to an authority figure that they are being raped by their parent, because I have heard children trying to do that, and it does not work. Actively preventing a child from learning about anatomy, consent, and sex makes it harder for victims to report abuse in a way that will be understood. This is why children who receive sex ed classes report their victimizations at a far greater rate than those that don't, because they have been given the tools to seek help, which you are objecting to because, why? You keep asserting that it's bad without making any concrete reason why. Post evidence of harm done or stop fearmongering.

Teaching children proper anatomy and vocabulary is one of the most BASIC precautions to shield them against sexual abusers. This is not an opinion; this is a FACT. By pissing and moaning like a total moron about sex ed, you are acting in a way that protects literal child rapists because you're squeamish about education. It's pathetic. Anyone with half a brain can tell which of these things is worse.