Mums biopsy results came back negative. Given what we knew going in, I was expecting that to be the case, but good to have it confirmed.

Ass eczema must be miserable

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It worked! I teleported to prison!

Great. I'm laying in bed, and now I'm lost. Thanks.

Put the peeps in the chili make it taste.......... Bad.

Remember everyone. If you see someone shoplifting from Walmart, no you didn't.

What, was it blowing a whistle?

Define useful.

Will any martial art make it a good idea to engage in a street fight, ever? Will any martial art prevent you from getting shot, stabbed, or ganged up on and beaten? No. Your best bet is situational awareness and a keen sense of GTFO.

However, martial arts are physical activities. They involve precise movements, and allow you a safe space to build conditioning. All of that means that, even if the techniques of the specific art you practice are fundamentally useless in the situation, you're going to be just better able to use your body effectively. Hopefully to run.

I'd say the biggest thing a martial art has over a traditional sport is conditioning yourself to take a proper hit. Beyond any technique, the first hit is usually the deciding hit in a street fight. Knowing what it's like to be hit, and being able to not immediately crumble, go further than any technique.

I used to think my desire to play female characters was a "closeted trans" thing. It's not. I'm definitely a cis gendered male. I've realized, at least for me, it's more of a self worth thing. I don't want to play as something I don't particularly like, such as me, and so I play something as opposite as possible. I'm working on that, tho.

Boeing has MASSIVE government contracts, and does a ton for both the military and NASA. They're absolutely bailout material, as much as it hurts me to say.

Touch screens are great in cars! For one purpose. The navigation. The touchscreen should only display navigation and function as a keyboard to search it, and only while the car is stationary. Everything else should have a physical control, at bare minimum as "backup"

By realizing that it IS getting better. We live in a world now where information has exploded out of control. What this means is that we now know exactly what's going on everywhere, and it turns out that's a lot of shit.

That shit was still happening, but until fairly recently it was just out of the picture. The average person didn't know about any of it , couldn't do anything about it anyway, and thus it didn't really impact them.

Fast forward to today you hear of tragedies ALL THE TIME. Bad shit happening to good people for seemingly no reason. The difference here is that you just happen to know about it. The objective truth is that bad shit happens less today than it did at any other time in history. We just see every instance of it, not just our local community instances.

Killing in the Name by RatM. I'm a simple man.

Children in wombs can't use Facebook or Instagram. Those are the only children we care about here.

Simple solution. Is the work getting done? Then your minions, sorry employees, are doing their jobs.

Pity, no. A shared expression of annoyance at a platform we all used to enjoy becoming further and further enshittified, yes.

Ahh, relative privation. We're not allowed to work on anything until we all collectively agree what the worst thing is, and then we're only allowed to work on that thing. As it should be.

Mate I'd be worried if you were anything but disgruntled. Companies are shit, layoffs are shit, feeling like shit after being through shit is pretty normal.

The key difference with lemmy is, if that one instance is the one disseminating cp, they get defederated, and so removed from the other normal users, and then if the instance doesn't shut down, LEO gets involved. The other normal porn-hosting instances can operate business as usual.

Such a reductive take. Maybe they want porn that isn't borderline, or questionable. Something where there's zero potential for abuse. Unless you yourself are privy to the inner workings of each company and the story of each model individually, then you're running into a risk of stuff not being kosher just by nature of the content.

Plus, yeah, what about people who are into more extreme things? May as well let them have an outlet for their desires that doesn't actually have anyone getting raped.

This feels like a bit of an overreaction. There's no identifying information, this is a small corner of the Internet, and they're here looking for advice on how to be better able to support the kid.

I'd say if I was the kid and I ran across this post, if anything it'd make me feel like my parent is taking a ton of effort to understand and support me.

Dude right? You scroll a bit, read some shit, laugh at some wit, and then there's a tit. It wa perfect.

Seems like they should really keep using 4/20, seems like an effective pre-screening tool for places I don't even want to walk by, let alone work at.

I treat office days as social days for exactly this reason. I know I'm not getting anything done, there are too many distractions, so I MUST be being forced to come into this disaster zone for one reason - to recharge. So that's what I do.

This whole thing is too phallus-y for me.

Well, get your sales numbers up by releasing it somewhere besides PS5. Gone are the days of holding a game or two hostage to create your walled garden for your shitty console.

If you watch his latest appearance on Joe Rogans podcast

Thank you for your sacrifice.

Exactly. Fines don't work for corporations or the mega wealthy because they don't have teeth. Pegging the fine to the actual income earned from the crime, and ensuring it's no longer more profitable to just pay the fine and continue doing what you're doing, is like, the only way to continue if we want to use fines as a deterrent.

In all seriousness, community is the biggest benefit of religion, and the reason I'm ok with it existing in modern society. The idealized church (and these do still exist in smaller churches) is a safe place for people to come, not be judged, and find acceptance and support.

A friend of mine goes to a church like this, and honestly sometimes I'm jealous. I'm as atheist as they come in my personal beliefs, but hearing all the actually cool stuff they do to support their members is really cool. I don't agree with their religion, but they're practicing it right as far as I'm concerned.

Religion should absolutely be either personal or small community, though. As soon as you have states using it as justification for violence, that religion has stopped being useful or acceptable.

That is like, actually one of the oldest scams in the book. I'm impressed.

Ya know, I barely shop on Amazon anymore, I should go ahead and cancel that...

Sounds like you're doing alright. I'd say keep doing as you're doing. Don't change anything unless asked - make this whole thing seem completely normal. Just be attentive and listen to your child. You probably won't understand, at least not fully, a lot of what they're going through. No matter how hard you try, unless you experience it yourself, it's pretty much impossible, like seeing a new color. Be open to that fact, that things are quite simply fundamentally different from their perspective.

Be a safe space. It sounds like you already are. Keep doing that. No matter the situation the two of you are involved in, your priority is their livelihood. Safety, autonomy, backup, whatever they need in order to provide that.

They were comfortable enough with you to tell you, and ahead of two others who might have a similar "right" to know. Your response was to provide the support you immediately could, and seek assistance otherwise. Keep doing what you're doing, bud.

... I hope one day I have a trans kid. I always wanted to be transparent.

Is it really a scam if you tell them up front the work is unnecessary, you don't want to do it, and they insist? At a certain point, it's the customer hoisting themselves by their own petards.

"against all odds" my left asshole. This is always the way of hacker vs defense, it's always an arms race and the attacking side always has the advantage.

At least something good will come of it then

Hol up, that's a thing? Fuck, I almost wish it was just to appease the furries, the reality is so much more depressing.

You would have to, if you ever used it for work.

Aaaaaaah yes, the pavement princess. Drive like they own the streets, but never done a day's work in their lives

Had a landlord POUNDING on all 3 of our doors (one at a time, not at once) one time when I was taking care of my sick mother. He didn't try the key, else he'd have probably gotten a size 14 boot up his asshole. Some of the shit landlords think they can get away with...