southsamurai

If you’re having sex and it isn’t an art, you’re doing it wrong

Don’t know that I ever got a thrill from pirating anything at all. At most, maybe a gleeful greed at the access to the world’s music in particular, a drive to hoard everything so I would never have to dig through tapes and discs of copied music again.

That being said, yeah, thrill seekers are like any other addicts. You chase the high until your tolerance builds up and eventually you either escalate or you get bored with the specific outlet and go after another.

So, if a given pursuit becomes easy, they’d lose the buzz. I’ve actually known a couple of hard core professional shoplifters. One was a fellow nurse’s assistant that could get damn near anything you wanted that one person could carry, though the price could be as high as just buying it yourself if it was something difficult. She ran a tidy little side business amongst the staff of that nursing home until the head of nursing found out. Then she just did it full time instead.

But she had her shit tight. Knew the stores, security, exit paths, police response times, etc. So she stopped getting a rush from it before I ever met her, based on what she said. But she wasn’t chasing the rush, it was about making money with a skill. Nice lady, in her fifties, grandkids. She got started because of shit pay and no real way to do better with her opportunities.

The other wasn’t originally a thrill seeker stealing for the rush, but started doing it to feed her coke habit. So, you know, actually a thrill seeker in different way. She wasn’t as good at it tbh. Got busted a few times from high school on. She went full klepto for a few years, then it petered out when she figured out that most places were easy and started doing really crazy shit. And I mean crazy, like trying to get gang banged, running up and slapping cops, fighting big dudes at bars, that kind of crazy. She was a patient’s family member. One not allowed inside the house lol.

Me? Only time I ever went thieving, I was flat broke and desperate, so went after food and living supplies. Yay for working full time and not being able to pay your fucking bills. Definitely not a rush. Anxiety inducing and I hated every moment of it. Never got caught, but then again I didn’t go after more than I actually needed.

https://www.amazon.com/Koss-KSC75-Portable-Stereophone-Headphones/dp/B0006B486K

They may or may not be right for you, but the sound is way better than the price tag, and the price is low enough to be worth trying them. They have a Bluetooth version as well. No anc though. They’re as comfortable as it gets for clip ons.

Thing with buds is that you gotta find the right tips. Comply is the default brand because they make something to fit every damn size out there. So you may just need to hunt down new tips instead

If you’re looking for an in universe reason, while he could kick Thanos and send him flying, Thanos had multiple ways to prevent himself from being sent very far. Besides, I’m not confident that Antman could generate the force to send him far enough to matter even if big T didn’t resist. There’s a lot of mass in that giant leg, but not much speed overall. Being hit by a slow moving train still hurts, but it won’t kill you, if you see the concept.

Hell, Antman isn’t even that strong in giant size. While it isn’t in the MCU, most of the really strong characters in Marvel have gone up against the various giant ones. Thanos can hang with the Hulk, toe to toe, and Hulk has stopped a giant foot in the comics. While the MCU isn’t 1:1 with comics, it isn’t that far off

It really sucks, but unless someone was to come up with a way to cram massive amounts of a game onto single discs, or no more than two, it was inevitable. That’s not why they’re doing it, but still

It’s pretty tasteless overall.

And when it comes right down to it, hydrogenated oils are their own nightmare. There’s really no perfect choices for every person in every situation.

Like, lard and tallow work even better than butter in some applications, including some desserts. But then you run into the health side of things and vegetarians aren’t going to use them.

I personally don’t like palm oil either. I find it unpleasant for mouth feel. I’m just saying that it fills a role that other things don’t, and does it in a way that’s a different set of problems.

Different use cases.

Fats that are solid ( or at least not kept liquid) are not directly comparable to oils. They fulfill a different function in baked goods. In particular, pie crust with vegetable oil would fail totally. It wouldn’t hold up.

Mind you, if you don’t object to hydrogenated oils, they can do the job. Yay margarine? But you can’t just dump 10 grams of canola into your biscuits and expect the results to look, taste, or feel like a biscuit. You’d get something, but it wouldn’t be the same.

Well, I have chickens, so that’s the obvious answer. But I already know what they’d say and it amounts to “feed me” 24/7

So, the next obvious answer is dogs because I love them so much. But, beyond the fantasy of it, I suspect that would end up depressing as fuck because not every dog has a good life, so what they say might drive me to homicide.

Which leaves rats. I’d go with “rodents” given the choice, but if I can only pick one, rats are the most problematic overall. The chance to talk to them and maybe negotiate them buggering off instead of getting killed would be both awesome, and possibly profitable when successful.

Aight, ima casually address the disparity in information. I’m in pain, so I’m not fucking with digging up links or reverifying stuff I’ve looked up a dozen times in the past, so keep that in mind regarding details.

So, is there a difference?

Maybe. There’s really limited study done on the matter. This means that, depending on where you go looking for information about the distribution of trans people, you’ll see either that the numbers are roughly the same (with mtf, ftm, and nb each being roughly a third of the trans population), or that there are roughly 2 trans women for each trans man, the most commonly given ratio of 2:1. I have seen it expressed as more 1.5:1 or as high as 3:1, but 2:1 is what I ran into most often when looking for info.

If there is a difference, there are multiple probable factors.

The big one is that there still isn’t a difference in occurrence, only in reporting. This means that it’s possible that the numbers are still roughly the same, but that trans men aren’t always speaking up and/or being counted.

But there are suggestions that the underlying in utero changes that create trans people (and supposedly other variants of the human gender and sexuality spectrum) may simply occur more often in pregnancies where the fertilized egg is XY. That may is a big one, it should be MAY! There’s a lot still unknown about what all variations can occur in utero vs being hard coded, so I can’t pretend there’s scientific certainty about how trans people develop vs cis people.

Now, beyond that it could also be social/cultural. It is often more acceptable for a woman to present in culturally “masculine” ways, so individuals may feel that they don’t need to do anything beyond that for their personal path. It is unusual for men to be accepted for presenting in culturally “feminine” ways, and thus trans women may need to do more than some trans men do, including actually declaring themselves trans rather than quietly passing (which is why is possible it’s purely a reporting issue).

And yes, as much as I hate to bring up passing since passing isn’t mandatory to be your self, it’s necessary to mention it. It isn’t even a term I like, it just feels shitty to claim that anyone gets to decide what is and isn’t the “correct” presentation of a gender. But for this purpose, it’s the one that’ll need the least explanation.

Anyway, there are trans men that can both be satisfied with, and pass with no more than changing their name and manner of dress. This is also possible among trans women, but less often as far as anything I’ve seen covering this subject has said. And it is possible that the number of trans women that aren’t counted among trans women by virtue of passing is high enough that it would skew the ratio back to higher. But it is, again, often brought up as a possible explanation for any numeric imbalances.

The other factor I’ve run across is that trans men may be less aware of being trans, in part because of being more free to engage in traditionally masculine pursuits with less social stigma. By being able to freely live in ways that “feel” right to the person, less dissonance occurs and thus the need to discover one’s transness is delayed or even negated. The dysphoria may never reach a point where it drives the person to transition in any way, they just do “guy stuff” and continue with their birth name and assigned gender, thus being uncounted. This is actually different from the kind of life aforementioned where the person does transition, but passes and remains uncounted.

That’s the stuff I’ve run across in conversation and reading over the years. First in trying to understand the trans experience better, to internalize it so I could better empathize. Then out of personal curiosity about the medical side of things, which ties into the sociological and psychological factors. I can’t be arsed to go link digging though, as my initial disclaimer said, so if you quote any of this, be aware of that.

I’m not at the point where this outweighs the reasons I picked mullvad yet. And the other cofounder’s statement does at least give me hope that it might work itself out in a way I can accept before my current term is finished.

That being said, I’m not sure I can give money to the company when someone is profiting from that money and spending part of it on a political organization that expressly espouses a stance I believe to be harmful and dangerous. And it isn’t like you can pirate a VPN, so it differs significantly from when actors or musicians do stupid shit.

That being said, I also don’t think that using mullvad would be something other people would be obligated to avoid just because the CEO donated to a small and shitty political party. By itself, it isn’t something so bad that it’s possible to point to a customer and do more than inform them of the donation and maybe give them links to see for themselves that it’s a shitty party. Or, at least that it’s a party with some really shitty platforms.

But the guy needs to show a major shift in how he donates before I’ll renew.

Eh, when it comes down to it, my concern isn’t country of origin, per se.

Since my concern is about the company making an item, and how shitty they are, you’d have to dig up some serious numbers to show me that a given Chinese company is significantly worse than a company from elsewhere, or that there’s a proven issue where the hardware had known vulnerabilities introduced by virtue of being Chinese in origin.

Both of which are entirely possible. But until I’m actually shopping for the hardware, I have way too many other things that I have to pay attention to to give a flying fuck, so this hypothetical is a zero fucks given for me. China isn’t inherently worse than any other country. It’s got flaws and virtues as they all do. Buying shit from any given country is picking exactly what flaws you prefer.

I wouldn’t either tbh. Small car, great brakes, and I don’t speed. So when I hit them to prevent a problem, that fucker stops.

Out into the yard. It had plenty of arc what with being backed up a good bit lol.

Our yard had plenty of trees and shrubberies even back then (now, it’s essentially a meadow), so for someone to have seen anything at all they would have had to be in the yard itself, and thus deserved to see a dick hanging out a window and pissing on them :)

So, Chuck, how much?

Yeah, little homie needs some shade and water I’d reckon

Yeah, the only issue is that any profits from paying for their service will eventually line the person’s pockets. It’s not like the company is directly doing it, or spreading the bullshit.

Makes it a slightly different issue, but it is still an issue

It happens. I can’t say it’s super common, but even with the protection of the cartons, accidents happen. Hell, I’ve checked in store, and had an egg crack on the way home from braking hard. Only once, but it shows that the right forces in the right way can cause cracks.

I haven’t bought eggs in years now (yay for my hen!), but I’d see it maybe twice a year or so

Shit man, I dealt with anxiety and depression for maybe ten years doing mostly hospice/end of life care. Acting is a difficult profession (seriously, it is) in a lot of ways, but it’s mostly controlled. They have schedules, and the actors rarely have to deal with the crises of making the shoot happen (except the ones silly enough to try and direct or produce lol).

Any job can be done with moderately controlled anxiety. The only question is how long, at what price?

Since those folks get paid way better than I did wiping asses and moving bodies, I suspect they can call their therapist or whoever during a major anxiety event, and can afford the usual meds to help ease them along.

Musicians are similar, once they’re big enough to do big tours. They have managers and assistants to help with the most stressful things outside of the performance itself. So they only have to worry about part of it.

Besides, I dunno if you’ve ever tried and performance of any sort, but it’s a different kind of fear. Yeah, stage fright exists, and everyone stresses about doing well, but people that pursue it as a job get a bigger internal reward out of it than a filthy casual would. So the payoff of the stress is higher. Like, for me, I’d never be able to do theater with any regularity because I don’t get that joy from it. But someone that’s top tier and doing it for a living definitely get a big dump of dopamine and other neurotransmitters from it. People think I’m fucking crazy for some of the martial arts shit I used to do, but it fulfilled me, so the price was worth it. Same thing for them

I don’t hate them, but damn are they pushing beyond what any one company should do. The only way a one-stop shop should be used at all is if it’s a very well structured, open side law source non-profit. Even then, I’m not sure that biting off as many things as proton is trying to would be for me.

That is an excellent breakdown!