southsamurai

Yeah, I ain’t mad at it. Especially with the dubious stuff an exec at mullvad did. Quad9 is my default anyway, but I did use the mullvad dns here and there.

Watch enough tasting history and Townsends, it shows up a lot

What’s funny is that recipe used to also be receipt. The two words were interchangeable for cooking instructions

I can’t tell if that is a great joke, or you’re one of those nutters that calls people slavers for having pets.

In either case, thanks for the laugh

Well, I’ll say this much, if you and your stripey kin don’t stay away from my chickens it’ll be skunks in the box.

Yeah, as part of a yearly exam for sure.

The “hold em and cough” test is for hernia, inguinal in specific. Those are possible without any specific external cause in childhood and teen years, and it isn’t something you can do yourself. You can refuse it though. Thing is, they’re better off being detected early. Should take no longer than two or three coughs.

Same goes for a testicular exam, but if you aren’t checking your own regularly, let the doc do it until you learn how to do it right. A proper testicular exam for abnormalities can take a bit longer, though only a few minutes at the outside by someone well practiced.

Otherwise, you’d only expect visual exams by most doctors.

Generally, if the young person has a penis and testicles, their primary doctor will do the exam, and that’s often a pediatrician even well into the teen tears. Young people with vaginas and vulvae may or may not have this equivalent exams done by a gynecologist, though it is more common once puberty hits afaik.

Honestly?

Get some real historians.

Without people that are actually in the field, with stringent standards to go along with that, you’ll only get casual and unreliable answers. Which means that nobody wanting a good answer with depth and historiography is going to waste their time. Most of the time, responses there aren’t half as informative as Pugjesus’ memes.

R/askhistorians worked because it was run by experts and expert level responses were the only kind allowed. You knew going in that you might not get an answer at all, but if you did it was going to be relevant and be good enough to use as a source for a paper.

Nothing on the fediverse has that level of effort put into it.

Also, being real here, the moderation team having zero background in history research means that it’s incredibly unlikely to ever draw real historians to ask questions of. Why would they?

Could you hypothetically make it happen? Sure. I guess. If you reach out to some of the people that were generalists back on reddit, charm them into the idea of a more open forum, help them onboard, and make certain your mod team is both vigorous and rigorous, you might, might get a couple. I doubt it, since the ones that fled reddit already said that the lack of robust mod tools made them unwilling to start up here. But if you’re serious enough about it, maybe it could work.

Again, being real, while I appreciate your presence and activity, Don, you gotta realize that the percentage of historians that would consider it are very likely to see you as the mod and nope the fuck out. I hate dumping on you because I genuinely love the effort you put in to asking things nobody would otherwise bring up. But that same user history is offputting if someone were looking at it as an indicator of how serious a community will be run. I’m sorry to say it though, I really do appreciate you.

First, you have to have an idea people will support.

You don’t.

And look, I’m all about nurses needing even more respect and support than they get. A shit ton more, along with better pay.

But you done fucked up. First, doctors are also front line. It’s a different kind of job for sure, but they’re all over the place, in hospitals. As much or more than nurses in terms of being exposed to a wide range of pathogens. Yeah, it depends on specialty as to how much roaming they do, and ER/trauma docs tend to have as high or higher exposure rates that lead to illness. Only slightly lower assault rates, last time I saw numbers.

You don’t have to downplay doctors to hype nurses.

But secondary to that, you’ve got the issue that when doctors get roads named for them, it’s usually for major research contributions, and nursing just isn’t a research specialty.

I do, however, agree that career nurses that contribute to their community should get way more recognition than their name on a bench in an atrium or garden. But it isn’t a 1:1 thing in terms of silly shit like naming roads

Well, there’s also

Beans, beans, are good for your heart

They’re the magical fruit

“Much difference” and “healthwise” are difficult.

Healthwise can point to a lot of variables, depending on which aspects of health are in question, and exactly what range of factors you think are “healthy” to begin with.

So, applying “Much” difference is extra iffy, since much is relative, and may not be seen the same between criteria.

That being said; no, not much difference for most people. Not even much difference for the people that don’t have very specific needs, but could get some vague benefit from that kind of intake.

Where you’ll see some degree of benefits that could fairly be called “much” is weight control.

Generally, if one has some degree of difficulty with calorie intake limits do better when intake is spread out more. You end up with fewer spikes, a more even result; which when weight control is the primary goal, you see more benefits up to a point. With less spikes in blood sugar, and fewer calories “leftover” to turn into fat, a form of grazing helps.

Mind you, that isn’t saying that smaller intake more often is some silver bullet to weight control. It isn’t. But it is the area where you’d see the “much difference” compared to eating the same things at once.

Otherwise, the only reason to do it is as part of a prescribed diet built by a professional. Any benefits to the average person just wouldn’t be significant enough to merit the extra hassle

Well, first off, implants were not involved. The lady was known for her chesticles waaay before implants were a thing. She may or may not have had some kind of implants later in life to keep her existing measurements, but they were the same size in the oldest pictures of her as an adult. I don’t know about anything later in life, but i do know that boobs like that exist naturally, and that she started with that.

I’m not sure where folks get the idea she had implants when pictures exist like that.

Anyway, it’s kind of a tripartite thing. Music, charity/beliefs, and personality.

Musically, she’s one of the better songwriters out there. She was on par with, or better than, anyone of her generation for sure. Part of that was her ability to use her real life to make songs that resonated with a lot of people.

Her voice shifted a lot as she aged, but she was well loved for both the sweetness she could use, and her gentle vibrato. A high, almost crystalline tone that managed to never be shrill or piercing because she knew how to be delicate with it. You don’t have to like her music to recognize the skill she had with it.

In terms of her public works, she truly believed in doing good. Her book based reading initiative made sure that multiple generations of people grew up not only knowing how to read, but having access to materials that made doing so a normalized and omnipresent thing.

She was an outspoken advocate for “loving thy neighbor”. She was one of the celebrities that was behind gay marriage, and equal rights for gay people. That was also the case for trans people.

In other words, she practiced what she preached. She made a ton of money between her music and related business ventures, but she was willing to put it to work doing good things without making it missionary work. She didn’t just hand out bibles like some supposed reading initiatives do. Despite having a deep faith, she never pushed it on anyone.

And, importantly, that wasn’t just her public face. In her private life, she was well known for doing good acts for their own sake, even when nobody would know about it. But you talk to people from around where she lived and worked, and her generosity is legendary. Again, generosity without strings.

She also was known for having hiring policies with her businesses that were inclusive. Orientation, race, gender, nobody was excluded. And, again, it wasn’t just a front, because it wasn’t something she made a big deal out of. That was just how things were.

Then it comes down to her. She was a larger than life performer. When she was being DOLLY, she put forward the brighter, flashier side of her self, but in interviews and in person, she was open and honest and nice. She treated people well, and did so with no ego, and a down-to-earth simplicity that often belied how sharp she was. She had an almost self deprecating way of handling being famous, and that’s how she really was. She didn’t think of herself as being special, she was just grateful to have the chance to do something she loved and was good at.

Now, I never met her. But I know a ton of people that did. And I know a ton of people that had access to books as a kid due to her charity efforts. That’s going back decades, and it was not really a well known thing until maybe fifteen years ago or so.

Everything you hear about her from people that knew her, that had regular contact with her, it’s all about how damn good she treated everyone.

There’s places in Tennessee in specific that when people call her a saint, they aren’t just being nice. There’s folks that have been touched by her good works and place her on a much higher pedestal than she ever would have. Which kinda sums it all up. She never abandoned being a simple mountain girl, no matter how famous or rich she got, and she lifted others up along the way.

Me? I grew up hearing her music, but didn’t really become a fan until well into adulthood. I loved her as an actress, but it took me a while to “get” her music. Now, I can’t hear her sing without crying a little.

The writing isn’t that bad.

The editing is fucking brutal

Oi, 'ands up, and pass over all your djectives, mate.

Shit, I’ve been banned from lemmy communities for comments that I don’t even think of as being that dark. Reddit too. You don’t see as much death and misery as I saw without developing some level of gallows humor.

But the shit I got banned for was me self checking. Minimising the extremity of it. Tweaking the phrasing so it should have been obvious it was dark humor (not that anyone had to find it funny, but it was pretty fucking obvious it was dark humor).

There’s maybe three people I’ve ever known that have been around my darkest humor and not freaked out a little. One of those still needed to state they weren’t okay with it, but recognised it as dark humor.

Only people that I’ve had extended interactions with that really got the darkest stuff and laughed too were also people that have seen what real darkness is and recognize that finding a way to laugh at it is the only way you keep from breaking entirely.

Truth be told, that entirely is doing a lot of work there. Some shit breaks you, and not all the mental superglue in the world will fix it. But dark humor is good glue. It holds shit into one piece instead of destroying you, and I reckon that anyone that doesn’t get that isn’t worth my time and energy anyway

True, but the light will still be subpar compared to a light designed from the ground up to use leds at least, that’s been the case with all the maglite led replacements I’ve tried

Part of that (the cut placement) is making the prosthetics though. Yeah, you can make good looking cuts elsewhere, but the more the site moves, the more hassle it is. Facial prosthetics in particular run into trouble when they’re near the mouth or brows. So you end up with cheeks being preferred overall.

With the body, you run into issues with making something visible, movable, and believable. Gashes across the abs fail at all three, whereas shoulder and pecs are solid choices. Legs would be too, but they’re not in frame as much, and shouldn’t be without a good reason.

Everything on screen is a compromise of some sort.

I looked it up

https://www.primetimer.com/features/what-is-lesbian-space-princess-and-why-does-everyone-hate-it-sci-fi-animated-film-leaves-multiple-fandoms-in-uproar

Seems like a nothing burger

I don’t bargain, pumpkin fucker

Totally undull, totally nsfw tangent

Back in the day, electric toothbrushes were popular among the local lesbian population.

Apparently, when modified, one could fit them into a strap rig and use them between other lips. I had one used to jokingly threaten me once. It was… intimidating