southsamurai

Honestly? Yeah, go for it.

It really doesn’t matter why or what criteria someone uses to select a donor, you’re doing something nice. For a couple that can’t conceive because of sperm issues (whatever those issues might be), having a variety of anonymous donors to pick from empowers them in a way that is really unique.

Think about the whole of human history where infertility was insurmountable without an outsider being directly involved in an intimate way. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it isn’t for everyone. Medical assistance gives freedom and independence of choice way beyond what used to be possible.

So, yeah, if you don’t have some major genetic problems, donate.

If you’re broke, pretty much all of the usual external aids are out unless you already have them

Valerian nd kava have pretty potent anti anxiety effects. Pretty much the most potent ones, and the most reliable plant based stuff since even with the usual variances, you won’t have zero effect, nor too heavy.

So that kinda leaves you with non chemical options (just because they’re plant based don’t mean they ain’t drugs, ya dig).

Breathing exercises are the front line defense, even if you aren’t in practice, so you start there. Doesn’t even matter what kind, because there’s a chain of control. Control your breathing, control your heart rate and brain patterns. Control those, you control the stress chemicals being released, and that’s where the panic attack part really lives

It isn’t instant, but it works.

The problem is starting them. What I found helped a good bit when I could, was the opposite. Start out doing anything that spikes respiration and pulse. Sit ups, pushups, jumping jacks, whatever you can tolerate physically. Just crank out enough to spike your breathing and pulse a little. It serves multiple purposes, but the key to it is breaking the cycle of the attack. Usually, once you get that spike, you’ll be able to engage breath control easier than if you try starting that first.

Beyond that, you gotta find things to ground yourself in the real world instead of your head. Again the what doesn’t matter much, but I tend to find practical, hands on stuff works well enough. Like, sharpening knives grounds me (it’s my thing, what can I say). If there’s something that normally centers you and lets you kinda hit flow state, that’s the thing to try.

Shit, even something that’s mostly bad for anxiety can work if the ritual of it is calming enough. Like the process of making tea can help despite the caffeine sucking for anxiety.

None of it is easy without a breakthrough option though, and I’m not going to blow smoke up your ass and pretend otherwise. So if you do already have valerian, or an antihistamine, lead with that, but follow up with breathing exercises anyway!

You gotta use a multifaceted approach.

The question in the title is essentially unanswerable. It’s not even possible to point to where an awareness of attraction as opposed to just existing started, or if there even was a starting point.

That being said, chances are that it began at the same point as humans became self aware. Most mammals and plenty of other critters put some degree or another of energy into maximizing their presentation, even if only during mating season.

At some point, any creature that becomes self aware is also going to start seeing the benefits of caring about that.

I suspect you’d be looking at somewhere before homo sapiens, but after whatever “missing link”. Not that I’m confident in the whole idea of a missing link, but that’s tangential. What isn’t tangential is that a lot of the early human-ish critters exhibited signs of self awareness to some degree, so I can’t imagine that sapiens were the first to have it. I seem to recall there being primitive equivalents to combs and such as far back as like ,habilis? Don’t bet money on my memory though

The only way to vet a mod is their history.

Be that user history, or communities they’ve modded. There’s no short cuts, other than delegation. But, you know, that takes having other mods, or at least people you trust to do the work.

Shit, I think I was the weird kid

Yeah, but why does it feel so good when I stick my dick in it?

Damn, that’s a horrible diagnosis. Sorry.

But, as others have said, love insurance has a shit ton of escape clauses because they don’t want to pay out. It isn’t enough to be dead necessarily, the manner and/or cause of death can be a factor.

Bank accounts are easier because you can just add people in to have access. Usually some hoops to jump through, but doable. There’s also power of attorney, which helps with more than just bank issues.

My plan in the event of that diagnosis is to find some forest and get lost before I forget how to get lost.

Yeah, I’m a word nerd, but a vocabulary isn’t inherently about intellect. It’s about putting the effort in, because even people with severe learning disorders can still amass l arge vocabularies. Now, using them appropriately rather than just collecting them does take a little more effort and thought, but it’s also not some kind of feat of genius. Anyone with reasonable capacity can use fancy words appropriately.

Don’t get me wrong, I fucking despise people that shit on the sheer joy that language can be. We don’t have to limit ourselves to “double plus” thinking or speech, and shouldn’t. And anyone trying to act like having a varied and sizable vocabulary is some kind of flaw can suck the peanuts out of my shit (or whatever varieties of legumes they prefer from my feces, if they feel so inclined).

But the only thing vocabulary really indicates about a person is that they value their vocabulary.

Which stunt?

A twelve inch sub, two bags of chips, a bottle of soda for each, and some Reese’s cups.

I did the entire load except the Reeses.

This was back when FUBU was still a viable company. I could fit a full sized handgun in each pocket, so two drink bottles in one and a sandwich in the other were easy. Chips in the back pockets. With pants that loose, and a baggy shirt over the top, it wasn’t even visible lol. Good belt helped though.

With a good coat in winter, I could smuggle anything I damn well wanted almost anywhere. Hell, anywhere at all that didn’t search people, no almost.

Edit: me and my homie went together, it wasn’t all for me

I rarely complain about voting, but it annoys the fuck out of me that this question is in the negative. It’s actually a damn good question, if poorly phrased.

But it’s true. Inbreeding takes generations to cause significant troubles if there’s no really nasty genetic diseases present already.

Even siblings aren’t going to crank out two headed monsters if they’re the first in the family to keep it in the family. And, once you’re past first cousins, the risks get even lower. Not non existent, just not anything to worry about in the first generation. Again, that’s unless there’s a known issue.

They do!

But it’s rare for multiple reasons.

First, both the listener and the speaker have to know the word, because otherwise there’s no reason to compliment it

Second, the listener (or reader, but I’m too lazy to type both every damn time) has to care about word usage, and it’s kinda niche.

Third, there’s a significant degree of anti-intellectual belief out in the world, so that segment is going to have the opposite response, and they’re prone to being obnoxious about it.

Fourth, giving compliments is not something everyone is good at, so there’s a segment that might appreciate it, but not know how to express it.

Fifth, a corollary to the fourth, it can feel awkward to give compliments, so it gets shoved avoided, which is partly due to sixth:

Sixth, as a culture, complimenting someone is a complicated social action. There’s all kinds of little unspoken rules around it, and that makes a lot of people just nope out entirely.

But if you hang around people that enjoy word play and vocabulary, you’ll see a lot more compliments :)

Popular? For a given value of popular, absolutely.

You’re a high volume poster with a very distinct writing voice. Doesn’t take long to start recognizing the pattern, which will inevitably mean the user name is recognizable as well.

Me? I tend to really enjoy your nostupidquestions posts, even when I have no idea what in the fuck you’re asking. See, a community like this needs members that will essentially post whatever the fuck is on their mind with little or no filter. On reddit, there were subs where one or two folks like that made them worth dividing visiting because it opens the gate.

Even when you ask something that’s off the wall and barely intelligible, it spurs reaction, thought. Even when that thought/reaction is negative, it makes people think about what they wish would be posted.

And, on top of the gate opening, people that ask whatever the hell is in their head tend to ask things nobody else would. You have no idea how many times you’ve asked some off the wall shit that made me really think because I would have never approached the subject in that way. There was a guy on reddit in one of the niche subs that was the same way, and I always took extra time to consider his asks because it often led to me thinking something new, even if I couldn’t give a useful response.

Though, being real, sometimes I have no clue what in the hell you’re getting at lol.

You’re screaming against the wind of hundreds of years of language usage.

Besides, in English, if you’re referring to both continents, you say the americas, and use north or south if specifying one or the other

So, no, Mexico isn’t in America, it’s in North America by conventional English usage. Or it’s in the Americas, if you want to be all inclusive.

Those terms wouldn’t necessarily apply directly in Spanish, French, or Portuguese, and many countries in the Americas use terms in those languages to differentiate between the United States of America and the continents. Los estados unitas, el norte, etc. Depends on exactly where you are as to what gets used afaik, but my exposure is mostly to Mexicans, Nicaraguans, Puerto Ricans, and the occasional Guatemalan, and those two terms are what I’ve heard most.

But in English? America is the default when referring to the us, since it’s cumbersome to use “the united states” in both speech and print. America just takes less time, and it’s so common that anywhere you go in the world, if you say America while in context of a single place, they’ll understand what you mean.

All three of those have songs.

Ducks can do this strange little warble when in their own groups. Geese sing hymns to satan. Swans I haven’t been around enough of to have heard their sweeter sounds, but I’ve been told they exist.

But chickens? They sing. Even roosters, but hens in particular have multiple songs. Trills mostly, and the one you hear most is when they’re sleepy and letting each other know all is well. They can do this little purr when they’re feeling all lovey or wanting treats. They even chirp when surprised.

The bawks aren’t even singular. Depending on what they’re doing and what’s going on, it can be quiet like buks, loud and annoyed baaawks, friendly tuk-tuks when food is around, trouble boks when they’re after something and trying to be all stealth but can’t just not make sounds, outright squawks when complaining about something. They have a rich range of vocalizations. Maybe not as complex as something like a parrot or raven, but I’d say more complex than the budgies I’ve been around.

That’s not even getting into other sounds they make as a side effect of other communication efforts. Beak clicks, clacks, and snaps. Wing beats and feather ruffles.

Roosters gobble! Very similar to the classic turkey sound, though not identical enough that you’d mistake one for the other. They also make loud whistles, hisses (which hens can do, but rarely get scrappy enough to fight, so it’s rare), and screams.

But roosters also sing their version of trills and purrs.

Thing is, unless you really chill with your chickens, you won’t hear most of them. Day to day, they’re out hunting and pecking and buk-bukking, with the occasional bawk bawk when they find something interesting. But if you’re with them for a while, you’ll catch the others.

Yeah, he’s got that magic voice and laid back vibe. It’s a very rare critter that can’t enjoy it

My dogs never watched. But both of them enjoyed Bob Ross a good bit, and were chill with music videos.

Nah, just pulled from power and shoved into a nice facility where nobody ever has to deal with them again

I mean, with all due respect to your undoubtedly wonderful son who will now be forever known as “dickfoot”, I’m not sure how justifies even mild annoyance, much less miniscule fury. Pareidolia is in the eye of the beholder, not that of the sight. It’s a pixelated heart with a streamer, not a penis. It’s only barely phallic if you stretch phallic as a term far longer than you should ever stretch an actual phallus.

Funny as fuck all! But not really something to be infuriated over.

Hope you and Dickfoot have a wonderful day!

I don’t think there’s been documented evidence of the exact same thing.

But I don’t think anyone that’s watched mma develop over the decades could doubt that there’s some degree or another of control of desired outcomes. It isn’t as blatant as giving orders on who wins and loses. But decks can be stacked, and often seem to be