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@@frostflamemusic Oh no.. 🤭😄😄

Kute Klutzy Kitties.

Also they "thought" it was.... What do they think it is now?!?!

Krusty krab

Freuwudian slip.

And yet he is _definitely_ not a furry uwu

Dont be dyslaxaphobic

@@TheClickHow dare they../j

@@ShadowEclipse777Of course he isn’t a furry, Furries aren’t real. /j

What absolutely terrifies the shit out of me is that you get these stupidly aggressive cops all the time on the news, being scared of a fart or an acorn or something and going absolutely crazy with their guns when there's no danger at all. They get a week or two of unpaid suspension, have to apologize to cameras once, and they're right back in service. Meanwhile, people working in mental health facilities get freaking chairs and tables thrown at them, get regularly threated and sometimes get weapons pulled on them, and despite the fact that they can lock the patient in their room, they can't even try to physically restrain them without risking their job. They have to deescalate and control the situation without any form of personal protection. And you know what? They're usually damned good at it. So it really isn't about how risky the situation is. SWAT teams are justified, but not regular cops, they shouldn't even have a gun on their person

Remember, we are talking about the country that thinks you can reduce gun violence in schools by adding guns into school. By now I even think some people would still advocate for more guns even if their family would be killed in a shooting, they would rather die in a damn shooting as long as they can keep their dumb weapons. Those people are beyond reason or help.

@DustD.Reaper As an American, I agree with you. I don't understand why everyone is so pressed about wanting guns so badly if they know that they're so dangerous. I feel like the government could very easily implement some kind of procedure where, if you want a gun, you get asked why/get a background check and all that good stuff, and if they determine you don't have a risk of waking up one day and deciding to shoot down a school for no reason, then you can get it and keep it *at home* and not carry it *everywhere* with you like everyone wants to do. Gun rights (and heck, even things like abortion, gay marriage, etc) are so weird to me because everyone is just so upset about it when they could just mind each others business and be stricter about things that would actually kill people (guns, not abortion rights, which is a whole other rabbit hole)

⁠​⁠@@chaoticartist714 Similarly school cops. The fact we need them in the first place is a problem

It wasn’t his first rodeo, too. “Myers had tried to intervene in what he thought was a crime in March 2022, police said. He called 911 and told police that he saw a person on a bicycle pointing a gun at people, police said. He followed the person to a store until police arrived. Officers determined the person did not have a gun and posed no threat, police said.”

Maybe people who already own an expensive diamond and don't want it "devalued."

Omg I love this idea, it’s like the bakery in story 1 😂

I just see lab diamonds as an unnecessary waste of power and money for a rock with no purpose other than the ability to say that you own it. There are so many other rocks we could shove on a ring yet all these companies keep insisting the superiority of this one that they keep wasting resources/lives to aquire them. I will say though that it is far better to waste energy than to waste lives however I will never see the point in wasting anything.

I don't like diamonds. Too much pain & bs associated with them. I do like a particular gem that is natural & ethically mined. The reason to like real gems over lab-created, for me, is to celebrate the awesome wonder of nature over the things mankind makes to mimic the wonder of nature.

​@@historianKelly "ethically mined" there is no ethical consumption under capitalism

As a fellow asexual who is also not planning on having kids but is male: That is horrifying, I’m so sorry! :(

Damn, that is messed up... I live in a third world country, and our healthcare would never refuse treatment for 'childbearing age', only if there is suspicion the woman is already pregnant, and even then only if it made it dangerous for one or both lifes, and the person has the choice in the end... Sometimes I wonder how things become like this

Fellow female Ace, the discussion around fertility is INSANE! I got my tubes removed four years ago, I have constant bleeding issues, and my gynaecologist was sick, so I had someone else for my appointment. He outright told me he would have never allowed me to get the operation, and 32 was too young to know. He spent 15 minutes ranting about it. I had discussed a game plan with my own dr with what steps to take. He completely disregarded it and said he wouldn't allow me to have a hysterectomy because I could still get pregnant with IVF. He didn't bother to read my chart, 8 months prior, I had my uterine lining burnt away. Because pregnancy after the NovaSure is extremely dangerous and deadly

I love the "future husband" excuse because, like... Why would someone who doesn't want children choose to be in a relationship with, let alone marry, someone who does? And even if they got into a relationship before discussing the possibility of starting a family, I'm pretty sure they'd break up the minute they realized they don't want the same things in life. No sane person forces themselves to have babies and be miserable for the rest of their lives just to make someone else happy. Not to mention there's no shortage of men who don't want to be fathers either. The whole excuse literally relies on anti-logic in order to make a lick of sense, because it assumes that: A.) Childfree women are willing to/have no choice but to change their minds for their partner. B.) All men want children. and C.) There's no such thing as ending a relationship and finding someone better suited for you.

Another ace here! I was on meds containing isotretinoin (synthetic vitamin A basically) for my horrible acne problems. The medication is so strong that my liver was pretty badly damaged even though i was taking additional medication to prevent it. The high concentration of vitamin A can damage a fetus severely and because i was a “woman of child-bearing age” (i just barely turned 18) my dermatologist made me sign a legal document that i understood the risks of taking this medication and that i was properly informed about the consequences of getting pregnant while on the meds (which wasn’t a risk for me obviously but i was still given hormonal contraceptives just in case). I think this is the best way to go about it, denying medical treatment is a horrible thing to do and at the same time a doctor is covering their ass should something happen and people would want to sue.

Wait who's the trans person? Haven't played it in a while

​@@alluminium9656Mettaton is a transmasc and Mad Mew Mew is a transfem Mad Dummy does possess the Mew Mew Kissy Cutie doll in the pc version too, you just never see it. It's a cannon event

@@alluminium9656 Mad Mew Mew is a direct trans allegory, and some could argue that Mettaton is also trans(non-binary)

@@_StarlightRose_ isn't mad mew mew a bonus boss for switch or something?

​@@athrowawayperson9990 i think mettaton is transmac since he uses he/him but i could be wrong

Cluster headaches are especially horrific too. It's bad enough having chronic headaches and/or chronic migraine. But getting cluster headaches??? My heart instantly sunk at that part of the story. I hate how many neurologists are like that. I've dealt with a lot of problem doctors over the years, but it's especially pervasive in neurology. I've seen so many neurologists I can't even count anymore and only 1 was a decent person and doctor. It's so bad that I felt like I needed to come up with a way to describe the situation to others: Some neurologists seem to think their PhD came with special parking for their head up their rear. Now I've never taken an anatomy class, but even I know that's not where the head belongs. (One of the greatest moments in my life was when I made an experienced obgyn burst out laughing during an appointment with that quip. It just goes to show how real it is that neurology attracts a certain kind of ego compared to other specialties.)

I had to look up cluster headache (German wikipedia lists "suicide headache" as one of the alternative names …) and it absolutely sounds like something you'd want to have a kid or two on top of. /s

@@rolfs2165 Exactly. 😣 It's abysmal the ways patients are forced to suffer for the sake of imaginary fetuses.

to me the 'funniest' part of this whole thing is that the (much less effective) medication they wanted to put her on instead often lowers blood pressure as a side effect. and she already had dangerously low blood pressue. as in, her blood pressure was already so low that she was at serious risk of just straight up dying if it fell any further, and they decided that that was the better alternative to risking harm to a hypothetical fetus.

@@xyecho Omfg... That's exactly the kind of arrogance I've dealt with repeatedly from neurologists myself though. They do. not. care. how much their method of handling things will hurt you. They're right, you're wrong, no matter what the reality is. 💀 My unmedicated state is literally potentially lethal to me and my months prior to getting on medication caused my primary care provider extreme worry. And yet neurologists still refuse to manage this medication for me because I'm "too young to be on such a dangerous medication". The concern? With longterm use there is a slight risk of partial-to-total vision loss, though the effect that causes this is typically gradual and is something that can be measured and thus does get measured a minimum of once per year (annual eye exams) when you're on it. But also, as someone who in less than 4 years went from fully able-bodied to needing mobility aids and now is working at getting a power chair due to sudden-onset and rapidly progressing disabilities, I would much rather go through the process of losing my vision from this medication than dying without ever being able to enjoy life in any way again (which is literally what would happen if I went without this medication for too long). I'm incredibly lucky that my pcp agrees that "keeping me alive" is a no-brainer better idea than "actively withholding care until I either die or capitulate to blindly (lol) following a neurologist's orders" because she's the only reason I'm able to get the medication at all. She wrote a script for me matching the original neuro one so that she can make sure I have access to refills. (Original neuro got pissed the medication helped (proving me right about my diagnosis without putting me through very dangerous and inconclusive testing) and also that my involuntary and unhealthy weight loss caused by the condition didn't cure my symptoms (proving her wrong), so during my second appointment she refused to work with me anymore unless I did everything her way from now on and without question. I obviously declined that generous offer. Unfortunately every neuro I've tried since has demanded the same obedience after proving their incompetence in the same way (insisting on the dangerous testing despite the risks, flaws, and lack of need).) And that's not even getting into how many times neurologists have tried prescribing me medications that would give me seizures, even after I tell them at least three different ways about my seizure history and risks, or the other ridiculous ways they "mess up"... (The one good neuro I had was from my first ever seizure which also happened in the middle of a university class. (I got incredibly lucky in a bunch of ways that day.) Unfortunately that means his specialty is far outside the realm of the condition I've been fighting neurologists over for the past couple years. It's not just this condition either. Migraine neuros are so bad the last time I got prescribed my migraine medication was several years ago.) Anyway, the autistic point of me sharing this stuff is just to illustrate how, despite the ridiculousness of it all, her neurologists aren't even close to the only ones who prioritize their egos above the literal lives of their actual patients. (And I'm furious for her and everyone else who goes through this crap.)

I have clusters and was thinking the same thing. They aren't just "headaches". A common misconception is that migraines are the worst type of pain like this - people tend to say 'migraine' when they mean 'very severe headache' or to be taken seriously - but on the pain scale a cluster headache is more severe than natural childbirth or amputation without anesthesia. Yet even medical professionals will downplay the diagnosis simply because it's "a type of headache." The behavior of that doctor was abhorrent.

As a person who gets cluster headaches, they are quite literally the worst pain I've ever experienced (especially when combined with other symptoms) and I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy.

@@rayethequeerdo Exactly. It takes *every* type of support (medical, social, emotional ect) to endure them even when you have access to treatment. That doc was not just gross and dismissive - it was *evil.* --- Also, I hope you have/are getting everything I mentioned above - if not, I'd be glad to help out. I've had my diagnosis since Obama was in office so I've run the gambit and don't mind doing what I can for another 'clusterhead'.

In my country that would be highly illegal. Meaning it wouldn't just be a civil case, but a legal one too. Thankfully. Sadly many people don't know that, or don't know how to stand up to that kind of doctors (I'm usually one of them). One day though, not for cluster headache, I got this "but what if you get pregnant (for context, I'm a trans guy, but the change isn't yet through legally and I'm not really passing)?" thing too. I wasn't denied treatment, but he was repeating that A LOT obviously to convince me to not follow through with the procedure/test/medication thingy (english no first language, me bad, lol). It was annoying and uncomfortable and I told him "As a doctor I think you know it needs some fucking to get someone pregnant, right? Well, I'M the part that fucks my partner, so I'm pretty sure you understand that I'm not at risk." He then wanted to drop the topic, but this time I kept it up. Telling him if he's afraid for a potential foetus he was welcomed to remove my uterus and if he was christian (I've nothing against that, just using it for the argument), because than I could alert him, if I got pregnant without being entered. Stuff like that. Oh. And an 18 year old can pump up their breasts to the size of their own head, but at 40 I need the OK of a psychologist to get the brothers removed. It's really so sick.

@@lethfuil I wish you the best in your transition. While situations like that are awful I was amused when reading your story because I'm the same way. I have *definitely* dealt with doctors and medical staff by giving them *so much information* they became uncomfortable. At this point, it's second nature and if they think I can be embarrassed they're *very* mistaken.

That's really sweet, R.I.P your dad. That's wholesome, thank you for improving my mood while fighting through this subreddit

Dude, that's not a real diamond. It is WAY more valuable s2

Not to be rude, sorry for your loss, how do you turn ashes into diamonds?

@@semkix667 lots of crematories now offer things like this, mixing ashes into various objects, commonly referred to as memento mori. But different places offer different things. The place we took my mom to said they could mix her ashes into molten glass and turn that glass into pendants, hand-blown vases, medallions, rings, or a glass incense burner. She didn't want anything like that done and neither did we, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless. Most people can pay in advance for the crematory service(s) they want after they pass, that's what both my parents have/had.

@@semkix667 Cremated remains contain some small amount of carbon and that is used.

I have actually had this happen to a friend of mine. Meanwhile her uterus is wrecking havoc on her body and she has basically had a period for about 16 years straight.

@@oreolaninja I'm sorry to hear about your friend are they better now?

Yeah it is absolutely ludicrous that a hypothetical man that she hasn't met and may never meet at all should have more control over a woman's body than she does.

@@hiuerhaile Sadly, I lost touch with her a couple years ago so I am not sure.

I have a couple of medical conditions where I could die if I had a baby. It was very clear in my chart. Also I didn't even want kids. It was hard to find a doctor to help and they ALMOST sent me to counseling instead. Fortunately I was able to get it at 21 years old. The insurance wouldn't cover it before then. If I was married, I would have to get permission from my husband and if I didn't have disabilities, I'd have to wait until I was older and/or had a certain number of kids. I'm in my 40's and I still don't want kids. Apparently women aren't capable of making decisions for themselves and must have all these laws placed on their bodies. Men can easily get a vasotomy just by walking in the doctor's office without their wife's consent and without all those restrictions.

Rent-a-cops following in footsteps of the real cops that would have done the exact same thing, it's so wholesome /s

Le me guess, the kid was black, whasn't he?

my psychologist said i couldn’t be sick enough to miss school because i wore a skirt the day i went to see her

​@@anatohatan1933 What does that have to do with anything?

​@@anatohatan1933 yep. I had a psychiatrist tell me I couldn't be that depressed because I'd gotten dressed to leave my home for the appointment. No, not dressed as in "change out of pajamas", dressed as in "wearing clothes". Yeah, I can't imagine why I put on clothes to leave my home, you know besides the fact it was the middle of winter and it's illegal to be nude in public where I live.

If I were a professor at that university, and heard about this, I would be _on the war path_ to get that therapist fired. Because someone like that _could kill a person with a mood disorder._ Someone like me, Internet Uncle-Gay🏳‍🌈, who was blaming himself _for causing it to rain and ruin the weekend_ when I was _7 years old._ Major Depressive Mood Disorder has been with me for a long, long time, and I have not been able to forgo medication, because I have deficient neurochemistry. So I take a very, very, _very, _*_very, VERY DIM VIEW_* of any therapist who does not listen to their patient. Like, you're not a fscking telepath; you have to go with what the patient is saying [and trying very obviously to avoid saying], not with pop-sci opinions & misinformation about what a "depressed person" looks like. Seriously, this degree of malpractice _would have killed me_ when I was 23 and in the middle of my worst major depressive episode. I hope you were able to find someone to help you with your grief. Things like this get me _heated._

@@anatohatan1933 Malpractice. That's malpractice. I hope you were able to find someone competent.

Yes, I thought that's the risk. Children from conservative parents tend to go against their education. I witnessed it.

Their logic would be sound, if you think these kinds of things are learned, not naturally occuring xD So yeah, good luck for them...

Same here, I'm aroace nb and my parents are conservative Christian

"We're going to groom our kids so that no one else can groom our kids"

The more kids they have, the higher the chances they'll end up with more kids for "the other side" than their own. I just feel bad for the kids in situations like that. I grew up in a very religious and conservative home and it was filled with all manners of abuse for my siblings and I. The kinds of people who have kids with that kind of logic are not people who respect children as actual individual human beings with unique personalities and needs. They're extremely ill-prepared to be parents because having kids is all about them, not about helping small humans grow into psychologically and emotionally healthy adult humans who can live happy lives of their own.

Thank you very much!

Danke

Today I'm finally free from my meds 😁

thank you woah

"We don't mind if you die, we just want you to give us babies!" 😡😡🤬🤬

"Do you see a f*** baby in my V-G?!" Seriously they care more about that then they care about anything else

Wild diamonds are more expensive because the price includes an exorcism to get rid of all the ghosts

You don't understand. Wild diamonds are grass fed and free range. Slaughtered ethically.

I don’t even get what’s so great about diamonds. They’re just… clear.

I know wild grown diamond is technically the correct term, but it just feels so wrong. Also, agreed. People that think lab-grown diamonds are lesser compared to natural diamonds are insane. It’s compressed sparkly carbon.

I get they a pretty, but they are typically so small that to a casual observer, they don't really make a huge impact on the outfit when compared to a cheaper stone. If I ever propose to someone, I'd use a cheaper stone, but I'd make the ring myself. I feel spending the time to make something for them is a better indicator of how much I care for them.

Color theory

Color theory ❤️

the colour red has more positive attributes than negative ❤

I think it has even been in one of his videos once.

Colour theory ❤

There is also the issue of the "company" being a monopoly that literally kills people to stay that way :D

​@@metrux321And used their monopoly to artificially inflate the price, and then ran possibly the most successful ad campaign to promote diamond consumption. That ad campaign is where the idea of paying two months your salary for a diamond engagement ring originated.

"Way below minimum wage" is the nice way of putting it. Often they are unpaid. There's a word for that.

@@FrozEnbyWolf150 I definitely should've worded that better, and you're right, they most often don't get paid. I will edit the original comment correctly

I am both horrified and yet believe you entirely.

@@Lukkaboc it’s the fun of living in America and people not understanding that urology is not just a men issue

@@kearstinnekenerson6676 No, it's "Protect the pregnancy pocket at all costs" out here

@@girl1213 well I have had a hysterectomy so it’s pointless

@@kearstinnekenerson6676 Yeah? Didn't know that. But even still that's the general sexist attitude. They put the V-G on a pedestal no woman asked them to do. No, they asked you to give them medicine to take care of this other problem (kidney stones in your case)

Ngl I'd watch the hell out of that. Sounds like a more fucked up reimagining of "Masque of the Red Death" with a dash of John Carpender's The Thing.

sounds like a sequel to "The Thing". I'd watch it.

@@EagleTimberWolf Oh, I'd watch it, too. I just wouldn't want to live it.

I distinctly remember a horror moving happening in the arctic or antarctic with a team drilling in the ice and releasing some kind of monster that kills most everyone until they can trap it in ice again. No clue what its called

​@@noaccount2494sounds like The Thing to me

He does have plushie demons. I have mine at home, his name is Tobias.

@@nola281 From Tobias and Guy?

@@asveses5730 no Tobias forge of ghost. Tobias went to the theater to see the ghost movie Saturday. He was a very good boy.

A Ghestie?! Wot?

@@sadmarcelinexx yes, Tobias went with his friend papa four.

otouto isn't connotated in the same way to a western audience which is... interesting...

Bro is more Aniki

That’s still context, in Japanese. If someone throws random Japanese into English, that’s cringe enough to start.

​@@GretchZ It depends. In Japan it's nothing sexual in itself, but used in English in a clear way, it's its own phrase, basically. A term. A tag. Nothing cringe about using it in the right context (which usually is just jokingly anyway). Cringe is people throwing around every single of the 15 japanese words they know, believing they're already halfway japanese themselves. Preferably whilst doing the Natruto run. We call them weaboos. Anyway, if you think sometimes using a word from a different language is cringe in general I must inform you that it's completely normal in other languages (yes, including Japanese), to do so. So, as much as you think an english speaking person saying "sugoi" is a nono, a japanese person will very likely say "cool" "great" etc occasionally too.

You're correct! Onii-chan is brother, a mpore correct way would be "nii-chan," since it's a shortened and more childish version of onii-chan.

I suppose on one hand, it's kinda a compliment: They did such a good job of acting that people completely forgot _the entire concept_ that they might be just an actor playing a role... Still, it's a little disturbing to wonder what other things these people are not realizing about the world around them, and taking on face-value when they really shouldn't. I do remember one time when I was a freshman in college, though. There was a guy on campus who I saw walking around every so often, etc. I'd never met him, but for some reason every time I saw him I just really didn't like him. Like, hated his guts kind of feeling. I'd never experienced anything like that before, and couldn't for the life of me figure out why, and it was actually kinda disturbing that I was feeling these feelings about some random guy I didn't even know and couldn't figure out why. Eventually I actually figured it out: Shortly after I started college there, one night I had gone to see a student-run performance of a play. He was one of the actors in that play, and in the play the role he played was of an abusive husband. And because of that association, I ended up hating the guts of somebody I knew full well I'd never even met, every time I happened to see him walking across campus. It's kinda scary how the brain works sometimes. (I did actually meet him properly some time later, and he was actually a really nice guy.)

They get their infos and opinions of Tiktok and Twitter

It's nothing new really. Back when Gilligan's Island was airing the coast guard and navy got letters from people asking why they weren't rescuing the castaways.

This isn't new though. I remember articles over 20 yers ago about soap opera actors who had played evil people being harassed. It was the plot in an episode of Psych, which is quite old.

Yeah it's really common. It's more parasocial bs. Like when people think they know an actor personally because of a character(s) they played in something. People are something...And that something often doesnt have much in the way of critical thinking.

My dad (76) was sure he doesn't have ADHD, because "unlike this one kid in my class, my teacher didn't bind me with a rope to my chair, so the kid would stay seated."

@@karinsch3347 wow. Extreme yikes on that!

"Back in my day" sounds way more old than "30 years ago" when you're a millennial 😅 I heard that one and I thought to myself, yes 31 years ago we realised I had a kiwi 🥝 allergy, because my grandma gave half to me and half to my sibling. But yeah, _no one had allergies 30 years ago_ lmao

​@@karinsch3347 Woah

@@CarinaCoffee look 30 years ago is 1970 when you're a millennial. lolsob

The Continent of Australia: Am I a Joke to You People?!?!

My dad had this experience. I can still see the frustration in his expression when he talks about it. There's really no 'mystery' why you see more of something after people are no longer punished for it.

My parents were very progressive. They recognized that the world would be easier if I was right-handed so when the doctor indicated that I might be left-handed (1960s), they simply handed me everything in such a way that I used my right hand to grab it as an infant. No punishments needed when I got to school but I remain more ambidextrous than most right-handed people.

Same for my uncle, I don't know if hand hitting happened. But it gave him dyslexia he had to deal with!

I have never ever seen a penguin feather

​@@chocoquark4831exactly

Nah, get your daily does of volcanic dash and Comsic dust

... you forgot the slave labour there: So If your drink is extra salty, then you have the right amount of sweat and tears!

I heard that iceberg water is supposedly good because it's old so wouldn't iceberg ice be similar?

Yep. Life finds a way, and Idc if it's not real.

This comment is so real

I picked out my own engagement ring. Its a simple rose gold band with a beautiful maroon garnet. It was way way cheaper and means way more for me. I'm all for using over gems

Hell yeah! Even more because diamons actually break real easy compared to most other gems...

I think the reason most people go for diamonds instead of gems is that some gems aren't really scratch or break resistant as diamonds are. The idea is to wear that ring daily for decades, so it's supposed to withstand a lot of stress. A few months back my algorithm went down a jewellery rabbit hole, so now I know stuff about the Mohs Hardness scale and what settings one should choose the most if you don't want to loose your stone 😅

Yep, I'm the same minus the homeschooling and my sister is cishet. We both are leftist athiests despite practically growing up in the church.

Leider leben die USA in einer Fantasiewelt eines 1950s Fernsehprogramms … oder leben wollen.

I was thinking those three stars must be for some awesome pastry

That make sense! in the slow process of nature the risk of disturbance is big. In the lab it's not.

That's not entirely true. Due to the lack of blood sacrificed in obtaining them, lab diamonds are useless for necromancy.

@@feuerling you sir, get half a bloody star xD

@@feuerling very true! in my experience, lab grown diamonds are much better for things like arithmomancy. but for divination, necromancy, or love spells you need to have organic diamonds for that lingering human suffering vibe in order for the spells to work.

​@@feuerling gotta add "make sure the lab workers bleed on the diamond" 😅

When I actually got pregnant, my allergist changed one of my medications and discussed the others with me. The general consensus was that we don't know if there is an actual problem with this medication or not because we haven't studied it yet in pregnant women but there have been no obvious issues and it is important for the fetus that mom continues to get enough oxygen.

An actor from a Telenovela who played the bad guy once had an old lady come to scold him. (That's what he said in an interview.) He took it with humour.

Alison Arngrim, who played Nellie Oleson in the Little House series, has said that random people have come up and tried to punish her for the actions of her character. Also, one person came up to her decades after the show and said "I forgive you". Absolutely wild stuff.

@@thistle3 Some people are truly strange

Appparently the actor who played Gunther on Friends was angrily screamed at in public by a viewer who was mad at him for his part in Ross and Rachel's breakup.

As much as the accusation of not being able to tell fantasy from reality gets lobbed at sci-fi and fantasy nerds, I've always found it's people who watch and read things *without* obvious fantasy elements that actually can't tell what is and isn't fiction in the media they consume.

Ooh! And don't forget all those people who say "facts don't care about feelings" and then the facts are completely different from their feelings.

Wow! There's a somewhat similar story in my family, with a somewhat happier ending. My aunt and uncle never wanted children, but an oops happened, and my cousin Iris was born. As an infant and toddler, she was never given any type of milk, only Pepsi to drink. She did survive with seemingly no harmful effects... we only found out the real side effects of doing this decades later. She's now in her mid to late forties and her stomach is almost non-existent now because her stomach has been literally eating itself from the inside out. This is directly caused because she only had Pepsi to drink as an infant and toddler. She has a hard time eating, and cannot even eat small portions at one sitting. She's constantly throwing up and is in constant pain. The doctors have made it clear she will die from this, but it'll take maybe another decade before it gets to that point. It's not a good way to either live or die. My cousin doesn't have diabetes, thankfully (or not, depending on how you want to look at it), which I would imagine is the only reason she didn't die as an infant or yet.

@@user-gl5ew7ji4g That's terrible. I'm so sorry your cousin went through that. It's awful that she's still suffering from the decisions of people who shouldn't have had that kind of responsibility. I'm glad that she's had the chance to have a better life, despite the continued pain. I hope that medical advancements continue in a way that might give her a better chance.

@@user-gl5ew7ji4g Okay, that's just horrifying. BTW: Carbonated Water is a mild acid [carbolic acid, I think?] all on its own. And soft-drinks often have phosphoric acid added both for flavoring and preservation. So dumping acid into a baby's stomach is just … no. Like, we'ree _mammals_ … we _evolved_ to consume mother's milk for the first several months of life. I'm so sad that your cousin has to live like that. :(

@@John_Weiss Yeah, it's strong enough that if you drink enough over a period of time, a normal person (not like my cousin) can develop gout from the carbonate acids. While I really feel for my cousin, I'm also really glad I'm not in her shoes. Gout by itself is painful enough.

Her torso went to get the milk

Toe bean soup 😘

@@verynormalstrayfanmaybe her torso will find my father :D

That is wildly fun to think about xD Kids have the best imagination, no?

I was raised in a Christian environment (a very extreme and weird variety of Lutheran) and every description of… anything made it less plausible or pleasant. “In heaven, your are always happy, no matter what. It’s impossible to be sad.” “But was can see what’s happening on earth, right?” “So if I see a war or murder or something I still won’t be sad?” “Yes!” “That sounds awful!” That and the fact that almost nothing they taught even matched with the bible. They got very annoyed that I was reading it from the front. I’m Jewish, now. We still tack a bunch of stuff on and ignore stuff, but it’s more fun, there’s no hell, and you’re SUPPOSED to have your own opinion about stuff! Two of them, in fact. Most Jewish varieties are pretty queer-accepting these days, because two verses are pretty easy to interpret away.

Ever since I was kid, I thought the concept of heaven was boring.

@@GretchZ I mean... American bible, I presume? Found out last year that it is actually different from the, well, original bible, that you see in most of the world. Probably that lutheran thing, you know? Though to be fair most christians (of all different religions) don't actually follow what is said there, like "Thou shall not judge" or "Love others", so, you know... Problem with big numbers, people are dumb, yadda yadda...

Funny story here. I was raised French Catholic and when I was taught the Lord's Prayer, I was extremely confused. It doesn't really translate into English, so to explain it: In French, the words for Sinner and Fisherman are the same "Pecheure". I always linked the word to Fisherman and not Sinner. So I was always confused as to why God would only pardon the Fishermen and not everyone who sinned and if I had to fish in order to have my sins forgiven. I was in my last year of high school when I finally figured it out.

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That story is funny because while that is fake, Sweden actually came up with a funny way to keep U-boats away and used it up to a few years ago to keep Russian subs away as well. They broadcast, "This way if you're gay" in morse code. I can't speak for how successful it was but it at least earns style points.

My cousin was also forced to take Ritalin as a child after being diagnosed with ADD. He now has a permanent speech impediment because of Ritalin. Since this happened, my family has been extremely anti-Ritalin and has refused to have either another cousin's son or my nephew to take the medication. While we aren't against medication if it is really needed, Ritalin is completely off the table. End of story.

15 years ago my mother's foster nephew was put on an insanely high dose of risperidone for anxiety and resulting violent outbursts, it shut him up most of the time but it also made him more explosive, it got rid of his rational fears and only left him with the irrational ones. Child psychiatry has an outside observer problem, symptoms are described by someone watching from the outside and symptom mitigation is judged primarily based on what an outside observer can see, it gets even worse when people like teachers are expecting visible results from medication.

When I was in school 30+ years ago, there was a huge spike of kids being put on Ritalin. Many of them weren't even considered hyperactive, but the parents wanted them medicated because they couldn't get their kids to sit in front of the TV and be quiet all the time. This is what happened with my cousin. My mom ended up taking care of him for a few months and his doctor told mom to stop giving him the meds. He couldn't even physically keep up with me or my siblings and I have a walking disability.

​@dragonfliesnh4204 It was usually the school. Basically, the school would decide the kid was disruptive and say it's add or hyperactivity and tell the parents they can't bring the kid back to school until they were drugged up. The doctors were just like, well if the school says so...

I was on Ritalin for a small bit and never experienced ticks, hopefully they're in a better position nowadays!

I think we should take the bible/thora and other religious scriptures as that: In those years there was no practical law (or not as wide spread as now it is) and no regulation on how people can live together in peace so these religious scriptures were made...

Nah, all it says over and over is how gross anything from the water without fins and scales is. “Things that come from the water are yucky and you should be grossed out by their dead bodies” is a flight translation of a verse. It literally commands how to feel. “These are the things that will be gross to you from the birds. They are gross.” Isn’t that a bit redundant? It’s practically a tautology! Birds have to have a crop (and some other factor I can’t remember), but then it lists a whole bunch of birds that aren’t kosher but since they don’t fit the requirements it’s kind of a waste of time. Know what makes a mammal kosher? Split hooves, and chewing cud. That’s it. Find an animal that fits that, and it is kosher (if it’s slaughtered in a specific way, so as to bleed out.) It’s insane nonsense. I keep kosher, btw 😂

Being from a desert myself, I always figured it was more a matter of shellfish goes bad really badly in the heat, but fish can be dried, salted, pickled, etc. Also like the lizard drowning in your cistern? Nearly all reptiles carry salmonella on their skin. Of course a dead lizard is going to make your porous clay cistern unclean. The rules for mildew also closely match those for black mold, just replace priest with mold remediation specialist. Pork is also known to carry trichinosis (not so much anymore if you get it from sources that follow proper procedures and you cook it throughly), but "that meat will curse you" would be pretty obvious.

@samarnadra The lizard and “cistern” (it’s a mikveh, which is a bit different) STAYS tahor if a lizard falls into it. Food containers don’t. I love that the order of operations for tzaraas (which is basically biblical Hebrew for “discolouration”) of the house is “leave your house for a couple weeks and hope”, “replace some bricks and scrub the bricks around it”, then “TEAR DOWN THE HOUSE”. I also love that if tsaraas covers your whole body, then you’re just fine.

@samarnadra Hmm, might be a translation thing with “cistern”. I’d need to grab a Chumash, and I can’t be bothered right now. It’s all weird.

yeah, your picture looks kinda sus.... 😁

That is the most British thing I have ever heard.

I've had my bank email me to tell me about things they did to my account without my permission after they "tried to contact me" by phone - even though it's on my customer record that I don't own a phone and they should contact me by email. They knew enough to contact me by email after messing with my account, so why couldn't they contact me by email beforehand?

Reportedly there are also people who compliment Canadians on their English, so yes I believe it 😂

Honestly, as an American, the time I've spent with my extended family has taught me to never doubt a story about someone's raw ignorance and stupidity.

I love my buzzcut. I loved my long hair when I had it, but the buzzcut is so low maintenance! And with clothing choices including long skirts and a bright pink beanie, nobody is ever going to mistake my gender identity just on a "masc" hairstyle.

I’m not sure where this person was 30 years ago, but I also don’t think they actually realize that 30 years ago was 1994.

they're probably using gpt to post nonsense that'll appeal to historical revisionist reactionaries.

Way bigger rock is worth millions of years of dinosaur suffering 😁

Very tiny shiny rock is worth on average 8 years of human suffering.

@@christinamann3640 In-de-ded..

@@Y2KNW Depends on where you bought it from and the interest rate.. could be 7,5 or even 12 years. Have to be careful with blood diamonds.

Consider: black and white on the same item for that nice contrast

Or they dont want natural diamonds to devalue

​@@foxinabox5103Natural Diamonds have no real value! The majority are also absolutely useless, that do nothing else than being a shiny rock. Diamonds are Art at best, and thus as worthless as a painted canvas.

@@Robin93k when you say it like that, yeah. It has value, but the value came from artificial scarcity. And also like lots of marketing. But its not as "useless" as you say it is. Drill heads use diamonds for a reason.

@@foxinabox5103 But lab grown diamonds are better for these as well! Most flaws that makes a mined diamond unusable as a jewelry piece, also makes it worthless as a drill bit. Meaning it will be pulverized and used as diamond dust as best. Because yes, we humans can already casually grind diamonds to dust, which is also more useful than the majority of natural diamonds! Because the difference between the MAJORITY of natural diamonds to synthetic diamonds, is the same as "Made in China" to "Made in Germany". But if you want to buy the same exact quality of stones from labs or "mining companies", you'll pay more than thrice to the latter! Synthetic Diamonds are better in literally every aspect! Making natural diamonds absolutely useless in comparison!

@@foxinabox5103 yha that too

Which reminds me that there is a tiny village in Germany called "Amerika" (which is how America is spelled in German), and I can truthfully say that I have been there.

@@paperbird9817 Same with Kalifornien (=California) und Brasilien (=Brazil) ;)

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@@strawberrygi_rl *Crystal Methamphetamine*

I’m not trying to joke when I say this. Could one not just procure a large amount of opioids? I once had a wild animal bite and have hypochondria (but am generally chill about my concerns. “This hurts. Do I have cancer? I should make a doctors appointment in a couple days if it still hurts next week because it might be cancer”). So, as I spent the month of vaccines worried I might get rabies, I made a list of the ways I could go out if I started having symptoms. I knew people that were prescribed fentanyl, and that was up there. Obviously, I didn’t get rabies, because I’m typing this, but I gave it a lot of careful consideration, and “get really high and then stop being” sounded alright.

​@@GretchZ Outside of America its much harder to get them. It's not that simple. Also, the people acting as your source could be charged as responsible for the death.

It just represents how passionate the nurses are about their job!

Red actually has more associations with positive feelings than negative lmao

I know that hospital!! They are very in the know of color theory there and only pick the colors with the most positive associations.

And that's beautiful. It's so sad that things like that become an undertone for other stuff, like it is against the law over here for a teacher to hugh a student, even if the student is a small child and crying, because of what it can be interpreted as... Keep being you, and happy to be as you enjoy s2

Women with short hair are always really pretty, I don't understand why people think it's ugly or whatever

I keep my hair buzzed for sensory reasons and also gender affirming! (Trans man) I style my head with a growing hat collection and sunglasses! Very very fashion 💚💚💚

*Guillotine. It's spelled "guillotine".

@@DrachenGothik666 my apologies, I fixed it now

Don't worry, with the vital organs crammed into such a small torso there is no room for a uterus.

@@feuerling oh, OKAY WE GOOD THEN

I like your shoelaces

@@Wowiexist04251 Thanks, I stole them from the president :)

Hey nice pfp

@@alluminium9656thanks :3

@@alluminium9656Ty!

Fuck people who say that! Sexual orientation minority? Yes. Faces prejudice? Yes The rainbow is a spectrum that includes all colours. This is your flag, too! 🏳️‍🌈

asexuals are lgbtq! it's sad that the anti-ace discourse is still going on. ace people were at the first pride march. ace people experience othering & harm for existing outside of heteronormativity. you are welcome in the community. if someone tells you you don't belong, pay them no mind.

That particular woman is an odd "pick me" lesbian who happened to make a hilarious mistake in that photo. She was *trying* to do a "remove the T" image but failed miserably. Her content is nothing but the type of "LGB" propaganda you'd expect.

Bi woman dating a man, here. We get erased, too

It's truly baffling to me that anyone could have a problem with asexuals. I mean, it's stupid to judge people's sexuality in general, but what possible complaint is there with *not wanting to have sex*?

That is true, though most of the former colonies now use metric primarily, with some like Canada mixing the units.

I'm American and will (hopefully eventually) be moving to Canada where they use Celsius for air temperature. I've been trying to learn it and guess what the C temp would be as I look at the F temp for me. I mostly have it down now, but it feels so weird to me how little the temperature increases as it gets hotter. For example, 65f is 18c and 80f is 26c. A 15 degree difference for me is only 8 in Celsius. 8 degrees feels like nothing but those two temperatures call for entirely different clothing!

Wasn't Fahrenheit based on a single location at the time? I understand the system, but in Australia, you might as well make your own Fahrenheit system due to the difference Weather

@@Kimshu6 to convert F to C, subtract 32 and divide by 1.8

@@glauberglousger956 tbh I don't really know ngl

Seriously, Click's take on this was so bad I'm honestly shocked. As somebody who's done both SW and been SA'ed, I get the comparison. Not all, but a lot of SW is either that or having nothing so even if individual clients aren't coercing you you're still being coerced into sex.

That makes some sense, and sorry if I'm just dumb, but would they treat her to expensive things if she was trafficked? Wouldn't she just become a sex slave or something worse?

No, she’s describing a sugar baby lifestyle. Trafficking victims aren’t taken to fancy dinners and bought expensive gifts.

​@@emilybarclay8831if you are inportet, tgere is very little difference between those two

Even if she wasn't trafficked, she clearly was in a situation where she couldn't say no (or it at least felt like it to her). Honestly Clicks reaction really put me off, saying she's making a mockery of real victims when he's basically dismissing her experience because she was a sex worker.

@@HatpinPunk I found her account. She was a dominatrix and brothel owner who willingly entered the sex industry at 22 and ran her own business. Today you learnt women are capable of self victimisation and being dramatic

German - and I‘m guessing Swedish - pronunciation is like that. I didn‘t even notice it wad off😅

WELL NOT ALL OF US ARE GODDAMN SUPERVILLAINS JORGE, WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER 🦅🔫🇺🇲

@@fire-squid5694 well, a kilometer (or kilometre) is a thousand meters (or metres), which was originally defined as one tenth-million of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole, although there was a small miscalculation there. Given that units've been redefined to make them derive from physics constants, currently a kilometer is the distance travelled by light in a thousand 299792458ths of a second. To give you an idea, a meter is slightly less than 10% longer than a yard. Jokes aside, the rules are imposed because, while not everyone is a villain/idiot, there are enough villains and way too many idiots out there that could easily fly under the radar if they were not enforced. And as they say, "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me", but airport security doesn't really like to feel ashamed.

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the one drom roblox right?