It does get stuck in there. Just don't make the mistake of going out in public until it fades lol.
I had an NPC during a table top rpg session that was my excuse to do my foghorn leghorn voice. Spent all afternoon doing that voice, and couldn't stop when I made a beverage and snack run.
I already have a southern accent (technically a mountain accent, but that's quibbling), so hamming it up can get absurd lol
That being said, if you've got enough loose dead skin to roll up into balls with a sunscreen, you aren't exfoliating well during your bathing.
You always have some dead skin that's going to come loose under friction and with the goop softening it up. But if you've got a bunch of it, you gotta scrub more.
Hell, be an rpg hero and make it a lending library to your actively playing associates.
The only parts of my collection that I don't lend out are the absurdly difficult to replace box kits. Even then, I'll make copies of the material. My kid's d&d group plays 5e, but the DM has borrowed some of my 3.x books for ideas, and has (with full supervision because I'm a little protective) had access to my spelljammer box (before they redid it).
Besides, I may end up running a game again. Most of my regular players have expressed interest, and it's only scheduling that keeps it from happening. Shit, I might even do a game with the original rule materials some day, the way I used to do ad&d short games (a few months of a story, or breaking out a module) when we were playing 3.x
That being said, it's only anachronistic if your setting is this world. No reason why the equivalent of an inn wouldn't be serving a stimulant beverage of some kind.
Well, yeah. That's the idea. Why would they go this far and not go all the way? They know damn good and well that as long as they keep things just barely on the end where genocide isn't stated as a goal, and they maintain a position of alliance with most of the west, nobody is going to actually stop them.
Hell, without starting a world war, I'm not even sure they can be stopped.
On the world stage? There aren't enough nations with power that actually care about Palestine. Yeah, leaders will make noise and pretend to care, but Palestine offers nothing to the major powers worth intervening for.
Sounds sociopathic, right? That's the leaders of most of the world. People drawn to power rarely have the ethical rigor to wield said power. Those that do, still have to deal with oligopoly, hidden fascists, and the reality that no nation can really take action without upsetting the whole damn thing.
Back in school I heard the story that Haydn wrote the "Surprise Symphony" because he was sick of people sleeping through his music, and wanted to startle them awake. It seems like this was a myth....
Hey man, you remember that time we went to vegas and had that shootout with some mob goons, banged fifteen hookers, and rescued dogs from a fighting ring?
Disclaimer: I am not trolling, I am an autistic person who doesn’t understand so many social nuances. Also I am from New Hampshire (97% white), so I just don’t have any close African-American friends that I am willing to risk asking such a loaded question.
Nah, go bugger lol. One side of my family is mostly from potato famine Irish, and we all love some corned beef. It's definitely on the menu for holidays
Although Lemmy's userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.
There's a handful, yeah. Some folks are prolific posters. Others just have altered text I'm their name, which makes it stand out enough to recall easily.
But generally, it takes extended interactions to remember a user name for long.
Holy shit, never, ever try and play with a bi/lesbian couple if you're a straight guy lol.
This was ages ago. Back in the eighties still, if only barely.
I met a girl. We became friends. She got flirty, and I returned it. Now, she was honest pretty early on, once we both realized there was some sexual energy there. She told me she was with someone, and that the someone was also a girl.
I figured that was it. End of story, right?
Nope, the girl is bi, though her partner wasn't exactly into non monogamy. But we were first, and was cool with it not going anywhere.
So, we hang out. Turns out her partner is pretty damn cool. Butch as hell, but not prone to the machismo you sometimes run into. Which, the partner ended up being trans, but back then that wasn't a thing in anyone's awareness. At the time, she was a butch lesbian.
Anyway, ignoring that, we all get along well, so I become their beard. When they needed a guy to "date" to keep their family off their backs, or whatever, I would step in. Went to prom with the partner even.
Turns out, we all got along well enough that the partner was willing to open things up and see if a guy in the bedroom could satisfy the bi girl, without bothering the partner. And, I was the one they both trusted. So, it happened.
I guess the easiest way to cover it is to say that there's only so many things you can do when one person out of the three simply can not handle contact with a penis, and is also not willing to have anyone go down on them. It meant there was always someone left out. I mean, we tried. But it amounted to taking turns, and the partner couldn't really handle watching.
We ended up trying what I've seen called a Roman chair, and that kinda worked okay, but it was so damn awkward with me and the partner kind of looking at each other as the bi girl was between us. Like, if we'd been able to touch each other, maybe the awkward would have been gone, but we tried kissing and it was a hard no for the partner, and not fun for me. Any kind of gentle shoulder touching was out too.
We could hug each other with clothes on, even give pecks on the cheek when we'd say goodbye after hanging out, but with the clothes off, neither of us was down for much in the way of contact. I would have been fine with casual touch, maybe some hugging, or even a high five lol. But I didn't want to grope him (fuck it, the dude transitioned, and trying to not call him him is annoying, even though this was ages ago), no matter how nice his tits and ass were. It just felt wrong to grope my buddy. And I had zero interest in his vag, which was still more interest than he had in it.
So me and him were just each in a hole (him via strap on) kind of wanting the whole thing to be over lol. The girl had some fun, but after I had to admit there was no way in hell I could come, she started feeling awkward too lol. Like, there I am in her ass, doing my best to stay hard so she can have this experience, and her partner is just going through the motions for the same reason, and once she realized that, she felt weird as hell.
Tbh, I've never liked threesomes. We tried a couple of other times, and it was better than that one, if only by virtue of knowing what was absolutely not worth trying. But even with other people over the years, they all end up disappointing unless it's two people taking care of one, without trying to mix things up.
But holy shit, that first one was just horrible lol. I've seen guys talk about the fantasy of being with that kind of couple, and I can't help but laugh. The chances of a lesbian being all chill with a guy in the situation are pretty damn low. And there's no such thing as good sex when one out of three people would rather it not be happening the way it is.
Which, gods damn, my buddy there tried so hard to do what he thought was right by his girlfriend. Later on, he tried to be open for some contact with me, even tried going down on me. Neither of us could handle that lol. I couldn't stay hard, and he couldn't do more than take in just the tip for a second. It was kinda hilarious after the fact. We still joke about it.
He couldn't handle either of us going down on him. We didn't have a word for it then, but the dysphoria was just too powerful. It wasn't about me being a guy, it was him being so out of connection with his genitals because they were the wrong genitals that any contact was just pure distress. Even hands were too much.
We only tried a few times as a threesome before calling it a failed experiment. Then a couple of times with just me and the girl, with him having done some preliminaries and then just watching. That was almost as awkward for me because it felt like him being left out was wrong, and it didn't work well for either of them.
But none of the other fails were as bad as the first lol. I'd call it a clusterfuck if any of the fucking had been worthy of the word.
See, that's the kind of idiot that makes gun ownership look bad.
They're tools, not a fetish item. You start being an idiot and trying to make a "state rifle" at all, and you undermine every attempt to actually maintain the right to defense via firearms.
Plenty. Music and books in particular. I'm usually behind on making legit buys, but I treat piracy partially like a library where I can try before I buy.
That isn't saying I buy everything I pirate, I don't. But if I like it enough to keep the files, I'll wait until I find a good sale and eventually get a legit copy in some format.
I also do it in reverse, where I'll buy something, but pirate a digital copy when it's more convenient. That's typically for paper books and music on vinyl. Sometimes I'll even pirate a copy of a CD if I'm not up to dealing with the ripping (disability means I don't always have stamina for everything, so stuff like ripping a cd is low priority).
I very much enjoyed enterprise at the time, despite the horrible theme song and the flaws in writing that spotted most episodes.
Now, part of that is being a huge Bakula fan. I love the way he throws himself into roles. I think though, had there been another age actor in the role I still would have enjoyed the show.
It wasn't great Trek. Probably the weakest of the older series, depending on tastes and criteria. Certainly wasn't up to TNG, TOS, or DS 9. I'd put it on par with Voyager, though it was both bad and good in different ways, with the lack of attention being paid to established Vulcan history in Enterprise tipping the scales to it being lesser than Voyager.
But I really liked that they tried to go back to the whole "wagon train in space" vibe. And the cast was great. Can't hold the iffy writing against the cast, and there were some great moments where the actors kept things from being worse just by virtue of how they carried their characters.
I don't rewatch any of the series as a binge though, so my opinion might change when the flaws are showing up in rapid succession compared to the original pace of watching week by week and over time. I know binge watching made me almost hate shows I used to like a good bit (like Bones as an example).
I can't compare anything to the newer shows since I've kinda stopped watching much in the way of "tv" the last few years, so I haven't caught any of the stuff that has been done in the last decade. Could be that one of the new shows would be worse, in comparison to the earlier shows, I dunno. Doesn't help that I despise the reboot movies, and the fact e that they happened kinda soured me on new Trek overall. The folks running things don't seem to be interested in the kind of shows that made me enjoy Trek in the first place, but that's second hand impression from seeing what people say online
You said exactly why in your post: "...our biological design..."
There's no such thing. We evolved. That means we're a mix of traits passed along over time by individuals that managed to live long enough to breed.
That's it. That's the whole explanation for any question about "why don't humans do x thing as part of our biology?"
Any given trait is all about lasting long enough to make babies. Once that occurs, all that's left is a general proclivity to ensuring the babies survive long enough to do the same. Regrowing teeth isn't part of that. It's a niche trait that isn't as useful as you'd think for humans. We don't need to gnaw at things, we don't need to crack bones with our mouths, nothing that would make a third set of teeth an advantage, or different teeth an advantage.
Teeth are not easily breakable. We actually can crack bone with our jaws and the teeth will usually survive if the bone isn't too thick; we just have better tools for that because way back when, the proto-humans that used tools had more babies that survived to make more babies. You have to abuse and/or neglect your teeth to break them for the vast majority. There are congenital issues where that isn't the case, but we've also bred ourselves into a social species that takes care of each other, so we aren't limited to a harsh, primitive survival level of things.
I really don't get why people think of teeth as fragile. They're incredibly durable for what we need them for, and require only minimal care to last well beyond breeding age. Even if you factor in modern diets being bad for teeth, regular care for them (brushing and flossing) can stave off those effects for decades. Go search up some of the dental research on old human bodies from archaeological sites. People survived very well with just one set of adult teeth.
And, some humans do have extras that can come in later in life, though it's very rare and comes with drawbacks (according to the last lady I dated that was an anthropologist anyway). Supposedly, having the extras actually weakens the regular adult teeth and makes them more prone to damage. There's always a tradeoff in things like this.
I'm looking for a better knife sharpener for my hard steel chef knife. I think whetstones are the way to go, but most of the sets I see are 4 double sided stones. Do I need that many stones?...
It's a shame the r/sharpening community moved to discord for the most part.
That being said, the average person, with the average knife, only needs one stone in the 1k range. Anything else is personal preference, or window dressing.
The general consensus is to use what's called a "splash and go" stone. Shapton, particularly their "glass" stones, is one of the more popular brands. Water stones, as opposed to oil stones, tend to be a fairly gentle learning curve. You do eventually have to flatten them, which isn't difficult, but by the time that happens, you'll likely have picked up enough skill to have a better idea of what you'll want, so don't jump into that yet. No need to buy up all kinds of stuff to get started. Hell, it's better to only get one stone and nothing else to get started.
But avoid the double sided, at least for now. They can be a pain in the ass over time. Just get one good stone and practice as you use your knives.
Now, if the chipping is bad, you might need to find someone local that does hand sharpening to grind those out, but minor chips and dings come out fine over time. But never, ever machine grind a good knife, and definitely never trust anyone that claims you should let them do so unless you know for a fact they use a water cooled device. Seriously, just don't.
Grinding out heavy chips is a bit more difficult, so it takes more experience to do right on a good knife. You don't want that to be your first project. A cheap knife, that's fine, nobody really cares if they screw a cheap knife up while learning. But minor chips, say something under an 1/8 inch at the biggest, you just sharpen and let the chip get eaten away as you go. You waste more metal than necessary otherwise.
The exception to that is something that you'll be using for professional cooking. And it would need to be pretty fancy restaurant cooking at that, where perfect presentation is mandatory. Little chips won't show up in the results for a home cook. Being real, even fancy chefs usually can't see the difference, but they'll freak out despite that. Only time I've ever had a chip that small be a problem was doing food carving. And you ain't doing that with a bigger knife, it's kinda specialized.
One stone. Practice developing a burr on the blade, and removing that burr via the stone itself. That's it, that's the recipe to a very sharp knife. You don't need high grits, you don't need some kind of magic guide or whatever. Just your hands, one stone, and a knife.
Dude, this is common fucking knowledge, and nobody cares.
It's one of those things where the very tankies you're talking about made it trivial for anyone not wanting to interact with them, their instance, or anyone in specific can just block whatever. And then there's the instances that defederate from .ml and/or grad, which is a decent amount of them.
They may be assholes (though they tend not to be in interpersonal ways, only in their political views), but they're assholes nobody has to interact with for very long.
Because it takes longer to roll up a new one than a table really needs as an interruption.
Purely practical imo. You don't want things derailed that early. Later on, a death can be worked with, made part of a story. In the first three sessions? It's just a pain in the ass
Legit, I don't fudge rolls because it's not fun for me.
If a roll would fuck up the session/adventure/campaign, I just straight up tell the players I'm making a call and override the results. It doesn't happen often, and it's really only when rng just screws things, like when you get multiple nat 1s in a session, way out of line with what makes sense without some kind of gymnastics to explain things in game.
Seriously. I've never needed a written outline for much of anything. Even my years long d&d campaigns, and the radical changes that interactive stories like that bring, I don't have trouble keeping things straight in my head.
The only thing I do keep like that is a timeline of past events as "canon" to keep exact dates in place. I think of it as the inverse of an outline.
If I skip ahead for a section as I'm writing, it's easy enough to just pop open a second file and make a note for bridging ideas.
I'm not saying outlines are a bad thing, they just don't work for me. Since they aren't a necessity, I don't bother with them. Even with my three ongoing projects, and my slow-ass writing pace, I haven't lost track of anything yet.
And not all social justice advocates treat it like a religion. But some do.
Also, trying to compare veganism, a system of belief, to genocide resistance and human rights is absurd to the point that it exactly makes my point.
There is no world in which fighting genocide is the same thing as avoiding animal products. None, no way, no how. The arrogance of your statement is so far beyond the usual responses my little troll statement gets that I'm outright flummoxed. I can't believe anyone would be that stupid, that arrogant, that ridiculous.
And that goes just as much for lgbt+ rights. You are outright absurd making that comparison.
And that absurdity is exactly why veganism is a religion to way too many vegans. Like, I'm not anti vegan, I know and love many, I just like getting online vegans riled up for entertainment. But you jumped the damn shark big time homie. That kind of thinking, that's why people that hate vegans hate them.
Man, I find it hard to not just start calling you names because damn, son.
Are you messing with me? Because I'm not in the mood to play games.
If you aren't, I'm afraid we're going to have issues unless we start from a different place.
What I wrote was: >...veganism, a system of belief...
Now, when written that way, the phrase "a system of belief" is being used to specify that that is what veganism is. And that's what it is.
If you don't know what veganism is, I would suggest you ask someone that doesn't troll vegans for a proper answer. Though, to be honest, veganism isn't a single, universally codified system. It's more like a general heading that includes a fairly wide range of what is and isn't "really vegan". So even asking vegans, you can get varied answers.
If you really want my quick and dirty synopsis of veganism, it comes down to two basic principles.
First, that animals must be treated in a way that would be completely without exploitation.
Second, that causing the death of an animal to serve the wants/needs of humans is a very specific and very "wrong" way of exploiting animals.
That's about the core of it. All the rest is essentially defining what is and isn't exploitation.
I'm sure a vegan would at least quibble over that over simplified explanation, but IDGAF, that's what it amounts to looking at it from the outside. A bunch of folks that have strong beliefs about how animals and humans should share the planet.
If you go digging into vegan writing on the ethics of a human/animal interactions, there are a lot of ways of expanding on that simplified version, but having read some of it when offered by vegans I know personally, in real life, I would say that my version is good enough for someone that's never seen the word before.
Now, veganism isn't exactly a unique thing in execution. Plenty of people around the world don't eat meat at all. And there's some of those that don't use animal products at all. But, they aren't necessarily Vegan. It isn't a central part of their identity. It comes down to cultural norms, poverty, availability, or some other factor than a specific belief about human/animal ethics.
Veganism as you'll see in English using forums is quite different from that because it has another central belief that you don't see in most of the writings about it. And that is why I use the specific troll that vegans are religious zealots. That other belief is that they're right and everyone else is wrong, period. And, much like zealots of other religions, the bad vegans will often treat other humans poorly when they don't agree with them.
There is only one TRUE BELIEF, and that is veganism.
That is a wee bit of hyperbole, of course. Not every vegan is an arrogant zealot. No more than any other belief based group. As I said, I have people in my life that are vegan, and I love them. I cherish them in my life. But they're not assholes :)
I cook vegan food for them. I even cook vegan for them when I'm already cooking "regular" food to feed a dozen or so people and they're the only vegan coming.
Anyway, that's not only what veganism is, but why the entire thread happened.
If that didn't answer your question, I'll try to do better.
If you were just trolling the troll, then I'll just let it go and hope you have a good day :)
But have you never run into the vegans that treat it like holy scriptures? That vegan is the one and only true way to be ethical and/or moral? I mean, I can believe that, it's not like you'd run into that if you aren't frequenting the places where the proselytize online (I've never had one dumb enough to do it in person).
It really is a thing that they treat being vegan as a command from on high than anyone who doesn't fall in line is not just wrong, but bad. Not all vegans for sure, just the most visible ones because the chill vegans and vegetarians are just living their best life and eating well.
But, because of that obnoxious branch, I get a cheap giggle out of riling them up because calling them zealots gets the worst ones to act like zealots. It really reminds me of my pet chicken. Doesn't take much to get her little wattles and comb bright red, and that tail twitching. And, since I have a very vivid imagery ability, that's what I see when I pull this childish troll. Just some random person with their arms bent, flapping them and squawking madly as they scratch the ground. I did mention it's childish, right? Me trolling them is childish, but I can't seem to help myself. It's almost as fun as going to to a group of fellow metalheads and asking them if they love that amazing metal band, nickelback.
It's one of those things where on paper, it's supposed to be as stringent as medical settings, but in reality it amounts to exactly what you said: they aren't washing their hands.
But, truth be told, there's some places where people don't change gloves between food stations, which is even worse than just switching gloves without washing. It all comes down to who is running the kitchen. A good manager/chef is on top of things, and the methed out, sleep deprived, half drunk crew are following procedure well. Otherwise, things fall through the cracks a lot because there's a degree of similarity between a kitchen during a rush and an ER on a busy night, without the extra training and entrenchment of germ theory to help the kitchen staff stay mindful.
I've done both, though I avoided any hospital work as much as I could, and also avoided any kitchen work I couldn't walk away from at a whim. It's honestly easier to remember to keep things right in an ER because the work flow is built around it more. Even with having done grunt level medical stuff, I would be more likely to not hand wash in a kitchen and just swap gloves because most kitchens aren't set up where you can do it without breaking your flow. Dedicated hand washing stations/sinks just don't exist. You have to walk away from the work to wash.
Now, even in bad kitchens, you'll be washing your hands throughout a shift, it just won't be between stations/jobs. It won't be every ten minutes like in a facility of one type or another lol.
But holy crap, do I get queasy watching someone eat with gloves on. I know damn good and well those gloves are nasty as hell. No way.
Eh, on the serious side, despite metal culture being typically open and friendly (outside of the pit, in the pit you are hamburger to be chewed), every group has assholes.
There are people that just like feeling superior, so anything they aren't into sucks, and they'll make up the criteria start determines what does and doesn't suck so that their opinion is validated.
That's all it is. You see it with bookheads, with hip-hop heads, pop freaks, whatever.
All political views should end with the word boy in a southern voice.
This would be a quick way to see of it's racist, close minded, or just straight bs....
do humans shed more skin when sunbathing?
I've started sunbathing because... reasons....
They're just fun to browse through, ok? ( lemmy.world )
Diabolical, by Destruction ( youtu.be )
Somehow, I had never seen the video for the song....
Whose idea was it to broadcast this?
Failed a spot check ( lemmy.world )
So is Israel just going to completely overtake Palestine?
I saw an article about them attacking Lebanon now. So, where will it stop? Have the Israeli government ever spoken about this?
TIL Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" was NOT written to wake up sleeping audience members; that was just a myth
Back in school I heard the story that Haydn wrote the "Surprise Symphony" because he was sick of people sleeping through his music, and wanted to startle them awake. It seems like this was a myth....
Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? ( old.lemmy.world )
Disclaimer: I am not trolling, I am an autistic person who doesn’t understand so many social nuances. Also I am from New Hampshire (97% white), so I just don’t have any close African-American friends that I am willing to risk asking such a loaded question.
You got the cheese, the ham, the... wait ( lemmy.world )
Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre, I Wanna Pet Your Dog ( youtu.be )
Metal as fuck, and quite good manners
Upped my plating on the quesabirria de res (and added pixels) ( lemmy.world )
Do you recognise any usernames on Lemmy?
Although Lemmy's userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.
What was your worst consensual sexual experience?
Please only consensual stories.
Michigan Republicans' bill: Make AR-15 state's official rifle ( www.detroitnews.com )
Some days, those who would command govern represent us just make it too easy for, among other things, finding "post fodder."...
Do you pay for some pirated contents
Are there pirated contents that you very like and eventually give money to the creator, and where do you find the creators?
Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise ( screenrant.com )
Why do teeth don't regenerate?
Seems pretty dumb in our biological design to not be able to regenerate such a functional (and also easily breakable) part of our body.
What makes a good whetstone set? What sets should I avoid?
I'm looking for a better knife sharpener for my hard steel chef knife. I think whetstones are the way to go, but most of the sets I see are 4 double sided stones. Do I need that many stones?...
Texting 911 via RCS is coming to Google Messages ( www.theverge.com )
AI Summary:...
Frozen Crown - Neverending ( youtu.be )
YSK: lemmy.ml is managed by tankies, and lead lemmy developer is a tankie
Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide...
Fudging rolls is the path to the dark side... ( startrek.website )
OpenAI’s new safety team is led by board members, including CEO Sam Altman ( www.engadget.com )
Writers of Lemmy, how do you do outining?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/21181822...
Cockroaches wouldn't exist without humans. We helped them become one of the world's worst pests, according to a new study. ( www.businessinsider.com )
Neverminding the evidence to the contrary. ( lemmy.world )
Borger 😁 ( lemmy.world )
It's a bit out of focus but still clear enough to see....
Dragonforce ( lemmy.world )