Thanks for the catch!

I always thought it was the opposite of a hard sale/sell rather than a music thing. Etymology is so fun :)

Should have called it story of o just to fuck with people trying to search for it online

Stop the bleed, CPR, general first aid via whatever local resource you have (like red cross, but anyone reputable will do).

That’s going to handle any realistic scenario you’ll encounter that wouldn’t need more gear than you can carry in a small toolbox.

Tbh, when I tried it, I was completely unfamiliar with port forwarding, so it was more of a me thing.

Well, currently using mullvad because I paid cash and have months left.

However I tried ivpn with their one week option (two bucks!) At their basic plan.

I find speeds better on mullvad, but they’re otherwise comparable. I like both apps fine on android. If I was already on ivpn, I would not switch to mullvad for the minor speed uptick, since prices are comparable and switching multiple devices can be a very tiny annoyance.

In the past, I’ve used airvpn and proton for extended times (over six months). Proton is over priced, speeds were only marginally better than their free options, and iirc they were a pain about linux setup (I could be mixing them up with someone else though).

Airvpn worked great as a vpn. Port forwarding was an absolute cunt to get working for me. I suspect user error to be the biggest factor. Their android app sucks, and setting it up via other methods is preferred. But, at the time, they also lacked the built in ad/tracker blocking that I’ve enjoyed with mullvad and ivpn.

I did use nord briefly at one point. Worked fine, but at the time I was in need of port forwarding, and they had stopped offering that.

The only reason I’m maybe switching away from mullvad is the dubious political alignment of one of its owners. It really does work well for me, and is consistently faster than others I’ve tried, even with multi hop on. Even there, I’m not fully sure that the exact choice made by their part owner is exactly as bad as the common reaction is, so while I am likely switching away, I still can’t really state that it’s horrible to use the service.

The party he donated to has one big issue that’s a hell no for me, but it might not be there for everyone, and other aspects of the party slate are less objectionable, or even agreeable. In other words, I’m not mad at anyone that shrugs the donation off. It ain’t my business to judge people over such a narrow subject.

THAT being said, ivpn really is essentially the same service in terms of functionality. They even have servers that are in the same data centers. There’s several in the US in specific that are 100% in the same center once you go looking at the lists of exits. And I know there can’t be that many exact matches in cities across the world that aren’t from the same location. Since VPNs rent either virtual or hardware space in data centers to provide exits, if a given company doesn’t break from that, you won’t see a major difference between them.

That was an unusually good interview. Variety tends to soft peddle things, and there was plenty of that. But the good questions got answered, and Snyder gave some interesting answers.

Literal and figurative beast mode.

Tbh, seeing these side by side makes an already impressive ape ten times as impressive.

And likely not break a sweat while doing it.

Lookat the muscle attachment points though.

Ape was fucking jacked

I suspect it’s the amount of data that makes it hard.

Block lists, subscriptions and such is easy because it’s small and all in one place.

My comments are spread over a dozen instances, voted on by similar numbers, and responded to from a similar number (when discussion is popping anyway). This account is something like four years old? Three?

I’ve got thousands of comments, maybe a hundred posts. Whatever solution to move that is going to have to take every single one, and somehow strip out where it was originally done from to the new instance. It’s going to have to do that and then trigger all of those changes you federate again. So every instance that a comment was on gets hit by that api call, multiple times.

So they’d have to build in a way to not overwhelm an instance with any given user’s request for the change, as well as limiting how many requests for change can be active at once.

I’m sure it’s possible, but damn does that look like a lot of work for developers and a lot of extra hassle for instance owners/maintainers.

Now, what I would like to see is the ability to back up comments and posts. It isn’t really that useful to be able to transfer things, but having to manually copy/paste anything you want to preserve if an instance is filling to shutter is a pain in the ass. I don’t write anything that useful on this account, but some people do, and are even more active than me. I can’t imagine even trying to scroll back through a single year of comments to find something.

Yeah, I’ve moved Mastodon accounts several times, and no toots transfer at all. It’s manual or nothing

I’m not sure this is so much an opinion as a personal preference, but I get what you’re saying, and it’s a good post (as all the comments coming in point to it being of interest for discussion).

My personal preference is weird.

I do like seeing genitals. I have this curiosity about me that if someone offers me a look at their body, with no strings attached, no extra bullshit or hidden agendas, I’m interested. Not sexually, because nudity != sex for me. But just because the human body is cool.

I started losing what little social barriers to seeing nudity in my teens, after I began training to be a nurse’s assistant. Skin is just skin, not something exciting in an of itself. It’s not shameful or bad. Over two decades of doing the job, I saw not only my patients naked, but some of their family, some coworkers, and of course people outside of work.

And I still think human bodies are cool looking. A lot of variety, a nigh infinite range of features and details.

That includes genitals. I’ve seen them at all ages, and they’re interesting.

What I don’t have interest in is unsolicited nudity being weaponized, or with a rude goal. I don’t mind being hit on, but if an unsolicited pussy/dick shot is what you think I will respond to, you don’t know me, and I don’t want to know you because you couldn’t be bothered to get to know me enough to realize it would be a bad idea.

Well, ima chime in here.

First, I’m not trying to attack you, only give a perspective on things you may not have considered. But, since doing so is because of something you said, it may seem like an attack without giving a declaration of intent

Where things go off track is that you’re saying there’s no conscious control of it. That’s simply not true. It may or may not be worth the long and difficult process of retraining your mind, but disgust responses are learned. Even the most common ones to smells have a significant degree of built up experiential and social layers that can be stripped away until things like feces and decay become tolerable. Scatole and indole, the twp chemicals that make up the unpleasant side of fecal aroma are tolerable. Not nice, but tolerable, and we’ve evolved to avoid some things by smell or taste. Sight too, but that’s going to be more about coloration, and isn’t even certain that it is built in afaik.

Now, I’m not saying you should try to overcome your reaction. I’m not saying you’re a bad person for having it. I’m just saying that it isn’t something people are born with, and can be changed with enough conscious effort.

Your perception of it being akin to a wound is very inaccurate. I’ve done wound care. Decades of it k everything from little booboos on knees to gaping holes that slowly killed people. I promise you, a vagina, even one freshly used for sex, doesn’t resemble an actual wound. The terms you used, the way of looking at it, is something within anyone’s ability to shift. And it starts with knowing that one’s subjective and biased perception is inaccurate.

It’s like heteros that get disgusted by men fucking. It’s a preconception that can be changed. Seeing two men fuck is no more disgusting than two women or two men. It’s just genital being stimulated by fellow humans. “But poo comes out of there” is what anti-anal folks think of when they think of anal. “But pee comes out of there” for oral.

Those are constructed perceptions. Those perceptions can be changed if one wants to because, poo or pee coming out of things sometimes doesn’t mean poo or pee is coming out it now (unless you’re into that, I guess). Seeing vaginas as “nasty” is fully within conscious control, no matter what built up the perception originally.

Binge eating isn’t about appetite.

While I agree that it isn’t surprising the same meds will help with both, it isn’t because the glp drugs change appetite. They shift a lot of stuff in the body, and that includes hormonal interactions. That’s where the effect is probably coming from, not the appetite/satiety factor

Sounds like someone is expressing the golden rule.

See, she’s doing unto others as she would wish done unto her

I’m not certain they aresurprised. Not universally. Plenty of them know that they’re going to cause a shitstorm, and either don’t care, or specifically want it…

Hell, some of them will say shit that’s not universally accepted for the same reason I do, when I do so. Sometimes it needs saying.

Lets see.

Green just tonight. Had a weird light kit, so I triple looked

Before that, last I was out of the house was… Friday? Thursday? Anyway, a yellow mustang was in the line at the drugstore.

Haven’t seen purple in ages. Orange? I wanna say a few months ago. Old vw beetle.

Pink? Last time I saw that was maybe ten, fifteen years ago. Somewhere in that range. It stuck in memory because it was a lifted pickup.

That’s on the road though. As in I was out driving and they were either doing the same, parked at a business or home, or at a car sales place. I don’t think car shows count, otherwise I would say I’ve seen every damn color out there a few months ago driving past one.

Truth is that factory paint colors are picked by what sells. And most people don’t want yellow and orange. Purple, I’m kinda surprised it isn’t an option more often

Generally, I go with a fairly robust case. Supcase makes my favorite ones, with poetic being runner-up that’s essentially the same basic idea. I tend to favor the ones with a built in paid plastic protector though. Since the cases have a solid lip on them, it saves me having to fuck with application. Arthritis is a bitch

Except Minthara. There’s a solid LXIX scene with her, and while not exactly porn, it would definitely make a teenager watching skinemax in the eighties very happy.

Realistically, what you need is dogs, plural. There’s a reason almost every culture in the world has a history with them.

And a pack of them, breeding as you go, is going to be the best way to keep surviving because they can be trained to be guards, alarms, hunters, fighters, hot water bottles, and they can be food in a real emergency. That last one sucks to think about, but sacrificing one or two so that you and the pack can keep alive is just what you have to do.

Don’t get hung up by thinking a given breed is ideal, because it won’t be generalist enough. You just get medium size and large-ish dogs, and train the succeeding generations as best fits their abilities rather than trying to breed for specific jobs.

Dogs are also imminently personable. You’ll be alone, or not able to trust other humans. Having animals that can fulfill our social needs is vital, and dogs are our best option for that long term, in a survival situation.

Now, if the apocalypse is a bit less dangerous daily, keeping a population of chickens, and goats is a good idea. They’ll serve as alarms easily, and can be food or food producers. They’re both easy to tame as well, if you start young.