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Time to retrieve the nozzle.

Oh so we are mass producing punchable faces now eh? Having just one wasn't enough, _Sam_? Hope the next molotov finds its mark.

Such as the Duggars. And basically anyone in FLDS.

A few years back, I may or may not have overtaken a ~202X Mustang who decided to cut off and brake check me, in a 2014 Prius C, and maintained that lead for 10 miles, till I lost sight of him and was at my exit, after switching to Highway Star.

Amusingly, this is a very laid back, slow tempo song, lol.

It’s happening.

Fetch is finally happening.

… In basically the worst and stupidest way possible.

I kind of want to do this as a joke.

Their hips don’t lie. It’s all in the way you move. … in this case, Roos are differently anatomically configured: Yeah, the entire of their hindquarters is essentially the ass / thigh muscles of a human, it is just oriented in a way that its not as visible/obvious to a human. When you kick or hop, that doesn’t use many muscles in your lower leg/ankle, at least in terms of where the raw force comes from, it comes from your upper legs, ass, thighs, core. Maybe think of Chun Li, lol. Kangaroos are well configured to be stable on their … feet? … with a different skeletal set up, so they really only need some tendons and less massive muscles in the lower legs.

Yeah, its all an incenstuous club of a class of C Suite people that know all the people on the boards of the regulatory committees, the astroturfed 'consumer rights' groups, the industry advocate groups, etc. They like to play musical chairs, hop around from seat to seat on different boards. But uh yeah, corruption is the name of the game with regulatory capture, so, any kind of proposal to have an actually transparent, legit, accountable bidding process will of course be decried by basically everyone connected to it. Remember when software companies used to like, train people, bring them up to speed, kinda like an apprenticeship, develop them as an asset, and then have a stable team? Yeah, that.... worked better. But then managent essentially was insulted by the existence of people who knew more about how their own companies actually worked than they did, so they turned them all into contractors, and chaos has reigned ever since!

True. Same here. It in fact _can_ always be worse.

Ripped Roger, casually crushing a metal bucket: His taller son Monty: muscleandfitness.com/…/photos-these-jacked-kangar… Yeah, kangaroos can absolutely be jacked, and they are notorious for kickboxing the fuck out of anything that annoys them.

Yep, I remember a MSFT vet actually teaching me the term ~15 years ago, when I was working for thrm and ... yep, just another thing Elon has fucking ruined by association/appropriation. Elon quite literally does not grok Grok.

Yeah so it turns out that basically the entire field of cyber security is 95% a complete joke.

As evidenced by everything gets hacked all the fucking time and massive data breaches are so commonplace they’re usually barely newsworthy.

There of course are a small number of people who can actually oversee/implement reasonably secure code development, but, well, that costs money and takes time, but it does not cost anywhere near as much money or time to just confidently lie to people and pretend you know what you’re doing.

Governments tend to just defer to “industry experts”, which basically means ‘big dumb idiot corporation that verifies their robustness via a human centipede of paid consultants’.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

Upton Sinclair, 1934

Ah right! I thought that Veronica was lesbian, but I couldn’t 100% remember if that was corrrect, so I didn’t include it in my other post. Now, we are getting into fan canon territory at this point but: www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/84272 Tale of Two Wastelands (FO3+NV) modmod, allows an alternate ending for Veronica. ~~www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/62173~~ Adds Christine as a fully realized companion/follower. www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/74426 Erp, that one’s deprecated and has been rolled into this modpack, that adds a bunch of DLC characters as full companions. Christine … If you speak to her in the vicinity of Veronica, there will be some special dialogue and a unique perk granted I’ve not actually used these (aw fuck, here I go playing New Vegas again), but these may scratch your itch. Also… there are a fair deal of romance overhaul /expansion mods, I don’t know if any of them do anything specifically with Courier + Veronica or Veronica + Christine off the top of my head. And finally… there a series of essentially … lets say XXX rated and/or fairly to highly problematic mods for New Vegas on LoversLab. It… might be possible to configurr them to work with these other mods, or they might just do something somewhat analagous, or… they might grant you the ability to put Veronica into a breast milking contraption. Hazard Suit On before you look into any of those mods lol.

Yeah there aren’t any … actually trans characters that I can think of … ? But like here are some reasons that do exist that I can think of: Multiple potential companion characters have either story arcs or at least important bits to their personal back story that involve them at least discussing if not affirming their gender/sexuality. Arcade is a gay man, who jokes (?) about how the Legion would just crucify him for being gay. Veronica has a whole bit where all she wants is to wear a real, proper dress for once, to feel prettier than she is accustomed to, normally always being dressed in either essentially military gear or nondescript clothes meant to make her look unremarkable, as a scout/spy. She expresses genuine glee, literally squeals with joy if you find her a nice dress. You got FISTO, who … is a robot, that uh, yeah, you can probably guess. There’s also a whole storyline that revolves around the sexual trauma of an NCR soldier, you essentially able to be an impromptu therapist if you have the requisite skills. You as the player can take perks, that allow you to actually seduce some characters in some situations, and you can pick to be straight, gay/lesbian, or even take both, and be bi. You can actually kill at least one person this way, specifically as a potential plot point… beyond the perks also just giving you general combat buffs against npcs. Basically… its … possibly the first, if not at least one of the first 3D roleplaying game that has well written characters, that allows the player to define their own in game gender/sexual orientation as a fairly involved part of how you actually play the game, and it shows you a world with other characters that are basically doing the same. This was pretty uncommon for a game to do or have, back in 08. Closest comparison for a popular game might be Mass Effect 1? But … the romance options in that game are much more ‘tacked on’ and less integral to the rest of the game.

Also a fearsome beast, especially when they’ve jad time to grow, hahah!

‘Sacred’ has a more colloquial meaning, and is more broad than purely as part of a religious doctrine.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sacred

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a: unassailable, inviolable

b: highly valued and important

I also provided a secondary phrase after that word, with or preceding it, to specify what I meant.

Don’t forget FISTO: Please assume the position

Proposal: If your egg was cracked via New Vegas, you are a deathclaw, and I would like an omellete.

I mean genuinely yes, this looks amazing. I might have to come out of hibernation for a meal like this lol.

… There are tons of women with legitimate daddy issues who also insist on using the phrase ‘daddy’ to refer to their male partner during sex. These things are intertwined, to the point that you can often correctly infer that a woman has daddy issues when she keeps calling you daddy, unprompted. This is what I was talking about, untill it was determined that I am apparently a misogynist for talking about this. I’ve known a pretty good deal of straight women where this is the case. I’ve also been just platonic friends with a good deal of women, girls, I was friends with, and then I was also friends with their boyfriends, where the girl using ‘daddy’ in sex led to the boyfriend asking me if she’d had something fucked up about her family life, and me basically saying ‘not my place to tell you.’ Yeah, I’m doubling down against using ‘daddy’ during sex, unprompted, because in my experience, it very often indicates that that woman has been abused/groomed, and that I do not like the broad normalization of this. I’m getting angry and emotional just writing this, as this brings up all the memories of female friends of mine I’ve just held while they cried, sometimes without explaining to me why, sometimes with me learning why, years later, in the roundabout fashion I described above. Again, if its your kink to totally mutually consensually call people ‘daddy’ during sex, and your partner is into that, great, wonderful, go bananas. Don’t do that near me, don’t show it to me, because it triggers a literally visceral series of traumatic memories within me, that I have because I was the person the abused girls cried with, the one they sought out to be consoled by. Perhaps you can understand how my perferences that ultimately derive from vivid memories of consoling female abuse victims … itself being described as misogynistic… is enrgaging.

Then explain it to me.

I think that its more difficult for a stable, persistent, nonmonogamous, romantic/sexual situation to persist mainly because there are more people involved. Everything that would be a one to one discussion, is now A to B and A to C and B to C, and potentially A to BC and AB to C and AC to B... this gets more complex, geometrically, with more members. With more people and no mandatory/imposed hierarchy, It complexifies, with more chances for miscommunication, with all the intensity of emotions that comes along with a serious relationship... which can often lead to drama. I don't think that this is conceptually difficult to do ethically, if everyone involved communicates very well. But that almost never occurs in practice, in mono or nonmono setups. I think it is difficult to do ethically _in practice_, moreso when there are more members, because people have emotions that cause them to do irrational things, they have limited amounts of time and energy, imperfect information, because people can change their minds about things, because sometimes people don't really know why they do some things. The more people you have in a persistent arrangement like this, the more complex and thus unstable the entire situation is. Granted, that reasoning only applies to certain kinds of non monogamy, others are or can be less complex... But basically my whole thrust here is that more people = more complicated = more chances for drama / intentionallly or unintentionally hurting other people. There are just more potentially shifting sets of boundaries and rules, that may or may not apply equally to all others in the group, and those boundaries themselves may or may not be problems for other members of the group.

And I appreciate your reply, though I do disagree.

(and for what its worth, i didnt downvote you)

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I follow your food allergy metaphor, but this makes sense analogously only if you essentially do not view sex as any more sacred, or complex and meaningful, than food… you view it only as basic human need that is not entwined with the very emotional structure of a relationship.

Say that you’re both ostensibly members of a religion that forbids eating pork, or you’re both fairly hardcore vegans, and you in particular are also allergic to pork.

If your partner goes out and eats pork, away from you, yes this is not literally directly harmful to you, but it betrays the values that you both ostensibly claim to believe in.

Furthering the analogy, the partner could just say they’re not a member of that religion, or they’re not a vegan, or they have different interpretations of the concepts of those… and then you could say:

‘well, the beliefs that I have are important to me, and I thought that you had those same beliefs, and that they were important to you to… so if you do not have those beliefs, we should probably not be a couple.’

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So, you have clarified your line of thinking, your preference or worldview or what you want to call it, but you have not explained how the preference or worldview that I explained is unethical.

I don’t inherently think that ENM or poly or relationship anarchy are inherently impossible to do ethically… I think they are difficult to do ethically, without causing a ton of drama, a lot of emotional distress and complexity…. but i do not think they are just de facto unethical in concept.

I do agree with you that monogamous relationships very often are problematic in that they come with baggage by way of people having unstated assumptions of what the roles and rules are.

But this can be solved with forthright communication and actually discussing with the partner what those roles and rules are or should be.

That goes the same for nonmonogamous relationships, they’re just inherently more complex as they involve more people.

Tons of people are, imo, not emotionally mature enough, not honest enough with themselves, do not have the communication skills required to be in any kind of a serious relationship, monogamous or otherwise.

How is consensual monogamy unethical?

Like really, you seem to genuinely hold the opinion you do, please explain to me how two people mutually agreeing to trust, support, love and fuck just each other … how is that unethical?

Yes, of course historically the concept is full of examples of other practices that get attached to it that are definitely harmful and bad.

Yes, there absolutely are a good deal of people who force monogamy on others as a means of control, who are hypocrites that don’t even follow the same rules or standards they impose on others.

But how is it inherently unethical for a fair and mutual relationship between just two people to exist?

Some people are into open relationships, ENM, polycules, just being a single stud or unicorn, etc.

Some people, arguably most people, either strongly prefer or can only emotionally handle having a single serious romantic relationship with one other person at a time.

The entire thing about cheating in a monogamous relationship is that it is lying, it is a massive breach of trust and respect.

If everyone involved is informed and onboard with expanding the relationship, that’s one thing… cheating is another.

For quite a lot of people, its not primarily that they want to posses or control their partner’s genitals.

Its that they want to be able to very thoroughly trust and relate to a single other person, to be the sole person that their partner also sees that way.

For these kinds of people, if their partner asked to open up the relationship, and they weren’t comfortable with it, they’re totally able to just realize at that point that their partner doesn’t want what they want, and just end the monogamous relationship, let their now former partner go pursue what they want.

So… how is this unethical?

I’m just saying that I find the trope/kink disgusting, its a massive turn off for me, for the reason I described. In general, I’m all for kinks for everybody, you do your thing. However, I’m also allowed to have preferences and disprefences. If you or someone else is into calling people ‘daddy’, great, just please don’t do it around or to me, as it literally triggers a PTSD reflex in me. It isn’t ‘yucking somebodies yum’ to explain why I feel the way that I feel about a particular practice. At no point did I attack the broader idea of anyone engaging in this, I just explained why I don’t, and why I do not like it. Also, the etymology of ‘daddy issues’ is not as clear cut as you seem to think it is. As with many kink/lgbtq+ terms, its complicated and conplex and means somewhat different things to different people, and it’s had a meaning not directly stemming from totally ethical and safe kink. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daddy_issues ‘Daddy issues’ quite literally does mean ‘behavioral tendencies that stem from an unhealthy relationship with one’s father.’ Its meant approximately that since long before it got the meaning you understand it as having, in an ethical and consensual and healthy caregiver kink/dynamic. Its wild to me that you see my usage of the term as lightly misogynistic, when I’ve pretty well described that my dislike of this kink/trope comes from immense sympathy and empathy from a girl I personally knew as a childhood friend, who was horrifically abused.

I mean, then the woman will keep telling ‘daddy’ to give it to her. Like, where I grew up, my block, one of the neighbor families… the dad literally was raping one of his daughters, for years, he went to prison when he tried to pull the same shit with the younger daughter, fight ensued, and the older daughter and mom ended up with black eyes/broken noses. I’ve always been immensely disgusted by the idea of women just verbalizing their daddy issues during sex, but its a very common porn trope as well.

Home? _Home?_ It's just me. ... nobody ever sticks around.

When you live in a police/surveillance state, you're a fool to fear criminals more than the government.

My comment got more updoots, but you deserve just as many.

My guess? NSA is currently figuring out how to insert backdoors into all these things. You see, the last backdoor they used all the time, well.... people figured it out. So, they had to ban uh, _checks notes_, apparently _all_ routers, basically. So, now they need a new backdoor into literally everything.

The Iranians know that Trump cannot actually guarantee that Israel will stop doing anything, that Trump has no realistic ability to force Israel to stop, due to basically lets say, his ties to Israeli intelligence cough cough, and his domestic political situation. … What they almost certainly actually want from the US is a withdrawal from region, cessation between US+GCC<->Iran hostilities, some kind of recognition of some kind of Hormuz tolling set up (they want that as a UN resolution, revenue split with Oman, the idea is the toll would replace demands for reparation payments), and something approximating a pledge of neutrality from the US in the ongoing exchanges between Iran and Israel. They want the US to effectively bow out and also admit that the Israelis are insane and the US is impotent to stop/control them. They will of course act outraged and surprised that the US, under Republicans, cannot actually stop its rabid ally… but they obviously already know that to be the case. The Iranians are literally the most rational actor in this conflict. They want to essentially be the new ones to cuck the US. They do that… petrodollar ain’t lookin so hot now is it? Anyway, its important to remember that both the US and Iran have stated that they’ve agreed to an outline for negotiating a solid, actual deal, with a 14 day ceasefire for those negotiations to actually take place. Nobody has actually, technically, said that anything other than ‘lets stop shooting each other for 14 days and hammer out a deal.’ But, because this is being so heavily propogandized by… basically everyone involved… a whole lot of people are not actually reading what people have actually said. Apparently its very difficult in the Twitter era, for people to comprehend a complex, conditional, nuanced statement. Hooray for media literacy, which is downstream of just literal literacy.

I feel like you could describe the psyche of horses with the sentiment in the phrase: "But for the grace of God, go I." Just a bunch of beautiful, dumb bastards who are uncommonly good at 'run away really fast'. Doesn't matter what direction they're running in, they'll get somewhere, though. Maybe even in one piece!

Unless I am mistaken, a fair number of studies have determined that that is insufficient as a method/means to explain the capabilities that they routinely display. Like one theory is that they somehow functionally have a literal metalic compass in their brain, or potentially ... basically an ability to sense geomagnetic subtleties and anomalies, and use those as waypoints and guidelines, but... again I might be out of date here, but afaik, nobody has yet proposed a non problematic or well verified hypothesis.

Appromixately a calzone, if we want to start some kind of pizza vs sandwich alignment chart type discussion, by way of analogy. Is it both? Neither?

I never properly like lived on a farm or ranch, but I have had a few girlfriends and friends that essentially coaxed me into being an unpaid stablehand, lol. I enjoyed the learning experiences, genuienly, and just being able to be around animals, as disgusting and stupid as they can be haha. But yeah, more than once, the gf that foxhunted, she'd come back with a story about how one horse in the group did something immensely bone headed. That particular puddle? Its evil, fuck you, I'm not going within eyeshot of it. Oh you want me to slow down around this tree, ok, here, imma take a shortcut real slow, that clothelines the rider on a different tree. etc etc...

Oh me too! I don't like... _dislike_ pigeons, they just are kinda dumb. Same with horses, I love horses, but goddamnit are they stupid, lol. Like, it's not an insult to identify that different kinds of animals have different kinds of mental capabilities. I'm just trying to point out that... while pigeons are 'dumb' in a lot of ways, they do also at least seem to have something akin to a superpower, so if you judged conscious entities by that metric, presumably they would all think that we are basically mentally disabled, in terms of navigation abilities. Something does not need to be highly intelligent to be loveable, appreciated. You basically just have to meet them on their level, if that makes sense.

I mean... don't pigeons and a number of other birds... essentially have some method of navigating / spatial awareness that is _still_ not well understood by science? Basically, yeah, they dumb as fuck, but also, they seem to have something approximating a sixth sense that we do not comprehend.

Technically, its not their fault, they were made that way and have no means of changing themselves... But that doesn't change that they functionally are agents of evil. ... They're basically Orcs, but with even less agency.

It is really funny to me that, in general, medical professionals in the US still think people do or should broadly respect them. … Why? Nobody cares that you’re just following orders, that’s not a very good excuse. Nobody cares that you have a boatload of debt you need to pay off… most people do these days. None of that gives ya’ll societal permission to engage in possibly the most elaborate gaslighting fraud system that humanity has ever produced. Ya’ll are supposed to have ethics, ‘first, do no harm’, yet you violate this routinely as a matter of course. With few exceptions, you’re all hypocritical liars with God complexes.

They are legitimate military targets, they are acting as comms relay servers for military strikes against Iran, and very likely also being used to do threat analysis / kill chain assignment tasks. This is what you get for becoming part of the military industrial complex, tech bros.

TIL Doctors cannot write legibly nor manage a basic queueing process.

… Is there any kind of way to translate the, intent, of the phrase ‘brother from another mother’ into Japanese, without it being extremely literal, lol?

Right there with you, I never understood how anyone could be dumb enough to install hardware that had a mind of its own, other than basically as a specimen for an experiment that was carefully and regularly monitored. Like… obviously what is now happening is always what was going to happen. Anywho, because I’m too lazy to click a few times: Alexa, play ‘Where is My Mind?’

I’m excited, anon! I may or may not love the soup itself, but I love that you tried, and that you offer it as a gift. =D

… I think I need to lay off the stuff for a bit, sheesh.

My entire point is that you are just overgeneralizing, in general, and saying rather silly things.

Completely agree with all of this. Especially the last part. We don't even understand our brains, our own minds, we still can't fully agree on what consciousness or sentience... even... are. We're certainly making progress on those fronts... but we are a very, very far distance from the finish line. That finish line would be like... we solved Psychology, we solved Neuroscience, we have a Grand Unified Theory of Mind, etc.

Introverts exist, and are... very often fine with solitude, prefer it generally over socializing. But they are generally fine at participating in society and living normal lives. Healthy people... do need doctors ... and therapists. A person can outwardly appear to be healthy... and actually not be. Preventative medicine, regular checkups, your body changes as you grow, and habits you develop in your youth may need significant reworking. Therapy can give otherwise healthy people a method of exploring their inner selves more fully or more consistently... they can teach them frameworks for understanding and dealing with other kinds of people, for being better able to deal with kinds of trauma they have not yet experienced. Also... same with physical health... people with some nascent mental problems or patterns forming... probably won't be obvious to a non specialist, untill it gets more severe.