SolarMonkey

Im still suffering; this isn’t available here 😩

Sounds like something chef would sing.

Depends who it’s meant to be used on.

Them? No. Cool they know what they like and clearly aren't afraid to ask for it.

Me? Very. They don't know what I like and are making assumptions that are very likely wrong. Also unless it’s in the original packaging, it’s just gross.

I have actually had a guy bring a boxed vibe “gift” to a first date sort of thing. I have my own vibrators aplenty, cuz you can’t return them if you don't like them, and I don’t like most of them. He could have just asked. He got a super cheap one that sounded like plastic on plastic (loud af), and felt like plastic because it was hard plastic. He tried to use it on me penetration-style as soon as he pulled it out, and it hurt because it was huge, and my body is not, anywhere. Hard plastic banging against the inside of your pelvic bone and cervix, unsurprisingly, does not feel good.

I pulled the fuse that runs that stuff in my car. Don't need anything it disabled, so I don’t give a fuck.

Sure if I ever need service it might be a problem, but I’ll cross that bridge when and if I get to it, and maybe we’ll have better data protections by then.

Hot take: companies shouldn't get tax breaks, sweetheart deals, etc. ever, for any reason other than being non-profit public good companies. Succeed or fail on your own merits. Bootstraps and such, just like us poors are supposed to be able to do.

In fact, taxes should scale with a company’s purported value, profits, something along those lines.

The more you make the more you pay, until eventually you hit the ceiling, and everything above that is taxed at 100%. Same with money hoarding individuals.

I’m so tired of these welfare queens living on the public dole. They come into our communities with their hands out, trying to get something for nothing, while giving basically nothing back to society and spawning more of themselves to continue the leeching. And they take so so much more than all the social programs combined would. At what point do we say enough is enough?

I got pulled over in a drunk driving operation while leaving a rural bar. The original reason they gave when pulling me over was lane violation, which I assume means going over the lines?

I was sober, there to check out a local band, then left when it was over. I’m also a very good driver, no accidents, no tickets for moving violations, nor parking violations, in 20 years of driving.

Well, I had a dash cam, but it was hidden from rear view by fuzzy dice. When he got my info and saw that, he realized his pretense for pulling me over in the first place would be challenged (he couldn’t lie about why because they record audio), and entrapment is illegal here, so he didn't even give me time to dig out my insurance card, and he had to let me off with warnings.

Which is amazing because I didn’t realize, because I hadn’t driven much in the past couple years, that my registration was over a year expired. Oops.

If he hadn't been a lying shitbag, or I hadn't had a dashcam that would clearly show I didn't do what he pulled me over for, that traffic stop wouldn’t have been a waste of time for him and I’d be out some money.

ACAB.

Also, invest in a dash cam, everyone! They are cheap and can save your ass! Everyone should have one because ACAB!

They also completely fuck up your body and are entirely off the table for anyone with disabilities. And I guess anyone who doesn’t want to be disabled at 45. The rate of drug use in the trades due to pain is HUGE.

Trades, like college, are not for everyone, and should not be pushed to everyone as a solution or they won’t be lucrative anymore. Like lawyers in the 90s and IT today, by the time people, en masse, start saying everyone should do it, because it pats super well, enough people are in training, or planning to be, that the next wave to start is likely to be the last to make good money, and the wave after will bring everyone else down as well (arguably good at the moment because getting work done is ridiculously expensive, but not great long term for people in those jobs). I know several young people who are going into either trades or nursing. And that’s great, if that’s what they want to do.

But the thing is, people used to be able to support themselves without college and without trades. Every job used to pay a livable wage, thats literally what minimum wage in the US is supposed to be, the minimum required to live a decent life. Hell, if you go back far enough, like just to the 60s or so, people could work for the summer and spend the rest of the year traveling or going to college, and be totally fine. Now only a small portion of jobs pay anything resembling survivable wages, to say nothing of livable ones.

I had a site I was gunna buy stuff from ask me for a video selfie to “prove” I was over 21.

First if all, I wasn't buying anything controlled, so thats ridiculous over-reach, and second of all LOL FUCK NO I'm not giving you, some random-ass e-commerce site, my fucking biometric data. That’s absolutely insane.

Needless to say, I blocked that site on my pihole, so it no longer exists to me as an option. Sent them a message letting them know they lost a rather substantial sale from that shit. I’ll do that for absolutely every one. I could just use the tricks kids use, but that still rewards them for this bullshit with money.

I’ll just stop using the internet if it becomes a thing everywhere. It’s not really worth being on anymore, for the most part, anyway.

I wouldn't be able to take a selfie of my back without a mirror or the timer function, either, so thats normal I think. Frontal selfies aren't too hard though.

You might benefit from a selfie-stick, or learning to use the timer on your camera app, they really help if you aren't already accustomed to the hand contortions required to selfie with phone alone.

Otherwise it’s a weird and uncomfortable balancing act where you frame the phone with your index finger up the side, pinky supporting the bottom, two middle fingers holding the back, and hitting the photo button with your thumb.

Examples:

These are both landscape, but the idea is the same for portrait mode.

I think what a lot of people don't realize is just how many shots are needed to get that one good one. Especially if doing it yourself.

I sent a really classy-looking black and white (because it evened out my skin and made the lace look extra nice) once, and it took me about 40 tries to get one I liked enough to send it. It took awkward positions, my arm got tired af, and if you’d been there in person it looked dumb as hell. Arms in weird places to hide them, legs bent funny, you get the idea. I had to try numerous poses to see what worked and didn’t, and it took about 45 minutes.

I’m by no means a photographer, I'm by no means a model, I’m not even a sexually-inclined person, but I am stubborn and persistent, and I’m introspective enough to know that if I think it looks nice and classy, most others will too.

I think that’s why women tend to have artistic photos and men tend to look like the swamp thing. Dude nudes tend to be the first pic they take, quality be damned. And often in dirty mirrors (do guys not know how to hold a phone to take a selfie without a mirror?).

Or is it that auditory hallucinations are strongly associated (not clinically, just the way they are always talked about) with bad mental health problems like schizophrenia, which makes them taboo, so people choose not to talk about them, even to doctors?

I get auditory, gustatory, and olfactory hallucinations all the time, due to chronic headache and migraines. Wish I got visual ones too, just for the variety, but alas. I hate peanut butter so so much (my most common hallucination is the smell or taste of peanut butter). My auditory hallucinations aren’t usually voices talking, though, they tend to be cats meowing or chickens yelling, because that’s what I hear most frequently in my daily life, so that’s what I’m trained to listen for.

Probably Hypnogogic hallucination, which is a normal and common transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep characterized by vivid hallucinations incorporating any or all senses.