GONADS125

There's always a choice. Our politicians are just too invested in Isreal's military as a middle-eastern ally.

But Isreal has really demonstrated how self-serving and nationalist they are, and I don't think they can be relied upon in a call to action as an ally.

I wish our leaders would show more of a backbone against Isreal, and withdraw all support for them.

One thing that I have drawn strength from repeatedly in hard times was drilled into me by a great professor in undergrad (psychology):

You cannot experience personal growth without struggling; without hardship.

Think of the people who are sheltered from the real-world and then get a full dose of it and are unable to cope and preserve like others who had to grow up early.

I remind myself amidst struggles that I will be coming out on the other side a stronger and more capable person. It helps me to accept the shit on my plate and refuse to give up.

Yeah it has certainly escalated to an extreme pro-china/russia perspective there, where I've seen them simultaneously claim that the US is entirely responsible for Isreal's genocide and deny the genocide and ethnic cleansing committed by China.

Definitely went full tankie.

I have a key fob faraday cage/pouch keychain to prevent people from being able to dupe my key fob's signal.

Upgrading your life is not eating instant noodles in general, old man.

I came here for depraved food snacks!

Yeah, I came here looking for crushed uncooked Ramen noodle lazy, dammit!..

The idea that fish do not experience pain is also ludicrous... They possess a central nervous system and can very much feel pain.

I'm also opposed to catch & release fishing for fun/sport for this reason.

Imagine a hyper-advanced species suddenly and painfully yanked you up into different atmospheric conditions where you're desperately unable to breathe.

Is it perfectly acceptable just because they put you back down in your natural environment before you died, with a new painful wound and traumatic experience?

I certainly don't think so...

I have struggled with long covid and it's interaction with my hypermobility EDS for a little over a year now. Derailed my entire life...

Lost my job, strained my marriage so bad and caused my wife (who just doesn't understand) to resent me...

I'm finally getting my life back on track. I am finally going to graduate school, and I am very close to working an in-person job again.

I still am not back to my old self, and I'm not sure I ever will be. Not just with the chronic fatigue and stuff, but my brain function/thinking still doesn't feel normal...

I don't even know how to describe long covid or where to begin. I was someone who never got sick. I was so close to dying for so long. I'm convinced I wouldn't have survived if I wasn't fully vaxxed. For a long time, I wished I hadn't survived.

I'm sorry you're having to move back with family. I hope you start to notice positive change, even if it's so incremental it's almost imperceptible. It was an unbelievably slow change for me, but it eventually became more exponential.

As the kid plays videogames or listens to music, nitrous oxide, an anesthetic gas, is emitted through the snorkel and puts the child to sleep.

Finally!

A humane way to euthanize our children!

It's all good! Gives me some peace of mind knowing what I'm capable of in an emergency.

I got really lucky with my eye.. another inch and I may have lost it. I'm honestly kind of disappointed that I didn't get a badass scar from that one.. haha. It's pretty light/hard to see.

It's the best shopping day of the year. I couldn't care less about football, but I love the superbowl because it means stores and roads are empty.

I took on a big stray that looked like a German Shepherd/Great Pyrenees mix that attacked my dog last year. He had my dog by the throat and my dog bit his lip.

I had never seen dogs raise up, locked together like these two did. They were on their hind legs locked by the flesh in each other's mouths.

I ran in like a cave man to intervene, fully expecting to get bit up. I tried to pry this dog's mouth open with my bare hands, but all my might wasn't enough and he crushed into my hands/fingers. I could hear the sound of what I can best describe as crunching sounds and chomping gristle.

That got my flight/fight fully kicked in, and then I pried his mouth open like it was nothing. I held him suspended by his open mouth and comanded my dog to release his lip, which he did.

I then sort of suplexed and wrestled the dog until mine was able to get to safety. My crimson red blood all over this snow white dog was so surreal.

Here are some photos of my injuries. My finger was fractured and I have scar tissue in that finger and on my tendons in my left hand, which causes some trouble. Could've been a lot worse. My right middle finger still causes me a bit of pain, but I can push thru it to play piano/video games/type. No regrets. I love my dogs more than myself and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.