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birb_cromble
14m ago
What's your theory here? Broken sear spring and broken striker safety spring and the same time? That's mechanically plausible.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
22m ago
If they're using AI for this purpose, well, that would be unusually forward thinking for the Turkish military. It probably doesn't take long for a military psychiatrist to take a look at an image, and trust me, we've seen much worse so it's not an onerous task.
I have never needed to dodge a draft, but I could see worse options on the table. Paying a gay man a few bucks to put on a condom and stick it in? Do you even have to pay? On the topic of AI, I'm sure it would be possible to deepfake it.
Astranagant
22m ago
I don't believe that it was "designed" to be anything. It's simply male sexuality in its most natural and unrestrained form.
Yup. Gay male sexuality is just pure-strain male sexuality, free from the fetters of women's preferences and demands.
So too is lesbian sexuality unmodified female sexuality, and lesbian bed death is a common thing.
SigurdsSilverSword
25m ago
I'd be down as well
Astranagant
25m ago
The idea of it is hotter than the reality. I've been a couple people's "exception", as a pretty and feminine looking guy.
It's not really worth it. They don't know what they're doing.
birb_cromble
25m ago
I linked you the FBI tests last week, which you dismissed as having "modified" the gun
Let's revisit that. I specifically asked you if that was the investigation where they had to cut the slide. You did not respond.
@FtSoA did make that statement, but I am not him. Please do not put words in my mouth; it's disrespectful and lowers the quality of the discourse.
However, since you can't seem to tell the US apart, I'm going to quote him from another comment that you ignored.
The problem with the first issue is that the window the FBI cut into the slide (in order to examine the striker safety spring under recoil) is part of what retains the spring. By removing that material, the spring was able to move.
Shall we keep "modified" in quotes, or can we accept that the word is appropriate here?
I'm m sure SIG USA is worthy of your dedication and continued support.
That's unnecessary, man. Who pissed in your Cheerios today?
2rafa
26m ago
Most non-rustbelt cities have some kind of successful local business or industry, surely. I think this is the big advantage of medicine, sales, and to some extent IT/sysadmin work. In other industries you actually have to be in NYC, LA, SF, Texas, whatever. If you have a job title that is both necessary but that any medium sized or above business needs a couple of, you can move back to your hometown with a 90th percentile (locally) job and live a great, striving-free life.
Coming close to a completed second draft of my NaNoWriMo project, which now sits just shy of 111k words (17% shorter than the first draft, which was 133k). I'm planning to print a hard copy on Friday for the missus to read.
FtttG
27m ago
Yes, but in this particular gay bar the condoms and lube are given away for free in common areas, as opposed to being available for sale in the toilets.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
27m ago
Most people don't even use TP in India! When it's there, it's present as an adjunct to the bidet.
My provisional guidance is:
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Use the bidet
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Wait up to a minute for the majority of the water to drip off
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If it doesn't seem to be dry enough, use TP. I rarely need to do this, waiting long enough dries it up naturally as far as I can tell. I would assume that using multiple strips and folding them would help with the flakiness. Even if you don't use TP, whatever residual dampness remains is readily handled by underwear, without causing swamp ass)
(You were in Japan, you've seen bidets that look like they came from the 22nd century. I don't know how they solve the issue there, but it's probably more elegant)
New York City is rather large for a "municipality", if you weren't aware. It has twice as many people as the adjacent state of Connecticut (8.5 million vs. 3.7 million), and nine-tenths as many people as the adjacent state of New Jersey (9.5 million). And it contains Wall Street. It's practically as important as a state.
2rafa
30m ago
Even today, the Turkish army excludes people bottoming from the mandatory draft, but doesn't allow tops to use the same excuse. There are doctors working for the government whose job it is to look at pictures of people getting their backs blown out, while having to decide if that counts.
I wonder if AI makes this easier, although I presume there are simpler ways for the committed pacifist and/or coward to get out of it.
I remember my grandfather saying that in the US military during the war there were countless easy ways for someone smart to avoid actual front line combat, but they had to join first so as to allow the military the plausible deniability central to conscription; it is important for the fighting plebs to believe that nobody is “getting away with it” lest overall morale suffer. He hated those people, even though after a relatively minor injury he sat out much of the war.
Astranagant
31m ago
I'd say the majority of straight bars I've been in have vending machines in the bathrooms for this. Maybe not lube, but that's just knowing your audience.
erwgv3g34
32m ago
RenOS
something is wrong
35m ago
I'm in a somewhat similar position as you. Currently employed as a postdoc at the local university, but not interested in becoming a professor, so I'm pretty much on borrowed time. I just want to avoid a career change while the kids are still small, and my prof is very relaxed so I earn well in comparison to the actual work I'm doing while having lots of free time to spend with family.
Teaching is definitely a good option if you enjoy it. I'm also looking into insurances since it's well-paid, quite safe and I studied math anyway so it's comparatively easy for me, but dunno how much of an option that is for you. Just general large local employers are usually always looking for many different positions as well.
erwgv3g34
43m ago
This is only true if you use cheap, thin toilet paper, the kind you find on gas stations. Buy thick toilet paper, or use paper towels if you absolutely must (you can cut a roll of paper towels in half to create ersatz toilet paper).
We got a bidet at work and it's great. I actively prefer going to the bathroom there, instead of at home where I have to make do with a wet wipe/toilet paper combo.
quiet_NaN
45m ago
Assisted suicide is never needed. Suicide is trivial, and obvious.
An able-bodied person has a million ways to kill themselves. It looks very different when you are paralyzed from the neck down and lying in a hospital bed with a heart rate monitor connected and a reanimation team on standby.
Reading between the lines of your post, you are saying that a person of sound mind should have the right to kill themselves. But for most rights people have, there is an assumption that they also have the right to hire others to secure their rights.
- I have the right to buy a car => I have the right to send a properly authorized agent to buy a car in my name.
- I have the right to defend myself (in some circumstances and jurisdictions) => I have the right to hire a bodyguard to defend me.
- I have the right to freedom of expression => I have the right to hire contractors to spread my ideas (e.g. running a webserver, or a billboard campaign) instead of just yelling them at random pedestrians.
- I have the right to face my accuser => I have the right to let my attorney cross-examine my accuser.
- I have the right to masturbate => I have the right to hire others to masturbate me (in the civilized world, anyhow).
Now, society can impose reasonable restrictions on what agents I am allowed to contract -- I can not send a 10yo to sign a contract in my name, and I certainly can not hire them as a prostitute.
Garden variety suicides are unregulated. You can't imprison a dead person, so there is little society can do to deter them. This leads to a lot of messes. Bystanders become traumatized, or get killed. People who survive but at large costs to their health. People who die on an impulse action they would have regretted five minutes later.
With homicides, there is a wide understanding that there are different categories, that some are vile crimes while others are tragedies or even completely justified. With suicides, there is little distinction that way. The lovesick 16yo and the 60yo cancer patient who jump of a bridge are lumped together in one category.
Rather than leave it up to chance who gets to die, I would prefer legalized but regulated suicides. Let the people who are of sound mind and have a stable commitment to end their lives do so with a minimum of harm to themselves and others, and delegitimize unilateral suicides. "If you want to exit the building, we ask that you walk out through the corridor and the front door and not try to jump through the closed window."
Corvos
59m ago
Forgive me for being disgusting (he said to the trained doctor) but loo paper is water-absorbing. If you wipe a wet bottom with loo paper, you’re going to get lots of shreds of paper stuck between your legs and what I can only describe as bum juice all over your hands. Whereas dry loo paper keeps everything on the right side of the barrier, especially if you fold it double.
Is loo paper different in India and other bidet-using countries? Thicker?
This is a lie. Twink death is a spook. It only happens to those who stop taking care of themselves.
What happens is there's a point where you can no longer effortlessly be a twink. And a lot of twinks, unused to making actual effort, let it fall by the wayside.
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