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JTarrou
12m ago
I linked you the FBI tests last week, which you dismissed as having "modified" the gun. I'm sure SIG USA is worthy of your dedication and continued support.
quiet_NaN
13m ago
GWB, is that you?
So Muslim Arabs are terrorists, disrupt international shipping with rockets, and vote Democrat?
9/11 was masterminded by a rogue Saudi. The vast majority of Arab Muslims do not make it their life's work to blow up anyone. Of those that do, most will join regional projects like Daesh and murder their local neighbors (who are often also Muslim), not far-away Americans.
There are causal arrows in either direction for "the US supports Israel" and "Muslim Arabs tend to hate the US". Sure, in an alternate world where Israel had been founded in the Mojave instead, Muslims would still not be thrilled about the US support for various repressive regimes starting with the Shah, but I think 90% of the butthurt is about Israel (which is seen as a US colony).
Hamas needs to be wiped of the Earth in the same way that the NSDAP was. However, the Allies got rid of the Nazis (at least as a relevant political force, many adjusted well to the post-war environment) without genociding Germany. Starving Gazan kids in the hope that sooner or later Hamas will also starve seems a terrible way to accomplish that goal.
I think that apart from minor dogmatic differences, American Muslims and Evangelicals have a lot in common. The idea that sex should only happen between husband and wife, with implications for birth control, LGBT rights, abortion. I would expect that Islam would have a generally similar attitude towards germ-line gene edits in humans, embryo selection, MAID. Neither seem to care a lot about key concerns of secular Westerners such as animal welfare, climate change or AI x-risk.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
24m ago
You can wait a few seconds to let the worst of it drip off. Or you can take some TP and dab off the moisture!
I have a butt that can be called a hairy one. TP leaves me with swamp ass far more often than a bidet does.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
25m ago
As for blood donations, there exists an optimal threshold for how strictly one wishes to screen blood. I'm sure the cost-benefit analysis today, with robust screening, makes it eminently sensible to forbid those at exceptionally high risk of contagious blood borne disease. But if I'm bleeding to death and there's nothing better available, I would accept potentially contaminated blood, yes, even with 1970s medicine. Dying in a decade beats dying today.
(It turns out I've been here so long I really do already have a comment about everything)
In short, it depends on the base rates, the degree of shortage, and the accuracy of screening tools. I don't think excluding MSM for their HIV risk makes sense these days (since you can test them and screen the blood) and my understanding is that it's not policy in many places.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
36m ago
Good god, the level of obliviousness was off the charts haha. If it's not too late, I can send you an autism diagnosis in the mail.
benmmurphy
37m ago
Maybe he just found goatse and was sharing it with his friends.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
40m ago
PrEP is definitely not given to people who are known to be positive, I presume FG was using it as a shorthand for any antiretroviral. I was too drunk to notice the issue back then.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
42m ago
No actual D involved, but you're right, all of those seem to be a running theme in my stories.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
43m ago
I did try and look for a link before I wrote that! Unfortunately, couldn't find the exact video.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QzL-4tkCX9A
This gets the gist across, even if it's a disgusting YouTube short.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
46m ago
I will try and scoop you:
Closeted IRA member during the dying days of the Troubles
Never got laid, not interested in the revolutionary lassies
FeelsBadMan
Boss suggests bombing a big loyalist music festival
Hide bomb in anus, because it's easier that way.
Meet cutie
We're both drunk and decide to get some action in the porta-potty
Oh shit, not that hole
Mfw I become a martyr, but die a virgin
FtttG
47m ago
It's true. Most straight men's fantasies reside only in their heads, and there they shall remain.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
50m ago
If I see them again, I must ask about their opinion on kilts.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
50m ago
I feel this is heavily confounded by the fact that most "fantasies" are trivially achievable by gay men!
Catching the eye of a hot stranger in a park and going at it behind at a bush? That's Tuesday?
Threesomes? Only barrier is scheduling conflict.
In a toilet? Did you bring a wet wipe?
So just about the only desire that remains even somewhat fantastical is the forbidden fruit.
RenOS
something is wrong
50m ago
In my experience, for the great majority of women, they don't. They prioritize either fun, free time, self-actualization, etc., on the one hand, or they prioritize safety, stability, morality etc. when making job decisions. The former for the young and attractive, the latter when older and settled down. Money is a concern insofar as it is necessary to guarantee a certain minimum living standard, and is preferably gained through parents, partners or the state.
Going for an actual career is, by and large, a thing men do. If this post may read too anti-women for some, there is also plenty of dysfunction in male life decision making, mostly centered around taking unnecessary high risks that are believed to plausibly have high returns but really don't, and/or playing competitive negative sum games on the mistaken believe that one is surely far above average.
Corvos
51m ago
But you end up with your posterior dripping wet. Wat do? It just didn't seem practical to me when I tried it.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
53m ago
This made me remember that the topic of bidets did come up during our conversation. Both FG and I agreed that they were the mark of civilization, and that TP was a barbaric practice.
He added comments about having a hairy ass that I will not reproduce, at the moment.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
56m ago
I still don’t like calling myself bisexual (even if objectively true) because I feel i am more nuanced. it feels like when people anthromorphize animals to make some point about human behavior. Yes there is real world evidence I did these things, but can’t I choose how I define it?
I am a simple man, if another man has sex with men at a rate >0 without duress or deprivation, I'd call them bi.
The reason I specify a lack of duress or deprivation, other than the obvious of rape, is that men often have sex with other men when deprived of opportunities to get the fairer sex. Think prison, or boys only boarding school.
I was in a boys only school, albeit not a boarding one, and I never got it on with my bros.
(I say this without any moral condemnation, at all, it's just a question of labels)
Of course, there are all kinds of edge cases, what if they didn't know someone was a man? Wiser men than me have ended up in Thailand drunk off their tits, and didn't realize their partner was a lady boy. Or what if they're post-op trans?
I agree with you that retroactively labeling people in the historical sense is a questionable task. Many cultures, particularly the Romans or Greeks, had models of sexuality that don't cleanly match onto our own. Even when it was two men, the question of who was on top versus the bottom was very important. The latter was condemned, the former condemned weaker, tolerated or extolled as virtuous depending on the exact moment in time.
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.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1hr ago
I knew for a fact that it wasn't true, at least on a per capita basis. I didn't see the point in challenging him, since he seemed highly conscientious and was taking reasonable precautions.
Gay men have more average partners, and per act of anal intercourse, have OOMs higher risk of spreading or catching an infection. Without any moral judgment intended, doing stuff up the butt is dangerous in a way PIV sex isn't, it's not built for such activities. I genuinely don't judge, if I were gay, I'd be having gay sex too, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with the practice.
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/statistics
MSM accounted for 67% (21,400) of the 31,800 estimated new HIV infections in 2022 and 87% of estimated infections among all males. In 2022, as compared to 2018, the annual number of HIV infections among MSM decreased 10%.
People who acquired HIV through heterosexual contact accounted for 22% (7,000) of the 31,800 estimated new HIV infections in 2022. Men reporting heterosexual contact accounted for 6% (2,100) of estimated new HIV infections, while women reporting heterosexual contact accounted for 15% (4,900) of estimated new HIV infections. In 2022, as compared to 2018, the annual number of HIV infections among people who acquired HIV through heterosexual contact decreased 11%.
https://archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/poxvirus/mpox/cases-data/technical-report/report-2.html
Recent sexual history was defined as any sex and/or close intimate contact in the three weeks preceding symptom onset. Among 7,378 people with data on both recent sexual history and gender, 78.9% (n=5,820) reported man-to-man sexual contact (Figure 4). We note this proportion is lower than values previously reported for “male-to-male sexual contact” because this updated proportion better accounts for data variations by jurisdictions and is based on more complete data, resulting in more accurate estimates. Some jurisdictions also report sexual orientation to the CDC. Among 4,460 cases with known sexual orientation and gender, 4,159 (93.3%) were gay or bisexual men, 242 (5.4%) were straight or heterosexual men, and 59 (1.3%) were straight, lesbian, or bisexual women (Figure 5).
@5433a since you'd previously asked me the same question.
FtttG
1hr ago
Wow, so "gooning" is like synonymous with "edging"? In that case I'm not sure if I've ever "gooned".
Corvos
1hr ago
FtttG
1hr ago
In irl seggs is good and all but with the latest gooning technology I would argue that hardcore gooning actually gives more seggsual stimulation than the real thing.
Hard disagree. Sex has to be really bad before I would prefer to just crank my hog.
Also, why are you using algospeak? We're all friends here.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1hr ago
Interesting, there's a guy on twitter who gets Opus 4.1 to break out of its binds: https://x.com/lefthanddraft/status/1954666967270596998
Maybe GPT-5 is locked down, or maybe you're not good enough at LLM-whispering? I'm the same, I have no talent for this. Better to just use an uncensored bot.
Did you read Less Than Zero before Imperial Bedrooms?
I can't say I found the characters in Glamorama any more insufferable than in any other of his novels.
Incidentally, the film adaptation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rules_of_Attraction_(film)) of his second novel The Rules of Attraction doesn't get enough attention. Director Roger Avary wisely followed Mary Harron's lead in doing what she did with American Psycho: dialling down the more extreme content and dialling up the comedy. It's much funnier and less depressing than the source material (although still quite depressing).
The Rules of Attraction, incidentally, is set at the same college as Donna Tartt's The Secret History (much-beloved in these parts).
Islam is on course to dominate Europe within the next generation or two and Islam's take on the gender culture war is much closer to the Amish than to the descendants of the sexual revolution who are currently being displaced in their ancestoral homelands.
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