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erwgv3g34
1d ago
RenOS
something is wrong
1d 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.
quiet_NaN
1d 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
1d 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?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
1d ago
I don't understand how a totally shambolic municipal election has become so nationally prominent.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
1d ago
If everything you believe you've learned about women from PUA is true then it should require massive amounts of shortsightedness to think you can "keep" a girlfriend or wife's attraction on any significant large scale of time. Chances of cheating will only increase as you approach 40s, your wife approaches 30s and younger, more jacked, more exciting playboys around her remain in their 20s.
Hieronymus
1d ago
I was just watching this review of the Framework desktop based on that chip earlier today. If you need more RAM and memory bandwidth than you do compute, it seems neat.
BahRamYou
1d ago
I also appreciate your posts. Modern "dating" just seems like the mother of all coordination problems. And people have been playing defect for so long that we've forgotten what it's even like for cooperation to be possible. The guys bragging about their success seem like some "fisherman" who's bragging about how he made a bunch of quick cash using dynamite to exterminate an entire lake of fish.
Tetridict
1d ago
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.
JTarrou
1d 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
1d 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
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1d 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
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1d 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
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1d 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
1d ago
Maybe he just found goatse and was sharing it with his friends.
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1d 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
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1d ago
No actual D involved, but you're right, all of those seem to be a running theme in my stories.
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1d 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
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1d 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
1d ago
It's true. Most straight men's fantasies reside only in their heads, and there they shall remain.
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1d ago
If I see them again, I must ask about their opinion on kilts.
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1d 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.
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.
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