southsamurai

One massive problem. Trying up find where you import your library, and it isn't detectable with five minutes of looking. That should be the first, easiest thing to find

Gavin Newsome needs to suck the peanuts out of my poo

Damn, I thought sharkey was dead!

Glad to see it isn't :)

Ngl, there's still plenty of assholes in the current crop of under 30s and under 20s.

But, yeah, there's a lot more of this kind of acceptance and decency. It's a beautiful thing to see. I got to see a similar wave of change back in the nineties with gay people, men in specific, where the millennials were essentially defaulting to acceptance or outright active support. For my generation, we had a longer road to divest ourselves of outdated thinking, so watching acceptance spread was a different experience than watching the next generation just grow up without as much baggage.

Again, no generation has ever, or will ever, be a monolith of bottled belief. But it does seem like the curve of decency on average is looking really damn good right now.

Have you heard the original Dolly Parton version of I will always love you? She's got a less forceful voice in general, and her version was a much gentler delivery on top of that.

Not saying anything about you liking or not liking the song, just curious if it's Whitney that's the problem, the arrangement, or the song itself.

Honestly, I tend to be pretty capable of tolerating songs I don't like. It's artists and a small range of genres that give me trouble.

About the only song I can think of that comes close was that first backstreet boys song. Can't remember the name, but it was the one that was all over the radio from their first album.

I liked other songs, but that one was such a generic pile of dreck that it came close to being intolerable from the beginning, and eventually got there. But even that, at first, it was just something I didn't like and disliked strongly, but I could sit through it if necessary. It took a week or two before it reached nails-on-chalkboard levels.

Now, genre wise, contemporary christian just grates on me. Even the songs that are otherwise almost listenable suffer from the bland composition and empty lyrics that make them annoying. Since I've also dealt with people in the industry around the genre, including performers, knowing that those lyrics are utter bullshit to the vast majority of the idiots singing them makes it a very unpleasant thing.

CC suffers from the same cookie cutter writing that Nashville country does, but lacks the redeeming qualities of at least being catchy if you don't pay attention to the lyrics.

Which, cookie cutter country isn't something I can handle a lot of at once. But I can tolerate it.

Then again, I listen to death and black metal regularly, so I know damn good and well that what one person can enjoy is abrasive to others, and vice versa. So I tend not to judge the listener by what they listen to.

I find this more motivational than the way it was supposedly meant to be read

Queer up!

Familiar

So, mint with cinnamon

Well, the key word is usually

Late term vanishing twin syndrome is a thing. It comes with its own set of issues as well. Since its also extremely rare, you'd have to be some kind of nerd to know it exists unless you're an obgyn or at least a maternity nurse. I am neither an obgyn or a maternity nurse.

When it happens late term, and 7 months is very late term for it, you get an increased rush of complications, some of which can negatively impact the development of the remaining fetus. Hell, from what I remember, late term absorption tends to happen because there's something going wrong already. Iirc (and don't try to cite me on a test or anything), just being a little too cramped can trigger it, though it would be a very rare trigger for an already absurdly rare thing.

So, my best guess as a non doctor with zero access to the records of the pregnancy in question is that something happened to put the pregnancy at risk, and either your mom's body or yours set off the cascade leading to the failure of the other fetus. It isn't something that happens that late without some triggering event that's outside of a normal pregnancy. When it happens early on, it's a different story, it can happen for no detectable reason at all. But late term? Something went wrong that made it happen.

I'd have to go digging, and I'm currently brain fried, but one of the more common triggers worldwide is/was malnutrition. When the mother isn't getting resources to grow both critters, either her body shifts to support one exclusively, or one of the two essentially cannibalizes the other. That one (again, I'm old and tired, so the iirc factor is iffy here) is most likely to happen when the twins share a placenta, or something like that (see, old man brain missing details).

Since you've said in comments that you were placed in an unusual orientation and/or location, that would point to some kind of issue with the uterus not having enough room for both fetuses (fetii? I think I like that better despite it not being duet correct lol). I seem to recall a case in India where a woman prone to twins had a pregnancy where this happened because her uterus had lost the ability to stretch the way they normally do. Something about scar tissue maybe? Been ages since I read about this stuff.

Anyway, late term vanishing twin syndrome is the terminology I know of. If there's another, more formal terminology, iam not aware of it.

It's a reference to a movie of the same name.

The gist is that at one point, Sophie is forced to choose which of her children die.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/23942074

They said it better than I can

But I also get where you're coming from; the prompt itself is weak and leaves several assumptions out that would make better answers possible from an llm.

One of these days I'm going ti watch the entire existing seasons. I've only caught some here and there, so this was totally new for me :)

Oh damn, looks like I'm about to stick my foot in it.

First, it's stupid that this is a criminal matter. If home boy is allowed to shoot a deer, cut it up, eat it, and make shoes out of it, who gives a flying fuck if he fucks the body first? Yeah, it's gross, but does it really need to come to jail time? It's a fucking waste of resources. Nobody fucking a dead animal is going to be rehabilitated by jail, period. Ain't happening.

With that out of the way, lemme step into the way back machine.

Now, there used to be dark corners of reddit, and there have always been dark corners of the internet.

So, for anyone that never took a shitty energizer flashlight and went poking into those dark corners looking for entertainment and/or education, I am the proud bearer of bad news.

This ain't a one-off event. People fucking their dead prey is sooooo not a new thing. While it's fair to call it rare, it's not exactly a 1 in a billion thing either.

On reddit, there were multiple people willing to admit to this behavior, and back in the early days of the internet past the aol era, there were a ton of chat rooms where the ugly side of humanity was there for the viewing. If one is able to stay relaxed and non judgemental in their responses (no matter what's going on in your head), people will open up about anything.

When it's something this deviant (and I mean it in the literal sense, not as an insult), you might be amazed how many people want to share their darkness.

So I've talked to people for whom this is a fantasy, as well as those that have done it.

Most of them, and they were all men except one, talked about the adrenaline rush of hunting leading to heightened arousal. In that sense, it's really the same underlying motivation as people fucking after their team wins the Superbowl, or after their own sport victory (and lemme tell you that arousal after contact sports or martial arts training is a very potent thing and can lead to much fun).

It's only the detail of it that's deviant, not the underlying mechanisms. It's wanting to fuck an animal, and wanting to fuck something dead that's unusual, not the wanting to fuck after a big spike of emotions and chemicals. Couples that hunt together are a perfect example, because there is plenty of fucking in camp when people succeed in their hunt. Hell, doesn't even have to be a hunt. Fishing camps can be a fuckfest. Birders cam get frisky when they find something rare to point their binoculars at.

But, a lone hunter feeling that arousal on doe days? Yeah, I'm betting it happens way more than even what I'm aware of. I know there's guys that have shoved their things into bucks to begin with, so a doe with an actual vagina? Anyone without a very tough inhibition filter that also isn't bothered by the idea to begin with is a deer fucker waiting to happen.

I'm not saying I approve of it. I'm not even saying that it isn't a sign of some serious issues. I'm just saying that humans like to fuck. And there's a very primitive part of us that doesn't really care what. The barriers to fucking things other than sexually mature humans are largely learned, not inherent in our brains.

You ever hear the saying that every mouth feels the same in the dark? In terms of raw sensation, our most primitive segments involved with arousal and orgasm have zero concern about what's providing the stimulus, only that it's there. There's a reason that victims of sexual assault can not only experience physical arousal no matter how much they hate what's happening, but can be forced to orgasm. It isn't a purely voluntary process.

So, if someone is already willing to ignore social mores and standard ethics or morals, the step from being willing to fuck some random animal to fucking a dead one isn't a big leap.

And those folks that were willing to talk about their urges to fuck their prey? They weren't usually freaks in general. They held down jobs, had families, had friends, they just got caught up in the rush of it. It's like those folks that will escalate risk taking to the point of self destruction just for a buzz from it. Yeah, there were truly antisocial people doing it, but they weren't the majority.

Now, this guy? Dude very likely could benefit from extensive therapy. Might even be the sort to let his inner self switch from animals to human bodies. No clue, but I still don't think jail is a useful solution to the problem he poses. Mandatory treatment? Yeah, maybe, and that has to go through criminal proceedings, but it's really closer to something like alcoholism in the way it needs to be sentenced.

Yeah, late nineties had some seriously great games. I sometimes get nostalgic for the gen before that too. The SNES in particular had mariokart, and we played a ton of that here. Me, my mom, my sister, and my partner at the time would just dog each other on it lol.

Strangely, I don't get much nostalgia for the older console games from when I was a kid. Now, arcade games, holy crap. I'd love to have pacman and centipede machines in particular, if I was stupid rich. There's something super immersive about the machines that doesn't hit the same with clones. Besides, the track ball on centipede was just so much a part of the gameplay that it isn't fun without it for me.

My nose gave it away, didn't it?

Our rooster wasn't supposed to be a rooster.

He's become a much loved yard (and occasionally inside) buddy when he isn't being a jerk.

So far, he's fought off one specific dog three different times. One of those times he literally broke a spur off in the dog's ass. He's also run off a coyote and a raccoon.

We aren't supposed to have roosters in town limits, but idngaf at this point. Even when he gets all het up and wants to bite my ass (literally), he's both an incredible defender and source of joy.

Holy hell, that was a difficult read.

What she went through, the pain she still lives with, it's horrifying. I'm amazed she's functional. I really don't think I would be, not at all

Which wave?

Or are you just talking in the general sense?

I ask because I've heard the term applied specifically to the Chinese workers on the railroads in the late 1800s, here in the US, plus another that came between the end of the first World war and some time after the end of the second.

In the specific senses, it's too far in the past for me to think of it much at all. The more modern wave has essentially integrated and their descendants are just plain old americans for the most part; meaning they hang onto the parts of their ancestral culture to the degree they want, and otherwise may not have any connection in that regard. So it's more a point of historical interest than something influential on current events. That seems to be the prevailing take I've run into with others as well.

More recent immigrants, I don't have enough experience to have formed an overall take. My area doesn't run high to Chinese immigrants. We get more folks from the Americas and African nations. But I haven't had any standout bad encounters, nor have I seen any patterns that would make it seem like a bad thing.

Can't lie, racism against asian folks in general is present here. It isn't as prevalent as that against Latinos, Africans or African-Americans, but it's there. Afaik, nobody thinks of it as an overarching "thing" at all. Folks here tend to look at immigration on a smaller scale than a diaspora. If there isn't a significant inrush of a given group, nobody really notices.

Man, whatever translation service you used needs to be spanked

Scree

It's just a gnarly word. It's like something a kaiju expels as a battle cry