Please, for all of our sakes, don't hate yourself. No one needs to see the nightmares self-loathing can seek out.
What have you learned today?
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"Oh no, not again."
(Sorry. It's so rare that I get a chance to make a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference. I couldn't resist.)
It's been done, gloriously so, sort of ...
Stoats will apparently eat the brains of rabbits and then leave the rest of the corpse for later.
Best of luck.
The sad fact is that's insanely cheap for medical care by US standards. One of the wealthiest nations in the world, but somehow can't afford proper healthcare for some reason.
Yeh, officially on the transplant candidate list since this friday. The costs' not really an issue, the actual tough part is going to be the wait. 2-5 years on average, tho it'll probably be on the shorter end of that range since I'm relatively young and otherwise healthy.
I am well aware of how cheap it is compared to other places. You know, a lot of Belgian people, myself included, frequently balk at how much tax we pay, we're like nr 8 in the top 10 highest tax burden in the world. But on the flipside, basically no one fears going to the doctor. Or rather, they do, but for worry of getting bad medical news, not the bill.
I learned John Wayne was a bit of a shit.
www.snopes.com
I mean, I knew he was very Republican/Conservative and while I don't normally agree with them I try to give them to benefit of the doubt but I didn't realize he was a fucking racist POS.
Both the fact he tried to yank someone offstrage at the Oscars for asking that Native Americans be portrayed better in films, but this little gem.
“I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.”-John Wayne.
Burn in Hell, John Wayne.
Did John Wayne Try To Pull Sacheen Littlefeather Offstage at 1973 Oscars?
After Will Smith's "slap heard around the world" in 2022, another historic Oscars moment went viral.
www.snopes.com
I mean, I knew he was very Republican/Conservative and while I don't normally agree with them I try to give them to benefit of the doubt but I didn't realize he was a fucking racist POS.
Both the fact he tried to yank someone offstrage at the Oscars for asking that Native Americans be portrayed better in films, but this little gem.
“I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.”-John Wayne.
Burn in Hell, John Wayne.
I know it would probably never end up being of use to you in particular, but I have "organ donor" selected on my driver's license. If only more people did....
When my wife and I did our last Will and testament (as a formality) I included an item that when I die, I am to be harvested for anything of use. Need blood? My body has eight pints I am no longer using; bring a big bag. Is my heart viable for someone? Go forth and heal, little surgeon. Honestly the less of me left after death means less money on a coffin. If they do a ruthless enough job my remains should fit inside my old PC case and that’s coffin enough for me.
Here in waffleland it's opt out i.e. everyone's a potential organ donor by default and you have to make a formal statement in writing that you don't want your organs to be put to good use should you come to pass.
This explains a good bit to why Japanese people are how they are -
TL;DR - They live on one of, if not the most disaster-prone places on earth, and their disposition on pretty much everything involving self-preservation as a society is affected by that accordingly. Also, they’re historically pretty big on following rules and preserving order, even via drastic measures if the good of the whole calls for it.
TL;DR - They live on one of, if not the most disaster-prone places on earth, and their disposition on pretty much everything involving self-preservation as a society is affected by that accordingly. Also, they’re historically pretty big on following rules and preserving order, even via drastic measures if the good of the whole calls for it.
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Interesting; didn't know there was that perception of the Japanese. While I hate to generalize, they've always struck me as almost overly polite, honest and adhereing to strict codes of honor. Maybe that's the trade off: "we've given you the utmost respect, after that, you're on your own."
More like: "we'll give you the upmost respect as long as you follow The Rules". And I don't mean, like, laws. Japan has a lot of thriving counter cultures because deviancy from the social norm is excessively frowned upon. The nail that sticks up is the one that gets hammered down and all that
Word of warning to anyone with young kids and Ring “security” cameras -
www.intheknow.com
Parents unplug Ring after 3-year-old claims voice keeps offering him ice cream at night: ‘So scary’
Over 19 million people have watched the chill-inducing footage.
What several people I know who have lived in Japan for a while have independently commented on is that Japanese people seem to have a very internalized sense of their own national character regardless of whether or not they actually align with it. There's a bunch of accepted wisdom about what Japanese people are like as an ethnicity which people don't typically think to question. In reality, of course, Japanese people are as diverse and culturally complex as any ethnic group on the planet. But there's a kind of learned cultural blindness towards the ways in which individuals and their character and behaviour doesn't necessarily align with the supposed Japanese national character.
I think there's definitely a strong ethos of institutional conformity and social inhibition in Japan, to the degree that it's actually a huge problem for society, but in terms of culture and character Japanese people are typically far more individualistic than they seem to believe they are.
Today I learned that GigaChad is a thing.
Apparently for a few years now, there've been mysterious images of this super alpha-male specimen of a man floating around the internet that've relatively recently raised suspicions that he might not actually exist as he's impossibly perfect. This video suggests it's likely an art project by a woman who photoshopped images of her boyfriend to make him appear to be the ideal man. Still, like a creepy pasta, I love the idea of shit like this that toys with people's imaginations and gives no direct answers. For all we know, GigaChad is at Walmart right now buying new underwear and t-shirts because, yet again, his glutes and pecs have torn through his old stuff...
Also, YouTube, why did your algorithm think I wanted to see a video about a perfect male body? I did watch it, but that's on YOU... Tube.
Apparently for a few years now, there've been mysterious images of this super alpha-male specimen of a man floating around the internet that've relatively recently raised suspicions that he might not actually exist as he's impossibly perfect. This video suggests it's likely an art project by a woman who photoshopped images of her boyfriend to make him appear to be the ideal man. Still, like a creepy pasta, I love the idea of shit like this that toys with people's imaginations and gives no direct answers. For all we know, GigaChad is at Walmart right now buying new underwear and t-shirts because, yet again, his glutes and pecs have torn through his old stuff...
Also, YouTube, why did your algorithm think I wanted to see a video about a perfect male body? I did watch it, but that's on YOU... Tube.