“Most people used the iron lung for a few weeks or months depending on the intensity of the polio attack. However, those with chest muscles permanently paralyzed by the disease need it for their lifetime.”
I am not any kind of medical professional so I can’t personally vouch for it, but here’s where I got the quote
https://www.medicinenet.com/how_long_can_you_live_in_an_iron_lung/article.htm
I hate looking at this but I am enthralled by the art style. The way the artist adds texture to the clothing and skin with like… black smudges over the color is wild (Feel free to correct me if there’s a proper term for that technique)
I think the problem is less horny 14yos and more the fact that they listen to scum like Andrew Tate or the Paul brothers growing up. I see so many teenagers who live a life where the only voice in their life that speaks positively of/to them is the chud on social media trying to groom them into an angry incel. Let’s be better than blaming children for the fact that we as a society have given up the act of raising kids in favor of generating more shareholder value. It’s not the kids’ fault that both of their parents probably work 50+ hour weeks to survive and youtube is the only parent in the house most of the time
The one I remember most clearly is like… sorry in advance for tmi. Do not continue reading if you dont want to read a sex story
So we tended to do a decent amount of foreplay, and this night it was really hot and heavy. She was really seductively trying to get me to say I needed to be inside her, and we were on that line of fooling around for a while in a way we were both really into. At one point I’m on my back and she’s teasing me while straddling me, and I finally give in and tell her I need her. What does she do? Gives me the most Samuel Jackson ass expression she can muster and a “shit negro, that’s all you had to say!” I almost died laughing
The best sex I’ve ever had was with a woman who regularly (temporarily) cockblocked herself by making me laugh so hard I couldn’t stay hard
“Would you like to make a donation to our corporate tax bill?”
Never give em a cent. They make enough money to donate themselves if they want the tax benefits of charity, and you can always donate directly to charity without it being laundered through some corporation that is literally only doing it because they get to claim YOUR charity on their taxes that way.
My biological father did that shit every time we went to a restaurant while I was growing up. Then he’d usually try to get them to flirt with me, starting from when I was like 8. I still hate going to restaurants with table service decades later
Surely they’ll forget about bread if the circus is entertaining enough, right?
Same but I still keep the gun around in case any printers sneak back in
Thanks! Trying right now to figure out how to ask my former advisors for letters of rec without explaining my motivations, which heavily imply that I think they’re in denial about their work being “make tools for fascists”
Was working on a PhD in CS focused on industrial cybersecurity, though current events involving the three letter agency that funded my research lead to me crashing out and now I’m trying to get into law school and do immigration law. Far too frail and pasty to buy a farm though
What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent fascist meal? Get your hands off my florida!
Id argue its still valid. Given that the people in charge (US perspective) dont give a shit about us beyond our productivity, $2tril of economic damage is probably exactly the same to them as being hit by a nuke. Honestly it might even hurt the parasite class more than a nuke because at least with a nuke they’d have pretense to go to war over it
I learned from a few years of working with deep south boomer narcissists that you can basically own their budget if you know how to make them think your idea was their idea, and its not hard at all to do that.
“Hey <Boomer>, remember when you brought up <idea>? (They don’t remember because it’s actually your novel idea, but they’ll never admit that.) I think your <idea> would be really great because [some reason with numbers, jargon, and the word man-hours]”
Seriously. It works almost as well as being an attractive young woman in terms of how much it lets you manipulate them (which is creepy on its face, but I’ve got mad respect for the women I’ve worked with who knew how to exploit boomer creepiness into puppeteering them)
Loved catholic school. I never went, but there was a catholic school near my highschool and my horny bicurious (at the time) teenage self benefited greatly from it
Would be dope if she actually turns over a new leaf. Im not willing to bet anything on it, but I’m willing to engage in a bit of cautious optimism and see if she lives by those words over the next few years
Funny in a sick, dark humour kind of way. A lot of people don’t understand how jokes can be a defense mechanism people learn in response to repeated or extended trauma and mistake that behaviour as making light of the situation. I laughed, but this also strikes me as the kind of meme I would only selectively send to friends of mine who have also been through hell and learned to cope with dark humour. I completely understand laughing at this meme while still being furious at the underlying situation