PapaEmeritusIII [any]

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Cake day: October 14th, 2020

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  • Yeah. Porn and stuff should definitely be kept to adults-only spaces of the internet, but also, we shouldn’t be making access more difficult than just requiring people to provide (or lie about) their age. If someone says they’re a kid in an adults-only space, bannin, and if any adults knowingly interact with minors in that space, bannin x1000, but I think that should be the extent of the moderation.

    Breaking the rules is a time-honored teenage tradition, and I think we should allow kids the privacy to break rules without having a digital surveillance record keeping track of all the rules they broke, if that makes sense.

    My stance on this has been consistent since my own teenage years (long ago). I just don’t chime in on these discussions very often.

    Tbf I wasn’t that interested in mainstream porn when I was a teen anyway - I was more into illustrations and written smut. I get that there’s an argument for mainstream porn being harmful and exploitative, but I don’t think digital surveillance is the solution to that problem.







  • My partner has a friend whose wife my partner and I both dislike! I refuse to do double dates because I know I’m not going to have a good time.

    She’s just such a lib - rich upbringing, distaste for unions, refusal to consider the possibility that things could get better through collective action. She has kind of a mean, spiteful sense of humor. She’s inconsiderate towards anyone she doesn’t like much (including my partner and I).

    She’s also homophobic/transphobic, even though she doesn’t think she is! She makes snide comments about her husband’s masculinity when he does anything that doesn’t read cishet to her. She even did it once with my partner! It was so pathetic! My partner and I aren’t insecure about his masculinity, so it was really funny to us and we still joke about it to this day.






  • Mother, said a small tomato caterpillar to a wasp,
    why are you kissing me so hard on my back?
    You’ll see, said the industrious wasp, deftly inserting
    a package of her eggs under the small caterpillar’s skin.
    Every day the small caterpillar ate and ate the delicious
    tomato leaves. I am surely getting larger, it said to itself.
    This was a sad miscalculation. The ravenous hatched
    wasp worms were getting larger. O world, the small
    caterpillar said, you were so beautiful. I am only a small
    tomato caterpillar, made to eat the good tomato leaves.
    Now I am so tired. And I am getting even smaller. Nature
    smiled. Never mind, dear, she said. You are a lovely link
    in the great chain of being. Think how lucky it is to be born.

    “Yes, Think” by Ruth Stone





  • Oh hey I saw something about this recently. I read the medicine subreddit cuz I’m a weirdo. Dunno if this will be helpful, but here’s what I saw one doctor type person post:

    Have them toss out half a bottle of afrin and mix with saline, use that for a week, then toss out half again and dilute again with saline, use for a week, continue diluting until they feel ready to go off. Sometimes a short oral pred burst is needed too unfortunately