rekabis
@rekabis@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Is passing a kidney stone as a man the real equivalent of a woman giving birth? Where do they register on the pain index/scale? 2 days ago:
You know there’s men that pay money to get bodily kicked in the nuts?
I know, it’s called marriage. Because it’s followed by divorce, which the great Robin Williams characterized it as “ripping a man’s genitals out through his wallet.”
And yet, men will eagerly climb back into the saddle again to be with another woman.
- Comment on Is passing a kidney stone as a man the real equivalent of a woman giving birth? Where do they register on the pain index/scale? 2 days ago:
There is a lot that is more painful than giving birth.
How would I, as a man, know this to be absolutely true?
Because many women, even after the most painful of childbirths possible, go “let’s try for another one!!”
Meanwhile, everyone who has had a kidney stone - or, to be traditional with this metaphor, a man who has been bodily kicked in the nuts - NEVER wants to go through that kind of pain ever again. And invariably not for any kind of benefit, even if it’s millions of dollars of tax-free cash.
- Comment on Anons text isn't green but that's far from the worst. 1 week ago:
BRAIN BLEACH
WHERE IS MY FUCKING BRAIN BLEACH
GODDAMMIT WHERE DID I PUT MY BRAIN BLEACH
- Comment on Cool Bug Fact #47 2 weeks ago:
The grammatically incorrect apostrophe in the title is really rustling my jimmies.
- Comment on As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely. 2 weeks ago:
I have always wondered if some griefer could find an exploit that leveraged the ban hammer… and used a script that just banned everyone.
Like, literally everyone. All at once. Bots. Humans. Mods. Admins. No distinction. If you log in using the front door, the account is banned.
I’m not much for chaos, but abrupt chaos at a deserving target would be enjoyable to rubberneck at.
- Comment on No, you can't keep your 20 year old dictionary password 3 weeks ago:
This was Microsoft - for their online services such as Hotmail or Outlook.com or Azure - well into the 21st century. They first lifted that limit in 1999, then re-established that in 2012. They only re-reversed it back to a longer option (up to 256 characters) in 2019.
Like, morons.
- Comment on No, you can't keep your 20 year old dictionary password 3 weeks ago:
And more and more businesses are also limiting what characters you use.
Like, my random generator uses characters from the entire European UTF-8 printable character set. This expands the number of usable characters from about 68-74 (the typical uppercase, lowercase, 0-9 & special characters) to about 1,200 characters. This includes all Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek variations used across Europe.
Just using the wider UTF-8 range nearly always doubles the bitwise complexity (as KeePass measures it) if not more, thereby dramatically reducing the ability for the password to be brute-forced. Not to mention using characters that are not expected to be in passwords in the first place - most brute forcing simply doesn’t account for that where a primarily English-speaking victim set is concerned.
Plus, the passwords are not short. I usually prefer 32 characters, and in important/mission-critical services I expand it to 64 characters.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 5 weeks ago:
Some exobiologists have also suggested that even if we settle habitable worlds with active biospheres, there is so much research needed to ensure biocompatibility that anyone settling there would be quarantined for the first century or two in order to suss out any long-term pathogen or other nasty. And that if one is found, those settlers would be SOL without an effective cure.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 5 weeks ago:
It takes a few eggs out of our current basket and puts it into other nearby baskets, so as to avoid complete species failure if our original basket falls or gets dropped.
Not the most ideal solution, as we should really step out of our stellar neighbourhood to achieve lasting civilizational redundancy, but it’s far better than not taking any eggs out of the current basket at all.
Plus, incremental efforts in achieving civilizational redundancy always have better results than great leaps, both in terms of consistency as well as resiliency. Figuring things out a bit at a time is nearly always more effective than trying to solve everything all at once.
- Comment on Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter 1 month ago:
Jury nullification has its place. This is one of them.
I am shocked at how free speech has been censored in so many western countries. A requirement to prove your statements, fine. A prohibition on patently false statements, sure. Let’s put guardrails up that nerf clearly bad actors like holocaust deniers and other bigots that target large swaths of humanity.
But being arrested protesting AGAINST genocide? Holy hell, things have gotten bad over there. As a Canadian, I feel sorry for my political parents.
- Comment on Dealing With An Aussie Phone Company 1 month ago:
That is maybe the most Aussie text chat I have seen in a damn long time.
- Comment on The book I borrowed and was reading became unavailable in the US *while I was reading it* 1 month ago:
How TF does this happen to a book sitting in your hands? I have never had this happen to any of my books, hardcover or paperback.
- Comment on Those damned leftists!!!1!! 2 months ago:
Is this a parody or legit mental illness in motion?
- Comment on Painful to recover from 2 months ago:
If “succeed in life” means significant intergenerational wealth to achieve a strong head start, great genetics for height and facial symmetry, and strong black triad traits, then sure. Let’s convert the word “luck” to “intelligence”, regardless of how bad that fit may be.
- Comment on In what medium be it print music movies or other was the first villain monologue delivered? What was it about? 3 months ago:
Judging from prose like Mobi Dick, it was written at about the same time, covered 10+ pages, had 342 commas and semicolons, and was a single epic run-on sentence.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Sterilization does nothing except preventing babby from being born. And most of these subhumans are also old… like, grandfather old.
The term you are likely reaching for is castration.
That is effective, especially if you remove everything; both twig and berries.
- Comment on Be The Sunshine ☀️ 4 months ago:
The irony of putting this on the tailgate when he would need to be the car in purple for anyone else to see it.
- Comment on Conservative values 5 months ago:
And what these right wingers always conveniently forget is that their religion only tells THEM what to do, it has no impact on anyone else.
All of these “values” can remain 100% unaffected within themselves, they just want the bigotry of forcibly imposing these “values” on others.
And that’s their problem - they’re screaming bloody murder because their ability to be tyrannical authoritarians is being taken away.
- Comment on It's actually that simple. 5 months ago:
Let me put something else in your pipe to smoke:
Women rape men as frequently as men rape women.
And now the real surprise: when asked about experiences in the last 12 months, men reported being “made to penetrate” - either by physical force or due to intoxication - at virtually the same rates as women reported rape (both 1.1 percent in 2010, and 1.7 and 1.6 respectively in 2011).
In other words, if being made to penetrate someone was counted as rape - and why shouldn’t it be? - then the headlines could have focused on a truly sensational CDC finding: that women rape men as often as men rape women.
And yet, where are the convictions of female rapists??
crickets
If you want to clean house, start with your own.
And the real kicker comes down to these three points:
- It took the FBI until 2015 to even begin recording female-on-male rape as rape, because before then it wasn’t considered rape. And so national law enforcement stats for female-on-make rape just don’t exist before 2015.
- Many police precincts still use software that hard-codes the victim as female and the perp as male, further frustrating justice by creating “erroneous” records that are trivial to dismiss, and preventing a full accounting of the problem by preventing correct gender identification of the victim and perp.
- Almost all men have been brainwashed to think that it is impossible for a woman to rape a man, be it physical or psychological coercion, so many of these male victims don’t even realize they have been victimized.
- Comment on It's actually that simple. 5 months ago:
tons of men in power who never get in trouble.
Here, people, is an absolutely exquisite example of the Apex Fallacy in action: using the 1% to 0.1% of men that fit the conditions and applying that case to the other 99% who don’t have these characteristics and could never achieve the same prosecutorial immunity.
For the vast majority of men, even the insinuation of sexual malfeasance is enough to destroy careers and marriages.
Hell, even good samaritans lose everything, and they did absolutely nothing wrong.
- Comment on It's actually that simple. 5 months ago:
Even a “yes” can, and frequently is, converted into a “no” retroactively, sometimes well after the act. It all comes down to feelings before facts and how she personally prefers to interpret the event regardless of the passage of time.
And unless the entire action is videotaped and notarized, as a man you are defined as being in the wrong 100% of the time.
Plus, as a man you are also faced with epic levels of societal hypocrisy that you have no ability to counteract, regardless of how things actually went.
The only rational risk-assessment analysis for any man in the lower-90% is to consider ALL responses a “no”, and to just walk away.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 5 months ago:
There is no paradox once you realize that it is not a law, but a social contract.
Those that are intolerant remove themselves from the social contract, and are no longer protected by it. This then allows them to be no longer tolerated by the tolerant, preserving that contract for those who obey it.
- Comment on We're so back 5 months ago:
“Prior transmissions of the strain did not have ‘close contact’.”
Featuring Prof. Joseph Allen, Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at Harvard University.
I’m more inclined to listen to experts in their field.
- Comment on We're so back 5 months ago:
Democrats are not “of the left”, they are actually right-lite.
Aside from a tiny handful of Dems like AOC and Bernie - who would be classified as solid centrists in any other country - there are no politicians “on the left” anywhere at the Federal level.
- Comment on We're so back 5 months ago:
Invermectin does that in vino.
in vino.
What does wine have to do with it?
And is it white or red wine, or can we run with just any old plonk?
ducksandruns sorrynotsorry
- Comment on We're so back 5 months ago:
Some variants like the Andes strain are developing the ability to be human-transmissible. It has been recorded jumping from one human host to the next in prior outbreaks. Once it evolves to be trivially-transmissible, all bets are off.
- Comment on We're so back 5 months ago:
Even with the best medical care, Hantavirus has a 20% fatality rate.
Let’s just hope that conservatives continue being so anti-vaccine… a few more pandemics with human-transmissible highly-fatal viruses and maybe we can get that socialist utopia that the right always cock-blocks us from achieving.
- Comment on Some people really lack civic sense 5 months ago:
Hand taser? Like, one of those easily-concealed ones?
A hand buzzer works, too, but it needs a certain amount of moisture on the skin to work, and foot dampness varies a lot more than hand dampness due to keratin and callouses.
- Comment on Biological Women 7 months ago:
Woman of mass destruction
Ah, these are rather common. Divorces are their weapon of choice.
More often than not, the man has his career and savings rolled back twenty years or more. Most never return to their prior economic level unless they’re young enough to compensate, and then they remain severely behind their peers, as well. Only the truly wealthy men - think $10M of net worth or more, and $250k+ earnings - can bounce back from a divorce like it’s nothing.
- Comment on I'm in! 8 months ago:
It was never about the 2^nd amendment. It was all about restricting gun ownership for “the ideologically wrong people”.
Just look at how they came down on the Black Panthers in the 60s, and how “stand your ground” laws work in wildly disproportionate ways for only white cis people.
It’s a racist and bigoted strategy that has absolutely nothing to do with “rights”, except for the selective restriction of them.
