Monument

@Monument@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pandering to conservative Americans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, but I googled the wrong thing and googled John 4:16, which is “Jesus said ‘Go call your husband […]’” (It says more, but search cut it off there.)

  I had a solid guffaw because these boxes are for 2-way radios. Then I realized that I googled the wrong thing and lost interest in continued research.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dogs need love too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine’s part stink bug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you encountered this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your logic is inverted. The lines would have to have a place for folks to add in the taxes. Otherwise the math would work in the opposite direction – the calculated amounts would be lower than the amounts based on the number at the bottom. (Unless a discount was applied that’s not shown.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quick thinking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “See. This is why I prefer rubber gloves instead of nitrile. That way I can keep doing the exam while they defibrillate, and my fingers don’t go numb!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a fantastic deal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s either that or a hinge to the back of the skull.

  They really made bad choices here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a fantastic deal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would buy that and turn it back into doors.

  They didn’t remove the knob’s or even round over the edges. A mediocre woodworker could get 2 doors out of that. A skilled woodworker would get 3 (with some reattachment efforts).
  I could probably get one whole door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donald Trump Said He Promised Ivanka He Wouldn't Date Girls Younger Than Her | “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” 😬⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He had also been dating Milenia for about a year when he said this, and was also not fully divorced from Marla Maples (though they were separated).

  Bastion of morality, that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't do it, we all care about you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weirdly, I saw Mike Ehrmantraut

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LICENSE TO KILL⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s inferred.

  There’s a whole subset of people for whom that statement would be an expression of endearment.

  I would more just assume some people have a playful relationship with their partners and the subject of neurodiversity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you are a snack :)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A real treat for the right raccoon, possum, bear, or Grouch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a curtain rod to a window midway up the stairs. We’re looking down a flight of steep older stairs. The mattress is lit by the window that is (mostly) under the rod, and by an open door at the bottom of the stairs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A gentleman of the streets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  $37.50 an hour to talk to a minimum of 6 strangers that want something from me and think I can deliver it for them?

  I’d rather be an urban outdoorsman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All I see are under-evolved crabs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was surprised by these stats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My finger hurts and I spent the last of my gumption posting this comment.

  Go on without me. Text my wife. Tell her I’ll be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was surprised by these stats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s weird that 4 people are in there for rape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally this community⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, all the childhood trauma has given me an incredible sense of humor. Practice makes perfect!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  100%

  The administrative state may not give a shirt about you or the crimes that have been committed against you, but they care about your capacity to make life challenging for them. Police won’t investigate, but they will take a report. A report is a legal document. It implies the threat of real consequences if they don’t get their ship together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just got done reading the original post.

  I don’t know if this is the right advice, or if this advice will help anyone, but if you have the delivery driver on camera mis-delivering the product, then stealing the product, I would have first contacted the delivery service/Best Buy with a photo of the front of your house with the house numbers clearly visible to say that the product was not delivered to your home. Full stop. The package was not delivered correctly. If BB/DD insist on that the package was delivered to me, I’d file a police report. Police report in hand, I’d respond to BB/DD with the police report and video of the incident and request to either be refunded or to receive the product you paid for.

  Basically, give them as little wiggle room as possible before you invoke professionals into the mix who can advocate for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lämp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m genuinely confused. Do furries who style themselves after dragons, lizards, and snakes not refer to themselves as scalies?

  Did I get taken by a meme like a decade ago and just decided that was canon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hell yea, brother⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Australian Bearypus, however, is a critical fail ecologically and economically.

  In nature, the 3 lb (1.5ish kg) critter has a snout with grinding plates, claw-less paws, a wide tail and is covered in a thick layer of white fur. Although capable of swimming, the fur traps too much air, so they float like balloons on the water. They require a very cool environment, and a steady supply of easily huntable and crushable prey. This makes them poorly suited for icy (prey availability), wet (floating), warm (fur) and temperate environments (coloration).

  Commercially - no one wants to ask the pet shop for a bearypus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First consensual experience. My usage of the word molested earlier downplays things a bit – we had full penetrative sex, but I was 6 years old. It’s something that occurred dozens of times. It’s not the only time I was sexually abused as a kid by someone older, but it’s the one I’ll mention.
  Not very much later than that very first experience, I had a rather thorough introduction to pornography. My parents split up, my mom moved far away, taking us with her. After she kicked her drug habit, she became a workaholic and put in 80-hour workweeks. Another kid at our apartment complex had a “cool mom” who figured that her preteen was going to get his hands on porn, so she had some available that I guess was okay by her. He then showed it to everyone - including my then 8-or 9-year-old self.

  Honestly - I think I did alright. We had several multi-hour long trysts, usually one to two a weekend for at least a month (probably more like 2 months) until she moved in/we got caught. I don’t know if I knew what I was doing, skill wise, but she did, and I’m able to have multiple orgasms/erections, so like if one pops off (and they did with way less control back then), it wasn’t a mood killer. Plus, I think I lead off that initial encounter by trying to eat her out. I’m sure we talked and found stuff that worked for her. But maybe not? I don’t know. She kept coming back and wanted more. I assumed that was satisfaction - although it could have been whatever her emotional damage was.

  A lot of it for both of us may have been the completely open embrace of each other without any kind of guile or awareness that we were, you know, being gigantic emotionally destructive idiots. As well as being fairly risky on contraception. Woof. Rhythm method most of the time. I’m sure she grew up to be a lovely person, but man, what a mess we could have made of our lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lämp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you’re good. I think I was reading too much into your comment/crotchity first thing in the morning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was weird times. I mean, great. But weird and great to my half-cooked, traumatized, and hormone-addled teenage brain.

  She was my sister’s best friend at the time and, well, physically she was like the girl who’d molested me as a child, which definitely had (and still has) an impact on my physical preferences.
  I don’t exactly know what her deal was, but I think it was that any male attention just short-circuited her. I recall her telling me she loved me after a few weekends of sneaking around, and after about a month, spinning a yarn as pretext to try to move in with us.

  It’s probably a good thing we got caught a day or so after she moved in. Stupid football game. It pushed some TV show back, and my mom/sisters stayed up late to watch it. My sister (her best friend) came downstairs to check in on her and caught us in bed.

  As for the how - I don’t know. I was an awkward gangly teenager, and she was honestly a pretty attractive girl. She had some self-confidence issues, I think.
  It was like the first day she’d come over for a sleepover. I had never met her - my sister befriended her when we were in foster care, so this was not unusual - and I was instantly into her. I have no idea if she picked up on that or not. We were watching movies (me, 2 of my sisters, and her). The couches were occupied, and so I had a pallet on the floor. So did she. Our feet were under the big couch, hidden by the little skirt that all couches had back then, heads pointing toward the TV. I thought I felt her foot touch mine (but it was probably wishful thinking). I edged my foot over, discovering the distance between us was way too far for her to have accidentally touched me, and sort of bonked her foot with mine while awkwardly exploring. I pulled back just slightly and she immediately pressed her foot against mine. Footsie lead some sneaky suggestive glances, then surreptitiously bridging our blankets together and doing our best to conceal our roving hands. At one point during a bathroom break everyone had left the room, she told me her intentions, and I was very okay with them. We made a plan - I was going to go to bed, and she was going to find me after everyone was asleep. (She was sleeping in a guest room that was conveniently located - my bedroom was in the basement.) And that was that.

  She used to page me with “143” (code for I love you - which I don’t think either of us could know what that actually meant) and I used to page her back with same. We were so dumb and teenager-y. It was fun, but unhealthy. I didn’t get enough positive attention, and this sort of reinforced a belief that I could only be of service to someone sexually. If I wasn’t serving someone sexually, I wasn’t of value emotionally - another formative belief that was maybe not the best and is still hard to shake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lämp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how to respond here. Obviously it’s a reference to the leg lamp. That was never in question.

  I was responding to the alt text of the image that called it a furry rendition, saying it was a probably better akin to a scaly rendition.

  But if we’re going to try to out-pedantic each other here, I’d like to know if it’s common for lions or tigers to have non-retractable claws and a rearward facing first toe with a claw (which has been styled in the lamp above)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lämp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is fishnet tights — I meant that t-rex’s are scaly in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lämp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems less furry and more scaly. Also. I love it. I want a t-Rex leg lamp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I a grown adult that wakes up in a foster care home and the child that was there previously is gone?
  Do I have to spend the rest of my life without an identity, or clinging to the “delusion” that I was this child that mysteriously disappeared?

  Am I a child with 40 years of life experience?
  Not long after, When I was 14, my first consensual sexual experience involved an 18-year-old. We got caught, and folks widely regard/regarded her as being inappropriate/in the wrong. Huh. First girlfriend, high school dances/romances. College. Jesus - every relationship basically forever.
  If I proceed down the same path, does that mean I’m the creep now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting way to deal with people who have had enough⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dated a girl with a very Italian last name for a number of years. She said that ‘back in the day’ certain parts of her family were connected in our city. Laughed it off, because that was history. Her dad was never involved, and her grandpa was only a little involved, I guess, and… whatever. It just wasn’t a thing in their lives and hadn’t really been a thing in our city since like the 70’s.

  We took a trip to NYC, and after eating at this lovely hole-in-the-wall Italian restaurant, she paid. After seeing the name on the CC, the whole vibe sort of changed. Staff got shy. A manager came over to offer us a big discount on our food, and free dessert.
  My GF understood it, I guess, and told him that we were from out of town and didn’t have any family in town. After a very brief pause, the manager said something like “Oooh. It must have been another table that complained about their food…” They still gave us free dessert for the mix-up (we were already going to order dessert - it’s not like we were pretending to be mini-mafiosos out there).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Circa 2014, one of my sisters would gather up a bunch of food every week and have a ‘cook out’ at a park near here that was known to have a large homeless population. Basically, they fed anyone who asked for a plate. She did this with a group of friends who I guess were just bored and successful enough to want to feel good about feeding the homeless.

  After a few months, their activities drew the ire of… someone, and they got raided by the cops and local health inspectors. Despite acknowledging the food they were serving was at the proper temp and all food handling protocol was being followed, they took an ‘every possible justification’ approach to the situation that they could and insinuated everything from unknown, dirty kitchens to lack of a catering license, with severe future legal threats if they were to continue feeding the homeless. The officials then poured bleach into the food and dumped it into the trash.