JayleneSlide

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JayleneSlide ,

I had a partner for eight years. We met when we were both 31. She was my first monogamous relationship theretofore because I decided to give monogamy a try. She was utterly, screamingly boring in bed. There was nothing else notably wrong with the relationship, except for her unwillingness to communicate on anything beyond household, workaday topics. No oral (give or receive), no anal, not into foreplay, and she would just lay there. But no conflicts either. There was the advantage of she was always willing and ready to go without any foreplay or lube. She got off and claimed she was absolutely sexually satisfied. Sex wasn't even fun in the context of Free Use, which is a kink I enjoy. I tried to engage her in all kinds of Gottman Method relationship work, but she bluntly and explicitly refused.

At one point early in our relationship, she moved and clamped her vagina in a way that was quite enjoyable. "Honey, that was great! Please do that more." And for the rest of our relationship, any such complement was a sure-fire way to make sure it would never happen again. After eight years of nearly daily, invariably terrible sex, I stopped approaching her sex for three weeks. She never said a thing. On day 22, I broke up with her, and she was absolutely gobsmacked, claimed that I was throwing away eight years of great history. She hadn't even noticed that there had been no sex for three weeks.

JayleneSlide ,

You and me both! 😆 We continued to live together and were besties for another four years, and she would never talk about anything relationship-related, even as her next three relationships imploded.

JayleneSlide ,

Any other country with that free access to high quality guns would have their politicians afraid of just fucking die. Republicans act as they were invulnerable demigods.

Total anecdote, so take the following with the Internet grain of salt that it is.

I was at a dinner party in the 90s. A Columbia University law professor, by way of long, meandering conversation, asked me (paraphrasing) "Why do you think we, the general populace, are allowed to own firearms?" Uh, I'm just a rural New York bumpkin. I just want to protect my livestock and keep the deer from destroying my small plot of crops. "Sure, JayleneSlide, that's a great general reason. But in the US, it's for killing cops and politicians." 0_0

So, yeah, clearly not enough politicians in proper fear of the constituency here, despite their willingness to sell us out for the tiniest pittance.

JayleneSlide ,

Triple? In our galley, "1 clove" —> 1 bulb.

JayleneSlide ,

"I got mine, fuck you." With a little dash of "Nothing like the afternoon delight of some bootlicking."

I know plenty of staunchly feminist women whose entire personae (or life goal) is the 50s US housewife fantasy. But, that's still a matter of self-determination. Nothing about the GOP's actions indicate self-determination is part of their platform, except for oligarchs. This is yet another play in their ongoing Big Lie Tactic: tell a big enough lie enough times, and people will start to believe it.

JayleneSlide ,
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How Columbia Protest Ends ( lemmy.world )

With the greenlight of Columbia President Minouche Shafik and her administration, NYPD has entered Hind Hall through the windows and begun to mass arrest students inside. Let this be remembered as Columbia and Shafik’s legacy: one of mobilizing the violence and terror of the state against their own students and faculty, solely...

JayleneSlide ,

The Panthers were right. Revolutionaries should be armed.

If I recall correctly, the tenet was that every movement needs a non-violent faction and a radicalized faction. The non-violent faction is the carrot to the radicalized faction's stick. A comparison might be labor unions: unions are supposed to be a reasonable compromise to managers not getting dragged out of their houses and beaten to death in the middle of the night (or assassinated in other ways). See: Renault CEO Georges Besse.

Unfortunately, so many pro-citizen, pro-labor movements have been overrun by the "strictly non-violence!" mindset and thereby defanged. Additionally, we're the labor, for fuck's sake! We could absolutely hit every oligarch and politician right where it hurts, yet here we are.

JayleneSlide ,

Scuba diver and sailor here. Above a certain size, boats have watertight bulkheads and pumps to remove water, like fire hose levels of water. May I suggest a thermal lance? Works great underwater, cuts through metal better than a drill, and can cut a slice long enough to cut past multiple bulkheads.

JayleneSlide ,

The rifle on the right is at least a .338 Lapua, but probably .50BMG. The former cartridge was explicitly designed to reach out 1000 meters, penetrate military body armor, and still have enough energy to make the kill. The .50BMG can reach out at least 1800 meters and still serve much of its antimateriel design intent, antipersonnel to about 3000 meters.

Those numbers would put quite a bit within range of the Statue of Liberty.

Source: I target shoot with both of these cartridges, along with .308 Winchester.

JayleneSlide ,

My read of this is:
Deer and squirrels tend to run in front of moving cars*. The two species are distressed that something interrupted their ability to bolt into traffic.

*Where I live, obnoxiously and assertively so. The mule deer almost wait for cars to approach, run into the road, and then just stand there. Traffic-blocking protests have nothing on the deer.

The Mayo Clinic has let me down in a huge way and I now feel like I've been conned. Edit: Never let anyone tell you not to complain to medical professionals and facilities.

I saw my gastroenterology doctor for my initial evaluation visit on the 26th, he sent me to a neurologist the next morning. The neurologist didn't find any issues but did theorize it might be behavioral and sent his notes back to the gastroenterologist maybe 20 minutes later....

JayleneSlide ,

Squid, my deepest empathy for your medical journey ain't worth shit, but you have my empathy regardless. Without boring anyone with unrelated detail: I've been there. Kudos for your self-advocacy.

So I wrote a very long and angry email to the patient advocate

This right here, everyone. This person's entire role is to cut through red tape. In my experience, the patient advocate is the Winston Wolf of their hospital departments.

As an aside, Flying Squid, I always appreciate your contributions to the Lemmy community, even when I disagree. Thank you for being you.

JayleneSlide ,

From my maritime first responder training: "You're not dead until you're warm and dead."

JayleneSlide ,

Yep, I'm an inveterate purger. I have tried to control the purging with a policy of hanging onto things such as power tools for one year past its last use. And almost invariably, about two weeks after I finally got rid of the thing, I need it again.

In my case, I have a very small living space, so hanging onto things just means they're in my way. But I was like this even when I had a large house.

JayleneSlide ,

Thank you for including the text body here.

JayleneSlide ,

My college sold me out.

I went to a state school in the early 90s. Taking a specific sequence of physics classes was the cue for Navy nuke tech recruiters. And they were aggressive. Turns out someone in the registrar's office would search for students with that class sequence and sell the info to Navy recruiters. The person got fired, and there was a bunch of pearl-clutching. And yet military recruiters are still such a fixture of college campuses.

JayleneSlide ,

That is quite the well-assembled list. All of the context is helpful for everyone to make suggestions. Also, your comment about Greg Egan is pure awesome.

Gareth L. Powell's "Embers of War" series was excellent.
Scalzi's "Starter Villain" had me laughing painfully hard at points.

I just wanted to complain about peanuts

Trying to eat healthier, (edit for me this means lower sugar, less carbs, more protein) and it seems like everything that is sweet, sweet-ish, or a snack but also sold as healthy has peanuts or is peanuts. I'm not allergic to it, but I am tired of peanut butter cookies, peanuts in a snack bar, peanuts on their own, peanuts in a...

JayleneSlide ,

Whole, modern, domesticated fruits do contain quite a bit of sugar, but that sugar is locked up in fiber. There are lots of anti-sugar crusaders that consider whole fruit to be a "gimme." Gary Taubes (Good Calories, Bad Calories) and Robert Lustig (Sugar: the Bitter Truth) are two that leap to mind.

JayleneSlide ,

The Pacific Northwest would be a wonderful place if it wasn't part of the US.

Cascadia Now! Yeah, totally not happening at least until the US implodes, but one can dream.

JayleneSlide ,

That's a new depth to "Don't yuck someone else's yum."

JayleneSlide ,

Except the results from DDG are also a dumpster fire of affiliate spam "listicles," Pinterest garbage, and unrelated SEO BS. Oh, and Reddit sure has risen in all the results since the APIpocalypse. Almost like big business is all starving each other's backs.

JayleneSlide ,

I fully agree he's a ghoul. It is important however to be intellectually honest and morally consistent, lest we sink to the level of people like Fucker Carlson and Shill O'Reilly. Okay, maybe I'll sink a little sometimes...

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster."

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