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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • Incels were a group of young men who were very easy to manipulate to further ingrain chauvinistic, pro-patriarchy norms. Objectifying women and treating sex like a birthright.

    Put that on top of growing up in a media culture that paints a really unrealistic example of a “normal” relationship, and unlimited free porn that sets a really bad expectation for what a healthy physical relationship looks like.

    This was a stepping stone to swing them conservative and support Trump. That’s pretty easy. Just set thin in front of strong alpha male characters like Rogan.

    It’s pretty obvious now in retrospect. What ever happened with Cambridge Analytica, again?







  • JasonDJ@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldWhat a welcoming party
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    Birth is pretty traumatic for babies to begin with.

    You start off on this dark, warm room. Floating in a little bubble of fluid. All you’ve ever known.

    Then all of a sudden the bubble is gone. It’s slowly draining. Either it popped on its own, or worse, somebody poked it with a crochet hook (I know the real medical tool isn’t a crochet hook but that’s legit what it looks like).

    You’re squeezing headfirst through a hole smaller in size than a CD. And as soon as they see your smushy little skull they are putting a sticker on it to watch your heart rate.

    It’s bright, it’s cold, it’s dry, and it’s loud. The complete polar opposite of everything you’ve ever known. You have to start breathing and then you can’t stop or you die, but nobody tells you that right away. Someone slaps your butt and someone else cuts your blood tube to mom.

    No wonder they come out screaming.

    And that’s a typical, uncomplicated birth. Let’s not talk about suction cups or forceps or cesareans.









  • Man I want to replace my 2 cycle backpack blower now.

    My handheld (Ryobi 20v, meh) is alright for cleaning the driveway or the deck, but if I want to actually move leaves around the heard, it’s weak.

    I love my ego mower and my ego snowblower (although I only had one season with it so far and I think we got a total of 3 inches of snow, so…yea). An ego backpack blower would be tits.

    Edit: holy shit those are expensive. But man I keep having to dump oil/gas mix because I can’t possibly use it up before it goes bad and the blower loses all its gusto. But pre-mix is ridiculously expensive (but works sooo much better).