Why are we censoring "covid" now?
To keep alt-right bots from zeroing in on the term and flooding the replies. People also censor things like "crypto" and "scam" to keep out all the I Have A Great Investment Opportunity For You! bots away.

Why are we censoring "covid" now?
To keep alt-right bots from zeroing in on the term and flooding the replies. People also censor things like "crypto" and "scam" to keep out all the I Have A Great Investment Opportunity For You! bots away.
how much of taking estrogen is reversible and how much is permanent. And how long do you have to take it before stuff becomes permanent?
Breast tissue is the main thing that's permanent, although it does retract a bit over time if you switch back to testosterone. You'll know when breast development is happening because it burns/stings and is sensitive to pressure. Some say it takes a couple months for it to start, but I got that burning sensation from day one.
There are "femboy" HRT drugs out there that selectively avoid breast development, but accessing them safely may be difficult, I'm not up to date on the situation.
Infertility can be permanent or not, depending on the person. I don't recall how long that takes to become likely, maybe like a year?
My impression is that erectile dysfunction may be permanent if it happens, but I'm not sure. Some people swear by a use-it-or-lose-it model and uh, this is consistent with my experience, although I did get some mild symptoms like those associated with Peyronie's disease for a few months that 99% went away shortly after.
Here's an effect timeline I ganked off Reddit. Your mileage will vary.
thanks!
#wish someone would make one for T
Good news! Someone did:
“Balls to the wall” is a great phrase because it sounds vulgar but it’s not so you can say it at work and not get in trouble.
It’s an (antique) aviation term equivalent to “pedal to the metal” for when the engine controls are pushed all the way forward and the ball-shaped grips are up against the wall.
BUT it conjures up vivid imagery of a crass scene in which drop-trou contortionists are bent over and backed up against the wall, perhaps in preparation for some bizarre sexual relay race. Or an execution?
Truly an excellent term that I hope never falls out of common parlance.
I heard it was from centrifugal governors on steam engines!
When the balls go to their maximum diameter (to the wall) the steam engine is running at its fastest speed
Oh, guess I always figured it was an aviation term for like, pulling so many Gs that your balls are getting tugged in an unnatural direction, this makes more sense
It’s such a beautiful and multidimensional phrase, isn’t it? What other idioms do so much simultaneously to evoke sexual acrobatics, body horror, firing squads, glory holes, and aircraft operation? I think we should honor it with an Idiom if the Month award.
downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because
followed by
is such a funny sequence
i find most people who haven't seen it in person don't know that cairo is RIGHT THERE
I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they're literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd
No, y'all don't even understand.
There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.
That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get "lost in the desert near the pyramids", because it's like... just turn around my dudes you're only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop
Yall don't know how much I adore all of this
Why do we even have that lever?
one of the things about being an educator is that you hear what parents want their kids to be able to do a lot. they want their kid to be an astronaut or a ballerina or a politician. they want them to get off that damn phone. be better about socializing. stop spending so much time indoors. learn to control their own temper. to just "fucking listen", which means to be obedient.
one of the things i learned in my pedagogy classes is that it's almost always easier to roleplay how you want someone to act. it's almost always easier to explain why a rule exists, rather than simply setting the rule and demanding adherence.
i want my kids to be kind. i want them to ask me what book they should read next, and i want to read that book with them so we can discuss it. i want my kid to be able to tell me hey that hurt my feelings without worrying i'll punish them. i want my kid to be proud of small things and come running up to me to tell me about them. i want them to say "nah, i get why this rule exists, but i get to hate it" and know that i don't need them to be grateful-for-the-roof-overhead while washing the dishes. i want them to teach me things. i want them to say - this isn't safe. i'm calling my mom and getting out of this. i want them to hear me apologize when i do fuck up; and i want them to want to come home.
the other day a parent was telling me she didn't understand why her kid "just got so angry." this woman had flown off the handle at me.
my dad - traditional catholic that he is - resents my sentiment of "gentle parenting". he says they'll grow up spoiled, horrible, pretentious. granola, he spits.
i am going to be kind to them. i am going to set the example, i think. and whatever they choose become in the meantime - i'm going to love them for it.
A while ago, I discovered an old meaning of the word "perverted", and I added it to Wiktionary. Here's my definition, with the two demonstrative quotes I included.
Unless you've read Maxwell, there's basically no way you've heard the term. It wasn't even common in its day. But recently I realized that I've actually sort of heard this use, in a way, and so have you. Look at this ribbon.
At the point this twisted ribbon crosses the dotted line, it reverses chirality. Each side is a sort of mirror image of the other. The name for this phenomenon of a twisted object reversing chirality, you will remember, is "tendril perversion".
Wikipedia's article on tendril perversion used to have a notice at the top, reading "This article is about the geometric phenomenon. For the pornographic genre, see tentacle erotica." You know, for the benefit of people who wanted to read about tentacle porn but typed in "tendril perversion" as their best attempt at what it could be called. That recently got removed due to suspicion that it was "a joke" and "unnecessarily obscene."
Fortunately, the tentacle erotica article still opens with "This article is about the pornographic genre. For the geometric phenomenon, see tendril perversion." So they're being considerate of people who want to read about telephone cords getting messed up, but who misremember the term for that as "tentacle erotica."
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despite all my ire
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Do any other american high schoolers have intense survivor’s guilt and trauma with school shootings even though they weren’t at your school?
Like. A laser tag place opened geared towards teenagers and it got no business, we tried to enjoy it but when someone pointed a laser machine gun at me and I instinctively dropped behind the nearest wall and reached to turn off my phone I cried, I wasn’t the only one. The announcements system turns on at an unexpected time and everyone holds their breath until they say something besides “locks, lights, out of sight,” nobody even jokingly pops chip bags anymore, a door slammed really loud during a class change and everyone dropped and ran. Everyone cries during drills, even the toughest ranch kids. Every drill comes with a full day of teachers crying and telling us that they love us all so much and will die for us, and every kid in every class looking around wondering who would I die for? Who would die for me? You walk to the bathroom and wonder every second if it happens right now, where will I go? You test supply closet doors to see which ones are unlocked, you memorize which furniture in the teachers’ lounge your English teacher says is light enough to barricade a door with. The fire alarm goes off and nobody moves, instead you wait for gunshots—it a trap? You stand with a group of freshmen and realize that you’re the oldest, you know you’ll have to die for them. You forget your ID tag and worry that now the police won’t be able to tell your parents if you’re safe, or not safe. Your stats teacher has a baseball bat by the door, your math teacher keeps a stapler under each desk to throw, your drama teacher asks who will be willing to stand by the non-locking door with the Shakespearean swords. Your yearbook teacher tells you don’t worry about breaking a camera because you heard about the kids who died holding them. You don’t use the bathroom during classes because you don’t want to be the only target to shoot at. You keep your phone on silent 24/7 because you worry the one time you forget will be when you get your whole US History class killed. You have a snap saved with your class schedule and school and full name to send in an instant to your internet friends so they know if you were on that wing, you have a note saved with the things you want your mom to know and the things you’re sorry for. At the age of 12 I was told I needed to know who I would die for and that it was okay if it was nobody, that was my decision to make. School shootings control us more than adults and non-Americans could possibly imagine and nobody moves to change anything unless we’re actively screaming for it. Have you considered we’re too scared?
The absolute fuck. The fuck did I just read. This sounds like dystopian fiction. The fucking fuck.
It isn’t. This is 100% the reality of all American children - not the ones that live in bad neighborhoods, not the ones that make bad choices, ALL OF THEM.
Welcome to America.
:((((
rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3
This is not an American/non-American thing
This is a CLASS thing
When I (American) went to college (expensive private school on scholarships) (almost everyone there upper middle class or upper class) I and one of my friends (average) incited anger and rejection for asking to ‘tag along’ to the grocery store
They saw it as selfishly asking a favor and were shocked, just like the OOP’s friend, whereas we saw it as a normal and sensible thing to do.
We stan!!!!
chaotic good
There’s a happy ending to, because the robbery was unsuccessful, the couple ended up getting the money Eden needed from a movie inspired by em! Also John only had to serve part of his sentence. Check out their wedding photos btw they’re beautiful.
reblogging because I’ve seen this post a thousand times and I’ve never seen the happy ending!!
I am honor bound to repeat every time it comes across my dash - this is the story that they used to do Dog Day Afternoon.