Yup. Totally real. It’s all essentially public information to begin with. You have to have an address for taxes, and deeds need names on them. So there’s a certain degree of information that’s going to be available to pretty much everyone, if they go looking.
Phone books were useful at one point, though less so for individuals. They’re still useful for local businesses.
I love the reference :)
But, since this is a bit of a writing prompt rather than something that can be answered factually, allow me some self indulgence to cook something up. I don’t plan to edit it beyond spelling and typos, it’ll be freeform.
Back in the primordial nothing, so dark and empty that darkness was scared of that dark, non-existence was boring.
The formless void took a good look at itself in the mirror that was it’s own non existent backside in what may be the greatest act of solipsism in history, and said “I need a friend”.
This thought echoed throughout itself, and a ripple failed to spread through the nothingness by turning it into something that could ripple. Thus was regular darkness born.
Darkness and nothingness looked at each other. There was nothing to see, so they decided to grope each other instead. This led, as often is the case, to a lot of disappointment and some degree of carnal juices splattering.
Those juices took root, growing in the dark and the void, binding them together for eternity. The fruit of those twining vines of dark matter jizz created matter.
And, as you know, matter matters. Matter seeks other matter, and the vine flowered. It pollinated itself, creating an infinite array of fruit. Those fruit were what we might call gods. Forces like gravity, electricity, nuclear interactions, essences of the things that would later become storm and sun and moon and furtive masturbation under a blanket so your mom can’t catch you, all the things we eventually worshiped.
Those original fruits were as incestuous as their forebears, banging off of each other until the first light arose from the darkness that birthed all.
Then they looked at themselves and realized they needed a bloody bath because you can’t spend infinite moments of non-time fornicating without getting a little messy.
Thus, they decided to organize the previously idle matter into clouds and juggle them until the bits stuck together.
Stars were born. Stars exploded and reformed into more stars, and planets.
All those explosions generated the kind of places where oceans could form.
By that time, the early gods had kept fornicating until there were more gods than any universe needs, and they were all quite filthy.
So they went to the various water bearing planets and bathed. And had orgies.
What they didn’t realize is that all the grime, jizz, and raw creative forces would turn the waters of some worlds into the nastiest, but most fertile soup ever imagined.
Those little jizz particles clung to each other, forming ever longer chains. Eventually, those chains met other chains and settled down to start families. Those families were the first cellular life forms.
Everything has been downhill since.
Honestly, I’m surprised there’s not some sweeping conspiracy theory that the Ukrainian invasion, Trump, and all of the related bullshit in been between are a military-industrial complex plot to have another cold war to drive profits to everyone involved.
It looks like some kind of crazy conspiracy sometimes
I didn’t make my kid. Adopted.
But it’s the same thing, the same feeling.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m still a grumpy asshole, but I try harder to be decent. I try to be the dad that the kid deserves, and that includes setting an example by being better than I used to be.
It’s some powerful shit, when you let yourself feel it.
I’m fairly certain he has summoned a cat demon from the fifth plane of the infernal realm.
Either that or he’s some kind of magnificent hybrid of man and beast.
I’d almost bet money it’s the otterbox. If it’s one of their older models, I would bet a small amount that’s what it is if it could be an anonymous bet and a good way to confirm. I’ve had a few otterbox cases over the years, and the older ones always degrade and get sticky, and it transfers. Their newer ones and colored ones don’t (or haven’t yet anyway), but I’ve stopped buying them because of it.
You can’t fix it, you just have to toss the damn things.
Ikr? I can imagine the slightly surrealistic hands sticking to things
I agree, 404 is legit journalism. No org is perfect, but they’re as good as it gets.
Yeah, just search up right to repair farm equipment, just linking one or two articles won’t give you the scope of the problem the way seeing how much it has been covered, but not changed.
I got family that farms independent, and it’s pretty much the single biggest factor in profitability over time. Those machines can cost as much, or more, than a nice house, and you’re locked in to inflated service and parts costs.
Enraging doesn’t honestly do the problem justice.
This isn’t a “google it” thing, it’s really about actually seeing the search results first hand. We’re talking pages of hits going back decades.
The comparison between a ball like that and a drag club isn’t unrealistic.
You have queens and their hangers on at the top of the social ladder, all these factions warring for space on the dance floor (territory), you’ve got gossip and affairs, there’s courtiers vying to woo the “maidens”, there’s music and dancing.
Then you had me and my fellow guardsmen keeping the peace and dealing with the envoys from other nations (the silly groups of women coming in to giggle with the gays), and the too frequent war raids of the enemy (bigots).
But, back in the office was the wily King, managing his lands and expanding them as much as possible to increase prosperity (mostly his, but it did actually trickle down, he was a great king. . . er, boss).
Newcomers to high drag society often needed a guide, lest they offend the wrong queen and be dragged out of the palace by a guardsman. Or, you know, end up with a stiletto stuck in them. Usually a shoe, but some of the queens carried the other kind too; a lady has to protect herself from the rabble.
Otters would be bears, but they’re twinks.
Bears and otters both share being fairly hairy to some degree. Bears is usually applied to bigger men, and also typically to masculine presenting men as well as being past the mid twenties in age.
Otters may or may not be bigger, but are typically much more feminine presenting. You will sometimes see it applied more to small, hairy men, but that goes back to slang being variable by default.
Now, to complicate matters, there are also cubs. Cubs are just young bears. This means that they may well be smaller and less hairy than most bears, and will get lumped in with otters despite otters being feminine presenting as the standard usage of the term.
The kind of scream you might do in fear or anger doesn’t work exactly the same as when it’s done in a controlled way.
The answers already present cover how to scream as a vocal technique way better than I could (I can only growl, I’ve never managed to get a proper metal scream). But the kind of scream that you make involuntarily tends to be made by the vocal cords being stretched tight. You can’t scream like that in a sustained way without it hurting. Too much air pressure being pushed through very taut cords, it just isn’t healthy. It’s also more of a head/throat generated sound and will be higher pitched.
If you want some awesome insight into the various vocal techniques used in metal, there’s a YouTube channel called “the charismatic voice”. The lady that does the channel is an opera singer that has turned into a metal fan, and is now doing research with a university. They recently did some amazing work with the vocalist Will Ramos, from lorna shore. MRIs, electric readings, cameras, etc. They’re building a body of research into “harsh” vocals.
But the channel as a whole, she’s watching/listening to videos of music, with it leaning heavily into metal. She talks about the mechanics of how the vocalists do it, and she goes in depth.
With that said, what you were doing, trying to yell for your friend to get their attention, that’s more projecting your voice. When you pull the air in deep, and push from the stomach up, using your body to support that push, you can be very loud with zero distortion. Volume of the voice is all about moving air efficiently. Ever see a movie or show with a drill sergeant barking orders across a big group of soldiers? That’s projection. It’s the same basic techniques that opera singers and stage actors use. It’s all about the air and the way you use the diaphragm with your entire body.
Anyway, some links
Some loud vocalizations that aren’t distorted but are musical
A quickie tutorial on the basic technique of growling
That growl technique is essentially the same as the way I learned to growl (though I’m not very good at it), and it matches one another user described in text.
But, no bullshit, if you’re projecting your voice that clearly a block away, that’s fucking legit power. I can’t sing for shit, just can’t hold notes steady enough to be enjoyed by other people. But I tried. Getting to the point of being able to project my speaking voice clearly over a distance took months of work. So, if you can do that, you can absolutely learn to metal scream/growl, and likely be good at it.
Dude, that’s awesome :) I love the entire explanation.
It’s the same basic way I learned to growl too.
Yeah, Ubuntu overall, but it depends on which version of each.
Windows 7, I’m so familiar with and have a collection of programs for without having to download anything, it would be fine for my needs, neither better or worse than Ubuntu. The only inherent improvement for my use case is the up to date security of a newer, supported OS.
I don’t game on pc currently because it just fucking hurts to sit in the chair long enough to play anything worth playing. I don’t do anything that requires Adobe products. That means Linux is going to be as good as an out of date windows on any version from the same time as when 7 lost support, and likely older versions too. There’s no functional difference in the kind of use I’d put either to. Again my use case.
So it comes down to security between versions.
Now, if I’m forced to pick between any more recent windows versions and any Ubuntu version, no way am I using windows unless it’s via VM. 8 was bad enough I wasn’t willing to move from 7. 10 jumped the shark and made me start using Linux to begin with. 11? Fuck no. Just no. Won’t do it. Won’t buy anything that has it and can’t be immediately loaded with something else.
However, canonical can fuck itself with snaps. Ubuntu works fine, I have no issues with anything other than snap really. I prefer mint w/cinnamon for my debian offspring, but that’s a different subject.
Ubuntu was the first distro I tried back when windows 10 came out and it became obvious what Microsoft was really trying to do. It was good enough that I dual booted with it and windows 7 for a long while, until I tried mint/cinnamon.
That computer still dual boots 7 and mint, it’s my media player. No internet connection, and whatever version of mint was on there when I got my newer box. I would have moved out to mint only, but musicbee. Can’t stand the available music players for Linux. I’ve tried them all over the years, and they can’t hold up to musicbee’s features. I also haven’t had success with the available ways to use musicbee on linux. I try every year or two though.
If you have a wound open enough for the coffee to get into the bloodstream directly, you won’t be drinking anything, much less coffee. But the amounts you’d be able to get in that way, it would be negligible. Not enough to have any increase in the effects of caffeine for sure.
Tbh, even if you’re holding the coffee in your mouth, have an open wound, and are applying pressure you force the coffee into the wound, you’re talking a drop of actual coffee that would get into your system. There’s not enough caffeine in that to do anything compared to swallowing the mouthful instead.
It’s one of those things where you’d have to jump through so many hoops you get even a single sip of coffee into the bloodstream through the mouth that it might as well be impossible. Just holding the coffee in there and letting any of the chemicals in it get into your system passively through absorption would net you a higher amount of caffeine than trying to get it in the capillaries more directly.
Ahhh, it shouldn’t change absorption. I can’t be certain, but there’s no reason that it should purely because of a tonsillectomy.
I would suspect some kind of medication interaction before any changes to absorption.
If anything, the inflammation would be more likely to decrease the amounts absorbed orally.
That would go for any surgery I can think of.
The caveat being that I’m not a doctor, much less an oral surgeon.
But I’m sitting here running through things in my head that might cause a change in perceived caffeine affect. I still think the most likely cause would be changes brought on by whatever anaesthetic was used, or post surgical medications.
Could be the empty stomach and/or having previous caffeine out of your system entirely, but that would only be the case if you’re a fairly steady coffee drinker, but not a heavy one. Someone that’s mainlining lifer’s juice would have such high tolerance it wouldn’t change at all. A light drinker, say a small cup with breakfast might notice a change post surgery, but it’s a pretty dubious might.
I dunno, that’s all I got.
Lmao! Gotta love lowered inhibitions.
So, how did she like the show? I’m joking, no worries there.
For which party?
Now, I’ve never taken it in the ass unless you count colonoscopy and other medical invasions. But I’ve fucked partners in the ass, though only women. Sorry, I’m hetero, so there’s limits to my willingness to do it for science lol.
However, I love gay dudes. Always have, and you might be amazed at how willing those guys are to talk about such things to a token straight.
The real answer is that it varies. People that like anal don’t all like the same things.
I would say, on average, that most people don’t want/need/enjoy the extra texture for anal. You can’t really feel the ribs on your dick anyway, no matter what you’re putting it in. At least that’s what I’ve been told by other guys, and I know I can’t.
With vaginal, women can usually feel the difference, and there’s the usual “it depends on the person” as to whether or not it’s enjoyed. But anally, the extra friction can be intense supposedly. That isn’t always wanted, and can turn a nice anal session into a failed anal session.
Back in our younger days, when my best friend/roomie would bring guys home, the preference was definitely for standard condoms. One dude did bring his own ribbed though. Asked if it was going to be a three-way too, but that’s another story lol.
And that’s generally the word I have from gay guys. It’s not the norm, but you’ll run into some dedicated bottoms that prefer condoms with texture. That’s local/regional though, it could be different elsewhere.
I do know that the condom box at one of the clubs I bounced at would run out of pretty much everything else before the ribbed. Eventually, they stocked magnums instead. Those sold like crazy. The free condoms at the bar were all whatever got donated, and it was always just grab and go, so I never noticed any patterns there
It’s one of those things you’d have to try to know whether or not it was worth trying lol.
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